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1 | 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 (...) | |
2 | Osterseen FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 597 Lat/Lng : 47.7903 / 11.3042 | Osterseen (literally: Easter Lakes) is a group of lakes in Bavaria, Germany, about 50km south-south-west of Munich. At an elevation of 588 m, its surface area is 223.55 ha. (...) | |
3 | Rhein-Neckar-Kreis FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 49.32 / 8.79 | Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is a Landkreis (district) in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Bergstraße, Odenwaldkreis, Neckar-Odenwald, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, the independent city of Speyer, the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, and the independent cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg (...) | |
4 | Caucasus Mountains FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2009 Lat/Lng : 42.5 / 45.0 | The Caucasus Mountains are a mountain system in West Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region. The Caucasus Mountains include the Greater Caucasus in the north and Lesser Caucasus in the south (...) | |
5 | 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 (...) | |
6 | Mount Hood FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3400 Lat/Lng : 45.3735 / -121.6959 | Mount Hood, called Wy'east by the Multnomah tribe, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of northern Oregon. It was formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific coast and rests in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States (...) | |
7 | Khajuraho (town) FeatureType : null Elevation : 218 Lat/Lng : 24.85 / 79.925 | Khajuraho is a town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur District.One of the most popular tourist destinations in India, Khajuraho has the country's largest group of medieval Hindu and Jain temples, famous for their erotic sculpture (...) | |
8 | Tempio Pausania FeatureType : null Elevation : 567 Lat/Lng : 40.9 / 9.1 | Tempio Pausania listen is a town of about 14,000 inhabitants in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy, in the province of Sassari. (...) | |
9 | Adriatic Sea FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 43.0 / 15.0 | The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to the northwest and the Po Valley (...) | |
10 | Mount Hermon FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2795 Lat/Lng : 33.4142 / 35.8572 | Mount Hermon (/ ALA-LC: Jabal al-Shaykh ("Mountain of the Sheikh") or Jabal Haramun; , Har Hermon) is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon and, at 2,814 m (9,232 ft) above sea level, is the (...) | |
11 | 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 (...) | |
12 | 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 (...) | |
13 | Mount Ararat FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5101 Lat/Lng : 39.7019 / 44.2984 | Mount Ararat (;; ; , Masis and Արարատ, Ararat) is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian plateau with an elevation of ; while, (...) | |
14 | Datong FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1044 Lat/Lng : 40.0763 / 113.2999 | Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in a basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east (...) | |
15 | Furka Pass FeatureType : pass Elevation : 2421 Lat/Lng : 46.5727 / 8.4154 | Furka Pass , with an elevation of , is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Gletsch, Valais with Realp, Uri. The Furka Oberalp Bahn line through the Furka Tunnel bypasses the pass. The base tunnel opened in 1982 and replaced a tunnel at 2100 m (...) | |
16 | Tazacorte FeatureType : null Elevation : 274 Lat/Lng : 28.6167 / -17.9167 | Tazacorte is a town and a municipality on the island of La Palma, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is situated near the coast, in the western part of the island. The population of the municipality is 4,911 (2013) and the area is 11.37 km². The average elevation is 60 m (...) | |
17 | Fermo FeatureType : null Elevation : 160 Lat/Lng : 43.1667 / 13.7167 | Fermo listen (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and comune of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. (...) | |
18 | Monselice FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 45.2333 / 11.75 | "Monselice is the most picturesque town I have seen in Italy. It has an old ruin of a castle upon the hill and thence commands a beautiful and extraordinary view. It lies in the wide plain – a dead level – whereon Ferrara, Bologna, Rovigo, Este, Padua stand and even Venice we could dimly see in the (...) | |
19 | Franca FeatureType : null Elevation : 1003 Lat/Lng : -20.5389 / -47.4008 | Franca is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The population is 342,112 (2015 est.) in an area of 606 km². Its elevation is 1040 m. It was established in 1805 as a parish within the municipality of Moji Mirim, and became an independent municipality in 1824., history (...) | |
20 | Cartago, Costa Rica FeatureType : null Elevation : 1449 Lat/Lng : 9.8667 / -83.9167 | Cartago is a city in Costa Rica, about east of the capital, San José. It is at an elevation of about 1435 m (some 4,707 ft) above sea level, at the base of the Irazú Volcano. Cartago is the capital of Cartago province, and was the capital of Costa Rica from 1574 to 1824 (...) | |