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| 1 | Giza pyramid complex ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 29.9761 / 31.1304 | The Giza pyramid complex is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It includes the three Great Pyramids (Khufu/Cheops, Khafre/Chephren and Menkaure), the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex (...) | |
| 2 | Memphis, Egypt ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 29.8447 / 31.2509 | Memphis (' ; ;) was the ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch, the first nome of Lower Egypt. Its ruins are located near the town of Mit Rahina, 20 km (12 mi) south of Giza. According to legend related by Manetho, the city was founded by the pharaoh Menes (...) | |
| 3 | Bayonne ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 43.4936 / -1.475 | Bayonne (; Gascon: Baiona ; ;) is a city and commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers in the northern part of the cultural region of the (...) | |
| 4 | Edfu ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 24.9781 / 32.8789 | Edfu ( , ; also spelt Idfu, or in modern French as Edfou, and known in antiquity as Behdet) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately sixty thousand people. For the ancient history of the city, see below (...) | |
| 5 | Bahariya Oasis ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 28.3515 / 28.8624 | El-Wahat el-Bahariya or el-Bahariya (al-Wāḥāt al-Baḥrīya, "the Seaside Oases"; Diwah Ēmbemdje, "Oasis of Bemdje") is a depression and oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is approximately 370 km away from Cairo (...) | |
| 6 | Monastery of Saint Anthony ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 445 Lat/Lng : 28.9242 / 32.3496 | The Monastery of Saint Anthony is a Coptic Orthodox monastery standing in an oasis in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, in the southern part of the Suez Governorate. Hidden deep in the Red Sea mountains, it is located southeast of Cairo. It is the oldest monastery in the world (...) | |
| 7 | Volvo Cars ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 64 Lat/Lng : 57.722 / 11.855 | Volvo Cars , stylized as VOLVO in the logo, is a Chinese-owned, Swedish luxury vehicles company . It is headquartered on Torslanda in Gothenburg and is a subsidiary of Chinese automotive company Geely. The company manufactures and markets sport utility vehicles, station wagons, sedans and compact (...) | |
| 8 | Nabta Playa ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 22.5083 / 30.725 | Nabta Playa was once a large internally drained basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, 22.51° north, 30.73° east. Today the region is characterized by numerous archaeological sites. (...) | |
| 9 | Qasr Ibrim ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 22.6502 / 31.9915 | Qasr Ibrim (Old Nubian: Silimi) is an archaeological site in Lower Nubia, located in the modern country of Egypt. The name dates far back into antiquity; it was Pedeme to the Meroitic inhabitants, and Primis to the Romans (...) | |
| 10 | Norwich Crag Formation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 52.2147 / 1.416 | The Norwich Crag Formation is a stratigraphic unit of the British Pleistocene Epoch. It is the second youngest unit of the Crag Group, a sequence of four geological formations spanning the Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene transition in East Anglia. It was deposited between approximately 2.4 and 1 (...) | |
| 11 | Cusae ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 27.4444 / 30.8167 | Cusae was a city in Upper Egypt, known to the Ancient Egyptians as Qis or Kis. Today, the town is known as El Quseyya, and is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Asyut Governorate. At the beginning of the reign of the Theban pharaoh Kamose, Cusae marked the boundary between the northern (...) | |