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| 1 | Long Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 40.8081 / -73.2775 | Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York (...) | |
| 2 | Kiribati ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 1.3272 / 172.9844 | Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati),. CIA World Factbook.. Publications.europa.eu. Retrieved on 2016-01-29.. Bbc.com (2013-05-23). Retrieved on 2016-01-29. is a country in Micronesia in the central Pacific Ocean (...) | |
| 3 | Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 52.408 / 8.129 | The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (Hermannsschlacht, or Varusschlacht), described as the Varian Disaster (Clades Variana) by Roman historians, took place in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, (...) | |
| 4 | Slovenia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 311 Lat/Lng : 46.05 / 14.5 | Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: Republika Slovenija,. Source: abbr.: RS. Source:), is a country located in southern Central Europe at the crossroads of the main European cultural and trade routes (...) | |
| 5 | Albania ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 41.3333 / 19.8 | Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeast Europe on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea within the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast (...) | |
| 6 | Yemen ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 711 Lat/Lng : 15.8134 / 47.7905 | Yemen , officially known as the Republic of Yemen , is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying . The coastline stretches for about (...) | |
| 7 | Ozarks ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 410 Lat/Lng : 37.1822 / -92.5159 | The Ozarks, also referred to as the Ozark Mountains and Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant portion of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, extending from Interstate 40 in Arkansas to the suburbs (...) | |
| 8 | Colorado ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2639 Lat/Lng : 39.0 / -105.0833 | Colorado (other variants) is a state of the Western United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. It is the 8th largest geographically and 21st most populous U.S. state (...) | |
| 9 | Austria-Hungary ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 48.2 / 16.35 | Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint (...) | |
| 10 | Asia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 46.2833 / 86.6667 | Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa (...) | |
| 11 | Dominican Republic ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 18.9583 / -70.3456 | The Dominican Republic is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, (...) | |
| 12 | Romblon ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 12.5517 / 122.2872 | Romblon is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the Mimaropa region. Its main islands include Tablas, the largest, which covers nine municipalities, Sibuyan with its three towns, as well as the smaller island municipalities of Corcuera, Banton, Concepcion, San Jose, and Romblon, (...) | |
| 13 | United States presidential election, 2016 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 40.7122 / -73.5995 | The United States Presidential Election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (...) | |
| 14 | Montana ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1307 Lat/Lng : 47.0 / -110.0 | Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more recently "The Last Best Place" (...) | |
| 15 | Bronx Zoo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 40.8506 / -73.8754 | The Bronx Zoo is a zoo located within Bronx Park in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States and among the largest in the world. On average, the zoo has 2.15 million visitors each year, and it comprises of park lands and naturalistic habitats, (...) | |
| 16 | Byzantine Empire ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 41.0 / 29.0 | The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium) (...) | |
| 17 | Tidal power ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 44.7519 / -65.5111 | Tidal power or tidal energy is a form of hydropower that converts the energy obtained from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity. Although not yet widely used, tidal energy has potential for future electricity generation. Tides are more predictable than the wind and the sun (...) | |
| 18 | Brumado ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 427 Lat/Lng : -14.2036 / -41.6653 | Brumado is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of Bahia, in the Northeast region of the country, precisely in the mesoregion of the Center-South of the State, in the homonymous microregion, 555 kilometers from the state capital, Salvador (...) | |
| 19 | Pakistan Army ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : 33.1167 / 73.65 | Pakistan Army (Pak Fauj; Reporting name: PA) is the land-based force of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It came into the existence from the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India that resulted in the independence of Pakistan on 14 August 1947 (...) | |
| 20 | Norvelt, Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 319 Lat/Lng : 40.2094 / -79.5036 | Norvelt is a census-designated place in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community was part of the Calumet-Norvelt CDP for the 2000 census, but was split into the two separate communities of Calumet and Norvelt for the 2010 census (...) | |
| 21 | Molten salt reactor ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 258 Lat/Lng : 35.9218 / -84.3067 | A molten salt reactor (MSR) is a class of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary nuclear reactor coolant and/or the fuel is a molten salt mixture. MSRs offer multiple advantages over conventional nuclear power plants, although for historical reasons, they have not been deployed (...) | |