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| 1 | Ahmedabad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 23.0225 / 72.5714 | Ahmedabad , also pronounced as, Amdavad in Gujarati, is the largest city and former capital of the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarter of the Ahmadabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court (...) | |
| 2 | Guangzhou ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 23.1288 / 113.259 | Guangzhou (; or ;), also known as Canton," ". Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed September 12, 2010. is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong in southern China. On the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 (...) | |
| 3 | Solapur ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 471 Lat/Lng : 17.6719 / 75.9044 | Solapur (pronunciation) is a city located in the south-western region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Solapur is located on major road and rail routes between Mumbai and Hyderabad, with a branch line to the cities of Bijapur and Gadag in the neighbouring state of Karnataka (...) | |
| 4 | Jinnah International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 24.9067 / 67.1608 | Jinnah International Airport is Pakistan's busiest international and domestic airport, and handled 6,860,095 passengers in 2016-2017. Located in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan and capital of the province of Sindh, it is named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan (...) | |
| 5 | India ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 215 Lat/Lng : 28.6367 / 77.2247 | India (IAST:), also known as the Republic of India (IAST:), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world (...) | |
| 6 | Agra ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 27.1767 / 78.005 | Agra is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is west of the state capital, Lucknow, south of the national capital New Delhi, 58 kilometres (31 mi) south of Mathura and north of Gwalior (...) | |
| 7 | Gujarat ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 23.22 / 72.68 | Gujarat (') is a state in Western IndiaOther sources: * * * and Northwest IndiaOther sources: * * *, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million. It is the sixth largest Indian state by area and the ninth largest state by population (...) | |
| 8 | Kollam ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 8.8861 / 76.5897 | Kollam pronunciation also known by its former name Quilon (Coulão) and Desinganadu, is an old seaport and city on the Laccadive Sea coast of the Indian state of Kerala. The city is on the banks Ashtamudi Lake. Kollam has had a strong commercial reputation since the days of the Phoenicians and Romans (...) | |
| 9 | The Arena (Ahmedabad) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 23.011 / 72.5991 | The Arena by TransStadia or simply The Arena, is a multi-purpose stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, located in Kankaria Lake. The stadium was completed in 2016 and officially opened on 7 October 2016. It has a capacity of over 20,000 people in the outdoor stadium and over 4,000 in the indoor arena and a (...) | |
| 10 | Banaskantha district ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 218 Lat/Lng : 24.1731 / 72.4314 | Banaskantha is one among the thirty-three districts of the Gujarat state of India. The administrative headquarters of the district is at Palanpur which is also its largest city. The district is located in the Northeast of Gujarat and is presumably named after the West Banas River which runs through (...) | |
| 11 | Indian Space Research Organisation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 909 Lat/Lng : 13.0352 / 77.5706 | The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore. Its vision is to "harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration (...) | |
| 12 | ESSEC Business School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 49.0332 / 2.0775 | ESSEC Business School is an international higher education institution located in France (Cergy-Pontoise and La Défense in the Paris area), Singapore and Morocco. Founded in 1907, ESSEC Business School is one of the 76 schools in the world to have obtained the triple accreditation of AACSB, EQUIS (...) | |
| 13 | Indus River ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 23.9863 / 67.4368 | The Indus River (locally called Darya-e-Sindh) is one of the longest rivers in Asia. Originating in the Tibetan Plateau in the vicinity of Lake Manasarovar, the river runs a course through the Ladakh region of Kashmir, towards Gilgit-Baltistan and the Hindukush ranges, and then flows in a southerly (...) | |
| 14 | IKEA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.1671 / 4.4824 | IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008 (...) | |
| 15 | Le Corbusier ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8519 / 2.2654 | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930 (...) | |
| 16 | Bharuch ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 21.712 / 72.993 | Bharuch(Gujarati: , Bharūca, listen), formerly known as Broach, or Bhrugukachchh is a city at the mouth of the river Narmada in Gujarat in western India. Bharuch is the administrative headquarters of Bharuch District and is a municipality of about inhabitants (...) | |
| 17 | Statue of Unity ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 21.838 / 73.7191 | The Statue of Unity is a colossal statue of Indian statesman and independence activist Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) in the state of Gujarat, India. It is the world's tallest statue with a height of . It is located on a river island facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the river Narmada in (...) | |
| 18 | Bhilwara ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 425 Lat/Lng : 25.35 / 74.63 | Bhilwara is a city in the Mewar region of Rajasthan, India. it is the seventh largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is the 121st largest city in India. (...) | |
| 19 | Sanand ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 22.98 / 72.38 | Sanand is a city and a municipality in Ahmedabad district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is best known as the automobile hub of Gujarat. (...) | |
| 20 | Ramgarh district ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 327 Lat/Lng : 23.6307 / 85.5606 | Ramgarh district is one of the 24 districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It was also a military district during the British Regime, referred to then as Ramghur district. (...) | |
| 21 | Hunza Valley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2218 Lat/Lng : 36.3169 / 74.6499 | Hunza (Burushaski: ہنزو , Wakhi, and) is a mountainous valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Hunza is situated in the extreme northern part of Pakistan, bordering with the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan and the Xinjiang region of China. (...) | |
| 22 | Alliance Française ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 48.8464 / 2.3286 | L'Alliance Française (French Alliance), or AF, is an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world. Created in Paris on 21 July 1883 under the name Alliance française pour la propagation de la langue nationale dans les colonies et à l'étranger (French (...) | |
| 23 | Nalanda University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 25.0263 / 85.4136 | Nalanda University (also known as Nalanda International University) is located in Rajgir, near Nalanda, Bihar, India. The University began its first academic session on September 1, 2014 with 15 students including five women (...) | |
| 24 | Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 22.3099 / 73.186 | The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU), formerly Baroda College is a public university in the city of Vadodara, in Gujarat state, India. Originally established as a college in 1881, it became a university in 1949 after the independence of the country (...) | |
| 25 | Swastika ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 32.6762 / -117.1577 | The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it is a symbol of divinity and spirituality in some Eastern religions. In the Western world it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s, when it became a (...) | |
| 26 | Nu ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : -21.2167 / 165.45 | Nu or NU may refer to: (...) | |
| 27 | Gujarat National Law University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 23.1528 / 72.6608 | Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) is a National Law University established under the Gujarat National Law University Act, 2003 in the state of Gujarat. The university is located at Gandhinagar, which is the capital of Gujarat and is located 23 kilometers north of the city of Ahmedabad (...) | |
| 28 | Indian Institute of Management Shillong ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 1616 Lat/Lng : 25.5584 / 91.905 | Indian Institute of Management Shillong (IIM Shillong or IIM-S), formerly Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management Shillong (RGIIM), is a public, fully autonomous management institute in the city of Shillong, Meghalaya. It was the seventh Indian Institute of Management to be established in India (...) | |
| 29 | Gujarat International Finance Tec-City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 64 Lat/Lng : 23.1596 / 72.6845 | Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) is a business district promoted by the Government of Gujarat through a joint venture company. GIFT City is India's first operational smart city in the Ahmedabad (Amdavad) metropolitan region and international financial services centre (...) | |
| 30 | Indian Institute of Management Lucknow ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 26.9374 / 80.8994 | The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (abbreviated IIM Lucknow or IIM-L) is an autonomous public business school in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1984 as the fourth Indian Institute of Management (IIM) by the Government of India (...) | |
| 31 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 319 Lat/Lng : 21.1233 / 79.0514 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT Nagpur), formerly Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur (VRCE), is a public engineering and research institution in India. It is located in Nagpur, Maharashtra, in central India (...) | |
| 32 | Jaipur bombings ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 439 Lat/Lng : 26.926 / 75.8235 | The Jaipur bombings were a series of nine synchronized bomb blasts that took place on 13 May 2008 within a span of fifteen minutes at locations in Jaipur, the capital city of the Indian state of Rajasthan, and a tourist destination. A tenth bomb was found and defused."", Thaindian News, 20 May 2008 (...) | |
| 33 | International University of Japan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 37.1483 / 138.9474 | The is a private university located in Minamiuonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. IUJ is the first graduate school in Japan, and one of the few Japanese universities which offers all courses in English. It was founded in 1982, primarily to train global leaders effective in the globalized world, (...) | |
| 34 | Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 50.8138 / 4.3789 | The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (abbreviated as SBS-EM and also known as simply Solvay) is a school of economics and management and a Faculty of the Université libre de Bruxelles, a French-speaking private research university located in Brussels, Belgium (...) | |
| 35 | Expo 2010 pavilions ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 31.1941 / 121.4864 | This article contains the details of the pavilions in Expo 2010. The 2010 World Expo Shanghai is the largest Expo site ever, covering more than 5.2 square kilometers and containing more than 70 exposition pavilions (...) | |
| 36 | Uzhavoor ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 9.7873 / 76.61 | Uzhavoor is an expanding town in Kottayam district, Kerala in India. It is just 32 km away from the administrative capital Kottayam District. Most of its residents are either farmers or engaged in small-scale business, although a lot of the houses belong to NRIs. The tenth President of India, K. R (...) | |
| 37 | Vallabh Vidyanagar ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 22.5333 / 72.9 | Vallabh Vidyanagar is a town and a municipality in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is located between Ahmedabad and Vadodara, 6 km from the town of Anand. V.V.Nagar is known as educational hub of Gujarat. It is a home to the prestigious Sardar Patel University. (...) | |
| 38 | Bryn Mawr College Deanery ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 120 Lat/Lng : 40.0273 / -75.3147 | The Bryn Mawr College Deanery was the campus residence of the first Dean and second President of Bryn Mawr College, Martha Carey Thomas, who maintained a home there from 1885 to 1933. Under the direction of Thomas, the Deanery was greatly enlarged and lavishly decorated for entertaining the (...) | |
| 39 | Timeline of Jersey City, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 40.7114 / -74.0648 | The following is a timeline of the history of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. (...) | |
| 40 | Nuclear power in India ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 14.8644 / 74.4365 | Nuclear power is the fifth-largest source of electricity in India after coal, gas, hydroelectricity and wind power. , India has 22 nuclear reactors in operation in 7 nuclear power plants, having a total installed capacity of 6,780 MW. Nuclear power produced a total of 35 TWh and supplied 3 (...) | |
| 41 | Olin Business School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 170 Lat/Lng : 38.6481 / -90.3116 | The Olin Business School is one of seven academic schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1917, the business school was renamed for entrepreneur John M. Olin in 1988. The school offers BSBA, Master of Business Administration (MBA), MS in Supply Chain Management, MS in Finance, (...) | |
| 42 | Indian Institute of Management Kashipur ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 29.2326 / 79.0129 | Indian Institute of Management Kashipur also known as IIM Kashipur, is a public business school located in Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India. It is one of the thirteen Indian Institutes of Management the government has set up during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (...) | |
| 43 | Atul, Gujarat ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 20.5288 / 72.9412 | Atul is an industrial village developed by the chemical conglomerate Atul Ltd, located in the Valsad district of Gujarat, India. Although a small village, it has good educational and recreational facilities, banks, temples, post office and a railway station. (...) | |
| 44 | Indus University (Gujarat) ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 23.065 / 72.44 | Indus University was formerly known as Indus Institute of Technology and Engineering. In 2012 Indus got university status and is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC). Indus is located in Rancharda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (...) | |
| 45 | GSAT-3 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 0.0 / 74.0 | GSAT-3, also known as EDUSAT, was a communications satellite which was launched on 20 September 2004 by the Indian Space Research Organisation. EDUSAT is the first Indian satellite built exclusively to serve the educational sector (...) | |
| 46 | Villa Shodhan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 23.0252 / 72.5675 | Villa Shodhan (or Shodhan House) is a modernist villa located in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, it was built between 1951 and 1956.Doshi (1974)Serenyi (1983), p91 Building on his previous projects whilst integrating the traditional features of Ahmedabad design, the (...) | |
| 47 | KHS GmbH ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 51.521 / 7.5124 | KHS GmbH is a supplier of filling and packaging systems based in Dortmund, Germany. The company offers filling lines for glass and PET bottles, kegs, and cans for the beverage, food, and non-food industries, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke GmbH, a member of Salzgitter (...) | |
| 48 | Holon Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 32.0143 / 34.7738 | Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) , is an academic institution of higher learning in Holon, Israel. It focuses on teaching Science, Engineering, Computer Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Instructional Technologies, Design and Technology Management (...) | |
| 49 | Rander ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 21.3333 / 74.5 | Rander is a town in Surat district in the state of Gujarat, India, located on the bank of the Tapti River, from the city of Surat. It is also known as Rahe Neer & City of Mosques. (...) | |