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1 Freudenberg, Bavaria  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 467
Lat/Lng : 49.4802 / 11.9817
Freudenberg is a municipality in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km north-east of Amberg. (...)
2 Castelfiorentino  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 51
Lat/Lng : 43.6 / 10.9667
Castelfiorentino is a town and comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, halfway between Florence (distance 45 km), Pisa (50 km) and Siena (55 km). The population is approximately 20,000 inhabitants. It is part of Valdelsa (...)
3 Timmendorfer Strand  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 17
Lat/Lng : 53.9957 / 10.7711
Timmendorfer Strand (Timmendorf Beach) is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the Bay of Lübeck (Baltic Sea), approximately 15 km northwest of Lübeck, and 20 km southeast of Eutin. (...)
4 Abbiategrasso  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 119
Lat/Lng : 45.3931 / 8.9189
Abbiategrasso, formerly written Abbiate Grasso. (local ; Milanese:), is a comune and town in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy, situated in the Po valley approximately from Milan and from Pavia. (...)
5 Thiene  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 148
Lat/Lng : 45.7083 / 11.4778
Thiene is a city and comune in the province of Vicenza, in northern Italy, located approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. __NOTOC__ The city has an active and lively industrial sector, composed mainly of small to medium-sized companies. The is located at Villa Fabris (...)
6 Sestri Levante  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 6
Lat/Lng : 44.2722 / 9.3981
Sestri Levante is a town and comune in Liguria, Italy. Lying on the Mediterranean Sea, it is approximately south of Genoa and is set on a promontory. While nearby Portofino and the Cinque Terre are probably the best-known tourist destinations on the Italian Riviera, Sestri Levante is becoming quite (...)
7 Lectoure  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 177
Lat/Lng : 43.9353 / 0.6219
Lectoure (; Gascon: Leitora) is a commune in the Gers department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. It is located north of Auch, the capital of the department, south of Agen and approximately northwest of Toulouse. (...)
8 Norderstedt  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 30
Lat/Lng : 53.6957 / 9.9836
Norderstedt is a city in Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (Metropolregion Hamburg), the fifth largest city (with approximately 77,000 inhabitants) in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, belonging to the district (Kreis) Segeberg. (...)
9 Staßfurt  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 67
Lat/Lng : 51.8534 / 11.5838
Staßfurt (Stassfurt) is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on both sides of the river Bode, approximately northeast of Aschersleben, and south of Magdeburg. Pop. (2005) 23,538. It was one of the chief seats of the German salt-producing industry (...)
10 Boguszów-Gorce  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 588
Lat/Lng : 50.7558 / 16.205
Boguszów-Gorce is a town in Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany. (For more information about the history of the region, see Silesia.) The town lies approximately west of Wałbrzych, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław (...)
11 Ratekau  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 26
Lat/Lng : 53.9478 / 10.7351
Ratekau is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km northeast of Lübeck. It is the place where Blücher surrendered after the Battle of Lübeck in 1806 (...)
12 San Vicente de la Barquera  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 3
Lat/Lng : 43.3856 / -4.3972
San Vicente de la Barquera is a municipality of Cantabria in northern Spain. It had a population of 4,412 in 2002. Tourism is its main activity due to the area's natural environment and heritage. Approximately 80% of the municipal area belongs to the Oyambre Natural Park and enjoys a special (...)
13 Wangerland  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : -2
Lat/Lng : 53.6516 / 7.9351
Wangerland is a municipality in the district of Friesland, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the North Sea coast, approximately 20 km northwest of Wilhelmshaven, and 10 km north of Jever. Its seat is in the village Hohenkirchen. (...)
14 Barmstedt  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 12
Lat/Lng : 53.7831 / 9.7593
Barmstedt is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in the south of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km northeast of Elmshorn, and 30 km northwest of Hamburg. It has approximately 9,500 inhabitants which makes it the smallest town in the Pinneberg district. (...)
15 Nyons  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 268
Lat/Lng : 44.3603 / 5.1397
Nyons is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. (...)
16 University of Lausanne  
FeatureType : edu
Elevation : 394
Lat/Lng : 46.5225 / 6.5794
The University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 13,500 students and 2,200 researchers study and work at the university (...)
17 Foz do Iguaçu  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 169
Lat/Lng : -25.5592 / -54.5794
Foz do Iguaçu (Iguazu River Mouth) is the Brazilian city on the border of Iguaçu Falls. The city is the 7th largest in the state of Paraná. The city's population is approximately 265,000. It is approximately 650 km (400 mi) west of the capital of the state, Curitiba, being the westernmost city in (...)
18 Forbach  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 220
Lat/Lng : 49.1889 / 6.9008
Forbach (Lorraine Franconian: Fuerboch) is a commune in the department of Moselle in the northeastern French Region of Grand Est. It is located on the German border approximately 15 minutes from the center of Saarbrücken, Germany, with which it constitutes a cross-border conurbation, and is part of (...)
19 Goes  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 0
Lat/Lng : 51.5028 / 3.8861
Goes is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland. The town of Goes has approximately 27,000 residents. (...)
20 Saimaa  
FeatureType : waterbody
Lat/Lng : 61.3411 / 28.0108
Saimaa is a lake in southeastern Finland. At approximately , it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fourth largest natural freshwater lake in Europe. It was formed by glacial melting at the end of the Ice Age (...)