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| Brussels  FeatureType : null Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 50.8432 / 4.363 | Brussels , officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) , is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium (...) |
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| Saint-Gilles, Belgium FeatureType : city Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 50.8242 / 4.3458 | Saint-Gilles or Sint-Gillis is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It is bordered by the City of Brussels, Anderlecht, Forest and Ixelles. Saint-Gilles has a multicultural identity stemming from its diverse population (...) |
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| Etterbeek FeatureType : city Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 50.8322 / 4.3889 | Etterbeek (French: ; Dutch:) is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It neighbours the municipalities of the City of Brussels, Ixelles, Auderghem, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and Schaerbeek (...) |
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| Grand Place FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 50.8467 / 4.3525 | The Grand Place (French, ; "Grand Square"; also used in EnglishIn this case, the French word place is a "false friend", and the correct counterparts in English are "plaza" or "town square".) or Grote Markt (Dutch, ; "Grand Market") is the central square of Brussels (...) |
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| Manneken Pis FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 50.845 / 4.35 | Manneken Pis ([ˌmɑnəkə(m) ˈpɪs], meaning "Little Pisser" in Dutch) is a landmark small bronze sculpture (61 cm) in Brussels, depicting a naked little boy urinating into a fountain's basin. It was designed by and put in place in 1618 or 1619 (...) |
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| Royal Palace of Brussels FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 50.8419 / 4.3624 | The Royal Palace of Brussels (In isolation, van is pronounced .) is the official palace of the King and Queen of the Belgians in the centre of the nation's capital Brussels. However it is not used as a royal residence, as the king and his family live in the Royal Palace of Laeken on the outskirts of (...) |
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| Woluwe-Saint-Pierre FeatureType : city Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 50.8272 / 4.4619 | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre is sometimes also spelled in French: Woluwé-Saint-Pierre with an accent on the first "e". Though the first version (without an accent) is the official version, the second one fits more the French pronunciation (...) |
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| Halle, Belgium FeatureType : city Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 50.7333 / 4.2333 | Halle is a city and municipality of Belgium, in the district (arrondissement) Halle-Vilvoorde of the province Flemish Brabant. It is located on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal and on the Flemish side of the language border that separates Flanders and Wallonia (...) |
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| Dinant FeatureType : null Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 50.2564 / 4.9136 | Dinant is a Walloon city and municipality located on the River Meuse, in the Belgian province of Namur. It is around south-east of Brussels, south-east of Charleroi, south of Namur and north of Givet (France). The municipality includes the old communes of Anseremme, Bouvignes-sur-Meuse, Dréhance, (...) |
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| Palencia FeatureType : city Elevation : 742 Lat/Lng : 42.0167 / -4.5333 | Palencia is a city south of Tierra de Campos, in north-northwest Spain, the capital of the province of Palencia in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The municipality had a population of 78,892 in 2017. (...) |
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| Burgos FeatureType : null Elevation : 869 Lat/Lng : 42.3408 / -3.6997 | Burgos is a city in northern Spain and the historic capital of Castile. It is situated on the confluence of the Arlanzón river tributaries, at the edge of the Iberian central plateau. It has about 180,000 inhabitants in the actual city and another 20,000 in the metropolitan area (...) |
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| Almería FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 36.83 / -2.43 | Almería is a city in Andalusia, Spain, located in the southeast of Spain on the Mediterranean Sea, and is the capital of the province of the same name. It was Abd-ar-Rahman III who founded the Alcazaba (the Citadel), which gave this city its name: Al-Mari'yah (المريّة, the Watchtower) (...) |
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| Lille FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.6372 / 3.0633 | Lille is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders. On the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille (...) |
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| Antwerp FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.2178 / 4.4003 | Antwerp is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders. With a population of 520,504, Population of all municipalities in Belgium, as of 1 January 2017. Retrieved on 1 November 2017. it is the most populous city proper in Belgium (...) |
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| Gijón FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 43.545 / -5.6625 | Gijón (or) or is the largest city and municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. It is located on the Bay of Biscay, approximately north of Oviedo, the capital of Asturias. (...) |
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| Madrid FeatureType : null Elevation : 700 Lat/Lng : 40.4333 / -3.6833 | Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole. The city has almost 3.2 million, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2015. inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.5 million (...) |
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| Centre Georges Pompidou FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8607 / 2.3524 | Centre Georges Pompidou , commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou and also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais (...) |
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| Luxembourg City FeatureType : null Elevation : 303 Lat/Lng : 49.61 / 6.1333 | Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City (or '), is the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (also named "Luxembourg"), and the country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxembourg, the city lies at the heart of Western (...) |
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| Diest FeatureType : city Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.9844 / 5.0528 | Diest is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. Situated in the northeast of the Hageland region, Diest neighbours the provinces of Antwerp to its North, and Limburg to the East and is situated around 60 km from Brussels (...) |
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| Ghent FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 51.0539 / 3.7217 | Ghent is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the second largest municipality in Belgium, after Antwerp. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late (...) |
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| Bruges FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 51.2094 / 3.22 | Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country. The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares (138.4 sq km; 53 (...) |
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| Battle of Waterloo FeatureType : event Elevation : 135 Lat/Lng : 50.679 / 4.406 | The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army (...) |
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| Kortrijk FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 50.8275 / 3.2686 | Kortrijk (in English also Courtrai or Courtray; official name in Dutch: Kortrijk, ; West Flemish: Kortryk or Kortrik, , ;) is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. It is the capital and largest city of the judicial and administrative arrondissement of Kortrijk (...) |
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| Arras FeatureType : null Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 50.2897 / 2.7808 | Arras is the capital (chef-lieu/préfecture) of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; prior to the reorganization of 2014 it was located in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The historic centre of the Artois region, with a Baroque town square, Arras is located in Northern (...) |
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| Cambrai FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 50.1767 / 3.2356 | Cambrai (; ; ; historically in English Camerick and Camericke) is a commune in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river. A sub-prefecture of the department, Cambrai is a town which had 32,518 inhabitants in the (...) |
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| Porto FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 41.1333 / -8.6667 | Porto (; also known as Oporto in English Google Books) is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. The city proper has a population of 237,591 and the metropolitan area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the (...) |
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| Bordeaux FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 44.8379 / -0.5795 | Bordeaux (; Gascon) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 246,586 (2014). Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux Métropole (...) |
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| Lisbon FeatureType : null Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 38.7203 / -9.14 | Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 505,526 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Its urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2 (...) |
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| Essaouira FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 31.5131 / -9.7697 | Essaouira , formerly known as Mogador, is a city in the western Moroccan economic region of Marrakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. The modern name means "the little rampart", a reference to the fortress walls that still enclose part of the city. (...) |
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| Monaco FeatureType : city Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 43.7325 / 7.4183 | Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city-state, country and microstate on the French Riviera in Western Europe. France borders the country on three sides while the other side borders the Mediterranean Sea (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Amsterdam FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 52.3702 / 4.8904 | Amsterdam is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague (...) |
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| Nymphenburg Palace FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 518 Lat/Lng : 48.1582 / 11.5033 | The Nymphenburg Palace , i. e., "Castle of the Nymph (or Nymphs)", is a Baroque palace in Munich, Bavaria, southern Germany. The palace was the main summer residence of the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. (...) |
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| North Brabant FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 51.56 / 5.18 | North Brabant , also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the west, and Belgium to the south (...) |
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| Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 41.0292 / 28.9517 | The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; ; Vatican City State, 1978, p. 3 ,Ortaylı, İlber (2003). "Osmanlı Barışı", p. 14. .In Turkey it is also referred to unofficially as Fener Rum Patrikhanesi, "Roman Patriarchate of the Phanar" "Roman (...) |
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| Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques FeatureType : null Elevation : 203 Lat/Lng : 43.2947 / -0.3747 | Pau is a commune on the northern edge of the Pyrenees, and capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Département in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The city is located in the heart of the former sovereign Principality of Béarn, of which it was the capital from 1464 (...) |
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| Frankfurt Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 50.0326 / 8.5599 | Frankfurt am Main Airport (also known as Rhein-Main-Flughafen) is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres. It is operated by Fraport and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa including Lufthansa CityLine (...) |
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| English Channel FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 50.1836 / -0.5311 | The English Channel ("The Sleeve"; , "Sleeve Channel"; , "Sea of Brittany"; , "British Sea"; , "The Channel"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (...) |
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| Helsinki FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 60.1667 / 24.9333 | Helsinki is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city's urban area has a population of , making it by far the most populous urban area in (...) |
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| Aachen FeatureType : null Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 50.7767 / 6.0836 | Aachen or Bad Aachen, French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle , is a spa and border city. in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen developed from a Roman settlement and spa, subsequently becoming the preferred medieval Imperial residence of Charlemagne, and, from 936 to 1531, the place (...) |
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| Montevideo FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : -34.8833 / -56.1667 | Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . The southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the (...) |
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| Montenegro FeatureType : country Elevation : 520 Lat/Lng : 42.5 / 19.3 | Montenegro (; / Crna Gora) is a country in Southeastern Europe on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Bosnia and Herzegovina to the north; Serbia and Kosovo to the east; Albania to the south and Croatia to the west. Montenegro has an area of 13,812 square kilometres and a population of 640,000, most of (...) |
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| Nador FeatureType : city Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 35.17 / -2.93 | Nador (Berber: Ennaḍur, ⴻⵏⵏⴰⴹⵓⵔ; Arabic: الناظور) is a coastal city and provincial capital in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco with a population of about 161,726 (2014 census). It is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a salt lagoon named Sebkha Bou Areq (Arabic), Bḥar Ameẓẓyan (Berber) or (...) |
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| Marseille FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 43.2963 / 5.3699 | Marseille (; , ; Marseilles;) is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, today it is the capital of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (...) |
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| Berlin FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 52.5029 / 13.4042 | Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3,711,930 (2017) inhabitants make it the second most populous city proper of the European Union after London. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states, and it is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, the (...) |
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| Netherlands FeatureType : country Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 52.35 / 5.7667 | The Netherlands is a country located mainly in Northwestern Europe. Together with three island territories in the Caribbean (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (...) |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 51.4967 / -0.1719 | The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (...) |
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| Switzerland FeatureType : country Elevation : 1522 Lat/Lng : 46.8011 / 8.2267 | Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities.Bern is referred to as "federal city" . Swiss law does not designate a capital as such, but the federal parliament and government are (...) |
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| Czech Republic FeatureType : country Elevation : 324 Lat/Lng : 49.85 / 15.4667 | The Czech Republic , also known by its short-form name, Czechia , is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast (...) |
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| Atlanta FeatureType : null Elevation : 335 Lat/Lng : 33.755 / -84.39 | Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 39th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5 (...) |
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| Moldova FeatureType : country Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 47.0 / 28.9167 | Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova , is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The capital city is Chișinău. Most of the Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until (...) |
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| Dortmund FeatureType : null Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 51.5139 / 7.4653 | Dortmund is, with a population of 601,402 (2017), the third largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and Germany's eighth largest city. It is the largest city (by area and population) of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with (...) |
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| Valence (city) FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 44.9333 / 4.8917 | Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, about south of Lyon, along the railway line that runs from Paris to Marseille (...) |
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| Thessaloniki FeatureType : null Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 40.6472 / 22.9639 | Thessaloniki (Thessaloníki , also familiarly known as Thessalonica, Salonica, or Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized (...) |
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| Alte Pinakothek FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 522 Lat/Lng : 48.1483 / 11.57 | The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings (...) |
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| Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 50.4994 / 3.9839 | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Allied Command Operations (ACO). SHAPE is located at Casteau, north of the Belgian city of Mons. The commander of ACO and SHAPE is Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), a U.S (...) |
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| Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education FeatureType : edu Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : 25.6514 / -100.2907 | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) (in), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or simply as Tec, is a private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus university based in Monterrey, Mexico (...) |
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| Imperial Crypt FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 48.2057 / 16.3702 | The Imperial Crypt , also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1618 and dedicated in 1632, and located on the Neuer Markt square of the Innere Stadt, near the Hofburg Palace (...) |
| 60 | Bombardment of Brussels FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 50.8467 / 4.3524 | The bombardment of Brussels by troops of Louis XIV of France on August 13, 14, and 15, 1695, and the resulting fire were together the most destructive event in the entire history of Brussels.Brussels was mostly untouched by most other conflicts (...) | |
| 61 | Flanders FeatureType : country Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 51.0 / 4.5 | Flanders is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history, and sometimes involving neighbouring countries (...) | |
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| Vienna University of Economics and Business FeatureType : edu Elevation : 163 Lat/Lng : 48.2141 / 16.4082 | The Vienna University of Economics and Business (or WU) is the largest university focusing on business and economics in Europe and, in terms of student body, one of the largest universities in Austria. It has been ranked as one of the best business schools in Europe. (...) |
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| The Little Mermaid (statue) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 55.6929 / 12.5993 | The Little Mermaid is a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, depicting a mermaid. The sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is tall - denmark.net. Retrieved January 29, 2012. and weighs (...) |
| 64 | Asturias FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 431 Lat/Lng : 43.3 / -5.9667 | Asturias , officially the Principality of Asturias , is an autonomous community in north-west Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias, and contains some of the territory that was part of the larger Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages (...) | |
| 65 | Habsburg Spain FeatureType : null Elevation : 675 Lat/Lng : 40.4167 / -3.7 | Habsburg Spain refers to the history of Spain over the 16th and 17th centuries (1516–1700), when it was ruled by kings from the House of Habsburg (also associated with its role in the history of Central Europe) (...) | |
| 66 | Charleroi FeatureType : null Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 50.4117 / 4.4447 | Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By January 1, 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. Population of all municipalities in Belgium, as of January 1, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-10-19 (...) | |
| 67 | UEFA Euro 2020 FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 51.5558 / -0.2797 | The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 or simply Euro 2020, is scheduled to be the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by UEFA (...) | |
| 68 | Generalitat de Catalunya FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 41.3833 / 2.1833 | The Government of Catalonia or the Generalitat de Catalunya is the institution under which the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament of Catalonia, the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the Executive Council of Catalonia (...) | |
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| Bouchout Castle FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 50.9281 / 4.3288 | Bouchout Castle is a castle in the Flemish town of Meise, Belgium. In the 12th century, this territory of the young Duchy of Brabant was strategically positioned between the County of Flanders and the Berthout family, lords of Grimbergen (...) |
| 70 | NATO FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 50.8762 / 4.422 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; ; '), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 (...) | |
| 71 | European Parliament FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 48.5974 / 7.7687 | The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU (...) | |
| 72 | November 2015 Paris attacks FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 48.8619 / 2.3468 | The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16 CET, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football (...) | |
| 73 | Gare d'Avignon TGV FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 43.9217 / 4.7858 | Avignon TGV (IATA: XZN) is a railway station located in Avignon, France. It was opened on 10 June 2001 and is located on the LGV Méditerranée high-speed line and Avignon-Centre–Avignon TGV railway. The train services are operated by the SNCF. The station is located 6 km south of the city centre. (...) | |
| 74 | UEFA Euro 2000 FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 50.8469 / 4.355 | The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and organised by UEFA, association football's governing body in Europe (...) | |
| 75 | Gare de Narbonne FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 43.1906 / 3.0057 | Narbonne is a railway station in Narbonne, Occitanie, France. The station opened on 22 April 1857 and is located on the Bordeaux–Sète railway and Narbonne–Portbou railway. The station is served by TGV (high speed), Intercités (long distance, also night train) and TER (local) services operated by the (...) | |
| 76 | Ostend FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 51.2167 / 2.9 | Ostend is a Belgian coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerke, Raversijde, Stene and Zandvoorde, and the city of Ostend proper – the largest on the Belgian coast. (...) | |
| 77 | La Hulpe FeatureType : null Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 50.7307 / 4.4845 | La Hulpe is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant, 20 km south-east of the centre of Brussels, but only about 3 km from the edge of the Brussels-Capital Region. On January 1, 2007, La Hulpe had a total population of 7,309. The total area is 15 (...) | |
| 78 | Nord-Pas-de-Calais FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 50.4667 / 2.7167 | Nord-Pas-de-Calais (is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais borders the English Channel (west), the North Sea (northwest), Belgium (north and east) (...) | |
| 79 | Aix-en-Provence TGV railway station FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 43.4551 / 5.3173 | Aix-en-Provence TGV is a high speed railway station located in Cabriès, Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France. The station was opened in 2001 and is located on the LGV Méditerranée. The train services are operated by SNCF (...) | |
| 80 | Málaga Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 36.677 / -4.498 | Málaga Airport , officially Málaga–Costa del Sol Airport since June 2011, is the fourth busiest airport in Spain after Madrid–Barajas, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. It is an important airport for Spanish tourism as it is the main international airport serving the Costa del Sol (...) | |
| 81 | Wallonia FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 50.51 / 4.75 | Wallonia is a region of Belgium. As the southern portion of the country, Wallonia is primarily French-speaking, and accounts for 55% of the territory of Belgium, and a third of its population. The Walloon Region was not merged with the French Community of Belgium which is the political entity that (...) | |
| 82 | Solar Impulse FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 24.4503 / 54.39 | Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg and Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist Bertrand Piccard, who (...) | |
| 83 | Le Quesnoy FeatureType : null Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 50.2497 / 3.6383 | Le Quesnoy is a commune and small town in the east of the Nord department of northern France, accordingly its historic province is French Hainaut. It had a keynote industry in shoemaking before the late 1940s, followed by a chemical factory and dairy, giving way to its weekly market, tourism, local (...) | |
| 84 | Ronse FeatureType : city Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 50.745 / 3.6022 | Ronse is a Belgian city and a municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality has only the city of Ronse proper. (...) | |
| 85 | Order of Saint Augustine FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 41.9007 / 12.457 | The Order of Saint Augustine (abbreviated as OSA; historically Ordo eremitarum sancti Augustini, OESA, the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine), generally called Augustinians or Austin Friars (not to be confused with the Augustinian Canons Regular), is a Catholic religious order (...) | |
| 86 | Pontevedra FeatureType : city Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 42.4336 / -8.6475 | Pontevedra is a Spanish city in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the Comarca (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rias Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality which is, in fact, often considered as an extension of the actual city (...) | |
| 87 | Lambic FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 50.9215 / 3.2355 | Lambic ('lɒmbiːk or 'læmbɪk) is a type of beer brewed in the Pajottenland region of Belgium southwest of Brussels and in Brussels itself at the Cantillon Brewery. Lambic beers include gueuze and kriek lambic. Lambic differs from most other beers in that it is fermented through exposure to wild (...) | |
| 88 | European Schools FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.85 / 4.35 | The European Schools is a network of private-authority schools, which emphasise a multilingual and multicultural pedagogical approach to the teaching of nursery, primary and secondary students, leading to the European Baccalaureate as their secondary leaving qualification (...) | |
| 89 | Île-de-France FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 48.5 / 2.5 | Île-de-France (; , literally "Island of France"), often known colloquially as the région parisienne ("Parisian Region"), is one of the 18 regions of France and includes the city of Paris. It covers and has its own regional council and president (...) | |
| 90 | Ninove FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 50.8377 / 4.0208 | Ninove is a city and municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders in Belgium. It is situated on the river Dender, and is part of the Denderstreek. The municipality comprises the city of Ninove proper and since the 1976 merger of the towns of Appelterre-Eichem, Aspelare, (...) | |
| 91 | European Space Agency FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 48.8482 / 2.3042 | The European Space Agency (ESA; , ASE;) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 and an annual budget of about €5.25 billion / US$5 (...) | |
| 92 | European Union FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 50.8333 / 4.35 | The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. It has an area of and an estimated population of about 513 million. The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states in (...) | |
| 93 | Bavay FeatureType : null Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 50.2981 / 3.7989 | Bavay (pronounced) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. The town was the seat of the former canton of Bavay. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bavaisiens or Bavaisiennes (...) | |
| 94 | Douala FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 4.05 / 9.6833 | Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital. It is also the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region. Home to Central Africa's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport (DLA), it is the commercial and economic capital of Cameroon and the entire (...) | |
| 95 | Burgos Cathedral FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 863 Lat/Lng : 42.3402 / -3.704 | The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Burgos is a Catholic church dedicated to the Virgin Mary located in the Spanish city of Burgos. Its official name is Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Santa María de Burgos. Its construction began in 1221, following French Gothic patterns (...) | |
| 96 | Knittlingen FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 49.0239 / 8.7569 | Knittlingen is a town in the Enz district in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It lies at the eastern edge of the Kraichgau in the centre of a rectangle that is formed by Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Heilbronn, and Stuttgart. The centre of Knittlingen consists of many old half-timbered houses. (...) | |
| 97 | Punjab, India FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 365 Lat/Lng : 30.79 / 76.78 | Punjab is a state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast, Rajasthan to the southwest, and the Pakistani (...) | |
| 98 | Cologne FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 50.9426 / 6.959 | Cologne is the largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and its 1,080,394 (2017) inhabitants make it the fourth most populous city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich (...) | |
| 99 | Peugeot FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 49.2 / 7.0189 | Peugeot is a French automotive manufacturer, part of Groupe PSA. The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Émile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark (...) | |
| 100 | Cardiff Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 51.3967 / -3.3433 | Cardiff Airport is the busiest airport in Wales and has been under the ownership of the Welsh Government since March 2013, operating at an arm's length as a commercial business. Passenger numbers were 1.464 million in 2017 and are increasing year-on-year (...) | |
| 101 | May 2 FeatureType : null Elevation : 364 Lat/Lng : 30.0 / 35.2 | ==Events== *1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. *1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. *1335 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia (...) | |
| 102 | May 5 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.6 / 21.0 | This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox). (...) | |
| 103 | Roundabout FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 50.8924 / 6.9673 | A roundabout, (also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island), is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is given to traffic already on the junction (...) | |
| 104 | Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line FeatureType : null Elevation : 138 Lat/Lng : 41.6094 / 0.2207 | The Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line is a standard gauge railway line inaugurated on 20 February 2008. Designed for speeds of and compatibility with neighbouring countries' rail systems, it connects the cities of Madrid and Barcelona in 2 hours 30 minutes (...) | |
| 105 | National University of Distance Education FeatureType : null Elevation : 697 Lat/Lng : 40.438 / -3.704 | The National University of Distance Education, known in Spanish as Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), is a distance learning and research university founded in 1972 and is the only university run by the central government of Spain (...) | |
| 106 | 7 July 2005 London bombings FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 51.5168 / -0.0806 | The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks in London, United Kingdom, which targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transport system during the morning rush hour (...) | |
| 107 | Sichuan FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1199 Lat/Lng : 30.714 / 103.403 | Sichuan (; formerly romanised as Szechuan or Szechwan), is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south (...) | |
| 108 | County of Flanders FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 51.06 / 3.72 | The County of Flanders was a historic territory in the Low Countries. From 862 onwards the Counts of Flanders were one of the original twelve of the Kingdom of France. For centuries their estates around the cities of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres formed one of the most affluent regions in Europe (...) | |
| 109 | Basel FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 47.567 / 7.583 | Basel (; also Basle ; ; ;) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany (...) | |
| 110 | Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 43.3035 / 5.3798 | Marseille – Saint-Charles is the main railway station and intercity bus station of Marseille. It is the southern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It opened on 8 January 1848, having been built for the PLM on the land of the Saint Charles Cemetery (...) | |
| 111 | Zinedine Zidane FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 43.2844 / 5.3495 | Zinedine Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French professional football coach and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time,. BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2013. . ESPN. Retrieved 20 April 2013 The Independent. Retrieved 17 November 2013. New York Times (...) | |
| 112 | Expo 67 FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 45.5167 / -73.5356 | The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century (...) | |
| 113 | Gordon B. Hinckley FeatureType : null Elevation : 1394 Lat/Lng : 40.7745 / -111.8635 | Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995, until his death (...) | |
| 114 | Nador International Airport FeatureType : city Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 34.989 / -3.0284 | Nador International Airport (Berber: Anafag en Ennaḍor Aɛarwi;), , is an international airport serving Nador, from DAFIF (effective October 2006) a city in the Oriental region in Morocco. It is also known as Arwi Airport (...) | |
| 115 | Santa Coloma de Farners FeatureType : null Elevation : 163 Lat/Lng : 41.8647 / 2.6642 | Santa Coloma de Farners is a spa town and capital of the comarca of the Selva, in Catalonia, Spain, and of the judicial district of Santa Coloma. It is situated on the edge of the Selva Depression and of the Guilleries (...) | |
| 116 | Cuéllar Castle FeatureType : null Elevation : 885 Lat/Lng : 41.4008 / -4.32 | Cuéllar Castle or The Castle of the Dukes of Alburquerque is the most emblematic monument in the town of Cuéllar, located in the province of Segovia, autonomous community of Castile and León, in Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural (Property of Cultural Interest) on 3 June 1931 (...) | |
| 117 | Battle of the Bulge FeatureType : null Elevation : 423 Lat/Lng : 50.4081 / 5.9297 | The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World (...) | |
| 118 | City FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 31.3222 / 45.6361 | A city is a large human settlement.Goodall, B. (1987) The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. London: Routledge (...) | |
| 119 | Tram FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 530 Lat/Lng : 48.1484 / 11.4616 | A tram (in North America streetcar or trolley) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets; some include segments of segregated right-of-way. The lines or networks operated by tramcars are called tramways (...) | |
| 120 | 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 (...) | |
| 121 | Steinway & Sons FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 53.5743 / 9.9241 | Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, is an American-German piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to the opening of a factory in New York City, United States, and a factory in (...) | |
| 122 | Scherpenheuvel-Zichem FeatureType : city Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 50.9894 / 4.9776 | Scherpenheuvel-Zichem is a city and municipality located in the province of Flemish Brabant, Flemish Region, Belgium, encompassing the towns of Averbode, Messelbroek, Okselaar, Scherpenheuvel, Schoonderbuken, Keiberg, Kaggevinne, Testelt and Zichem (previously spelled Sichem, like the biblical town) (...) | |
| 123 | Liège International (1905) FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 50.6289 / 5.5757 | Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège was a world's fair held in Liège from April 27 to November 6, 1905 just 8 years after a Belgian exposition held in Brussels. Intended to show Liege's industrial importance it also marked 75 years of Belgian independence and 40 years of Leopold II's (...) | |
| 124 | Twitter FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.7768 / -122.4166 | Twitter, Inc. is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (...) | |
| 125 | Audi FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 377 Lat/Lng : 48.7833 / 11.418 | Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets and distributes luxury vehicles. Audi is a member of the Volkswagen Group and has its roots at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Audi-branded vehicles are produced in nine production facilities worldwide (...) | |
| 126 | Margaret Thatcher FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 52.9159 / -0.6451 | Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990 (...) | |
| 127 | States General of the Netherlands FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.0796 / 4.313 | The States General of the Netherlands is the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives . Both chambers meet at the Binnenhof in The Hague. The States General originated in the 15th century as an assembly of all the provincial states of the (...) | |
| 128 | Guantanamo Bay detention camp FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 19.9026 / -75.0987 | The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, , The Independent, 29 April 2006 also referred to as Guantánamo, G-Bay, GTMO, Gitmo , and America's Gulag, which is on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba (...) | |
| 129 | Tomorrowland (festival) FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.0922 / 4.3855 | Tomorrowland is an electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Belgium. Tomorrowland was first held in 2005 and has since become one of the world's largest and most notable music festivals. It now stretches over 2 weekends and usually sells out in minutes. (...) | |
| 130 | Columbus Monument, Barcelona FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 41.3758 / 2.1778 | The Columbus Monument (; or Mirador de Colón) is a tall monument to Christopher Columbus at the lower end of La Rambla, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) in honor of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas (...) | |
| 131 | Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 51.7 / 5.3167 | The Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch also known as the Siege of Bois-Le-DucMarkham pp. 435-38 was an action in 1629, during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War in which a Dutch and English army captured the city of 's-Hertogenbosch (...) | |
| 132 | Red Cloister FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 50.8133 / 4.4438 | Red Cloister is an Augustinian Priory, founded in 1367. It is located in the Sonian Forest, in south-eastern Brussels, Belgium. It was abolished in 1796. Today, it is administered from Auderghem, which is a commune of Brussels (...) | |
| 133 | Roberts International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 6.2338 / -10.3623 | Roberts International Airport , informally also known as Robertsfield, is an international airport in the West African nation of Liberia. Located near the town of Harbel in Margibi County, the single runway airport is about outside of the nation's capital of Monrovia, and as an origin and (...) | |
| 134 | International Hockey Federation FeatureType : null Elevation : 556 Lat/Lng : 46.5277 / 6.6306 | The Fédération Internationale de Hockey (English: International Hockey Federation), commonly known by the acronym FIH, is the international governing body of field hockey and indoor field hockey. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland and the president is Narinder Batra (...) | |
| 135 | Musée National d'Art Moderne FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8605 / 2.3522 | The Musée National d'Art Moderne (National Museum of Modern Art) is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city (...) | |
| 136 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 52.0875 / 5.1242 | The Archdiocese of Utrecht is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The Archbishop of Utrecht is the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical province of Utrecht. There are six suffragan dioceses in the province: Breda, Groningen-Leeuwarden, Haarlem-Amsterdam, Roermond, Rotterdam, and (...) | |
| 137 | Generalitat Valenciana FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 39.4765 / 0.3762 | The Generalitat Valenciana is the generic name covering the different self-government institutions under which the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia is politically organized. It consists of seven institutions including the Corts Valencianes (or autonomous Parliament), the President of the (...) | |
| 138 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Antwerp FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 51.2182 / 4.4027 | The Diocese of Antwerp is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. The diocese was restored in 1961. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. Its see is the Cathedral of Our Lady. (...) | |
| 139 | Annappes FeatureType : city Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 50.6264 / 3.1506 | Annappes is a village and former commune of the Nord Department of France, on the Mark River. In 1970, it was merged with the communes of Ascq and Flers-lez-Lille to form the new commune of Villeneuve d'Ascq. It is still a district of the commune today. (...) | |
| 140 | Monastery of Santa María del Parral FeatureType : null Elevation : 941 Lat/Lng : 40.956 / -4.1266 | Monastery of Saint Mary of Parral is a Roman Catholic monastery of the enclosed monks of the Order of Saint Jerome just outside the walls of Segovia, Spain. (...) | |
| 141 | Common Security and Defence Policy FeatureType : null Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 50.51 / 4.21 | The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is the European Union's (EU) course of action in the fields of defence and crisis management, and a main component of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) (...) | |
| 142 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 50.1732 / 3.2331 | The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai (; French: Archidiocèse de Cambrai) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Douai, and Valenciennes within the département of Nord, in the region of (...) | |
| 143 | International Ice Hockey Federation FeatureType : null Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 47.3684 / 8.5299 | The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; ;) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey and in-line hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 76 members. It manages international ice hockey tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking (...) | |
| 144 | European Investment Bank FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 320 Lat/Lng : 49.6203 / 6.1376 | The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union's nonprofit long-term lending institution established in 1958 under the Treaty of Rome. As a "policy-driven bank" whose shareholders are the member states of the EU, the EIB uses its financing operations to bring about European integration and (...) | |
| 145 | Exposición Centroamericana FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 15.7315 / -88.5976 | The Exposición Centroamericana (Central American Expo) was and industrial and cultural exposition that took place in Guatemala in 1897 and which was approved on 8 March 1894 by the National Assembly by Decree 253 by a suggestion made by president general José María Reina Barrios, at a time when both (...) | |
| 146 | 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 (...) | |
| 147 | La Belle Alliance FeatureType : city Elevation : 133 Lat/Lng : 50.6683 / 4.4136 | La Belle Alliance is an inn situated a few miles south of Brussels in Belgium, chiefly remembered for its significance in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815). There are two plaques on the building: one is "In memory of the French Medical Corps who attended the wounded with (...) | |
| 148 | 
| MS München FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 44.0 / -24.0 | MS München was a German LASH carrier of the Hapag-Lloyd line that sank with all hands for unknown reasons in a severe storm in December 1978. The most accepted theory is that one or more rogue waves hit the München and damaged her, so that she drifted for 33 hours with a list of 50 degrees without (...) |
| 149 | National Art Museum of Azerbaijan FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -2 Lat/Lng : 40.3632 / 49.8317 | National Art Museum of Azerbaijan is the biggest art museum of Azerbaijan. It was founded in 1936 in Baku and in 1943 was named after Rustam Mustafayev, a prominent Azerbaijani scenic designer and theater artist. The museum consists of two buildings standing next to each other (...) | |
| 150 | Global city FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.39 / -73.56 | A global city, also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales (...) | |
| 151 | Revolutions of 1848 FeatureType : null Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 48.8468 / 2.3435 | The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People's Spring, Springtime of the Peoples,Merriman, John, A History of Modern Europe: From the French Revolution to the Present, 1996, p (...) | |
| 152 | Central station FeatureType : null Elevation : 519 Lat/Lng : 48.1405 / 11.5529 | Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the city centres themselves.Kellerman, Aharon (...) | |
| 153 | Special member state territories and the European Union FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 57.9058 / 27.7132 | The special territories of the European Union are 31 territories of EU member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union. The special territories divided themselves in two categories: 9 Outermost Regions (OMR) that form (...) | |
| 154 | Charlie Hebdo shooting FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 48.8592 / 2.3703 | On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others (...) | |
| 155 | Battle of Ramillies FeatureType : event Elevation : 142 Lat/Lng : 50.6386 / 4.9128 | The Battle of Ramillies , fought on 23 May 1706, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the Grand Alliance – Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic – the battle had followed an indecisive campaign against the Bourbon armies of King Louis XIV of France in 1705 (...) | |
| 156 | 1964 New York World's Fair FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 40.744 / -73.8444 | The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. , Archdiocese of New York. Retrieved November 5, 2007 (...) | |
| 157 | Sitges Film Festival FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 41.2371 / 1.8235 | The Sitges Film Festival is a Spanish film festival and one of the world's foremost international festivals specializing in fantasy and horror films. Established in 1968, the festival normally takes place every year in early October in the coastal resort of Sitges, 34 kilometers West-South-West of (...) | |
| 158 | European Youth Parliament FeatureType : null Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 48.4 / 2.7 | The European Youth Parliament is a politically unbound non-profit organisation, which encourages European youth to actively engage in citizenship and cultural understanding. It involves 50,000 youngsters from all around Europe in its events and has around 5,000 active members in the different (...) | |
| 159 | Colonial forum of Tarraco FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 41.1146 / 1.2492 | The colonial forum of Tarraco is an ancient Roman archaeological site located in the modern city of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain.Salom i Garreta 2006, pp. 69, 73. (...) | |
| 160 | Audencia Business School FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 47.2468 / -1.5527 | Audencia Business School is a top business school in France and in Europe, and is one of the only 1% business schools in the world accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) (...) | |
| 161 | Fall of Antwerp FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 51.2167 / 4.4 | The Fall of Antwerp on 17 August 1585 took place during the Eighty Years' War, after a siege lasting over a year from July 1584 until August 1585. The city of Antwerp was the capital of the new Protestant-dominated Dutch Revolt, but was forced to surrender to the Spanish forces (...) | |
| 162 | European Court of Justice FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 325 Lat/Lng : 49.621 / 6.1406 | The European Court of Justice (ECJ), officially just the Court of Justice , is the supreme court of the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union it is tasked with interpreting EU law and ensuring its equal application across all EU (...) | |
| 163 | Herbalife Nutrition FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 33.8572 / -118.2919 | Herbalife Nutrition is a global multi-level marketing corporation that develops, markets, and sells nutrition supplements, weight management, sports nutrition, and personal-care products. The company was founded by Mark Hughes in 1980, and it employs an estimated 8,000 people worldwide (...) | |
| 164 | Spetses FeatureType : null Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 37.25 / 23.1333 | Spetses (Modern Greek: Σπέτσες, Katharevousa: Σπέτσαι, Spetsai, Ancient: Πιτυούσσα, "Pityoussa") is an affluent island and a municipality in the Islands regional unit, Attica, Greece. Greece Ministry of Interior It is sometimes included as one of the Saronic Islands (...) | |
| 165 | Agatha Christie's Poirot FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 51.4472 / 0.048 | Poirot (also known as Agatha Christie's Poirot) is a British mystery drama television series that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet stars as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule Poirot (...) | |
| 166 | Engie FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 48.8962 / 2.2399 | ENGIE (known as GDF Suez prior to April 2015) is a French multinational electric utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy (...) | |
| 167 | UEFA Euro 2020 bids FeatureType : null Elevation : 973 Lat/Lng : 40.1804 / 44.495 | The bidding process for the UEFA Euro 2020 is the process by which the location for the 16th European Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2020, was selected. The process officially began on 21 March 2012 with the intent to announce the hosts in late 2013 or early 2014 (...) | |
| 168 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 50.6072 / 3.3882 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Belgium. The diocese was formed in 1146, upon the dissolution of the diocese of Noyon & Tournai, which had existed since the 7th century. It is now suffragan of the archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. (...) | |
| 169 | 2015 Thalys train attack FeatureType : event Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 50.4657 / 2.9739 | On 21 August 2015, a man opened fire on a Thalys train on its way from Amsterdam to Paris before his assault rifle jammed, and he was subdued by passengers. Four people were injured, including the assailant. French police believe the incident to be an Islamist terrorist attack, although the attorney (...) | |
| 170 | Sciences Po Lille FeatureType : edu Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 50.6282 / 3.066 | Sciences Po Lille - Institut d'études politiques de Lille , officially referred to as Sciences Po Lille (pronounced see-ohns po), is part of the highly selective grandes écoles and is located in Lille, France. Sciences Po Lille is educating France's political and diplomatic elite, but its academic (...) | |
| 171 | Coudenberg FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 50.8426 / 4.3601 | Coudenberg or Koudenberg (listen; Dutch for cold hill) is a small hill in Brussels where the Palace of Coudenberg was built. For nearly 700 years, the Castle and then the Palace of Coudenberg were the seat of government of the counts, dukes, archdukes, kings, emperors and governors who from the 11th (...) | |
| 172 | Chilean Antarctic Territory FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -75.0009 / -71.5931 | The Chilean Antarctic Territory or Chilean Antarctica (Spanish: Territorio Chileno Antártico, Antártica Chilena) is the territory in Antarctica claimed by Chile. The Chilean Antarctic Territory ranges from 53° West to 90° West and from the South Pole to the 60° South parallel, partially overlapping (...) | |
| 173 | Gdańsk University of Technology FeatureType : edu Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 54.3714 / 18.6189 | The Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT;) is a technical university in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has nine faculties and with 41 fields of study and more than 18 thousand undergraduate, as well as about 626 doctoral students (...) | |
| 174 | German Aerospace Center FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 494 Lat/Lng : 48.3218 / 10.8354 | The German Aerospace Center , abbreviated DLR, is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its headquarters are located in Cologne and it has multiple other locations throughout Germany (...) | |
| 175 | 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 484 Lat/Lng : 47.7783 / 9.1739 | On the night of 1 July 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance (...) | |
| 176 | Bertelsmann Stiftung FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 51.9086 / 8.419 | The Bertelsmann Stiftung is an independent foundation under private law, based in Gütersloh, Germany. It was founded in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn as the result of social, corporate and fiscal considerations. As the Bertelsmann Stiftung itself has put it, the foundation promotes "reform processes" and (...) | |
| 177 | Zita of Bourbon-Parma FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 43.9383 / 10.262 | Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the wife of Charles, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary. As such, she was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in addition to other (...) | |
| 178 | The Cloisters FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 40.8648 / -73.9319 | The Cloisters is a museum in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, New York City, specializing in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods (...) | |
| 179 | International E-road network FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 71.1667 / 25.8 | The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network is numbered from E 1 up and its roads cross national borders (...) | |
| 180 | Unified Patent Court FeatureType : null Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 48.0 / 2.3 | The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a proposed common patent court open for participation of all member states of the European Union.Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, Article 84(1): "This Agreement shall be open for signature by any Member State on 19 February 2013 (...) | |
| 181 | Pairi Daiza FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 50.5847 / 3.8872 | Pairi Daiza (formerly Paradisio) is a privately owned zoo and botanical garden located in Brugelette in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The large animal theme park is located on the site of the former Cistercian Cambron Abbey, and is home to over 4,000 animals (...) | |
| 182 | Emil Racoviță FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.3833 / 76.3833 | Emil Racoviță (; also spelled Racovitza; 15 November 1868 – 17 November 1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life (...) | |
| 183 | Toledo Cathedral FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 531 Lat/Lng : 39.8571 / -4.0236 | The Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo is a Roman Catholic church in Toledo, Spain. It is the seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toledo. The cathedral of Toledo is one of the three 13th-century High Gothic cathedrals in Spain and is considered, in the opinion of some authorities, to be (...) | |
| 184 | Tom Simpson FeatureType : null Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 54.7834 / -1.4177 | Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager before taking up track cycling, specialising in pursuit races (...) | |
| 185 | European Hockey Federation FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 50.8488 / 4.3696 | The European Hockey Federation is a European sports federation for field hockey, based in Brussels. It is the umbrella organisation for all European national federations and organises the Euro Hockey League. Marijke Fleuren was elected as president on August 22, 2011. (...) | |
| 186 | United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon FeatureType : null Elevation : 771 Lat/Lng : 33.1667 / 35.3833 | The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon , or UNIFIL and also known as the UN, is a demilitarized zone created by the United Nations, with the adoption of Security Council Resolution 425 and 426 on 19 March 1978, to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon which Israel had invaded five days prior, (...) | |
| 187 | College of Europe FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 51.211 / 3.2258 | The College of Europe is an elite, independent university institute of postgraduate European studies with the main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a smaller campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by such leading European figures and founding fathers of the (...) | |
| 188 | 2012 Homs offensive FeatureType : event Elevation : 504 Lat/Lng : 34.7308 / 36.7094 | The 2012 Homs offensive was a Syrian Army offensive on the armed rebellion stronghold of Homs, within the scope of the Siege of Homs, beginning in early February 2012 and ending with the U.N. brokered cease fire on April 14, 2012 (...) | |
| 189 | USS Intrepid (CV-11) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 40.7648 / -74.001 | USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most (...) | |
| 190 | Food and Agriculture Organization FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 41.8823 / 12.4883 | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate arguments and (...) | |
| 191 | Battle of Oudenarde FeatureType : event Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 50.85 / 3.4333 | The Battle of Oudenarde (or Oudenaarde) was a battle in the War of the Spanish Succession fought on 11 July 1708 between the forces of Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire on the one side and those of France on the other (...) | |
| 192 | European Professional Basketball League FeatureType : null Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 50.8342 / 4.2984 | The European Professional Basketball League (EPBL) was a professional basketball league held in Europe in 1975. Despite being played in five European countries (Belgium, Israel, Spain, Switzerland and West Germany) it was for the most part owned and operated by American investors with virtually no (...) | |
| 193 | LGV Nord FeatureType : null Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 49.9091 / 2.8489 | The LGV Nord (Ligne à Grande Vitesse) is a French -long high-speed rail line, opened in 1993, that connects Paris to the Belgian border and the Channel Tunnel via Lille. With a maximum speed of , the line appreciably shortened rail journeys between Paris and Lille (...) | |
| 194 | Enclave and exclave FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 45.0134 / -73.1933 | An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state. Territorial waters have the same sovereign attributes as land, and enclaves may therefore exist within territorial waters (...) | |
| 195 | Atlantis FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 35.2542 / -24.2585 | Atlantis ("island of Atlas") is a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic (...) | |
| 196 | 1967 FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the (...) | |
| 197 | Council of State (Netherlands) FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 52.0815 / 4.3089 | The Council of State is a constitutionally established advisory body in the Netherlands to the government and States General that officially consists of members of the royal family and Crown-appointed members generally having political, commercial, diplomatic or military experience (...) | |
| 198 | House of Merode FeatureType : null Elevation : 145 Lat/Lng : 50.799 / 6.388 | Merode is one of the most important families of the Belgian nobility. The surname of the family and the name of the house is nowadays mostly written de Merode (in French). The name is also spelled van Merode in Dutch and von Merode in German (...) | |
| 199 | University of Douai FeatureType : edu Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.38 / 3.08 | The University of Douai is a former university in Douai, France. With a medieval heritage of scholarly activities in Douai, the university was established in 1559 and lectures started in 1562. It closed from 1795 to 1808. In 1887, it was transferred as University of Lille 27 km away from Douai (...) | |
| 200 | Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 41.9308 / 12.469 | Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) is an international federation that represents underwater activities in underwater sport and underwater sciences, and oversees an international system of recreational snorkel and scuba diver training and recognition (...) | |
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