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| Vaals  FeatureType : null Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 50.7728 / 6.0181 | Vaals is a town in the extreme southeastern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, which in its turn finds itself in the southeastern part of the Netherlands. The municipality covers an area of in the foothills of the Ardennes–Eifelrange and is located about east of Maastricht and west of the (...) |
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| Brittany (administrative region) FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 48.122 / -2.769 | Brittany is one of the 18 regions of France. It is named after the historic and geographic region of Brittany, of which it constitutes 80%. The capital is Rennes. Bathed by the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south, it is located in the West of France, bordering the (...) |
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| Panay FeatureType : isle Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 11.1522 / 122.4803 | Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth most-populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of and with a total population of 4,477,247. The City of Iloilo is its largest settlement with a total population of 447,992 inhabitants (...) |
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| Puducherry FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 11.9111 / 79.8125 | Puducherry (literally New Town in Tamil), formerly known as Pondicherry , is a union territory of India. It was formed out of four exclaves of former French India, namely Pondichéry (Pondicherry; now Puducherry), Karikal (Karaikal), Mahé and Yanaon (Yanam) (...) |
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| Chiang Mai FeatureType : null Elevation : 316 Lat/Lng : 18.7953 / 98.9986 | Chiang Mai (from) sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest city in northern Thailand. It is the capital of Chiang Mai Province and was a former capital of the kingdom of Lan Na (1296–1768), which later became the Kingdom of Chiang Mai, a tributary state of Siam from 1774 to (...) |
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| Angkor FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 13.4333 / 103.8333 | Angkor ("Capital City")Headly, Robert K.; Chhor, Kylin; Lim, Lam Kheng; Kheang, Lim Hak; Chun, Chen. 1977. Cambodian-English Dictionary. Bureau of Special Research in Modern Languages. The Catholic University of America Press. Washington, D.C (...) |
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| Hanoi FeatureType : city Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 21.0283 / 105.8542 | Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city by population. The population in 2015 was estimated at 7.7 million people. The city lies on the right bank of the Red River. Hanoi is north of Ho Chi Minh City and west of Haiphong (...) |
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| Mediterranean Sea FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 35.0 / 18.0 | The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant (...) |
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| Seattle–Tacoma International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 47.449 / -122.3093 | Seattle–Tacoma International Airport , also referred to as Sea–Tac Airport or Sea–Tac , is the primary commercial airport serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in the city of SeaTac, approximately south of Downtown Seattle (...) |
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| Ushuaia FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -54.8158 / -68.3178 | Ushuaia is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province, Argentina. It is commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world. Ushuaia is located in a wide bay on the southern coast of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, bounded on the north by the Martial mountain (...) |
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| Siem Reap FeatureType : city Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 13.2946 / 103.881 | Siem Reap is the capital city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia. It is a popular resort town and a gateway to the Angkor region. Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter and around the Old Market (...) |
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| Milpitas, California FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 37.4347 / -121.895 | Milpitas is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of State Route 237 and generally between Interstates 680 and 880 which run roughly north/south through the city (...) |
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| Belgrade FeatureType : null Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 44.8206 / 20.4622 | Belgrade (; / Београд, meaning "white city", ;) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. The urban area of the City of Belgrade has a population of 1.23 million, while nearly 1 (...) |
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| Trincomalee FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 8.5833 / 81.2333 | Trincomalee (; Tirukōṇamalai; Trikuṇāmalaya) also known as Gokanna, is the administrative headquarters of the Trincomalee District and major resort port city of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. Located on the east coast of the island overlooking the Trincomalee Harbour, 113 miles south of Jaffna and 69 (...) |
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| Tasmania FeatureType : isle Elevation : 840 Lat/Lng : -42.1797 / 146.6455 | Tasmania (; abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Australian mainland, separated by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 (...) |
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| Angkor Wat FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 13.4125 / 103.8668 | Angkor Wat (; , "Capital Temple") is a temple complex in Cambodia and one of the largest religious monuments in the world, on a site measuring . It was originally constructed as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire, gradually transforming into a Buddhist temple towards the (...) |
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| Madura Island FeatureType : isle Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : -7.0 / 113.3333 | Madura is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java. The island comprises an area of approximately 4,078.67 km² (administratively 5,168 km² including various smaller islands to the east and north). Madura is administered as part of the East Java province (...) |
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| Rimini FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 44.05 / 12.566 | Rimini is a city of 150,108 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia (the ancient Ariminus) and Ausa (ancient Aprusa) (...) |
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| Alsace FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 48.5 / 7.5 | Alsace (; ; Alsatian: ’s Elsass ; German: ElsassGerman spelling before 1996: Elsaß ;) is a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was the smallest administrative région in metropolitan France, (...) |
| 20 | École française d'Extrême-Orient FeatureType : null Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 48.8644 / 2.2922 | The École française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in what was then French Indochina (...) | |
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| Wake Island FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.29 / 166.601 | Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu and southeast of Tokyo. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claimed by the (...) |
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| Singapore FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 1.35 / 103.85 | Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: ; Chinese: ; Tamil:), is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to (...) |
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| Connecticut FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 41.1 / -72.1167 | Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. As of the 2010 Census, it has the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index (0.962), and median household income in the United States (...) |
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| New York City FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 40.7127 / -74.0059 | The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about ,, United States Census Bureau. Accessed February 9, 2017 (...) |
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| Italy FeatureType : null Elevation : 729 Lat/Lng : 42.6384 / 12.6743 | Italy , officially the Italian Republic , Council of the European Union (retrieved 13 October 2013). Central Intelligence Agency (retrieved 13 October 2013). is a country in Europe. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, (...) |
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| Philippines FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 14.5889 / 120.9715 | The Philippines (; or '), officially the Republic of the Philippines , is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and (...) |
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| Jerónimos Monastery FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 38.6978 / -9.2072 | The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos), is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal; it was secularised on 28 December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to (...) |
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| Long Island Sound FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 41.0967 / -72.8811 | Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, lying between the eastern shores of The Bronx, New York City, southern Westchester County, and Connecticut to the north, and the North Shore of Long Island, to the south (...) |
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| Lhasa FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 3656 Lat/Lng : 29.652 / 91.1395 | Lhasa or Chengguan is a district and administrative capital of Lhasa City in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The inner urban area of Lhasa City is equivalent to the administrative borders of Chengguan District, which is part of the wider prefectural Lhasa City (...) |
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| Bayon FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 13.4413 / 103.8587 | The Bayon is a richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII , the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman's capital, Angkor Thom .Higham, C (...) |
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| Awka FeatureType : city Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 6.2069 / 7.0678 | Awka is the capital of Anambra State, Nigeria with an estimated population of 301,657 Nigerian census. The city is located , by road, directly north of Port Harcourt in the centre of the densely populated Igbo heartland in south east Nigeria (...) |
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| Geography of Austria FeatureType : country Elevation : 490 Lat/Lng : 49.0207 / 15.0208 | Austria is a small, predominantly mountainous country in Central Europe, approximately between Germany, Italy and Hungary. It has a total area of 83,879 km² (32,385 mi²), about twice the size of Switzerland. The landlocked country shares national borders with Switzerland (a non-European Union member (...) |
| 33 | Norderney FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 53.7072 / 7.1469 | Norderney is one of the seven populated East Frisian Islands off the North Sea coast of Germany. It is also a municipality in the district of Aurich in Lower Saxony. The island is , having a total area of about and is therefore Germany's ninth-largest island (...) | |
| 34 | Pecos County, Texas FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 916 Lat/Lng : 30.78 / -102.72 | Pecos County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 15,507. The county seat is Fort Stockton. The county was created in 1871 and organized in 1875.. By Glenn Justice and John Leffler. Retrieved on 14 December 2010. It is named for the Pecos River (...) | |
| 35 | Vladimir Komarov FeatureType : null Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 51.3616 / 59.5624 | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (; 16 March 192724 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member (...) | |
| 36 | Wenzhou FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 27.993 / 120.699 | Wenzhou (pronounced ; Wenzhounese:) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. Wenzhou is located at the extreme south east of Zhejiang Province with its borders connecting to Lishui on the west, Taizhou on the north, and Fujian to the south (...) | |
| 37 | Mesopotamia FeatureType : country Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 33.7 / 43.5 | Mesopotamia is a historical region in Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Northern Saudi Arabia, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq (...) | |
| 38 | Bonin Islands FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 26.9981 / 142.2181 | The Bonin Islands, also known as the ,; retrieved 2013-4-16. or, Yslas del Arzobispo, are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word bunin (an archaic reading of mujin), meaning "no people" or (...) | |
| 39 | City of Brussels FeatureType : city Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 50.8458 / 4.3519 | The City of Brussels (or alternatively Bruxelles-Ville , Stad in isolation: . or Brussel-Stad) is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, and the de jure capital of Belgium (...) | |
| 40 | Brewster County, Texas FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 930 Lat/Lng : 29.8119 / -103.2517 | Brewster County is a county located in the western part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,232. Its county seat and only city is Alpine. The county is named for Colonel Henry Percy Brewster, a Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas (...) | |
| 41 | Bima FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : -8.46 / 118.7267 | Bima (Indonesia: Kota Bima) is a city on the eastern coast of the island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia's province West Nusa Tenggara. It is the largest city on the island of Sumbawa, with a population of 142,443 at the 2010 Census, but the latest official estimate (as at January 2014) is 148,984 (...) | |
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| USS Turner Joy FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 47.564 / -122.622 | USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was one of 18 s of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN (1895–1956). Commissioned in 1959, she spent her entire career in the Pacific. She participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the (...) |
| 43 | Akkadian Empire FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 33.1 / 44.1 | The Akkadian Empire was the first ancient Semitic-speaking empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the city of Akkad Sumerian: Agade and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia in the Bible. The empire united Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule (...) | |
| 44 | Gandaki River FeatureType : city Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 25.6525 / 85.1844 | The Gandaki River (also known as the Narayani and the Gandak) is one of the major rivers of Nepal and a tributary of the Ganges in India. In Nepal the river is notable for its deep gorge through the Himalayas. It has a total catchment area of , most of it in Nepal (...) | |
| 45 | Koshi River FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 25.4119 / 87.2589 | The Koshi or Kosi River drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal. From a major confluence of tributaries north of the Chatra Gorge onwards, the Koshi River is also known as Saptakoshi for its seven upper tributaries (...) | |
| 46 | Marco Polo FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 45.2613 / 12.2043 | Marco Polo (; 1254January 8–9, 1324) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice. His travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo, c (...) | |
| 47 | Suffolk County, New York FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 40.9436 / -72.6922 | Suffolk County is a predominantly suburban county on Long Island and the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 1,493,350, estimated to have decreased slightly to 1,492,953 in 2017, making it the fourth-most populous county in New York (...) | |
| 48 | Marathwada FeatureType : null Elevation : 573 Lat/Lng : 19.8833 / 75.3333 | Marathwada (IPA:Marāṭhvāḍā) मराठी : मराठवाडा is a region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The region coincides with the Aurangabad Division of Maharashtra. It borders the states of Karnataka and Telangana, and it lies to the west of the Vidarbha and east of Khandesh regions of Maharashtra (...) | |
| 49 | Central Asia FeatureType : country Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 45.3 / 63.9 | Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. The region consists of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.https://www.britannica (...) | |
| 50 | Northwest Passage FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 74.3439 / -124.7697 | The Northwest Passage (NWP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (...) | |
| 51 | Shaivism FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 20.888 / 70.4013 | Shaivism (Śaivam; Devanagari: शैव संप्रदाय; Bengali: শৈব; Tamil: சைவம்; Telugu: శైవ సాంప్రదాయం; Kannada:ಶೈವ ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ; Malayalam:ശൈവമതം; Sinhalese:ශිවාගම/ශෛවවාදය) is one of the major traditions called Saivam that reveres Shiva as the Supreme Being (...) | |
| 52 | Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park FeatureType : null Elevation : 383 Lat/Lng : 17.5372 / 106.1513 | Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts of central Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, about 500 km south of Hanoi (...) | |
| 53 | Bihar FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 25.37 / 85.13 | Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India. It is the thirteen-largest Indian state, with an area of . As the third-largest state by population, it is contiguous with Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Bengal to the (...) | |
| 54 | Chenla FeatureType : country Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 11.55 / 104.9167 | Chenla or Zhenla is the Chinese designation for the successor polity of the Kingdom of Funan preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late sixth to the early ninth century in Indochina. The name was still used in the 13th century by the Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan, author of The Customs (...) | |
| 55 | Milan FeatureType : null Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : 45.4666 / 9.1666 | Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,372,075 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,242,420 (...) | |
| 56 | Geneva FeatureType : city Elevation : 403 Lat/Lng : 46.2 / 6.15 | Geneva is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva (...) | |
| 57 | Anosy Region FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : -25.0333 / 46.9833 | Anosy is one of the 22 regions of Madagascar in the southeast of the country. It is located on the eastern side of what used to be Province of Tulear. The name "Anosy" means "island(s)" in Malagasy. Due to a strategic main searoute running along its coast, Anosy has been an osmotic crossroads for (...) | |
| 58 | Indo-Greek Kingdom FeatureType : country Elevation : 1576 Lat/Lng : 31.35 / 69.87 | The Indo-Greek Kingdom or Graeco-Indian KingdomAs in other compounds such as "African-American", "Asian-American", "French-Canadian" and so on, the nationality or race of the newcomers usually comes first, and the area of arrival comes second, so that "Greco-Indian" is normally a more accurate (...) | |
| 59 | Le Corbusier FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8519 / 2.2654 | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930 (...) | |
| 60 | East End of London FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.5167 / -0.05 | The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames. It does not have universally accepted boundaries, though the various channels of the River Lea are often (...) | |
| 61 | French Third Republic FeatureType : country Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 48.8167 / 2.4833 | The French Third Republic (sometimes written as) was the system of government adopted in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in (...) | |
| 62 | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh FeatureType : null Elevation : 304 Lat/Lng : 21.146 / 79.111 | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS (Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsēvaka Saṅgha, IPA: , lit. "National Volunteer Organisation" or "National Patriotic Organisation"), is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of (...) | |
| 63 | North Shore (Long Island) FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 40.8647 / -73.7278 | The North Shore of Long Island is the area along the northern coast of New York's Long Island bordering Long Island Sound. Known for its extreme wealth and lavish estates, the North Shore exploded into affluence at the turn of the 20th century, earning it the nickname the Gold Coast (...) | |
| 64 | Penang Island FeatureType : null Elevation : 186 Lat/Lng : 5.3727 / 100.2496 | Penang Island, is the main constituent island of the Malaysian state of Penang. Located at the Malacca Strait, off the northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, it is separated from the mainland by the Penang Strait (...) | |
| 65 | Vat Phou FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 120 Lat/Lng : 14.8483 / 105.8176 | Vat Phou (or Wat Phu; temple-mountain) is a ruined Khmer Hindu temple complex in southern Laos. It is at the base of mount Phou Khao, some from the Mekong in Champasak Province. There was a temple on the site as early as the 5th century, but the surviving structures date from the 11th to 13th (...) | |
| 66 | Altus, Oklahoma FeatureType : city Elevation : 432 Lat/Lng : 34.6439 / -99.3267 | Altus (pronounced AL-tus) is a city and the county seat in Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 19,813 at the 2010 census, a loss of 7.7 percent compared to 21,454 at the 2000 census. Retrieved January 16, 2014 (...) | |
| 67 | École pratique des hautes études FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8311 / 2.34 | The École pratique des hautes études , abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France, and a constituent college of PSL Research University. It is counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions (...) | |
| 68 | Academia Sinica FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 25.0458 / 121.6103 | Academia Sinica (AS;), headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. It supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from mathematical and physical sciences, to life sciences, and to humanities and social sciences (...) | |
| 69 | River Lea FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.7008 / -0.0134 | The River Lea originates in the Chiltern Hills, England, and flows southeast through east London where it meets the River Thames, the last looping section being known as Bow Creek. It is one of the largest rivers in London and the easternmost major tributary of the Thames (...) | |
| 70 | Mỹ Sơn FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 15.7667 / 108.1167 | Mỹ Sơn is a cluster of abandoned and partially ruined Hindu temples in Vietnam, constructed between the 4th and the 14th century AD by the kings of Champa (Chiêm Thành in Vietnamese).Andrew David Hardy, Mauro Cucarzi, Patrizia Zolese Champa and the Archaeology of Mỹ Sơn 2009 The temples are (...) | |
| 71 | Plain of Jars FeatureType : null Elevation : 1107 Lat/Lng : 19.43 / 103.153 | The Plain of Jars (Lao: ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ) is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau (...) | |
| 72 | Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 FeatureType : null Elevation : 688 Lat/Lng : 34.36 / 73.47 | The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948, sometimes known as the First Kashmir War, was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistan Wars fought between the two newly independent nations (...) | |
| 73 | Worlds of Fun FeatureType : null Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 39.1773 / -94.489 | Worlds of Fun is a 235-acre amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The park opened in 1973 and is owned and operated by Cedar Fair, which purchased the park from Hunt-Midwest in 1995. Admission to Worlds of Fun includes access to Oceans of Fun, a water park adjacent to the amusement (...) | |
| 74 | Ta Prohm FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 13.4349 / 103.8891 | Ta Prohm (pronunciation: prasat taprohm) is the modern name of the temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara (in Khmer: រាជវិហារ) (...) | |
| 75 | Colonia Roma FeatureType : city Elevation : 2242 Lat/Lng : 19.4164 / -99.1617 | Colonia Roma, also called La Roma or simply, Roma, is a district located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City just west of the city’s historic center, and in fact is no longer a single colonia (neighbourhood) but now two officially defined ones, Roma Norte and Roma Sur, divided by Coahuila (...) | |
| 76 | Third Battle of Kharkov FeatureType : event Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : 49.9667 / 36.3167 | The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the city of Kharkov (or Kharkiv)Kharkov is the Russian language name of the city (Kharkiv the Ukrainian one); both Russian and Ukrainian (...) | |
| 77 | Art of Champa FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 15.5167 / 108.5667 | Champa was an Indic civilization that flourished along the coasts of what is now central and southern Vietnam for roughly a one thousand-year period between 500 and 1500 AD. The original Chams were probably colonists from the Indonesian islands, who adopted as their principal vocations those of (...) | |
| 78 | Óc Eo FeatureType : city Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 10.2547 / 105.152 | Óc Eo (French, from , O Keo, "Glass Canal") is an archaeological site in Thoại Sơn District in southern An Giang Province, Vietnam, in the Mekong River Delta. Óc Eo may have been a busy port of the kingdom of Funan between the 1st and 7th centuries (...) | |
| 79 | Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 11.3994 / 79.6933 | Nataraja Temple, also referred to as the Chidambaram Nataraja temple or Thillai Nataraja temple (Tamil: தில்லை நடராஜர் கோவில்,சிதம்பர நடராஜர் கோவில்), is a Hindu temple dedicated to Nataraja – Shiva as the lord of dance – in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.Harle 1994, pp (...) | |
| 80 | George S. Patton FeatureType : null Elevation : 334 Lat/Lng : 49.6117 / 6.1856 | George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 (...) | |
| 81 | Fortress of São João Baptista (Angra do Heroísmo) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 38.6514 / -27.2269 | The Fortress of São João Baptista , also known as the Fort of São Filipe or Fort of Monte Brasil is a historic fortress and defensive emplacement, located in the civil parish of Sé, municipality of Angra do Heroísmo in the Portuguese island of Terceira, archipelago of the Azores. (...) | |
| 82 | Museums of the Far East FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 50.893 / 4.3618 | The Museums of the Far East is the name of a complex of three museums in Laeken, Belgium dedicated to Oriental art and culture, specifically that of China and Japan. Both museums are run under the direction of the Royal Museums of Art and History (KMKG-MRAH) (...) | |
| 83 | Honaine FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 35.1765 / -1.655 | Honaine is a town and commune in Tlemcen Province in northwestern Algeria. (...) | |
| 84 | Hoàn Kiếm District FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 21.0289 / 105.8525 | Hoàn Kiếm (; Sino-Vietnamese for Returned Sword) is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, named after the scenic Hoàn Kiếm Lake. The lake is in the heart of the district and serves as the focal point of the city's public life (...) | |
| 85 | Anaimalai Hills FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2158 Lat/Lng : 10.3667 / 77.125 | The Anamala or Anaimalai Hills, also known as the Elephant Mountains, are the range of mountains that form the southern portion of the Western Ghats and span the border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in Southern India (...) | |
| 86 | Thommanon FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 13.4471 / 103.8774 | Thommanon is one of a pair of Hindu temples built during the reign of Suryavarman II (1113–1150) at Angkor, Cambodia.Higham, C., 2001, The Civilization of Angkor, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, This small and elegant temple is east of the Gate of Victory of Angkor Thom and north of Chau Say Tevoda (...) | |
| 87 | Alexandria Eschate FeatureType : city Elevation : 367 Lat/Lng : 40.25 / 69.6333 | Alexandria Eschate or Alexandria Eskhata (Greek), literally "Alexandria the Farthest", was a city founded by Alexander the Great, at the south-western end of the Fergana Valley (modern Tajikistan) in August 329 BCE.Prevas, John. (2004) (...) | |
| 88 | D. B. Cooper FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 45.95 / -122.65 | D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the northwest United States, in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on the afternoon of Wednesday, He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an (...) | |
| 89 | Singapore Grand Prix FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 1.292 / 103.8579 | The Singapore Grand Prix is a motor race which forms part of the FIA Formula One World Championship. The event takes place on the Marina Bay Street Circuit and was the inaugural night race and first street circuit in Asia designed for Formula One races (...) | |
| 90 | Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve FeatureType : null Elevation : 1799 Lat/Lng : 43.4617 / -113.5627 | Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National Monument and national preserve in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho. It is along US 20 (concurrent with US 93 and US 26), between the small towns of Arco and Carey, at an average elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m) above sea (...) | |
| 91 | Galle Fort FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 6.0275 / 80.2171 | Galle Fort (Galu Kotuwa;), in the Bay of Galle on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, was built first in 1588 by the Portuguese, then extensively fortified by the Dutch during the 17th century from 1649 onwards. It is a historical, archaeological and architectural heritage monument, which even after (...) | |
| 92 | Charles L. Carpenter FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -9.1861 / 159.895 | Rear Admiral Charles L. Carpenter (July 31, 1902 – February 21, 1992) was a Naval officer, holder of the Navy Cross, Purple Heart and whose career encompassed combat action in Nicaragua. He was involved in all three Theaters of Operations in World War II and naval combat in the Pacific (...) | |
| 93 | 1968 in aviation FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9667 / 32.8 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968: (...) | |
| 94 | 69th Infantry Regiment (New York) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 40.7414 / -73.9839 | The 69th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army. It is from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. It is known as the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth", a name said to have been given by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War (...) | |
| 95 | Château de Bois-Briand FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 47.2491 / -1.4947 | Château de Bois-Briand is a château located in Nantes, France. In 2008, the estate was listed as a "Monument National" by French Minister of Culture. This label was attributed thanks to three main considerations: the inspiring history of some landlords, the permanence of a consensual social life and (...) | |
| 96 | Military history of France during World War II FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.6333 / 3.0667 | The military history of France during World War II covers three periods. From 1939 until 1940, which witnessed a war against Germany by the French Third Republic. The period from 1940 until 1945, which saw competition between Vichy France and the Free French Forces under General Charles de Gaulle (...) | |
| 97 | Sri Ksetra Kingdom FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 18.8082 / 95.2888 | Sri Ksetra (Śrī Kṣetra, သရေခေတ္တရာ ပြည်, IPA: ; lit. "Field of Fortune"Htin Aung, Maung (1970). Burmese History before 1287: A Defence of the Chronicles. Oxford: The Asoka Society, 8 - 10. or "Field of Glory"Aung-Thwin, Michael (1996). "Kingdom of Bagan". In Gillian Cribbs (...) | |
| 98 | Nanjing Normal University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 32.056 / 118.7645 | Nanjing Normal University (NNU;) is a normal university in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Located in the ancient capital of six dynasties in Chinese history, Nanjing Normal University is one of the national key universities of "Project 211" under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and (...) | |
| 99 | CMA CGM FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 43.3149 / 5.366 | CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company. It is a leading worldwide shipping group, using 200 shipping routes between 420 ports in 150 different countries. Its headquarters are in Marseille,"." GMA CGM. Retrieved on 22 September 2011 (...) | |
| 100 | Buddhist Institute, Cambodia FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 11.5557 / 104.936 | The Buddhist Institute is the principal Buddhist institution of the government of Cambodia. The current director is Nguon Van Chanthy. Its primary facilities are located in Phnom Penh. (...) | |
| 101 | Hammana FeatureType : city Elevation : 1099 Lat/Lng : 33.8258 / 35.7347 | Hammana is a town in Lebanon, about 26 km (16 miles) East of Beirut and is part of Greater Beirut. Hammana sits at an altitude of 1200m (about 4000ft) above sea-level. It is in the Mount Lebanon Governorate in the district (or Caza) of Baabda (...) | |
| 102 | Temple of Literature, Hanoi FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 21.0286 / 105.8356 | The Temple of Literature (Vietnamese: Văn Miếu, Hán-Nôm: 文廟) is a Temple of Confucius in Hanoi, northern Vietnam. The temple hosts the Imperial Academy , Vietnam's first national university. The temple was built in 1070 at the time of Emperor Lý Thánh Tông (...) | |
| 103 | Peasedown St John FeatureType : city Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : 51.3167 / -2.4242 | Peasedown St John (commonly referred to as Peasedown) is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. Standing on a hilltop roughly south-southwest of the city of Bath, Peasedown used to be a coal mining village (...) | |
| 104 | Muang Sing FeatureType : null Elevation : 892 Lat/Lng : 21.2618 / 101.1091 | Muang Sing or Mueang Sing (Lao: ເມືອງສີງ) is a small town and district (muang) in Luang Namtha Province, northwestern Laos, about 60 kilometres northwest of the town of Luang Namtha and 360 kilometres northwest of Vientiane (...) | |
| 105 | Bangsar FeatureType : Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 3.1308 / 101.6694 | Bangsar (Chinese: 孟沙, Tamil: பங்சார்) is an affluent residential suburb on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, lying about south-west of the city centre. It is part of the Lembah Pantai parliamentary constituency. Bangsar is administered by Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) unlike other townships in (...) | |
| 106 | Arikamedu FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 11.89 / 79.81 | Arikamedu is an archaeological site in Southern India, in Kakkayanthope, Ariyankuppam Commune, Puducherry. It is from the capital, Pondicherry of the Indian territory of Puducherry. Sir Mortimer Wheeler 1945, and Jean-Marie Casal conducted archaeological excavations there in 1947–1950 (...) | |
| 107 | PSL Research University FeatureType : edu}} Lat/Lng : 48.8547 / -2.3378 | Université PSL (officially Université de recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres in French and Paris Sciences & Lettres Research University in English) is a French decentralized collegiate university, currently organized as a ComUE (university community) (...) | |
| 108 | University of Western Ontario Faculty of Engineering FeatureType : edu Elevation : 259 Lat/Lng : 43.0056 / -81.2763 | The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Engineering, also known as Western Engineering, is an accredited engineering faculty within the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario. It currently offers 9 undergraduate programs.http://www.eng.uwo.ca/undergraduate/programs/index (...) | |
| 109 | History of broadcasting in Australia FeatureType : null Elevation : 674 Lat/Lng : -33.42 / 149.5778 | The history of broadcasting in Australia has been shaped for over a century by the problem of communication across long distances, coupled with a strong base in a wealthy society with a deep taste for aural communications in a silent landscape (...) | |
| 110 | East Pakistan FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 23.7 / 90.35 | East Pakistan was the eastern provincial wing of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Myanmar, with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal (...) | |
| 111 | Siege of Tuyên Quang FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 21.817 / 105.217 | The Siege of Tuyen Quang was an important confrontation between the French and the Chinese armies in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). A French garrison of 630 men, including two companies of the French Foreign Legion, successfully defended the French (...) | |
| 112 | Silwan FeatureType : city Elevation : 625 Lat/Lng : 31.7694 / 35.2361 | Silwan (Palmer, 1881, pp.) is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood on the outskirts of the Old City of Jerusalem.Meron Benvenisti, . Ir Amim for an Equitable and Stable Jerusalem, May, 2009 p.5. Forty Jewish families also live in the area (...) | |
| 113 | Battle of Arara FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 32.4941 / 35.0545 | The Battle of Arara took place on 19 September 1918 during the Battle of Sharon, which along with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War (...) | |
| 114 | Battle of Zhenhai FeatureType : city Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 29.96 / 121.72 | The Battle of Zhenhai was a minor confrontation that took place on 1March 1885 between Admiral Amédée Courbet's Far East Squadron (escadre de l’extrême-Orient) and Chinese warships and shore batteries near the coastal city of Zhenhai, downstream from Ningbo, China during the Sino-French War (August (...) | |
| 115 | National Museum of Vietnamese History FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 21.0247 / 105.8597 | The National Museum of Vietnamese History is located in the Hoan Kiem district of Hanoi, Vietnam. The museum building which was an archaeological research institution of the French School of the Far East under French colonial rule (Louis Finot École française d'Extrême-Orient EFEO) of 1910, was (...) | |
| 116 | Action of 18 November 1809 FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 6.5 / 92.75 | The Action of 18 November 1809 was the most significant engagement of a six-month cruise by a French frigate squadron in the Indian Ocean during the Napoleonic Wars. The French commander, Commodore Jacques Hamelin, raided across the Bay of Bengal with his squadron and achieved local superiority, (...) | |
| 117 | Chiaha FeatureType : null Elevation : 291 Lat/Lng : 35.9538 / -83.4964 | Chiaha was a Native American chiefdom located in the lower French Broad River valley in modern East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. They lived in raised structures within boundaries of several stable villages (...) | |
| 118 | St. Joseph's Home for the Aged FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 22.3347 / 114.2105 | St. Joseph's Home for the Aged is located at No. 35 Clear Water Bay Road, Ngau Chi Wan, Wong Tai Sin, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The site spans .Sophia Wong, “New life nears for historic old people’s home; Kowloon Development reveals $5b undertaking”, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), March 7, (...) | |
| 119 | Cross Sound Ferry FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 41.233 / -72.142 | Cross Sound Ferry is a passenger and road vehicle ferry service operating between New London, Connecticut and Orient, Long Island, New York. The service is privately owned and operated by Cross Sound Ferry Services, headquartered in New London. (...) | |
| 120 | Magna Publishing Group FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 40.9152 / -74.0547 | Magna Publishing Group, or Magna Publishing Group, Inc., is an American publishing company headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey. Founded in 1975, the company publishes a number of magazine titles and is one of the largest publishers of pornographic magazines in the United StatesChris Kokenes, CNN, , (...) | |
| 121 | Battle of Hòa Mộc FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 21.817 / 105.217 | The Battle of Hòa Mộc (2 March 1885) was the most fiercely fought action of the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). At heavy cost, Colonel Giovanninelli's 1st Brigade of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps defeated forces of the Black Flag and Yunnan Armies blocking the way to the besieged French (...) | |
| 122 | Rukban FeatureType : null Elevation : 764 Lat/Lng : 33.2986 / 38.6571 | Rukban, sometimes transliterated Rakban, Arabic or is an arid remote area near the extreme northeast of Jordan, close to the joint borders with Syria and Iraq. The area contains a refugee camp lying along the demilitarized berm between Jordan and Syria, a no man's land. (...) | |
| 123 | Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 48.8272 / 2.3757 | The Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) is a major academic library located in Paris Rive Gauche and which has been open to the public since its 2011 opening. The library has a scope that includes all languages and civilisations that are not those of the Western World. (...) | |
| 124 | Sunda Kingdom FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : -6.36 / 106.48 | The Sunda Kingdom (Sundanese: Karajaan Sunda) was a Sundanese Hindu kingdom located in the western portion of the island of Java from 669 to around 1579, covering the area of present-day Banten, Jakarta, West Java, and the western part of Central Java (...) | |
| 125 | Timber Wolf (roller coaster) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 280 Lat/Lng : 39.1727 / -94.4892 | Timber Wolf is a wooden roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri. Timber Wolf was designed by Curtis D. Summers and was built by the Dinn Corporation. It opened in April 1989. (...) | |
| 126 | French Foreign Legion Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 43.2933 / 5.5534 | The French Foreign Legion Museum situated in Aubagne, France, represents the history and "arms history" accomplishments of the French Foreign Legion throughout the course of various collections and expositions. The museum welcomes numerous visitors (almost 25,000 per year), as well as scholars and (...) | |
| 127 | Po Klong Garai Temple FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 11.6011 / 108.9469 | Po Klong Garai Temple is a Cham religious complex located in the Cham principality of Panduranga, in what is now Phan Rang in southern Vietnam. It was built in honor of the legendary king Po Klaung Garai, who ruled Panduranga from 1151 to 1205, by the historic King Jaya Sinhavarman III,Ngô Vǎn (...) | |
| 128 | Sliven prisoner of war camp FeatureType : null Elevation : 269 Lat/Lng : 42.6833 / 26.3333 | Sliven was a prisoner-of-war camp established in Sliven in 1915 with the intent of housing Serbian troops captured during the course of World War I. Over time Greek and Serbian civilians joined their ranks reaching 19,000 at its peak (...) | |
| 129 | Angkor National Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 13.3666 / 103.8599 | Angkor National Museum is an archaeological museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of Angkorian artifacts, also to provides information and education about art and culture of Khmer civilization, with collections mainly dated from Khmer Empire's Angkor period circa 9th to (...) | |
| 130 | Battle of Yu Oc FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 21.8167 / 105.2167 | The Battle of Yu Oc (19 November 1884) was a French victory during the Sino-French War. The battle was fought to relieve the French garrison of Tuyên Quang, under siege by the Tang Jingsong's Yunnan Army and Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army (...) | |
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