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1 | ![]() | Equator ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 0.0 / 0.0 | An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel). It is the imaginary line on the spheroid's surface, equidistant from its poles, dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres (...) |
2 | ![]() | Apollo 8 ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 8.1 / -165.0167 | Apollo 8, the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth (...) |
3 | ![]() | Death Valley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -82 Lat/Lng : 36.2433 / -116.8333 | Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is one of the hottest places in the world at the height of summertime along with deserts in the Middle East (...) |
4 | ![]() | Rocca di Papa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 629 Lat/Lng : 41.7667 / 12.7167 | Rocca di Papa (Roman Castles Romanesco:) is a small town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is one of the Castelli Romani about southeast of Rome on the Alban Hills. It is close to the other communes of Velletri, Rocca Priora, Monte Compatri, Grottaferrata, Albano and (...) |
5 | ![]() | Museo del Prado ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 649 Lat/Lng : 40.4138 / -3.6923 | The Prado Museum is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to have one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and the single best (...) |
6 | ![]() | Apollo 15 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 623 Lat/Lng : 26.1322 / 3.6339 | Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the United States' Apollo program, the fourth to land on the Moon, and the eighth successful manned mission. It was the first of what were termed "J missions", long stays on the Moon, with a greater focus on science than had been possible on previous (...) |
7 | ![]() | Kola Peninsula ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 67.6884 / 35.9437 | The Kola Peninsula ('; from , '; ; ;) is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast,2007 Atlas of Murmansk Oblast, p. 2The area of the peninsula is ; vs. Murmansk Oblast's total area of (...) |
8 | ![]() | Gran Sasso d'Italia ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2837 Lat/Lng : 42.47 / 13.5642 | Gran Sasso d'Italia (is an Apennine secondary mountain massif. Its highest peak, Corno Grande (2,912 metres, the Big Horn), is the highest mountain in the Apennines and outside the Alps. Included in Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, is a popular touristic attraction and ski resort, used (...) |
9 | ![]() | Antarctica ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.3578 / -2.2472 | Antarctica (or) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At , it is the fifth-largest continent (...) |
10 | ![]() | Babruysk ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 53.1 / 29.217 | Babruysk, Babrujsk, or Bobruisk (Łacinka: Babrujsk) is a city in the Mogilev Region of eastern Belarus on the Berezina river. It is a large city in Belarus. , its population was 215,092. The name Babruysk (as well as that of the Babruyka River) probably originates from the Belarusian word babyor (...) |
11 | ![]() | Ehime Prefecture ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 261 Lat/Lng : 33.8333 / 132.8333 | is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ehime" in . The capital is Matsuyama.Nussbaum, "Matsuyama" at . (...) |
12 | ![]() | Kerguelen Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 706 Lat/Lng : -49.3334 / 69.3334 | The Kerguelen Islands (or ;, respectively or . in French commonly ' but officially '), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged by the (...) |
13 | ![]() | Zacatecas ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2105 Lat/Lng : 23.3 / -102.7 | Zacatecas , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas , is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 58 municipalities and its capital city is Zacatecas City. Zacatecas is located in North-Central Mexico (...) |
14 | ![]() | Delphi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 674 Lat/Lng : 38.483 / 22.501 | Delphi In English, the name Delphi is pronounced either as or, in a more Greek-like manner, as . The Greek spelling transliterates as "Delphoi" (with an o); dialectal forms include Belphoi — Aeolian form — and Dalphoi — Phocian form—, as well as (...) |
15 | ![]() | Salar de Uyuni ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 3658 Lat/Lng : -20.1338 / -67.4891 | Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt flat, at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level (...) |
16 | ![]() | Kīlauea ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1231 Lat/Lng : 19.421 / -155.287 | Kīlauea is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaii. Located along the southern shore of the island, the volcano is between 300,000 and 600,000 years old and emerged above sea level about 100,000 (...) |
17 | ![]() | Hudson Bay ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 59.32 / -84.41 | Hudson Bay (Inuktitut: Kangiqsualuk ilua) (sometimes called Hudson's Bay, usually historically) is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of . It drains a very large area, about , that includes parts of southeastern Nunavut, Saskatchewan, most of Manitoba, Ontario, (...) |
18 | ![]() | 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 3.316 / 95.854 | The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra and a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 , reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas (...) |
19 | ![]() | Socotra ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 740 Lat/Lng : 12.51 / 53.92 | Socotra , also called Soqotra, located between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea, is the largest of four islands of the Socotra archipelago. The territory is located near major shipping routes and is officially part of Yemen, and had long been a subdivision of the Aden Governorate (...) |
20 | ![]() | Lake Toba ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 1574 Lat/Lng : 2.58 / 98.83 | Lake Toba is a large natural lake in Indonesia occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is about long, wide, and up to deep. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with a surface elevation of about , the lake stretches from to (...) |
21 | ![]() | Aeolian Islands ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 38.533 / 14.9 | The Aeolian Islands (Aiolides Nisoi) are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, named after the demigod of the winds Aeolus. The islands' inhabitants are known as Aeolians . The Aeolian Islands are a popular tourist destination in the summer and attract up to 200,000 visitors (...) |
22 | ![]() | Tikhvin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 59.6417 / 33.5164 | Tikhvin is a town and the administrative center of Tikhvinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Tikhvinka River in the east of the oblast, east of St. Petersburg. Tikhvin is also an industrial and cultural center of the district, as well as its transportation hub (...) |
23 | ![]() | Enschede ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 52.2167 / 6.8833 | Enschede , also known as Eanske in the local dialect of Twents, is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The municipality of Enschede consisted of the city of Enschede until 1935, when the rural municipality of Lonneker, which (...) |
24 | ![]() | Laptev Sea ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 75.4178 / 125.7403 | The Laptev Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands. Its northern boundary passes from the Arctic Cape to a point with co-ordinates of 79°N and 139°E, and ends at the Anisiy (...) |
25 | ![]() | Gobi Desert ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1177 Lat/Lng : 42.59 / 103.43 | The Gobi Desert is a large desert region in Asia. It covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Taklamakan Desert to the west, by the Hexi (...) |
26 | ![]() | Volterra ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 540 Lat/Lng : 43.4014 / 10.8611 | Volterra is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 7th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods. (...) |
27 | ![]() | Yucatán Peninsula ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 18.845 / -89.1256 | The Yucatán Peninsula , in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest (...) |
28 | ![]() | Heard Island and McDonald Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 2317 Lat/Lng : -53.1044 / 73.5289 | The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (abbreviated as HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is in area and it has of coastline (...) |
29 | ![]() | Guayaquil ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : -2.1833 / -79.8833 | Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, with around 2 million people in the metropolitan area, as well as the nation's main port. The city is the capital of the province of Guayas and the seat of the namesake canton (...) |
30 | ![]() | Nanaimo ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 49.1644 / -123.9367 | Nanaimo (Canada 2016 Census population 90,504) is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is known as "The Harbour City". The city was previously known as the "Hub City", which has been attributed to its original layout design where the streets radiated out from (...) |
31 | ![]() | Temple of Heaven ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 39.8819 / 116.4068 | The is an imperial complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest (...) |
32 | ![]() | Morelia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1917 Lat/Lng : 19.7008 / -101.1844 | Morelia (; from 1545 to 1828 known as Valladolid) is a city and municipality in the north central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. The city is in the Guayangareo Valley and is the capital and largest city of the state (...) |
33 | ![]() | Guanajuato ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2005 Lat/Lng : 21.0189 / -101.2628 | Guanajuato , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato , is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, are the 32 Federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato. The largest city in the state is León (...) |
34 | ![]() | Atlantic Ocean ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 0.0 / -25.0 | The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. It separates the "Old World" from the "New World" (...) |
35 | ![]() | Salinas, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 36.6778 / -121.6556 | Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California. Salinas is an urban area located just outside the southern portion of the Greater Bay Area and east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River. The population was 157,218 (...) |
36 | ![]() | Tuxtla Gutiérrez ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 527 Lat/Lng : 16.7472 / -93.1039 | Tuxtla Gutiérrez is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeast state of Chiapas. It is the most developed, populated and therefore the state's most important municipality. A busy government, commercial and services-oriented city, Tuxtla (as it is commonly known) had one of the fastest (...) |
37 | ![]() | Longyearbyen ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 78.2177 / 15.647 | Longyearbyen ((literally The Longyear Town) is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of Svalbard, Norway. , the town had a population of 2,144. Longyearbyen is located in the Longyear Valley and on the shore of , a bay of located on the west coast of (...) |
38 | ![]() | Samos ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 692 Lat/Lng : 37.734 / 26.83 | Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region, and the only municipality of the regional (...) |
39 | ![]() | Woking ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 51.3162 / -0.561 | Woking is a town in northwest Surrey, England. It is at the southwestern edge of the Greater London Urban Area and is a part of the London commuter belt, with frequent trains and a journey time of approximately 24 minutes to Waterloo station. Woking is southwest of Charing Cross in central London (...) |
40 | ![]() | Mount Pinatubo ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 929 Lat/Lng : 15.1417 / 120.35 | Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains, located on the tripoint boundary of the Philippine provinces of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga, all in Central Luzon on the northern island of Luzon., pg. 141. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1901 (...) |
41 | ![]() | Bogor ![]() FeatureType : regency Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : -6.5966 / 106.7972 | Bogor (Sundanese: ᮘᮧᮌᮧᮁ, Dutch: Buitenzorg) is a city in the West Java province, Indonesia. Located around south from the national capital of Jakarta, Bogor is the 6th largest city of Jabodetabek (Jakarta metropolitan region) and the 14th nationwide.http://www.depkes.go (...) |
42 | ![]() | Lompoc, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 34.6461 / -120.4603 | Lompoc (Purisimeño: Lompo', "Stagnant Water" McCall, Lynne & Rosalind, Perry, red. (1991): The Chumash People: Materials for Teachers and Students. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. San Luis Obispo, CA: EZ Nature Books. . Page 29 (...) |
43 | ![]() | Nepal ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 26.5333 / 86.7333 | Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal , is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. With an estimated population of 26 (...) |
44 | ![]() | Fier ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 40.725 / 19.5572 | Fier is a city and a municipality in Fier County in southwest Albania. The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 85,845. Geographically, it is located on the center of the country surrounded by hills (...) |
45 | ![]() | Kuwait City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 29.3697 / 47.9783 | Kuwait City is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the shore of the Persian Gulf, and containing Kuwait's National Assembly (parliament), most governmental offices, the headquarters of most Kuwaiti corporations and banks, it is the indisputable political, (...) |
46 | ![]() | Lake Van ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 1645 Lat/Lng : 38.6333 / 42.8167 | Lake Van (Vana lič̣), the largest lake in Turkey, lies in the far east of that country in the provinces of Van and Bitlis. It is a saline soda lake, receiving water from numerous small streams that descend from the surrounding mountains (...) |
47 | ![]() | Tierra del Fuego ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : -53.9333 / -68.5333 | Tierra del Fuego (; Spanish for "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of the main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, with an area of , and a group of many islands, including Cape Horn (...) |
48 | ![]() | Indian Ocean ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : -20.0 / 80.0 | The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface). It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by (...) |
49 | ![]() | Okinawa Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 26.4794 / 127.9278 | is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan. The island is approximately long and an average wide, and has an area of . It is roughly south of the rest of Japan and north of Taiwan (...) |
50 | ![]() | Australia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 607 Lat/Lng : -35.3081 / 149.1244 | Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area (...) |
51 | ![]() | Lake Baikal ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 449 Lat/Lng : 53.3028 / 108.0047 | Lake Baikal (;. Collins English Dictionary. ; , Baigal nuur; , Baigal nuur, etymologically meaning, in Mongolian, "the Nature Lake")Dervla Murphy (2007) Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals, London, John Murray, p (...) |
52 | ![]() | Simferopol ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 253 Lat/Lng : 44.9497 / 34.1042 | Simferopol is a city on the Crimean peninsula which is, since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the de facto capital city of the Republic of Crimea within the Russian Federation. De jure, it remains the capital city of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine (...) |
53 | ![]() | Lappeenranta ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 61.0583 / 28.1861 | Lappeenranta is a city and municipality situated on the shore of the lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland, about from the Russian border. It belongs to the region of South Karelia. With approximately inhabitants Lappeenranta is the largest city in Finland (...) |
54 | ![]() | Mount Whitney ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4264 Lat/Lng : 36.5786 / -118.292 | Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in California, as well as the highest summit in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada—with an elevation of . It is in Central California, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, west-northwest of the lowest point in North (...) |
55 | ![]() | Zagros Mountains ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1498 Lat/Lng : 33.6667 / 47.0 | The Zagros Mountains (; Lurish: ;) are a long mountain range in Iran, Iraq and southeastern Turkey. This mountain range has a total length of . The Zagros mountain range begins in northwestern Iran and roughly follows Iran's western border, while covering much of southeastern Turkey and northeastern (...) |
56 | ![]() | Teramo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 254 Lat/Lng : 42.665 / 13.718 | Teramo is a city and comune in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines (Gran Sasso d'Italia) and the Adriatic coast (...) |
57 | ![]() | Ternopil ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 303 Lat/Lng : 49.55 / 25.58 | Ternopil is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Until 1944, it was known mostly as Tarnopol. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. It is served by Ternopil Airport (...) |
58 | ![]() | Saaremaa ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 58.4167 / 22.5 | Saaremaa (; Danish: Øsel; English (esp. traditionally): Osel; Finnish: Saarenmaa; Swedish and German: Ösel) is the largest island in Estonia, measuring . The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island and west of Muhu island, and belongs to the West (...) |
59 | ![]() | Savai'i ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1739 Lat/Lng : -13.625 / -172.4867 | Savaii is the largest (area 1,694 km2) and highest (Mt Silisili at 1,858 m) island in Samoa and the Samoan Islands chain. The island is the fifth largest in Polynesia, behind the two main islands of New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands of Hawaii and Maui (...) |
60 | ![]() | Sankt Andreasberg ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 613 Lat/Lng : 51.7106 / 10.5183 | Sankt Andreasberg is a former town in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 November 2011, it is part of the town Braunlage. It is situated in the Harz, approximately 7 km west of Braunlage proper, and 20 km east of Osterode am Harz. (...) |
61 | ![]() | Ashkelon ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 31.6667 / 34.5667 | Ashkelon (; also spelled Ashqelon and AscalonFrom Greek . ; ; ') is a coastal city in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age (...) |
62 | ![]() | Caspian Sea ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 41.935 / 50.6689 | The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It is an endorheic basin (a basin without outflows) located between Europe and Asia (...) |
63 | ![]() | Peak District ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 436 Lat/Lng : 53.35 / -1.8333 | The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines. It is mostly in northern Derbyshire, but also includes parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire (...) |
64 | ![]() | Mount Fuji ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3646 Lat/Lng : 35.358 / 138.731 | , located on Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft), 2nd-highest peak of an island (volcanic) in Asia, and 7th-highest peak of an island in the world. It is a dormant stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–1708 (...) |
65 | ![]() | Pyrenees ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2660 Lat/Lng : 42.7 / 0.5 | The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France. Reaching a height of altitude at the peak of Aneto, the range separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extends for about from the Bay of Biscay (Cap Higuer) (...) |
66 | ![]() | Greenland ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 64.18 / -51.72 | Greenland is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (...) |
67 | ![]() | Geography of North Korea ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1018 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / 127.0 | North Korea is located in east Asia on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea shares a border with three countries; China along the Amnok River, Russia along the Tumen River, and South Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) (...) |
68 | ![]() | Santa Maria, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 34.9514 / -120.4333 | Santa Maria is a city near the Southern California coast in Santa Barbara County. It is approximately northwest of Santa Barbara and northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Its estimated 2018 population was 108,470, making it the most populous city in the county and the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA (...) |
69 | ![]() | Mount Merapi ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2889 Lat/Lng : -7.5408 / 110.4448 | Mount Merapi, Gunung Merapi (literally Fire Mountain in Indonesian and Javanese), is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548 (...) |
70 | ![]() | Pirin ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2720 Lat/Lng : 41.7636 / 23.3994 | The Pirin Mountains are a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria, with Vihren at an altitude of 2,914 m being the highest peak. One hypothessis is the mountain was named after Perun, the highest god of the Slavic pantheon and the god of thunder and lightning (...) |
71 | ![]() | Karnak ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 25.7186 / 32.6586 | The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Merriam-Webster, 2007. p. 1550 from Arabic Khurnak meaning "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings near Luxor, in Egypt (...) |
72 | ![]() | Karbala ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 32.6161 / 44.0342 | Karbala (Karbalā’, کربلاء, Kerbala) is a city in central Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 700,000 people (2015) (...) |
73 | ![]() | Coro, Venezuela ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 11.417 / -69.67 | Coro is the capital of Falcón State and the oldest city in the west of Venezuela. It was founded on July 26, 1527 by Juan de Ampíes as Santa Ana de Coro. It is established at the south of the Paraguaná Peninsula in a coastal plain, flanked by the Médanos de Coro National Park to the north and the (...) |
74 | ![]() | Chesapeake Bay ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.2481 / -76.1194 | The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula with its mouth located between Cape Henry and Cape Charles (...) |
75 | ![]() | Cebu City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 10.3032 / 123.8994 | , officially the , , is a highly urbanized city of the island of Cebu in the Central Visayas Region, . According to the , it has a population of people, making it the fifth most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the Visayas (...) |
76 | ![]() | Valley of the Kings ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 25.7403 / 32.6024 | The Valley of the Kings , also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ,Reeves and Wilkinson (1996), p.6 is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, rock cut tombs were excavated for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the (...) |
77 | ![]() | Kazan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 55.7964 / 49.1089 | Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,243,500, it is the sixth most populous city in Russia. Kazan is one of the largest religious, economic, political, scientific, educational, cultural and sports centers in Russia (...) |
78 | ![]() | Lake Ontario ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 43.695 / -77.9586 | Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is surrounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the American state of New York, whose water boundaries meet in the middle of the lake (...) |
79 | ![]() | Kanchipuram ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 12.82 / 79.71 | Kanchipuram, also known as Kānchi or Kancheepuram, is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in Tondaimandalam region, from Chennaithe capital of Tamil Nadu. The city covers an area of and had a population of 164,265 in 2001. It is the administrative headquarters of Kanchipuram District (...) |
80 | ![]() | Chile ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : -33.45 / -70.6667 | Chile , officially the Republic of Chile (RepChile.ogg), is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far (...) |
81 | ![]() | Manaus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : -3.1349 / -60.0255 | Manaus , previously known as Manaós before 1939 and formerly Barra do Rio Negro, is the capital city of the state of Amazonas in the North Region of Brazil. It is situated near the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers (...) |
82 | ![]() | Ani ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1450 Lat/Lng : 40.5062 / 43.5718 | Ani (; , Ánion; ; , Ani, or , Anisi;) is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia. Between 961 and 1045, it was the capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom that covered much of present-day Armenia and eastern Turkey (...) |
83 | ![]() | Maui ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 614 Lat/Lng : 20.8075 / -156.3311 | The island of Maui (; Hawaiian:) is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th-largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the State of Hawaii and is the largest of Maui County's four islands, which include Molokai, Lānai, and unpopulated (...) |
84 | ![]() | Latakia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 35.5222 / 35.7903 | Latakia ('; Syrian pronunciation:), also spelled Lattakia or Latakiyah, is the principal port city of Syria, as well as the capital of the Latakia Governorate. Historically, it has also been known as Laodicea in Syria or Laodicea ad Mare (...) |
85 | ![]() | Tokelau ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : -8.5517 / -172.501 | Tokelau (; previously known as the Union Islands, and officially as Tokelau Islands until 1976;Tokelau Amendment Act 1976 lit. "north-northeast") is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean (...) |
86 | ![]() | Guinea-Bissau ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 12.0333 / -14.9167 | Guinea-Bissau , officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau , is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of . Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire (...) |
87 | ![]() | Tijuana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 32.5282 / -117.0208 | Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and on the Baja California Peninsula. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana international transborder agglomeration. As one of the largest and fastest growing cities of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on local economics, (...) |
88 | ![]() | Poznań ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 52.4083 / 16.9342 | Poznań (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; ; known also by other historical names) is a city on the Warta River in west-central Poland, in the Greater Poland region. It is best known for its renaissance Old Town and Ostrów Tumski Cathedral (...) |
89 | ![]() | Argentina ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : -34.5997 / -58.3819 | Argentina , officially named the Argentine Republic , is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South (...) |
90 | ![]() | Whitehorse, Yukon ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.7202 / -135.0522 | Whitehorse is the capital and only city of Yukon, and the largest city in northern Canada. It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in (...) |
91 | ![]() | Vanuatu ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : -16.6333 / 168.0167 | Vanuatu (or ; Bislama, French), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is a Pacific island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast (...) |
92 | ![]() | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 52.7578 / 9.9078 | Bergen-Belsen , or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp (...) |
93 | ![]() | Tajikistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 3602 Lat/Lng : 38.7667 / 71.2833 | Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Jumhuriyi Tojikiston), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an area of and an estimated population of million people as of . It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China (...) |
94 | Blue Earth County, Minnesota ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 304 Lat/Lng : 44.0281 / -94.055 | Blue Earth County is a county in the State of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 64,013. Its county seat is Mankato. The county is named for the Blue Earth River and for the deposits of blue-green clay once evident along the banks of the Blue Earth River (...) | |
95 | ![]() | Ladakh ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3518 Lat/Lng : 34.17 / 77.58 | Ladakh ("land of high passes") is a region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent (...) |
96 | ![]() | Auckland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -36.8406 / 174.74 | Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. Auckland is the largest urban area in the country, with an urban population of around It is located in the Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, resulting (...) |
97 | ![]() | Poltava ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 158 Lat/Lng : 49.5867 / 34.5608 | Poltava is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. (...) |
98 | ![]() | Oakland International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 37.7214 / -122.2208 | Oakland International Airport is an international airport in Oakland, California, United States. It is located approximately 10 miles south of Downtown Oakland and across from San Francisco which is situated on the other side of the San Francisco Bay (...) |
99 | ![]() | Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 48.2056 / 20.9833 | Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the border with Slovakia. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Nógrád, Heves, Hajdú-Bihar and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg (...) |
100 | ![]() | Bay of Fundy ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 45.0 / -65.68 | The Bay of Fundy (or Fundy Bay;) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the US state of Maine. It has an extremely high tidal range. Portions of the Bay of Fundy, Shepody Bay and Minas Basin, form one of six Canadian sites in the (...) |
101 | ![]() | Bass Strait ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : -39.9358 / 146.0811 | Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria. (...) |
102 | ![]() | Moscow State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : 55.7031 / 37.5306 | Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; , often abbreviated МГУ) is a coeducational and public research university located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded on by Mikhail Lomonosov. MSU was renamed after Lomonosov in 1940 and was then known as Lomonosov University (...) |
103 | ![]() | Surat ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 21.1702 / 72.8311 | Surat is a city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It used to be a large seaport and is now a center for diamond cutting and polishing. It is the eighth largest city and ninth largest urban agglomeration in India. It is the administrative capital of the Surat district (...) |
104 | ![]() | Ypres ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 50.8522 / 2.8847 | Ypres is a Belgian municipality in the province of West Flanders. Though the Flemish ' is the official name, the city's French name Ypres is most commonly used in English. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, (...) |
105 | ![]() | Arica ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : -18.4744 / -70.3001 | Arica is a commune and a port city with a population of 196,590 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region. It is Chile's northernmost city, being located only south of the border with Peru (...) |
106 | ![]() | Punta Arenas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : -53.1669 / -70.9336 | Punta Arenas (; historically Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena. The city was officially renamed as Magallanes in 1927, but in 1938 it was changed back to "Punta Arenas". It is the largest city south of the 46th parallel south (...) |
107 | ![]() | Shenyang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 41.7956 / 123.4481 | Shenyang , formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian , is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.2010 census According to the 2010 census, the city's urban area has 6 (...) |
108 | ![]() | Kamchatka Peninsula ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 620 Lat/Lng : 57.0 / 160.0 | The Kamchatka Peninsula (Poluostrov Kamchatka) is a 1,250-kilometre-long (780 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2 (100,000 sq mi).Быкасов В. Е. // Известия Всесоюзного Географического Общества. — 1991. — № 6 (...) |
109 | ![]() | Strait of Gibraltar ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 35.9717 / -5.4858 | The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa. The name comes from the Rock of Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic (meaning "Mount (...) |
110 | ![]() | Altai Mountains ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4332 Lat/Lng : 49.8071 / 86.5899 | The Altai Mountains (; also spelled Altay Mountains; Altai: Алтай туулар, Altay tuular; Mongolian: , Altai-yin niruɣu (Chakhar) / Алтайн нуруу, Altain nuruu (Khalkha); Kazakh: Алтай таулары, Altai’ tay’lary, التاي تاۋلارى; , Altajskije gory; Chinese; 阿尔泰山脉, Ā'ěrtài Shānmài, Xiao'erjing: اَعَرتَىْ (...) |
111 | ![]() | Kiribati ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 1.3272 / 172.9844 | Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati),. CIA World Factbook.. Publications.europa.eu. Retrieved on 2016-01-29.. Bbc.com (2013-05-23). Retrieved on 2016-01-29. is a country in Micronesia in the central Pacific Ocean (...) |
112 | ![]() | Russia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 55.75 / 37.6167 | Russia , officially the Russian Federation"The names Russian Federation and Russia shall be equal". , is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144 (...) |
113 | ![]() | Borobudur ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 272 Lat/Lng : -7.608 / 110.204 | Borobudur, or Barabudur is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia. It is the world's largest Buddhist temple. The temple consists of nine stacked platforms, six square and three circular, topped by a central dome (...) |
114 | ![]() | Tarsus, Mersin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 36.9167 / 34.8956 | Tarsus (; Hittite: ; ; ; ;) is a historic city in south-central Turkey, inland from the Mediterranean. It is part of the Adana-Mersin metropolitan area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey with a population of 3 million people (...) |
115 | ![]() | Prescott, Arizona ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1636 Lat/Lng : 34.5417 / -112.4694 | Prescott is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 39,843. The city is the county seat of Yavapai County. In 1864 Prescott was designated as the capital of the Arizona Territory, replacing the temporary capital at Fort Whipple (...) |
116 | ![]() | Walt Disney World ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 28.3842 / -81.5652 | The Walt Disney World Resort, also called Walt Disney World and Disney World, is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, in the United States, near the cities Orlando and Kissimmee. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks, (...) |
117 | ![]() | Lake Titicaca ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 3815 Lat/Lng : -15.8364 / -69.3386 | Lake Titicaca is a large, deep lake in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru, often called the "highest navigable lake" in the world. By volume of water and by surface area, it is the largest lake in South America.Grove, M. J., P. A. Baker, S. L. Cross, C. A. Rigsby and G. O (...) |
118 | ![]() | Pyongyang ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 39.0167 / 125.7333 | Pyongyang, or P'yŏngyang , is the capital and largest city of North Korea. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 population census, it has a population of 3,255,288. Retrieved on 2018-02-17 (...) |
119 | ![]() | Réunion ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1715 Lat/Lng : -21.1144 / 55.5325 | Réunion (; previously Île Bourbon) is an overseas department and region of France and an island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius. , it had a population of 865,826. It has the highest per capita GDP in the Indian Ocean (...) |
120 | ![]() | Thasos ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 484 Lat/Lng : 40.6841 / 24.6583 | Thasos or Thassos is a Greek island, geographically part of the North Aegean Sea, but administratively part of the Kavala regional unit. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. Thasos is also the name of the largest town of the island (officially known as Limenas Thasou, (...) |
121 | ![]() | Djenné ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 278 Lat/Lng : 13.9058 / -4.5547 | Djenné (also Djénné, Jenné and Jenne) is a town and an urban commune in the Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali. The town is the administrative centre of the Djenné Cercle, one of the eight subdivisions of the Mopti Region (...) |
122 | ![]() | Forbidden City ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 39.9166 / 116.3905 | The Forbidden City is a palace complex in central Beijing, China. The former Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty (the years 1420 to 1912), it now houses the Palace Museum (...) |
123 | ![]() | Pompeii ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 40.7511 / 14.49 | Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried under of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount (...) |
124 | ![]() | Kalgoorlie ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : -30.7773 / 121.5047 | Kalgoorlie-Boulder,http://stat.abs.gov.au/itt/r.jsp?RegionSummary®ion=54280&dataset=ABS_REGIONAL_LGA&geoconcept=REGION&datasetASGS=ABS_REGIONAL_ASGS&datasetLGA=ABS_NRP9_LGA®ionLGA=REGION®ionASGS=REGION known colloquially as just Kalgoorlie, is a city in the Goldfields-Esperance region of (...) |
125 | ![]() | Santa Fe, New Mexico ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2123 Lat/Lng : 35.6839 / -105.9478 | Santa Fe (or ; Tewa: Oghá P’o'oge, Navajo: Yootó; Zuni: Ts'u'yala) is the capital and fourth-most populous city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. In addition to being the eponymous seat of , it has approximately 83,875 inhabitants with a metropolitan area population of approximately 144,170 (...) |
126 | ![]() | Kabul ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1817 Lat/Lng : 34.517 / 69.133 | Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan and its largest city, located in the eastern section of the country. It is also a municipality, forming part of the greater Kabul Province. According to estimates in 2015, the population of Kabul is 4.635 million, which includes all the major ethnic groups (...) |
127 | ![]() | Jersey ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 49.2206 / -2.1372 | Jersey (; Jèrriais: Jèrri), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kings of England from 1066 (...) |
128 | ![]() | Neuschwanstein Castle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 955 Lat/Lng : 47.5578 / 10.7499 | Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner (...) |
129 | ![]() | Cartagena, Colombia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 10.4347 / -75.5022 | The city of Cartagena, known in the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias , is a major port founded in 1533, located on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region. It was strategically located between the Magdalena and Sinú rivers and became the main port for trade between Spain and (...) |
130 | ![]() | Harbin ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 45.8014 / 126.5292 | Harbin (Manchu: Harbin;) is the capital of Heilongjiang province, and largest city in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties (...) |
131 | ![]() | Fairbanks, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 64.8436 / -147.7231 | Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska. 2016 estimates put the population of the city proper at 32,751, and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough (...) |
132 | ![]() | Mauna Kea ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4197 Lat/Lng : 19.8207 / -155.4681 | Mauna Kea (or) is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. Its peak is above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaii. Most of the mountain is under water, and when measured from its oceanic base, Mauna Kea becomes the tallest mountain in the world measuring over (...) |
133 | ![]() | New Caledonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 133 Lat/Lng : -21.0714 / 165.3433 | New Caledonia Previously known officially as the "Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies" , then simply as the "Territory of New Caledonia" (French: Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie), the official French name is now only Nouvelle-Calédonie (Organic Law of 19 March 1999, article 222 IV – see) (...) |
134 | ![]() | Bessarabia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 46.8333 / 29.0 | Bessarabia (; ; , Bessarabiya; ; , Bessarabiya; , Besarabiya) is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. Today Bessarabia is mostly (approx (...) |
135 | ![]() | Guyana ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 6.7667 / -58.1667 | Guyana (pronounced or), entry "Guyana" officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. It is, however, often considered part of the Caribbean region because of its strong cultural, historical, and political ties with other Anglo-Caribbean (...) |
136 | ![]() | Guanajuato City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2012 Lat/Lng : 21.0178 / -101.2567 | Guanajuato is a city and municipality in central Mexico and the capital of the state of the same name. It is part of the macroregion of Bajío. It is in a narrow valley, which makes its streets narrow and winding (...) |
137 | ![]() | Lake Manasarovar ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 4585 Lat/Lng : 30.6738 / 81.4689 | Lake Manasarovar (; Chinese: 玛旁雍錯 (simplified), 瑪旁雍錯(traditional) also called Mapam Yumtso, is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China (...) |
138 | ![]() | Morocco ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 34.0333 / -6.85 | Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in the far west of North Africa with an area of . Its capital is Rabat, the largest city Casablanca. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, bordered to the east by Algeria and to the south (...) |
139 | ![]() | Geography of Brazil ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 258 Lat/Lng : -10.0 / -55.0 | The country of Brazil occupies roughly half of South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil covers a total area of which includes of land and of water. The highest point in Brazil is Pico da Neblina at . Brazil is bordered by the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, (...) |
140 | ![]() | Northampton ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 52.2372 / -0.896 | Northampton is the county town of Northamptonshire in the East Midlands of England. It lies on the River Nene, about north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham as the crow flies. One of the largest towns in the UK, Northampton had a population of 212,100 in the 2011 census (...) |
141 | ![]() | Afghanistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1817 Lat/Lng : 34.5167 / 69.1333 | Afghanistan (; Pashto/Dari: , Pashto: Afġānistān ,The phoneme ف occurs only in loanwords in Pashto, it tends to be replaced with پ. is also an allophone of before voiced consonants; is an allophone of before voiced consonants in loanwords (...) |
142 | ![]() | Slovenia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 311 Lat/Lng : 46.05 / 14.5 | Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: Republika Slovenija,. Source: abbr.: RS. Source:), is a country located in southern Central Europe at the crossroads of the main European cultural and trade routes (...) |
143 | ![]() | Easter Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : -27.1194 / -109.3547 | Easter Island is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people (...) |
144 | ![]() | Libya ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 32.8833 / 13.1667 | Libya , officially the State of Libya, is a country in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west (...) |
145 | ![]() | Jeju Province ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 1734 Lat/Lng : 33.3656 / 126.5281 | Jeju Province, officially Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, is one of the nine provinces of South Korea. The province is situated on and with the nation's largest island of Jeju , formerly transliterated as Cheju, Cheju Do, etc., or known as Quelpart to Europeans (...) |
146 | ![]() | Zanzibar ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : -6.1333 / 39.3167 | Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania. It is composed of the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island (...) |
147 | ![]() | Bhutan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 2778 Lat/Lng : 27.417 / 90.435 | Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan , is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, the Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the (...) |
148 | ![]() | Kent, Ohio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 317 Lat/Lng : 41.1506 / -81.3611 | Kent is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the largest city in Portage County. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in Northeast Ohio on the western edge of the county. The population was 28,904 in the 2010 Census and was estimated at 29,915 in 2017 (...) |
149 | ![]() | Democratic Republic of the Congo ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 444 Lat/Lng : -2.3333 / 22.8 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo , also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa, East Congo, or simply the Congo, is the southernmost country located in East Africa and Central Africa. It is sometimes referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997 (...) |
150 | ![]() | South Africa ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1155 Lat/Lng : -28.6167 / 24.3333 | South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and (...) |
151 | ![]() | Guatemala ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1511 Lat/Lng : 14.6317 / -90.5236 | Guatemala , officially the Republic of Guatemala , is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, Honduras to the east, El Salvador to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the south (...) |
152 | ![]() | Sweden ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 63.0 / 16.0 | Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige), is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the (...) |
153 | ![]() | France ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to (...) |
154 | ![]() | Bełżec extermination camp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 274 Lat/Lng : 50.3734 / 23.4581 | Bełżec (in) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to eradicate Polish Jewry, a key part of the "Final Solution" which entailed the murder of some 6 million Jews in the Holocaust (...) |
155 | ![]() | Tromsø ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 69.6518 / 18.9545 | Tromsø (; ;Erroneously, the Sámi name is often believed to be "Romssa". This is because "Tromsø Municipality" is "Romssa Suohkan". Romssa, however is the genitive case, so that "Romssa Suohkan" translates to "the Municipality of Romsa". ;) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway (...) |
156 | ![]() | Winchester ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 51.0632 / -1.3085 | Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs National Park, along the course of the River Itchen (...) |
157 | ![]() | Death Valley National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -83 Lat/Lng : 36.2419 / -116.8258 | Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of (...) |
158 | ![]() | Wrangel Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 71.2333 / -179.4167 | Wrangel Island is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea. Wrangel Island lies astride the 180° meridian. The International Date Line is displaced eastwards at this latitude to avoid the island as well as the Chukchi Peninsula on the Russian mainland (...) |
159 | ![]() | Spratly Islands ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 10.35 / 114.7668 | The Spratly Islands ((Nánshā Qúndǎo)) are a disputed group of islands, islets and cays and more than 100 reefs, sometimes grouped in submerged old atolls, in the South China Sea. The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia, and southern Vietnam (...) |
160 | ![]() | Timbuktu ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 269 Lat/Lng : 16.7758 / -3.0094 | Timbuktu , also spelled Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo (; ; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu), is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. The town is the capital of the Timbuktu Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali. It had a population of 54,453 in the 2009 census (...) |
161 | ![]() | 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 (...) |
162 | ![]() | Canary Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 28.3431 / -15.7764 | The Canary Islands is a Spanish archipelago and the southernmost autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Morocco at the closest point. The Canaries are among the outermost regions (OMR) of the European Union proper (...) |
163 | ![]() | Turkey ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 896 Lat/Lng : 39.9167 / 32.8333 | Turkey , officially the Republic of Turkey , is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, located mainly in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, (...) |
164 | ![]() | Bolivia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 208 Lat/Lng : -16.712 / -64.666 | Bolivia , officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz (...) |
165 | ![]() | Belize ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 17.25 / -88.75 | Belize , is a country located on the eastern coast of Central America. Belize is bordered on the northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala. It has an area of and a population of 387,879 (2017). Its mainland is about long and wide (...) |
166 | ![]() | Uzbekistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 41.6667 / 64.0667 | Uzbekistan , officially also the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a landlocked country—the only doubly landlocked one (i.e. surrounded solely by other landlocked countries)—in Central Asia and one of the only two in the world (...) |
167 | ![]() | Calabria ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 700 Lat/Lng : 38.9936 / 16.4575 | Calabria (; ' in Calabrian; ' in Calabrian Greek; in Greek; ' in Arbëresh/Albanian), known in antiquity as Bruttium, is a region in Southern Italy. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro. The Regional Council of Calabria is based at the Palazzo Campanella in the city of Reggio Calabria (...) |
168 | ![]() | Stonehenge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 51.1789 / -1.8266 | Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around high, wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age (...) |
169 | ![]() | Bengal ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 24.0 / 88.0 | Bengal is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Geographically, it is made up by the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta system, the largest such formation in the world; along with mountains in (...) |
170 | ![]() | Zaporizhia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 47.8333 / 35.1667 | Zaporizhia (Zaporizhzhya) or Zaporozhye , formerly Alexandrovsk , is a city in southeastern Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of the Zaporizhia Oblast (region). The city population is the sixth largest in Ukraine , UkrStat.gov.ua (2016) (...) |
171 | ![]() | Pensacola, Florida ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 30.4333 / -87.2 | Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, approximately from the border with Alabama, and the county seat of Escambia County, in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 51,923, down from 56,255 at the 2000 census (...) |
172 | ![]() | Dorchester, Dorset ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 50.7154 / -2.4367 | Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England. It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic market town, Dorchester is on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway that separates the area from Weymouth, to (...) |
173 | ![]() | Jericho ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -256 Lat/Lng : 31.8554 / 35.4622 | Jericho is a city in the Palestinian Territories and is located near the Jordan River in the West Bank. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate, and is governed by the Fatah faction of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2007, it had a population of 18,346. (...) |
174 | ![]() | Mombasa ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -4.05 / 39.6667 | Mombasa is a seaport city on the coast of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean. It is the country's oldest (circa 900 AD) and second-largest city. Cia.gov. Retrieved on 17 August 2013. (after the capital Nairobi), with an estimated population of about 1.4 million people in 2016 (...) |
175 | ![]() | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 364 Lat/Lng : -54.25 / -36.75 | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sandwich Islands (...) |
176 | ![]() | Ur ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 30.9612 / 46.1055 | Ur (; Sumerian: Urim; Sumerian Cuneiform: or ; Akkadian: Uru; ;) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.Tell el-Muqayyar in Arabic Tell means "mound" or "hill" and Muqayyar means "built of (...) |
177 | ![]() | Winnipeg ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 236 Lat/Lng : 49.8955 / -97.1383 | Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. Centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, it is near the longitudinal centre of North America, approximately north of the Canada–United States border (...) |
178 | ![]() | Fuzhou ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 26.0753 / 119.3082 | Fuzhou, formerly romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong (lit. Eastern Fujian) linguistic and cultural area (...) |
179 | ![]() | Alderney ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 49.715 / -2.2003 | Alderney (; ; Auregnais: Aoeur'gny) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick (...) |
180 | ![]() | Bismarck Archipelago ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -3.8087 / 149.0266 | The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about 50,000 square km. (...) |
181 | ![]() | Soweto ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1629 Lat/Lng : -26.2482 / 27.874 | Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships.Pirie, G.H. Letters, words, worlds: the naming of Soweto (...) |
182 | ![]() | Frederick, Maryland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 39.4139 / -77.4111 | Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. Frederick has long been an important crossroads, located at the intersection of a major north–south Indian trail and east–west routes to the (...) |
183 | ![]() | Haifa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 32.8119 / 34.9987 | Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel – after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv– with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the second- or third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel (...) |
184 | ![]() | Nineveh ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 240 Lat/Lng : 36.3597 / 43.1526 | Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (...) |
185 | ![]() | Galápagos Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : -0.6667 / -90.55 | The Galápagos Islands (official name: , other Spanish name:), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, west of continental Ecuador (...) |
186 | ![]() | Papua New Guinea ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : -9.5 / 147.1167 | Papua New Guinea (PNG; , ; ;), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia (...) |
187 | ![]() | Burundi ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1995 Lat/Lng : -3.6667 / 29.8167 | Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi (. justice.gov.bi. 25 June 2012 ; , or), is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west (...) |
188 | ![]() | Big Sur ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 36.1075 / -121.6258 | Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery (...) |
189 | ![]() | Skagway, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 59.4583 / -135.3139 | The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2010 census, the population was 968. Estimates put the 2015 population at 1,057 people. The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with more than 900,000 visitors (...) |
190 | ![]() | El Monte, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 34.0733 / -118.0275 | El Monte is a residential, industrial, and commercial city in Los Angeles County, California, the United States. The city lies in the San Gabriel Valley east of the city of Los Angeles. El Monte's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte" and historically is known as "The End of the Santa Fe Trail (...) |
191 | ![]() | Uluru ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 822 Lat/Lng : -25.3451 / 131.0364 | Uluru (Pitjantjatjara: '), also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as "UluruAyers Rock", is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. It lies south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs, by road (...) |
192 | ![]() | Mount Etna ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3273 Lat/Lng : 37.7512 / 14.994 | Mount Etna, or Etna (or ; or ;), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania. It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate (...) |
193 | ![]() | Kansai International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 34.4355 / 135.2444 | is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay off the Honshu shore, southwest of Ōsaka Station, located within three municipalities, including Izumisano (north), . Hotel Nikko Kansai Airport. Retrieved on 23 July 2011 (...) |
194 | ![]() | Lake Turkana ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 361 Lat/Lng : 3.5881 / 36.1172 | Lake Turkana , formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. The boundary between Ethiopia and Kenya has been a contentious rational distinction (...) |
195 | ![]() | São Miguel Island ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 579 Lat/Lng : 37.7667 / -25.4667 | São Miguel Island (Portuguese for Saint Michael), nicknamed "The Green Island" (Ilha Verde), is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The island covers and has around 140,000 inhabitants, with 45,000 people resident in Ponta Delgada, the archipelago's (...) |
196 | ![]() | Beaufort Sea ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 72.0278 / -137.0417 | The Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, and west of Canada's Arctic islands. The sea is named after Sir Francis Beaufort, a hydrographer (...) |
197 | ![]() | Evanston, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 42.0464 / -87.6947 | Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, north of downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north. It had a population of 74,486 . It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan and is the home of Northwestern (...) |
198 | ![]() | South China Sea ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 12.1883 / 113.2264 | The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around . The sea carries tremendous strategic importance; one-third of the world's shipping passes through it carrying over $3 trillion in (...) |
199 | ![]() | Bryce Canyon National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2505 Lat/Lng : 37.605 / -112.1575 | Bryce Canyon National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau (...) |
200 | ![]() | Eger ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 166 Lat/Lng : 47.899 / 20.3747 | Eger (listen; see etymology for alternative names) is the county seat of Heves, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). Eger is best known for its castle, thermal baths, baroque buildings, the northernmost Ottoman minaret, dishes and red wines (...) |