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| 1 | Ben Nevis ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1335 Lat/Lng : 56.7969 / -5.0035 | Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at above sea level, it is at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William (...) | |
| 2 | Sumner County, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 374 Lat/Lng : 37.2658 / -97.3153 | Sumner County (standard abbreviation: SU) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,132. Its county seat is Wellington. (...) | |
| 3 | Midland, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 853 Lat/Lng : 32.005 / -102.0992 | Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County. At the 2010 census, the population of Midland was 111,147, and a 2015 estimate gave a total of 132,950, making (...) | |
| 4 | Butler County, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 380 Lat/Lng : 37.6919 / -96.9872 | Butler County (county code BU) is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 65,880. Its county seat and most populous city is El Dorado. (...) | |
| 5 | Carswell Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 195 Lat/Lng : 32.7692 / -97.4417 | : see also: Air Force Plant 4 for the government-owned aircraft manufacturing plant adjacent to the facility. Carswell Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located northwest of Fort Worth, Texas (...) | |
| 6 | Sedgwick County, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 415 Lat/Lng : 37.6025 / -97.6314 | Sedgwick County (county code: SG) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 498,365, making it the second-most populous county in Kansas. The county seat is Wichita, the most populous city in the state. (...) | |
| 7 | Portsmouth ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 50.7953 / -1.0889 | Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, with a total population of 205,400 residents. The city of Portsmouth is nicknamed Pompey and is mainly built on Portsea Island, a flat, low-lying island measuring 24 square kilometres (9 sq mi) in area, just off the south-east coast of Hampshire (...) | |
| 8 | Lubbock, Texas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 984 Lat/Lng : 33.5647 / -101.8778 | Lubbock The pronunciation has been newsworthy: is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado and ecologically is part of the southern end of the (...) | |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 943 Lat/Lng : 24.0 / 45.0 | Saudi Arabia , officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA; '), is a country in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. With a land area of approximately , Saudi Arabia is the largest sovereign state in the Middle East, geographically the fifth-largest in Asia, second-largest in (...) | |
| 10 | Bahrain ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 26.0675 / 50.5511 | Bahrain , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (help=no), is an island country in the Persian Gulf. The sovereign state comprises a small archipelago centered around Bahrain Island, situated between the Qatar peninsula and the north eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the King (...) | |
| 11 | Irving, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 154 Lat/Lng : 32.8117 / -96.9508 | Irving is a principal city in Dallas County in the U.S. state of Texas and it is also an inner ring suburb of the city of Dallas. According to a 2017 estimate from the United States Census Bureau, the city population was 240,373 making it the thirteenth most populous city in Texas and 93rd most (...) | |
| 12 | Tyler, Texas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 32.3511 / -95.3008 | Tyler is the county seat of Smith County, located in east-central Texas, United States. The city of Tyler has long been Smith County's major economic, educational, financial, medical, and cultural hub. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States (...) | |
| 13 | Emirate of Abu Dhabi ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 24.4591 / 54.3694 | The Emirate of Abu Dhabi (or ;), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is the largest emirate by area , accounting for approximately 87 percent of the total land area of the federation. Abu Dhabi also has the largest population of the seven emirates (...) | |
| 14 | Zamboanga City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 6.9103 / 122.0739 | , officially the (Chavacano: Ciudad de Zamboanga), is a highly urbanized city in the Zamboanga Peninsula of the Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people. It is the 6th most populous and 3rd largest city by land area in the Philippines (...) | |
| 15 | Tintagel ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 94 Lat/Lng : 50.6627 / -4.7498 | Tintagel or Trevena (meaning village on a mountain) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of the parish was 1,820 people (2001 census), and the area of the parish is .Thomas (1993); p (...) | |
| 16 | Stirling ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 56.1172 / -3.9397 | Stirling is a city in central Scotland. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its merchants and tradesmen, the bridge and the port. Located on the River Forth, Stirling is the administrative centre for the Stirling council (...) | |
| 17 | New York City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 40.7127 / -74.0059 | The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about ,, United States Census Bureau. Accessed February 9, 2017 (...) | |
| 18 | Santa Fe, New Mexico ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2123 Lat/Lng : 35.6839 / -105.9478 | Santa Fe (or ; Tewa: Oghá P’o'oge, Navajo: Yootó; Zuni: Ts'u'yala) is the capital and fourth-most populous city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. In addition to being the eponymous seat of , it has approximately 83,875 inhabitants with a metropolitan area population of approximately 144,170 (...) | |
| 19 | Vermont ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 542 Lat/Lng : 44.0833 / -72.6167 | Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north (...) | |
| 20 | Dumbarton ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 55.9486 / -4.5472 | Dumbarton is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990. Dumbarton was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Alclud, and later the county town of Dunbartonshire (...) | |
| 21 | Bangalore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 12.9779 / 77.5925 | Bangalore , officially known as Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of over ten million, making it a megacity and the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India. It is located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau (...) | |
| 22 | Monterrey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 538 Lat/Lng : 25.6822 / -100.3111 | Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is the country's ninth-largest city. Monterrey serves as a commercial center of northern Mexico and is the base of many significant (...) | |
| 23 | Qatar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 25.2694 / 51.2128 | Qatar (Pronunciation adopted by Qatar Airways' advertisements, such as ' , or ; ' ; local vernacular pronunciation:), officially the State of Qatar , is a country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula (...) | |
| 24 | Birmingham ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 52.4831 / -1.8936 | Birmingham is the second-most populous city in the United Kingdom, after London, and the most populous city in the English Midlands. With an estimated population of 1,137,100 , Birmingham is the cultural, social, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands (...) | |
| 25 | Saint Helena ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 349 Lat/Lng : -15.9333 / -5.7167 | Saint Helena is a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of Rio de Janeiro and 1,950 kilometres (1,210 mi) west of the Cunene River, which marks the border between Namibia and Angola in southwestern Africa (...) | |
| 26 | Grenada ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 294 Lat/Lng : 12.1333 / -61.6833 | Grenada is a country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself plus six smaller islands which lie to the north of the main island (...) | |
| 27 | Port Royal ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 17.937 / -76.841 | Port Royal is a village located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1518 by the Spanish, it was once the largest city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the (...) | |
| 28 | Nice ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 43.7034 / 7.2663 | Nice (; Niçard , classical norm, or ', nonstandard, ; ; ;) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of about 1 million, April 2016 – INSEE, 2008 on an (...) | |
| 29 | Afghanistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1817 Lat/Lng : 34.5167 / 69.1333 | Afghanistan (; Pashto/Dari: , Pashto: Afġānistān ,The phoneme ف occurs only in loanwords in Pashto, it tends to be replaced with پ. is also an allophone of before voiced consonants; is an allophone of before voiced consonants in loanwords (...) | |
| 30 | Brindisi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.6333 / 17.9333 | Brindisi (; Brindisino: ; ; ;) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its (...) | |
| 31 | Falmouth, Cornwall ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 50.1519 / -5.0653 | Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth It has a total resident population of 21,797 (2011 census). (...) | |
| 32 | Shreveport, Louisiana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 32.4681 / -93.7711 | Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the most populous city in the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area. Shreveport ranks third in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge and 126th in the U.S. The bulk of the city is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat (...) | |
| 33 | Ferrara ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 44.8333 / 11.6167 | Ferrara is a town and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located north (...) | |
| 34 | Newquay ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 50.412 / -5.0757 | Newquay is a town in the south west of England, in the United Kingdom. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries, future spaceport and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall, approximately north of Truro and west of Bodmin (...) | |
| 35 | Sioux Falls, South Dakota ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 450 Lat/Lng : 43.5364 / -96.7317 | Sioux Falls (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Okábleča Otȟúŋwahe; "Stone Shatter City") is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 143rd-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County and also extends into Lincoln County to the south (...) | |
| 36 | Nevis ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 725 Lat/Lng : 17.1528 / -62.5892 | Nevis is a small island in the Caribbean Sea that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies. Nevis and the neighbouring island of Saint Kitts constitute one country: the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (...) | |
| 37 | Oklahoma City ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 401 Lat/Lng : 35.4688 / -97.5164 | Oklahoma City , often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population. The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to (...) | |
| 38 | Ivano-Frankivsk ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 255 Lat/Lng : 48.9228 / 24.7106 | Ivano-Frankivsk (; formerly Stanyslaviv,, Der Spiegel (14 January 2010) Stanislau, or Stanisławów; see below) is a historic city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (...) | |
| 39 | Hartford, Connecticut ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 41.7627 / -72.6743 | Hartford is the capital city of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. The city is nicknamed the "Insurance Capital of the World", as it hosts many insurance company headquarters and is the region's major industry (...) | |
| 40 | Kolkata ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 22.568 / 88.345 | Kolkata (also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River approximately west of the border with Bangladesh, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the (...) | |
| 41 | New Hampshire ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 43.1939 / -71.5724 | New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north (...) | |
| 42 | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 32.8968 / -97.038 | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the largest hub for American Airlines, which is headquartered near the airport (...) | |
| 43 | Djibouti ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 690 Lat/Lng : 11.8 / 42.4333 | Djibouti (; , ', , , officially the Republic of Djibouti) is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east (...) | |
| 44 | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 33.7441 / -78.8695 | Myrtle Beach is a coastal city on the East Coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is in the center of a large and continuous 60-mile stretch of beach known as "The Grand Strand" in northeastern South Carolina (...) | |
| 45 | Oklahoma City bombing ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 380 Lat/Lng : 35.4729 / -97.5169 | The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing happened at 9:02am and killed at least 168 people, injured (...) | |
| 46 | Exeter ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 50.7167 / -3.5167 | Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST). The city is on the River Exe about northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. It is the county town of Devon, and the home of Devon County Council (...) | |
| 47 | Singapore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 1.35 / 103.85 | Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: ; Chinese: ; Tamil:), is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to (...) | |
| 48 | Marbella ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 36.5167 / -4.8833 | Marbella is a city and municipality in southern Spain, belonging to the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is part of the Costa del Sol and is the headquarters of the Association of Municipalities of the region; it is also the head of the judicial district that bears its (...) | |
| 49 | Abbeville ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 50.1058 / 1.8341 | Abbeville is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the River Somme, it was the capital of Ponthieu. Its inhabitants are called the Abbevillois. (...) | |
| 50 | Poznań ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 52.4083 / 16.9342 | Poznań (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; ; known also by other historical names) is a city on the Warta River in west-central Poland, in the Greater Poland region. It is best known for its renaissance Old Town and Ostrów Tumski Cathedral (...) | |
| 51 | Louisville, Kentucky ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 38.2253 / -85.7417 | Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being Lexington, the state's second-largest city (...) | |
| 52 | Worcester ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 52.1912 / -2.2223 | Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford. The population is approximately 100,000. The River Severn flanks the western side of the city centre, which is overlooked by Worcester Cathedral (...) | |
| 53 | Taiwan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 120 Lat/Lng : 25.0333 / 121.6333 | Taiwan , officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia. Its neighbors include the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It is the most populous state and largest economy that is not a member of the United Nations (...) | |
| 54 | London ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 51.5094 / -0.1183 | London is the capital and largest city of both the United Kingdom and England. Standing on the River Thames in southeastern England, upstream from its estuary with the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Londinium was founded by the Romans (...) | |
| 55 | Zimbabwe ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1487 Lat/Lng : -17.8268 / 31.0553 | Zimbabwe , officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare (...) | |
| 56 | East River ![]() FeatureType : river Lat/Lng : 40.7966 / -73.8673 | The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Queens on Long Island from the Bronx on the North American (...) | |
| 57 | Sialkot ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 32.4972 / 74.5361 | Sialkot (Urdu and) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. Sialkot is Pakistan's 13th largest city, and is located in north-east Punjab — one of Pakistan's mostly highly industrialised regions. Along with the nearby cities of Gujranwala and Gujrat, Sialkot forms part of the so-called Golden Triangle of (...) | |
| 58 | Mogadishu ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 2.0369 / 45.3436 | Mogadishu (;Dictionary Reference: : The Free Dictionary: : , , ; ;), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. Located in the coastal Banadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for millennia (...) | |
| 59 | Austin, Texas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 30.2672 / -97.7639 | Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. It is the 11th-most populous city in the United States and the 4th-most populous city in Texas (...) | |
| 60 | Estonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 59.4167 / 24.75 | Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland with Finland on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with Sweden to the west (Scandinavia to the far west and north), to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to (...) | |
| 61 | Mexico ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 2040 Lat/Lng : 22.3833 / -102.0333 | Mexico , officially the United Mexican States (listen), is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of (...) | |
| 62 | Rio de Janeiro ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : -22.9028 / -43.2078 | Rio de Janeiro (; ;It is pronounced in the variety of Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Rio de Janeiro according to Larousse Concise Dictionary: Portuguese-English, 2008, p. 339. Vowel reduction at was added as it is the most often used speech pattern in vernacular, colloquial and educated colloquial (...) | |
| 63 | Shrewsbury ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 52.7077 / -2.7541 | Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, England. The town is on the River Severn and the 2011 census recorded a population of 71,715. Shrewsbury is a market town whose centre has a largely unspoilt medieval street plan and over 660 listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing (...) | |
| 64 | Friends ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 40.7325 / -74.0055 | Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show (...) | |
| 65 | Varkala ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 8.74 / 76.7218 | Varkala formerly known as Udaya Marthandapuram is a municipality and headquarters of Varkala Taluk of Thiruvananthapuram district situated in the Indian state of Kerala. It is located 40 kilometres north-west of Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) which is the capital and largest metropolitan city of (...) | |
| 66 | Tuscaloosa, Alabama ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 33.2067 / -87.5347 | Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama (in the southeastern United States). Located on the Black Warrior River at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line of the Piedmont, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with an estimated population of 100,287 in 2017 (...) | |
| 67 | Metropolitan Museum of Art ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.7794 / -73.9633 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. With 7.06 million visitors in 2016, it was the third most visited art museum in the world, and the fifth most visited museum of any kind."The World's 20 most popular museums", CNN (...) | |
| 68 | Cape Town ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : -33.9227 / 18.4167 | Cape Town (; Xhosa: iKapa; Dutch: Kaapstad) is a coastal city in South Africa. It is the capital and primate city of the Western Cape province. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. As the place where the Parliament of South Africa is found, Cape Town is the legislative (...) | |
| 69 | Hainan ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 373 Lat/Lng : 19.1067 / 109.5675 | Hainan is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , separated from Guangdong's Leizhou Peninsula by the Qiongzhou Strait, is the largest and fifth most populous island under PRC control (Taiwan, which is (...) | |
| 70 | Fiji ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : -17.8133 / 179.4122 | Fiji (; ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of FijiIn February 2011, the Prime Minister's Office issued a statement saying that the name of the state had been officially changed from the Republic of the Fiji Islands to the Republic of Fiji, and that the name written in the 1997 (...) | |
| 71 | Grapevine, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 32.935 / -97.0858 | Grapevine is a city and suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth located in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States, with minor portions extending into Dallas County and Denton County. The city is located in the Mid-Cities suburban region between Dallas and Fort Worth and includes a larger portion of (...) | |
| 72 | Tenerife ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 2490 Lat/Lng : 28.2686 / -16.6056 | Tenerife is the largest and most populated island of the seven Canary Islands. It is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of and 898,680 inhabitants, 43 percent of the total population of the Canary Islands. Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of Macaronesia (...) | |
| 73 | Sulphur Springs, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 155 Lat/Lng : 33.1342 / -95.6019 | Sulphur Springs is a city in Hopkins County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,449. It is the county seat of Hopkins County. Sulphur Springs is located along the western edge of Northeast Texas. (...) | |
| 74 | Terrell, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 166 Lat/Lng : 32.7375 / -96.2825 | Terrell is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 15,816. Terrell is located east of Dallas. (...) | |
| 75 | Aswan Dam ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 23.9706 / 32.8778 | The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is an embankment dam built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Low Dam initially completed in 1902 downstream (...) | |
| 76 | Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 195 Lat/Lng : 32.7692 / -97.4417 | Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base (or NAS Fort Worth JRB) includes Carswell Field, a military airbase located west of the central business district of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. This military airfield is operated by the United States Navy Reserve (...) | |
| 77 | Osu Castle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 5.5533 / -0.1828 | Osu Castle, also known as Fort Christiansborg or simply the Castle, is a castle located in Osu, Accra, Ghana on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf of Guinea. The first substantial fort was built by Denmark-Norway in the 1660s, though the castle has changed hands between Denmark-Norway, Portugal, (...) | |
| 78 | Russian America ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 57.05 / -135.3167 | Russian America (Russkaya Amerika) was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in North America from 1733 to 1867. Its capital was Novo-Archangelsk (New Arkhangelsk), which is now Sitka, Alaska, USA. Settlements spanned parts of what are now the U.S (...) | |
| 79 | Palo Pinto County, Texas ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 353 Lat/Lng : 32.75 / -98.31 | Palo Pinto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 28,111. The county seat is Palo Pinto. The county was created in 1856 and organized the following year (...) | |
| 80 | Texas ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 504 Lat/Lng : 31.6667 / -99.45 | Texas (; or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the (...) | |
| 81 | Anosy Region ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : -25.0333 / 46.9833 | Anosy is one of the 22 regions of Madagascar in the southeast of the country. It is located on the eastern side of what used to be Province of Tulear. The name "Anosy" means "island(s)" in Malagasy. Due to a strategic main searoute running along its coast, Anosy has been an osmotic crossroads for (...) | |
| 82 | Bullhead City, Arizona ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 35.1156 / -114.5886 | Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, roughly south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, whose casinos and ancillary services supply much of the employment for Bullhead City (...) | |
| 83 | County Laois ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 52.98 / -7.35 | County Laois is a county in Ireland. It is located in the south of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster, and was formerly known as Queen's County. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medieval kingdom (...) | |
| 84 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 29.9848 / -95.3414 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, under class B airspace, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Located about north of Downtown Houston, between Interstate 45 and Interstate 69/U.S (...) | |
| 85 | Dickinson County, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 410 Lat/Lng : 38.66 / -97.1969 | Dickinson County (county code DK) is a county located in Central Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 19,754. Its county seat and most populous city is Abilene. The county was named in honor of Daniel S. Dickinson. (...) | |
| 86 | New York (state) ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 43.1167 / -75.95 | New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.85 million residents in 2017, it is the fourth most populous state (...) | |
| 87 | Bhopal ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 508 Lat/Lng : 23.2475 / 77.4158 | Bhopal is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhopal district and Bhopal division. The city was the capital of the former Bhopal State. Bhopal is known as the City of Lakes for its various natural as well as artificial lakes and is also one (...) | |
| 88 | November 25 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -2.5 / 100.5 | ==Events== * 571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne (...) | |
| 89 | Florida ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 28.0009 / -81.4993 | Florida (; Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida (...) | |
| 90 | Runway ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 57.0252 / -7.4491 | According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (grass, dirt, (...) | |
| 91 | Worthing ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 50.8147 / -0.3714 | Worthing is a large seaside town in England, and district with borough status in West Sussex. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. With an estimated population of 104,600 and an area of the borough is the second largest component (...) | |
| 92 | Harrison, Arkansas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 369 Lat/Lng : 36.2369 / -93.1133 | Harrison is a city in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. It is the county seat of Boone County. It is named after General Marcus LaRue Harrison, a surveyor that laid out the city along Crooked Creek at Stifler Springs (...) | |
| 93 | Walt Disney Parks and Resorts ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 31.144 / 121.657 | Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, officially Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and informally known as Disney Parks, was one of The Walt Disney Company's four major business segments and a subsidiary. The company was responsible for the conception, building, and managing of Disney theme (...) | |
| 94 | Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 51.6539 / 7.0858 | Marl is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the Wesel-Datteln Canal, approx. 10 km north-west of Recklinghausen. It has about 90,000 people. (...) | |
| 95 | Acadia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 47.6653 / -65.7542 | Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Norridgewock on the Kennebec River and Castine at the end of the Penobscot (...) | |
| 96 | Houston ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 29.7628 / -95.3831 | Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated population of 2.312 million in 2017. It is the most populous city in the Southern United States and on the Gulf Coast of the United States (...) | |
| 97 | Guildford ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 51.2354 / -0.5746 | Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.OS Explorer map 145:Guildford and Farnham. Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton (...) | |
| 98 | North Dakota ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 594 Lat/Lng : 47.4333 / -100.3333 | North Dakota is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889 (...) | |
| 99 | Mindanao ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 396 Lat/Lng : 7.5439 / 124.9406 | Mindanao or still commonly known as Southern Philippines, is the second largest island in the Philippines. Mindanao and the smaller islands surrounding it make up the island group of the same name. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, as of the 2010 census, the main island was (...) | |
| 100 | Hewlett-Packard ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 37.4136 / -122.1451 | The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related (...) | |
| 101 | Zalău ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 248 Lat/Lng : 47.1911 / 23.0572 | Zalău (; or) is the seat of Sălaj County, Romania. In 2011, its estimated population was 56,202. (...) | |
| 102 | Uttara Kannada ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 614 Lat/Lng : 14.6 / 74.7 | Uttara Kannada is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is bordered by the state of Goa and Belagavi District to the north, Dharwad District and Haveri District to the east, Shivamogga District and Udupi District to the south, and the Arabian Sea to the west (...) | |
| 103 | Dutch Gold Coast ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 5.133 / -1.2 | The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea (Dutch: Nederlandse Bezittingen ter Kuste van Guinea) was a portion of contemporary Ghana that was gradually colonized by the Dutch, beginning in 1598 (...) | |
| 104 | Federal Aviation Administration ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 38.8873 / -77.0222 | The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation. These include the construction and operation of airports, air traffic management, the certification of personnel and aircraft, and the protection of U.S (...) | |
| 105 | California ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 37.0 / -120.0 | California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and (...) | |
| 106 | Carnoustie ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 56.5005 / -2.7147 | Carnoustie is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast. In the 2011 census, Carnoustie had a population of 11,394, making it the fourth largest town in Angus (...) | |
| 107 | Traffic light ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1905 Lat/Lng : 43.4795 / -110.7627 | Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), The Origins and Globalization of Traffic Control Signals — Retrieved 8 December 2013 are (...) | |
| 108 | Marion County, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 440 Lat/Lng : 38.5581 / -97.1792 | Marion County (standard abbreviation: MN) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 12,660. The county seat is Marion. The county was named in honor of Francis Marion, a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary War, known as the "Swamp (...) | |
| 109 | Sarajevo ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 508 Lat/Lng : 43.8476 / 18.3564 | Sarajevo (; , ; see) is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area, including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities is home to 555,210 inhabitants.http://www.popis.gov (...) | |
| 110 | Boeing AH-64 Apache ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 314 Lat/Lng : 31.074 / -97.8265 | The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems (...) | |
| 111 | Chicago ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 41.8819 / -87.6278 | Chicago , formally the City of Chicago, is located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, and is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the (...) | |
| 112 | Ronald Reagan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 359 Lat/Lng : 34.259 / -118.8204 | Ronald Wilson Reagan (; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to the presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and trade union leader before serving as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to (...) | |
| 113 | South West England ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 50.96 / -3.22 | South West England is one of nine official regions of England. It is the largest in area, covering , and consists of the counties of Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, as well as the Isles of Scilly. Five million people live in South West England (...) | |
| 114 | Butuan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 8.95 / 125.533 | (pronounced), officially the (; Butuanon: Dakbayan hong), or simply known as City, is a highly urbanized city and regional center of the Caraga Region, . According to the , it has a population of people. It served as the former capital of the Rajahnate of Butuan before 1001 until 1756 (...) | |
| 115 | Liberty Bell ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 39.9495 / -75.1503 | The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall), the bell today is located in the Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historical Park (...) | |
| 116 | Bridlington ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 54.088 / -0.2004 | Bridlington is a coastal town and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, situated in the unitary authority and ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire approximately north of Hull and east of York (...) | |
| 117 | St. Johns River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 30.4014 / -81.4008 | The St. Johns River is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida and its most significant one for commercial and recreational use. At long, it flows north and winds through or borders twelve counties. The drop in elevation from headwaters to mouth is less than ; like most Florida waterways, the (...) | |
| 118 | USS Constitution ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 42.3721 / -71.0556 | USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy named by President George Washington after the United States Constitution. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat (...) | |
| 119 | Battle of Shiloh ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 35.1385 / -88.3421 | The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union force known as the Army of the Tennessee (Major General Ulysses S (...) | |
| 120 | Estado Novo (Portugal) ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 38.7 / -9.1833 | The Estado Novo ("New State"), or the Second Republic, was the corporatist authoritarian regime installed in Portugal in 1933, which was considered fascist.Jorge Pais de Sousa, O Fascismo Catedrático de Salazar, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2012 It evolved from the Ditadura Nacional (...) | |
| 121 | Concorde ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 49.0107 / 2.5534 | The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers (...) | |
| 122 | Baldwin Locomotive Works ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 39.8592 / -75.3272 | The Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1956. Originally located in Philadelphia, it moved to nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania, in the early 20th century (...) | |
| 123 | Sarawak ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 200 Lat/Lng : 3.0381 / 113.7811 | Sarawak is a state of Malaysia. Being the largest among 13 other states with the size almost equal to West Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the Malaysian state of Sabah to the northeast, Kalimantan (the Indonesian portion of Borneo) to the south, and Brunei (...) | |
| 124 | Sea otter ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 51.35 / 178.6167 | The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. Adult sea otters typically weigh between , making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among the smallest marine mammals (...) | |
| 125 | Jayne Mansfield ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 235 Lat/Lng : 40.8617 / -75.2402 | Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jane Palmer, April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates (...) | |
| 126 | Weimar (Lahn) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 190 Lat/Lng : 50.7623 / 8.7133 | Weimar is a community in the south of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Gießen administrative region, Hesse, Germany. The community's administrative seat is the centre of Niederweimar. (...) | |
| 127 | Calderdale ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : 53.72 / -1.97 | The Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It takes its name from the River Calder, whose upper part flows through the borough. Several small valleys contain tributaries of the River Calder. The population at the 2011 Census was 203,826 (...) | |
| 128 | ESPN Inc. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 41.6488 / -72.9028 | ESPN Inc. is an American sports media conglomerate based in Bristol, Connecticut. Jointly owned by Disney–ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company (which owns a 80% majority share) and Hearst Communications (which owns a 20% minority share), it owns various sports broadcasting (...) | |
| 129 | Brazos River ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 28.8758 / -95.3783 | The Brazos River , called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 11th-longest river in the United States of America at from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf (...) | |
| 130 | Sutton Coldfield ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 127 Lat/Lng : 52.563 / -1.822 | Sutton Coldfield, officially the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield (pronunciation), is a town and civil parish in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. The town lies about northeast of Birmingham City Centre and borders Little Aston, North Warwickshire, Lichfield, Erdington and South Staffordshire (...) | |
| 131 | Kingdom of Strathclyde ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 53.2333 / -4.0167 | Strathclyde (lit. "Strath of the River Clyde"), originally or Alclud (and Strath-Clota in Anglo-Saxon), was one of the early medieval kingdoms of the Britons in Hen Ogledd ("the Old North"), the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England (...) | |
| 132 | Society of Jesus ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 41.9014 / 12.4606 | The Society of Jesus (SJ;) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain. The members are called Jesuits .Spiteri, Stephen C. (2016). . University of Malta. p. 16 (...) | |
| 133 | North West England ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 508 Lat/Lng : 54.0167 / -2.6333 | North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011 (...) | |
| 134 | Coalhouse Fort ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 51.4649 / 0.4328 | Coalhouse Fort is an artillery fort in the eastern English county of Essex. It was built in the 1860s to guard the lower Thames from seaborne attack. It stands at Coalhouse Point on the north bank of the river, at a location near East Tilbury that was vulnerable to raiders and invaders (...) | |
| 135 | Elvis Presley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 35.0461 / -90.0231 | Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply the "King" (...) | |
| 136 | Second Battle of El Alamein ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 30.8333 / 28.95 | The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt (...) | |
| 137 | Freshwater, Isle of Wight ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 50.692 / -1.5079 | Freshwater is a large village and civil parish Some sources describe Freshwater as a town , and since 1974 any civil parish has the right to declare itself as a town, but it does not appear on the List of towns in England. at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England (...) | |
| 138 | Boeing B-52 Stratofortress ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 712 Lat/Lng : 34.9931 / -117.8836 | The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since the 1950s (...) | |
| 139 | Malvern, Worcestershire ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 52.1075 / -2.3243 | Malvern is a spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England. It lies at the foot of the Malvern Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The centre of Malvern, Great Malvern, is a historic conservation area, which grew dramatically in Victorian times due to the natural mineral (...) | |
| 140 | Robin Hood (2010 film) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 51.1906 / -0.7775 | Robin Hood is a 2010 British-American epic war drama film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins, and Max von Sydow (...) | |
| 141 | July Monarchy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 48.8167 / 2.4833 | The July Monarchy was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting with the July Revolution of 1830 and ending with the Revolution of 1848. It marks the end of the Bourbon Restoration (1814–30) (...) | |
| 142 | Calstock ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 50.497 / -4.21 | Calstock is a civil parish and a large village in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the border with Devon. The village is situated on the River Tamar south west of Tavistock and north of Plymouth (...) | |
| 143 | Dhaka District ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 23.79 / 90.3 | Dhaka District (Dhaka jela) is a district in central Bangladesh, and is the densest district in the nation. It is a part of the Dhaka Division. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, rests on the eastern banks of the Buriganga River which flows from the Turag to the south of the district (...) | |
| 144 | Wensleydale ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 223 Lat/Lng : 54.3056 / -2.1667 | Wensleydale is the dale or upper valley of the River Ure on the east side of the Pennines, one of the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. Wensleydale is one of only a few Yorkshire Dales not currently named after its principal river, but the older name, Yoredale, can still be seen on some (...) | |
| 145 | Tobermory, Mull ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 56.622 / -6.0723 | Tobermory is the capital of, and until 1973 the only burgh on, the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is located on the east coast of Mishnish, the most northerly part of the island, near the northern entrance of the Sound of Mull (...) | |
| 146 | Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 29.9933 / -90.2581 | Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is an international airport under Class B airspace in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by the city of New Orleans and is west of downtown New Orleans., effective March 10, 2011 (...) | |
| 147 | Farmers Branch, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 162 Lat/Lng : 32.9289 / -96.8775 | Farmers Branch is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. It is an inner-ring suburb of Dallas and is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The population was 28,616 at the 2010 census. Known as a "City in a Park" for its 28 parks in only 12 square miles, Farmers Branch is a small (...) | |
| 148 | Ilchester ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 51.0023 / -2.6832 | Ilchester is a village and civil parish, situated on the River Yeo or Ivel, five miles north of Yeovil, in the English county of Somerset. Originally a Roman town, and later a market town, Ilchester has a rich medieval history and was a notable settlement in the county; around the 12th and 13th (...) | |
| 149 | Cross Timbers ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 34.0 / -97.25 | The term Cross Timbers, also known as Ecoregion 29, Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains, is used to describe a strip of land in the United States that runs from southeastern Kansas across Central Oklahoma to Central Texas (...) | |
| 150 | Tadcaster ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 53.8852 / -1.262 | Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, east of the Great North Road, north-east of Leeds, and south-west of York. The River Wharfe joins the River Ouse about downstream from it. Tadcaster is twinned with Saint-Chély-d'Apcher in France. (...) | |
| 151 | Portuguese India ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 2.1889 / 102.3844 | The State of India , also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, founded six years after the discovery of a sea route between Portugal and the Indian Subcontinent to (...) | |
| 152 | Queenborough ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 51.4176 / 0.7444 | Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England. Queenborough is two miles (3.2 km) south of Sheerness. It grew as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to the Swale where it joins the River Medway (...) | |
| 153 | Newtownards ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 54.5911 / -5.68 | Newtownards is a town, townland and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough, 10 miles (16 km) east of Belfast, on the Ards Peninsula. It is situated in the civil parish of Newtownards and the historic baronies of Ards Lower and Castlereagh (...) | |
| 154 | An Officer and a Gentleman ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 48.1105 / -122.765 | An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr., who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, making him the first African American to do so (...) | |
| 155 | Cape Wrath ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 58.6248 / -5.0015 | Cape Wrath (known as ' in Lewis) is a cape in the Durness parish of the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain. The cape is separated from the rest of the mainland by the Kyle of Durness and consists of of moorland wilderness known (...) | |
| 156 | Black Mountains, Wales ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 561 Lat/Lng : 51.9667 / -3.1167 | The Black Mountains are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire. They are the easternmost of the four ranges of hills that comprise the Brecon Beacons National Park, and are frequently (...) | |
| 157 | Klingenberg am Main ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 145 Lat/Lng : 49.7835 / 9.1832 | Klingenberg am Main is a town in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. It has a population of around 6,200 and is located on both banks of the river Main. (...) | |
| 158 | Plympton ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 50.3837 / -4.0487 | Plympton, or Plympton Maurice or Plympton St Maurice or Plympton St Mary or Plympton Erle, in south-western Devon, is a populous, north-eastern suburb of the city of Plymouth of which it officially became part, along with Plymstock, in 1967 (...) | |
| 159 | Lost Springs, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 457 Lat/Lng : 38.5664 / -96.9653 | Lost Springs is a city in Marion County, Kansas, United States. It was named for the old lost spring near the city.Marion County Kansas, Past and Present; Sondra Van Meter; 1972. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 70. (...) | |
| 160 | General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 853 Lat/Lng : 32.159 / -110.8304 | The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was a supersonic, medium-range interdictor and tactical attack aircraft that also filled the roles of strategic nuclear bomber, aerial reconnaissance, and electronic-warfare aircraft in its various versions (...) | |
| 161 | Year Without a Summer ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1337 Lat/Lng : -8.25 / 118.0 | The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year and Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death) because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F) (...) | |
| 162 | Peabody, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 429 Lat/Lng : 38.1689 / -97.1072 | Peabody is a city in Marion County, Kansas, United States. It is named after F.H. Peabody, of Boston, former vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Peabody is well known in the region for its Independence Day Celebration on July 4, and its historic 1880s downtown main street (...) | |
| 163 | Prestwich ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 53.5333 / -2.2833 | Prestwich is a surburban town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, north of Salford and south of Bury. Historically part of Lancashire, Prestwich was the seat of the ancient parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, in the hundred of Salfordshire (...) | |
| 164 | Center Hill, Florida ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 28.6489 / -81.9953 | Center Hill is a city in Sumter County, Florida, United States. The population was 909 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S Census estimates of 2006, the city had a population of 996.U.S. Census Bureau. . Accessed 2007-09-17. The current mayor is Jim Walts. (...) | |
| 165 | IndyCar Series ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 27.4559 / -82.3745 | The IndyCar Series, currently known as the Verizon IndyCar Series for title sponsorship reasons, is the premier level of open-wheel racing in North America. Its parent company began in 1996 as a competitor to CART known as the Indy Racing League (IRL) which was created by then Indianapolis Motor (...) | |
| 166 | JPMorgan Chase ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 40.7558 / -73.9754 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City. JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, and the sixth largest bank in the world by total assets, with the amount of $2.534 trillion (...) | |
| 167 | Tiverton, Devon ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 50.903 / -3.488 | Tiverton is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon and the main commercial and administrative centre of the Mid Devon district. It has also become a dormitory town for commuters to Exeter and Taunton. The built-up area had a population of 19,544 in 2011 and the parish had 21,335 (...) | |
| 168 | Gwalior State ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 26.22 / 78.17 | Gwalior was an Indian kingdom and princely state during the British Raj. It was focused in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, arising due to fragmentation in the Mughal Empire and lack of central authority from Delhi. It was ruled in subsidiary alliance with the British by the Scindia dynasty of the (...) | |
| 169 | Barksdale Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 32.5022 / -93.6628 | Barksdale Air Force Base (Barksdale AFB) is a United States Air Force base in northwest Louisiana, USA, in Bossier Parish. It is contiguous to Bossier City, Louisiana along the base's western and northwestern edge (...) | |
| 170 | Six Flags ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 32.7652 / -97.0511 | Six Flags, officially Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, is an amusement park corporation based in the United States, with properties in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It is the largest amusement park company in the world, based on the number of properties owned, and is ranked seventh in terms of (...) | |
| 171 | Chatham Dockyard ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 51.3972 / 0.5278 | Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham (at its most extensive, in the early 20th century, two-thirds of the dockyard lay in Gillingham, one-third (...) | |
| 172 | Milnrow ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 150 Lat/Lng : 53.6101 / -2.1111 | Milnrow (pop. 13,062 (2011)) is a suburban town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, and forms a continuous urban area with Rochdale (...) | |
| 173 | South West Coast Path ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 51.211 / -3.4735 | The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail. It stretches for , running from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harbour in Dorset (...) | |
| 174 | KPRC-TV ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 29.5683 / -95.4992 | KPRC-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 35), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Houston, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Graham Media Group subsidiary of the Graham Holdings Company (...) | |
| 175 | Grumbach ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 218 Lat/Lng : 49.6569 / 7.5561 | Grumbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Lauterecken-Wolfstein. (...) | |
| 176 | Battles of Latrun (1948) ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 229 Lat/Lng : 31.8384 / 34.9808 | The Battles of Latrun were a series of military engagements between the Israel Defense Forces and the Jordanian Arab Legion on the outskirts of Latrun between 25 May and 18 July 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War (...) | |
| 177 | George Washington Masonic National Memorial ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 38.8075 / -77.066 | The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a Masonic building and memorial located in Alexandria, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. It is dedicated to the memory of George Washington, the first President of the United States and a Mason (...) | |
| 178 | River Arun ![]() FeatureType : river Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 50.802 / -0.5424 | The River Arun is a river in the English county of West Sussex. At long, it is the longest river entirely in Sussex and one of the longest starting in Sussex after the River Medway, River Wey and River Mole. From the series of small streams that form its source in the area of St Leonard's Forest in (...) | |
| 179 | Gated community ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 52.4133 / 13.0903 | In its modern form, a gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences (...) | |
| 180 | Dunstanburgh Castle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 55.491 / -1.593 | Dunstanburgh Castle is a 14th-century fortification on the coast of Northumberland in northern England, between the villages of Craster and Embleton. The castle was built by Earl Thomas of Lancaster between 1313 and 1322, taking advantage of the site's natural defences and the existing earthworks of (...) | |
| 181 | Birstall, Leicestershire ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 52.6736 / -1.12 | Birstall is a large village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is three miles north of Leicester city centre and is part of the wider Leicester Urban Area. It is the largest village in Charnwood, with a population only marginally lower than the neighbouring (...) | |
| 182 | Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 40.6063 / -74.0461 | The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge , also referred to as the Verrazzano Bridge and formerly the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and Narrows Bridge, is a double-decked suspension bridge that connects the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn and is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano (...) | |
| 183 | Gosforth ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 55.007 / -1.623 | Gosforth is an affluent, well established area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, situated to the north of the city centre. Gosforth constituted an urban district from 1895 to 1974, when it became part of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne. It has a population of 23,620 (...) | |
| 184 | Carbon capture and storage ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 567 Lat/Lng : -35.31 / 149.14 | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) (or carbon capture and sequestration or carbon control and sequestration) is the process of capturing waste carbon dioxide from large point sources, such as fossil fuel power plants, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the (...) | |
| 185 | Western Desert Campaign ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : 24.0 / 25.0 | The Western Desert Campaign (Desert War), took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African Campaign during the Second World War. The campaign began in September 1940 with the Italian invasion of Egypt; Operation Compass, a British five-day raid in December (...) | |
| 186 | Santa Claus ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 90.0 / 0.0 | Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved ("good" or "nice") children on Christmas Eve (24 December) and the early morning hours of (...) | |
| 187 | Henry Ford ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 42.3579 / -83.2012 | Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production (...) | |
| 188 | Stroma, Scotland ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 58.6806 / -3.1156 | Stroma is an island off the northern coast of the mainland of Scotland. It is the most southerly of the islands in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney islands and Caithness, the northeasternmost part of the mainland. The name is from the Old Norse Straumr-øy meaning "island in the stream" (...) | |
| 189 | Somerset Levels ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 51.128 / -2.993 | The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills. The Somerset Levels have an area of about and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by (...) | |
| 190 | Landing Ship, Tank ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 12.3167 / 121.0833 | Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships built during World War II to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto shore with no docks or piers. This provided amphibious assaults to almost any beach (...) | |
| 191 | Battle of Grand Port ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : -20.3903 / 57.7339 | The Battle of Grand Port was a naval battle between squadrons of frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy. The battle was fought during 20–27 August 1810 over possession of the harbour of Grand Port on Isle de France (now Mauritius) during the Napoleonic Wars (...) | |
| 192 | A47 road ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 103 Lat/Lng : 52.5937 / -0.6526 | The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Lowestoft, Suffolk. Most of the section between Birmingham and Nuneaton is now classified as the B4114. (...) | |
| 193 | Yell, Shetland ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 60.5994 / -1.1017 | Yell is one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland. In the 2011 census it had a usually resident population of 966. It is the second largest island in Shetland after the Mainland with an area of ,Penrith, James & Deborah (2007) Orkney & Shetland (part of The Scottish Islands series). Richmond (...) | |
| 194 | Bombardier Transportation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 52.5018 / 13.3758 | Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Bombardier Transportation is headquartered in Berlin (...) | |
| 195 | Amway ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : 42.9575 / -85.5443 | Amway (short for "American Way") is an American company specializing in the use of multi-level marketing to sell health, beauty, and home care products. The company was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos and is based in Ada, Michigan (...) | |
| 196 | Shaunavon, Saskatchewan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 916 Lat/Lng : 49.6501 / -108.4181 | The town of Shaunavon is in southwest Saskatchewan at the junction of Highways 37 and 13. It is 110 kilometres from Swift Current, 163 kilometres from the Alberta border and 74 kilometres from the Montana border. Shaunavon was established in 1913 along the Canadian Pacific Railway line (...) | |
| 197 | Tenedos ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 39.8167 / 26.0225 | Tenedos (Tenedhos) or Bozcaada is an island of Turkey in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively, the island constitutes the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province. With an area of it is the third largest Turkish island after Imbros (Gökçeada) and Marmara (...) | |
| 198 | The Oakridge School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 32.7237 / -97.1942 | The Oakridge School is a private school located in Arlington, Texas, USA. It educates about 800 students in age groups Preschool-12. (...) | |
| 199 | Penkridge ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 52.7227 / -2.1125 | Penkridge is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, which since the 17th century has been an industrial and commercial centre for neighbouring villages and the agricultural produce of Cannock Chase (...) | |
| 200 | KCTV ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 311 Lat/Lng : 39.0707 / -94.5826 | KCTV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 24), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, United States and also serving Kansas City, Kansas. The station is owned by the Meredith Local Media subsidiary of the Meredith Corporation, as part of a duopoly with (...) | |