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| 1 | Google Earth ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 44.88 / 10.4242 | Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles (...) | |
| 2 | Microsoft ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 119 Lat/Lng : 47.6396 / -122.1284 | Microsoft Corporation (MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services (...) | |
| 3 | Ocala, Florida ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 29.1878 / -82.1306 | Ocala is a city located in Marion County, Florida, which is part of the northern region of the state. As of the 2013 census, its population, estimated by the United States Census Bureau, was 57,468, making it the 45th most populated city in Florida (...) | |
| 4 | European Central Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 50.1094 / 8.7025 | The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for the euro and administers monetary policy of the Eurozone, which consists of 19 EU member states and is one of the largest currency areas in the world. It is one of the world's most important central banks and is one of the seven institutions of (...) | |
| 5 | Kinshasa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : -4.3317 / 15.3139 | Kinshasa (; ; formerly Léopoldville (or Dutch nocat=true)) is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is situated alongside the Congo River. Once a site of fishing and trading villages, Kinshasa is now a megacity with an estimated population of more than (...) | |
| 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 42.3598 / -71.0921 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied (...) | |
| 7 | Carlsbad, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 33.1219 / -117.2969 | Carlsbad is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. The city is south of Los Angeles and north of downtown San Diego and is part of the San Diego-Carlsbad, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Referred to as "The Village by the Sea" by locals, Carlsbad is a tourist destination (...) | |
| 8 | Yad Vashem ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 824 Lat/Lng : 31.7736 / 35.1817 | Yad Vashem (; literally, "a monument and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the dead; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and Gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon (...) | |
| 9 | Bermuda ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 32.3333 / -64.75 | Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia; and north of Cuba. The capital city is Hamilton (...) | |
| 10 | Sanchi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 427 Lat/Lng : 23.4865 / 77.7378 | Sanchi Stupa, also written Sanci, is a Buddhist complex, famous for its Great Stupa, on a hilltop at Sanchi Town in Raisen District of the State of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in north-east of Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh (...) | |
| 11 | Vancouver International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 49.1942 / -123.1844 | Vancouver International Airport is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, about from Downtown Vancouver. It is the second busiest airport in Canada by aircraft movements (306,799) and passengers (24.0 million), behind Toronto Pearson International Airport (...) | |
| 12 | 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 (...) | |
| 13 | Illinois ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 41.2782 / -88.3802 | Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is the 6th-most populous U.S. state and 25th-largest state in terms of land area, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire United States (...) | |
| 14 | Principality of Sealand ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 51.8952 / 1.4805 | The Principality of Sealand, commonly known as Sealand, is a micronation that claims Roughs Tower, an offshore platform in the North Sea approximately off the coast of Suffolk, as its territory. Roughs Tower is a disused Maunsell Sea Fort, originally called HM Fort Roughs, built as an anti-aircraft (...) | |
| 15 | Harbin ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 45.8014 / 126.5292 | Harbin (Manchu: Harbin;) is the capital of Heilongjiang province, and largest city in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties (...) | |
| 16 | Columbia University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 40.8088 / -73.9623 | Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Established in 1754, Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest institution of higher (...) | |
| 17 | National Security Agency ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 39.0983 / -76.766 | The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign (...) | |
| 18 | Syracuse, New York ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 125 Lat/Lng : 43.0409 / -76.1438 | Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and Yonkers (...) | |
| 19 | Mosul ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 222 Lat/Lng : 36.3373 / 43.1359 | Mosul is a major city in northern Iraq. Located some north of Baghdad, Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris, opposite the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh on the east bank. The metropolitan area has grown to encompass substantial areas on both the "Left Bank" (east side) and the "Right Bank" (...) | |
| 20 | The Bahamas ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 23.9167 / -77.6667 | The Bahamas , known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest (...) | |
| 21 | Brown University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 41.8262 / -71.4032 | Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S (...) | |
| 22 | Waterbury, Connecticut ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 41.5583 / -73.0369 | Waterbury (nicknamed "The Brass City") is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut on the Naugatuck River, 33 miles southwest of Hartford and 77 miles northeast of New York City. Waterbury is the second-largest city in New Haven County, Connecticut (...) | |
| 23 | Antarctica ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.3578 / -2.2472 | Antarctica (or) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At , it is the fifth-largest continent (...) | |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 24.4667 / 54.3667 | The United Arab Emirates (UAE; '), sometimes simply called the Emirates , is a country in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to (...) | |
| 25 | Kazan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 55.7964 / 49.1089 | Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,243,500, it is the sixth most populous city in Russia. Kazan is one of the largest religious, economic, political, scientific, educational, cultural and sports centers in Russia (...) | |
| 26 | El Paso, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1139 Lat/Lng : 31.7592 / -106.4902 | El Paso (; from Spanish, "The Path") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County, situated in the far western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. As of July 1, 2017, the population estimate for the city from the U.S. Census was 683,577. Its U.S (...) | |
| 27 | Cornell University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 268 Lat/Lng : 42.4485 / -76.4786 | Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the (...) | |
| 28 | Nairobi ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1684 Lat/Lng : -1.2833 / 36.8167 | Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya. The name comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to "cool water", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 3,138,369 in the 2009 census, while the metropolitan area (...) | |
| 29 | Roanoke, Virginia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 296 Lat/Lng : 37.2708 / -79.9417 | Roanoke is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2010 census, the population was 97,032. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. Roanoke is the largest municipality in Southwest Virginia, and is the principal municipality of the Roanoke Metropolitan (...) | |
| 30 | Northern Cyprus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 35.2667 / 33.55 | Northern Cyprus , officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC;), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. Recognised only by Turkey, Northern Cyprus is considered by the international community to be part of the Republic of Cyprus (...) | |
| 31 | Wall Street ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 40.7063 / -74.0092 | Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City., retrieved July 17, 2007 (...) | |
| 32 | Martha's Vineyard ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 41.3953 / -70.6153 | Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: ; often simply called The Vineyard) is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts that is known for being an affluent summer colony. Martha's Vineyard includes the smaller Chappaquiddick Island, which is usually connected to the Vineyard, though storms and (...) | |
| 33 | Frankfurt ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 50.117 / 8.683 | Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; "Frank ford at the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city of the German federal state of Hesse, and its 736,414 (2016) inhabitants make it the fifth-largest city of Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Cologne (...) | |
| 34 | Niagara Falls ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 43.0799 / -79.0747 | Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge (...) | |
| 35 | German battleship Bismarck ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 48.1667 / -16.2 | Bismarck was the first of two s built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939 (...) | |
| 36 | University of Maryland, College Park ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 38.9881 / -76.9447 | The University of Maryland, College Park (commonly referred to as the University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, and is the largest university in (...) | |
| 37 | Vancouver ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 49.2611 / -123.1139 | Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011 (...) | |
| 38 | Madison, Wisconsin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 264 Lat/Lng : 43.0569 / -89.4011 | Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2017, Madison's estimated population of 255,214 made it the second-largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd-largest in the United States (...) | |
| 39 | Burbank, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 180 Lat/Lng : 34.1803 / -118.3283 | Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of Southern California, United States, northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The population at the 2010 census was 103,340. Billed as the "Media Capital of the World" and only a few miles northeast of Hollywood, numerous media (...) | |
| 40 | University of California, Berkeley ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 37.8717 / -122.2589 | The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a top-ranked public research university in the United States. Located in the city of Berkeley, it was founded in 1868, and serves as the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the (...) | |
| 41 | Eldoret ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2106 Lat/Lng : 0.5167 / 35.2833 | Eldoret is a principal city in western Kenya and the fifth largest in the country. It is the second most important city in western Kenya after Kisumu and also serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. Lying south of the Cherangani Hills, the local elevation varies from about 2100 metres above sea (...) | |
| 42 | Newark, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 40.7242 / -74.1726 | Newark (Merriam-Webster. Accessed September 10, 2015.), Dictionary Reference. Accessed September 10, 2015. is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017 (...) | |
| 43 | Shanghai ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 31.2323 / 121.4691 | Shanghai is one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of the central government of China, the largest city in China by population, and the second most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million (...) | |
| 44 | Beirut ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 33.8898 / 35.5003 | Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been conducted, but 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to 2.2 million as part of Greater Beirut."". The World Bank. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016 (...) | |
| 45 | 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 (...) | |
| 46 | Republic of Macedonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 41.9969 / 21.4331 | Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991 (...) | |
| 47 | Städel Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 50.1028 / 8.6739 | The Städel Museum, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel Museum owns 2,700 paintings (of which 600 are displayed) and a collection of 100,000 drawings and prints as well as 600 (...) | |
| 48 | Radio New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : -41.285 / 174.7742 | Radio New Zealand , commonly known as Radio NZ or simply RNZ, is a New Zealand public-service radio broadcaster and Crown entity that was established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995. It operates a news and current-affairs network, RNZ National, and a classical-music and jazz network, RNZ (...) | |
| 49 | Mount Everest ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 8794 Lat/Lng : 27.9879 / 86.9248 | Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha and in Tibetan as Chomolungma , is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international border between Nepal (Province No (...) | |
| 50 | 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 (...) | |
| 51 | 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 (...) | |
| 52 | Darien, Connecticut ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 41.0511 / -73.4792 | Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 37 miles northeast of New York City. With a population of 20,732 for the 2010 census and a land area of just under 13 square miles, it is the smallest town on Connecticut's "Gold Coast" (...) | |
| 53 | Ames Research Center ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 37.4153 / -122.0628 | The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory (...) | |
| 54 | High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 62.392 / -145.151 | The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was initiated as an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (...) | |
| 55 | Nimrud ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : 36.0982 / 43.3288 | Nimrud is the name that Carsten NiebuhrNiebuhr wrote on : : "Bei Nimrud, einem verfallenen Castell etwa 8 Stunden von Mosul, findet man ein merkwürdigeres Werk. Hier ist von beiden Ufern ein Damm in den Tiger gebaut, um so viel Wasser zurück zu halten, als nöthig ist, die benachbarten Ländereien zu (...) | |
| 56 | Sevierville, Tennessee ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 281 Lat/Lng : 35.8775 / -83.57 | Sevierville is the county seat of Sevier County, Tennessee, located in Eastern Tennessee. The population was 14,807 at the 2010 United States Census and 16,355 according to the 2014 census estimate. (...) | |
| 57 | Burning Man ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1191 Lat/Lng : 40.7863 / -119.2066 | Burning Man is an annual event in the western United States at Black Rock City – a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately north-northeast of Reno. The late summer event is described as an experiment in community and art, influenced by ten main principles: (...) | |
| 58 | CEBIT ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 52.3269 / 9.8092 | CeBIT is the largest and most internationally representative computer expo. The trade fair is held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany. It is considered a barometer of current trends and a measure of the state of the art in information technology (...) | |
| 59 | Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 43.6275 / -79.3961 | Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is a small regional airport located on the Toronto Islands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The airport is often referred to as the Toronto Island Airport and was previously known as Port George VI Island Airport and Toronto City Centre Airport; the latter is still (...) | |
| 60 | AOL ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 40.7308 / -73.9914 | AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications (...) | |
| 61 | Cabo San Lucas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 22.8897 / -109.9156 | Cabo San Lucas (Saint Luke Cape), commonly called Cabo in English, is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As of 2015, the population of the city was 81,111 inhabitants (...) | |
| 62 | Great Mosque of Djenné ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 276 Lat/Lng : 13.9052 / -4.5553 | The Great Mosque of Djenné is a large banco or adobe building that is considered by many architects to be one of the greatest achievements of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style. The mosque is located in the city of Djenné, Mali, on the flood plain of the Bani River (...) | |
| 63 | Rogue wave ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 58.1887 / 2.4667 | Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are large, unexpected and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be extremely dangerous, even to large ships such as ocean liners (...) | |
| 64 | University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 18.2094 / -67.1417 | The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) in Spanish (also referred to as Colegio and CAAM in allusion to its former name), is a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant state university located in the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (...) | |
| 65 | SAP SE ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 112 Lat/Lng : 49.2935 / 8.6418 | SAP SE (; , "Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing") is a German-based European multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations (...) | |
| 66 | Lambeau Field ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 44.5013 / -88.0622 | Lambeau Field is an outdoor athletic stadium in the north central United States, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL), it opened in 1957 as City Stadium, replacing the original City Stadium at East High School as the Packers' (...) | |
| 67 | Beamish Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 54.8819 / -1.6583 | Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, County Durham, England. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early (...) | |
| 68 | Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 51.0411 / 13.7483 | Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion is a football stadium in Dresden, Saxony. It is named after German athlete Rudolf Harbig, and is the current home of Dynamo Dresden. Sports facilities have existed on the site of the stadium, the Güntzwiesen, since 1874 (...) | |
| 69 | Lajes Field ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 38.7619 / -27.0908 | Lajes Field or Lajes Air Base , officially designated Air Base No. 4 (Base Aérea Nº 4, BA4) , is a multi-use airfield, home to the Portuguese Air Force Base Aérea N º4 and Azores Air Zone Command , a United States Air Force detachment unit (operated by the 65th Air Base Group of United States Air (...) | |
| 70 | PayPal ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 37.377 / -121.9226 | PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like cheques and money orders (...) | |
| 71 | USS Arizona (BB-39) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 21.3648 / -157.9501 | USS Arizona was a built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships (...) | |
| 72 | Diomede, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 65.7583 / -168.9517 | Diomede (native name Iŋaliq, meaning "the other one" or "the one over there") is a village in the Nome Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the west coast of Little Diomede Island (...) | |
| 73 | USS Texas (BB-35) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 29.7564 / -95.0894 | USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a . The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous (...) | |
| 74 | Facebook ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4848 / -122.1484 | Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and (...) | |
| 75 | UN/LOCODE ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.7 / -74.0 | UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, is a geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). UN/LOCODE assigns codes to locations used in trade and transport with functions such as seaports, rail and road (...) | |
| 76 | Amazon (company) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 519 Lat/Lng : 48.1333 / 11.5833 | Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon , is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and (...) | |
| 77 | YouTube ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 37.6281 / -122.4264 | YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1 (...) | |
| 78 | The Village Voice ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 40.7283 / -73.9911 | The Village Voice was an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock and Norman Mailer, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City (...) | |
| 79 | Isla Vista, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 34.4147 / -119.8606 | Isla Vista is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Barbara County, California in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 23,096. The majority of residents are college students at nearby University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB, (...) | |
| 80 | St. Francis Dam ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 34.547 / -118.5126 | The St. Francis Dam was a curved concrete gravity dam, built to create a large regulating and storage reservoir for the city of Los Angeles, California. The reservoir was an integral part of the city's Los Angeles Aqueduct water supply infrastructure (...) | |
| 81 | EBay ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 37.2952 / -121.926 | eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in Fall 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble (...) | |
| 82 | Edmonson County, Kentucky ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 209 Lat/Lng : 37.21 / -86.25 | Edmonson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,161. Its county seat is Brownsville. The county was formed in 1825 and named for Captain John "Jack" Edmonson (1764–1813), who was killed at the Battle of Frenchtown during the War of 1812 (...) | |
| 83 | 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 (...) | |
| 84 | Alibaba Group ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 30.192 / 120.1861 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology. Founded in 1999, the company provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals, as well as electronic (...) | |
| 85 | Yahoo! ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 37.4171 / -122.0253 | Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc.. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995 (...) | |
| 86 | Oracle Corporation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 37.5308 / -122.264 | Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company specializes primarily in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products — particularly its (...) | |
| 87 | Nvidia ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.3707 / -121.9637 | Nvidia Corporation (; more commonly referred to as Nvidia, stylized as NVIDIA, or, due to their logo, nVIDIA) is an American technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. It designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well (...) | |
| 88 | Arizona State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 362 Lat/Lng : 33.4211 / -111.9317 | Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public metropolitan research university on four campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona. ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the U.S (...) | |
| 89 | Nintendo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 34.9697 / 135.7562 | Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of (...) | |
| 90 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 225 Lat/Lng : 40.1105 / -88.2284 | The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System (...) | |
| 91 | New Carrollton station ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 38.948 / -76.8719 | New Carrollton is a joint Washington Metro, MARC, and Amtrak station in New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland located at the eastern end of the Metro's Orange Line. The station will also serve as the eastern terminus of the Purple Line, currently under construction, and is adjacent to the (...) | |
| 92 | Fudan University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 31.2989 / 121.4992 | Fudan University , located in Shanghai, is a C9 League university that is one of the most prestigious and selective universities in China. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University (...) | |
| 93 | World Economic Forum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 46.2253 / 6.1917 | The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization. It gained formal status in January 2015 under the Swiss Host-State Act, confirming the role of the Forum as an International Institution for Public-Private Cooperation (...) | |
| 94 | Gettysburg Address ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 39.82 / -77.2307 | The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated (...) | |
| 95 | Nokia ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.2255 / 24.7509 | Nokia Corporation (commonly referred to as Nokia;) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company, founded in 1865. Nokia's headquarters are in Espoo, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area (...) | |
| 96 | Advanced Micro Devices ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 37.3867 / -121.9988 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets (...) | |
| 97 | Wikimedia Foundation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 37.787 / -122.3997 | The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement (...) | |
| 98 | Walmart ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 398 Lat/Lng : 36.3656 / -94.2175 | Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, (...) | |
| 99 | Google ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4222 / -122.0844 | Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D (...) | |
| 100 | Apple Inc. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 37.3318 / -122.0312 | Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal (...) | |
| 101 | Zalando ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 52.3773 / 13.3046 | Zalando SE is a German electronic commerce company based in Berlin. The company maintains a cross-platform online store that sells shoes, fashion and beauty items. The company was founded in Germany in 2008, and since has begun operating in fifteen European countries and worldwide with spin-offs and (...) | |
| 102 | Cisco Systems ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4084 / -121.9541 | Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products (...) | |
| 103 | Internet Archive ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 37.7823 / -122.4716 | The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and (...) | |
| 104 | 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 (...) | |
| 105 | PATH (rail system) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 40.7313 / -74.0593 | Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system connecting the cities of Newark, Harrison, Hoboken, and Jersey City, in metropolitan northern New Jersey, with the lower and midtown sections of Manhattan in New York City (...) | |
| 106 | PricewaterhouseCoopers ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.5077 / -0.1241 | PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. PwC ranks as the second largest professional services firm in the world behind Deloitte, and is one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG (...) | |
| 107 | University of Exeter ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 50.7365 / 3.5344 | The University of Exeter is a public research university in Exeter, Devon, South West England, United Kingdom. It was founded and received its Royal Charter in 1955, although its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of (...) | |
| 108 | Angela Merkel ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 52.5202 / 13.3952 | Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; Kasner, born 17 July 1954) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000., bundeskanzlerin (...) | |
| 109 | Pearl River Delta ![]() FeatureType : river Lat/Lng : 22.5333 / 113.7333 | The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRD) is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. It is one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, and is often considered an emerging megacity (...) | |
| 110 | Washington Metro ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 38.8991 / -77.029 | The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also operates Metrobus service under (...) | |
| 111 | CNBC ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 40.8986 / -73.9392 | CNBC is an American pay television business news channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast. Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, " ." NBC Universal. Retrieved on August 28, 2009 (...) | |
| 112 | Escalator ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 529 Lat/Lng : 48.1404 / 11.5617 | An escalator is a type of vertical transportation in the form of a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep them horizontal (...) | |
| 113 | Louisiana Purchase Exposition ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 142 Lat/Lng : 38.6385 / -90.2859 | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million were used to finance the event (...) | |
| 114 | Little League World Series ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 41.23 / -76.98 | The Little League Baseball World Series is an annual baseball tournament in the eastern United States for children aged 10 to 12 years old. Originally called the National Little League Tournament, it was later renamed for the World Series in Major League Baseball (...) | |
| 115 | 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 (...) | |
| 116 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 47.6236 / -122.3456 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), previously branded as the 'William H. Gates Foundation', is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It was launched in 2000, and is said to be the largest private foundation in the United States, holding US$50.7 billion in assets (...) | |
| 117 | Nestlé ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 389 Lat/Lng : 46.4669 / 6.835 | Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenues and other metrics, since 2014., CNN Money, 1 April 2011, The Economist, 29 October 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2012 It ranked No (...) | |
| 118 | University of Missouri ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 236 Lat/Lng : 38.9453 / -92.3288 | The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River (...) | |
| 119 | Toccoa, Georgia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 306 Lat/Lng : 34.5773 / -83.3324 | Toccoa is a city in, and the county seat of, Stephens County, Georgia, United States, located about from Athens and about northeast of Atlanta. The population was 8,491 as of the 2010 census. (...) | |
| 120 | Vladimir Komarov ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 51.3616 / 59.5624 | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (; 16 March 192724 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member (...) | |
| 121 | France 24 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8305 / 2.2649 | France 24 (pronounced "France vingt-quatre") is a state-owned international news and current affairs television network based in Paris. Its channels broadcast in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux,"." France 24. Retrieved 29 October 2009 (...) | |
| 122 | Tesla, Inc. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.3947 / -122.1503 | Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing (...) | |
| 123 | Battle of Fort Sumter ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 32.7522 / -79.8747 | The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War (...) | |
| 124 | Franconia ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : 49.816 / 10.865 | Franconia (also called Frankenland) is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, locally referred to as fränkisch, is spoken (...) | |
| 125 | Durant, Oklahoma ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 213 Lat/Lng : 33.9997 / -96.3847 | Durant is a city in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States and serves as the headquarters of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The population was 15,856 at the 2010 census. Durant is the principal city of the Durant Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 42,416 in 2010 (...) | |
| 126 | Willis Tower ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 41.8789 / -87.6358 | The Willis Tower, built as and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At completion in 1973, it surpassed the World Trade Center towers in New York to become the tallest building in the world, a title it held for nearly 25 years; it remained (...) | |
| 127 | Mattoon, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 227 Lat/Lng : 39.4789 / -88.3731 | Mattoon is a city in Coles County, Illinois, United States. The population was 18,555 as of the 2010 census. The city is home to a Burger King that is not related to the worldwide Burger King chain. (...) | |
| 128 | UNESCO ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 48.8501 / 2.3062 | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms (...) | |
| 129 | Boris Nemtsov ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 120 Lat/Lng : 55.7495 / 37.6242 | Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (; 9 October 195927 February 2015) was a Russian physicist and liberal politician. Nemtsov was one of the most important figures in the introduction of capitalism into the Russian post-Soviet economy (...) | |
| 130 | General Electric ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 42.3518 / -71.0478 | General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston. As of 2018, the company operates through the following segments: aviation, healthcare, power, renewable energy, digital, additive manufacturing, venture capital and finance, (...) | |
| 131 | Barnsley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 53.5537 / -1.4791 | Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England, located halfway between Leeds and Sheffield. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town centre lies on the west bank of the Dearne Valley. Barnsley is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan Borough of (...) | |
| 132 | Mars Science Laboratory ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : -4.5895 / 137.4417 | Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The overall objectives include investigating Mars' habitability, studying its climate and geology, and (...) | |
| 133 | University of Nottingham ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 52.9389 / -1.1969 | The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital (Queen's Medical Centre) (...) | |
| 134 | Rice University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 29.7169 / -95.4028 | William Marsh Rice University, commonly known as Rice University, is a private research university located on a 300-acre (121 ha) campus in Houston, Texas, United States. The university is situated near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center (...) | |
| 135 | Disney Channel ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 34.1531 / -118.3417 | Disney Channel (originally called The Disney Channel from 1983 to 1997 and commonly shortened to Disney from 1997 to 2002) is an American pay television network that serves as the flagship property of owner Disney Channels Television Group, itself a unit of the Disney Media Networks division of The (...) | |
| 136 | Wayne State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 42.3573 / -83.0701 | Wayne State University (WSU) is an American public research university located in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering nearly 350 programs to more than 27,000 graduate and undergraduate students (...) | |
| 137 | Chesterfield ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 80 Lat/Lng : 53.235 / -1.4214 | Chesterfield is a market town and borough in Derbyshire, England. It lies north of Derby and south of Sheffield at the confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Including Whittington, Brimington and Staveley it had a population of about 103,800 in 2011, making it the second largest town in the (...) | |
| 138 | Gravesend ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 51.4415 / 0.3685 | Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the Thames Estuary and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Rochester, it is the administrative centre of the Borough of Gravesham (...) | |
| 139 | Somaliland ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 943 Lat/Lng : 9.75 / 45.9667 | Somaliland , officially the Republic of Somaliland (Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd), is a self-declared state, internationally considered to be an autonomous region of Somalia. The government of the de facto state of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to the former British Somaliland (...) | |
| 140 | 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 38.322 / 142.369 | The was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately (...) | |
| 141 | Ma Ying-jeou ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 27.4336 / 112.9399 | Ma Ying-jeou (born 13 July 1950), also spelled as Ma Yingjiu,https://books.google.ca/books?id=SOeNDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=ma+yingjiu&source=bl&ots=4DGGz8DI8U&sig=avzwJMtbIQCQ3g8qkNIgzMixWbA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis4N-F1IvaAhVJ04MKHRSYBGY4FBDoAQgoMAA is a Taiwanese politician who served as (...) | |
| 142 | Gatwick Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 51.1482 / -0.1903 | Gatwick Airport , (retrieved 5 September 2012) also known as London Gatwick is a major international airport near Crawley in West Sussex, southeast England, south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow (...) | |
| 143 | University of St Andrews ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 56.3412 / -2.793 | The University of St Andrews (; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and the third oldest university in the English-speaking world (following (...) | |
| 144 | Berlin Wall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 52.5161 / 13.3769 | The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and (...) | |
| 145 | MyHeritage ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 32.0217 / 34.8592 | MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. Users of the platform can create family trees, upload and browse through photos, and search billions of global (...) | |
| 146 | UBS ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 416 Lat/Lng : 47.372 / 8.536 | UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centers as the largest Swiss banking institution in the world (...) | |
| 147 | East End of London ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.5167 / -0.05 | The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames. It does not have universally accepted boundaries, though the various channels of the River Lea are often (...) | |
| 148 | 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 (...) | |
| 149 | Packard ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 42.3796 / -83.0289 | Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last Detroit-built Packard in 1956, when they built the Packard Predictor, their last concept car (...) | |
| 150 | University of the Witwatersrand ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 1753 Lat/Lng : -26.1908 / 28.0303 | The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus South African public research university, SOUTH AFRICA: New university clusters emerge, retrieved 13 December 2011 situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits (or) (...) | |
| 151 | World Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 38.8989 / -77.0425 | The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA) (...) | |
| 152 | Virginia Tech ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 632 Lat/Lng : 37.2289 / -80.4236 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech and by the initialisms VT and VPI, is an American public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in (...) | |
| 153 | Greenpeace ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 52.3503 / 4.8331 | Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace was founded by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, Canadian and US ex-pat environmental activists in 1971 (...) | |
| 154 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 51.5 / -0.1167 | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. The United Kingdom having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that led the (...) | |
| 155 | United States presidential election, 2008 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1636 Lat/Lng : 39.7392 / -104.9847 | The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, a Senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, a long-time Senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of Senator John (...) | |
| 156 | University of Arizona ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 751 Lat/Lng : 32.2317 / -110.9519 | The University of Arizona (also referred to as Arizona, U of A, or UA) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory. , the university enrolls 44,831 students in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of (...) | |
| 157 | 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 (...) | |
| 158 | Intel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.3879 / -121.9635 | Intel Corporation (commonly known as Intel and stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue (...) | |
| 159 | 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 (...) | |
| 160 | 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 (...) | |
| 161 | Port Talbot ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 51.5906 / -3.7986 | Port Talbot is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is to the east of Swansea across the Swansea Bay, with a population, in 2011, was 37,276. It is best known for Port Talbot Steelworks, one of biggest in the world, which employs an estimated 10% of the town's (...) | |
| 162 | Heidelberg University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 49.4103 / 8.7064 | Heidelberg University is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest university and one of the world's oldest surviving universities (...) | |
| 163 | Lufthansa ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 50.9415 / 6.9809 | Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or JSC) , commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size, largest airlines in Europe (...) | |
| 164 | Norfolk ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 52.6833 / 0.9167 | Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the northwest, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea and, to the north-west, The Wash. The county town is Norwich (...) | |
| 165 | Rede Globo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : -22.9586 / -43.4052 | Rede Globo (Globe Network), or simply Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Grupo Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings (...) | |
| 166 | Liberty University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 265 Lat/Lng : 37.3524 / -79.1802 | Liberty University (LU), also referred to as Liberty, is a private, non-profit Christian research university located in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Liberty is one of the largest Christian universities in the world and the largest private non-profit university in the United States, measured (...) | |
| 167 | Palestinian territories ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 814 Lat/Lng : 31.8833 / 35.2 | Palestinian territories has been used for many years to describe the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. More recently, the official United Nations terminology has been used, occupied Palestinian territory (OPT or oPt) (...) | |
| 168 | University of Sussex ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 50.8653 / -0.0856 | The University of Sussex is a public research university in Falmer, Sussex, England. Its campus is located in the South Downs National Park and is a short distance away from Central Brighton. The university received its Royal Charter in August 1961, the first of the plate glass university (...) | |
| 169 | Libyan Civil War (2011) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 31.1956 / 16.5214 | The First Libyan Civil War, also referred to as the Libyan Revolution or 17 February Revolution, was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government (...) | |
| 170 | Johnston Atoll ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 16.7167 / -169.4833 | Johnston Atoll, also known as Kalama Atoll to Native Hawaiians, is an unincorporated territory of the United States currently administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Johnston Atoll is a National Wildlife Refuge and is closed to public entry (...) | |
| 171 | Bergen County, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.9595 / -74.0688 | Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey., United States Census Bureau. Accessed March 29, 2018. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 948,406, an increase of 4.8% from the 2010 United States Census,, United States Census Bureau (...) | |
| 172 | Guadalajara ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1546 Lat/Lng : 20.6661 / -103.3519 | Guadalajara (entry in Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1), or Guadalahara, accessed March 18, 2008, retranscribed into IPA) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara (...) | |
| 173 | Akron, Ohio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 295 Lat/Lng : 41.0814 / -81.5189 | Akron is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of Cleveland. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the city proper had a total population of 197,846, making it the (...) | |
| 174 | 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 54.8239 / 32.0513 | On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, the former President of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of (...) | |
| 175 | Battle of Chancellorsville ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 38.3105 / -77.6484 | The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War (1861–1865), and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign.There were three battles and one cavalry raid during the campaign (...) | |
| 176 | September 11 attacks ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 40.7117 / -74.0125 | The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-QaedaWright, Looming Tower, 2006, p. 79 against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (...) | |
| 177 | Ocean City, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 39.2636 / -74.6046 | Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 11,701, reflecting a decline of 3,677 (-23.9%) from the 15,378 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 134 (-0 (...) | |
| 178 | Zürich ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 411 Lat/Lng : 47.3779 / 8.5412 | Zürich or Zurich (; see below for other names) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. The municipality has approximately 400,028 inhabitants, the urban agglomeration 1 (...) | |
| 179 | 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 (...) | |
| 180 | Bad Kreuznach ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 103 Lat/Lng : 49.8469 / 7.8669 | Bad Kreuznach is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in the world with buildings on it. on (in English) (...) | |
| 181 | BlackBerry Limited ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 328 Lat/Lng : 43.5172 / -80.5159 | BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian multinational company specialising in enterprise software and the Internet of things. Originally known as Research In Motion (RIM), it is best known to the general public as the former developer of the BlackBerry brand of smartphones, and tablets (...) | |
| 182 | Huntington, West Virginia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 173 Lat/Lng : 38.413 / -82.4336 | Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and largest city in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area (...) | |
| 183 | Today (U.S. TV program) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 40.7584 / -73.9791 | Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 66 years of broadcasting it is the fifth-longest-running American (...) | |
| 184 | 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, (...) | |
| 185 | Durham University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 54.7728 / -1.5739 | Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a royal charter in 1837. It was one of the first universities to commence tuition in England for more than 600 years, (...) | |
| 186 | British Columbia ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 981 Lat/Lng : 55.0333 / -124.9667 | British Columbia (BC;) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 4.817 million as of 2017, it is Canada's third-most populous province (...) | |
| 187 | Neil Armstrong ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 13.3167 / -169.15 | Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor (...) | |
| 188 | Grenfell Tower fire ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 51.514 / -0.2158 | On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London just before 1:00amBST; it caused 72 deaths, including those of two victims who later died in hospital. More than 70 others were injured and 223 people escaped (...) | |
| 189 | North Bergen, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 40.7942 / -74.025 | North Bergen is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 60,773, reflecting an increase of 2,681 (+4.6%) from the 58,092 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 9,678 (+20 (...) | |
| 190 | Bates College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 44.1056 / -70.2042 | Bates College, officially known as the President and Trustees of Bates College or simply as Bates , is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. It is equidistant from the state capital, Augusta, to the north, and the cultural hub Portland to the south (...) | |
| 191 | Jewish Agency for Israel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 808 Lat/Lng : 31.777 / 35.216 | The Jewish Agency for Israel (HaSochnut HaYehudit L'Eretz Yisra'el) is the largest Jewish nonprofit organization in the world. Its mission is to "inspire Jews throughout the world to connect with their people, heritage, and land, and empower them to build a thriving Jewish future and a strong Israel (...) | |
| 192 | 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 (...) | |
| 193 | NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 34.0722 / -118.4441 | The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, also known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), (...) | |
| 194 | Renmin University of China ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 39.97 / 116.3184 | Renmin University of China, often referred to as RUC , or colloquially Renda , is an elite research university located in Haidian District of Beijing. Founded by the Communist Party of China, RUC possesses the strongest reputation in humanities and social sciences, and is classified as a Class A (...) | |
| 195 | Valve Corporation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 47.6139 / -122.1949 | Valve Corporation is an American video game developer, publisher and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 (...) | |
| 196 | Qualcomm ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 32.8952 / -117.1957 | Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services. It derives most of its revenue from chipmaking and the bulk of its profit from patent licensing businesses (...) | |
| 197 | 2016 Republican National Convention ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 209 Lat/Lng : 41.4966 / -81.6883 | The 2016 Republican National Convention, in which delegates of the United States Republican Party chose the party's nominees for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the 2016 U.S (...) | |
| 198 | OECD ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 48.8619 / 2.2696 | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; , ') is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 36 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is a forum of countries describing themselves as committed to democracy and the market (...) | |
| 199 | Adobe Inc. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 37.3307 / -121.8937 | Adobe Inc. , commonly known as Adobe (previously Adobe Systems Incorporated), is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, (...) | |
| 200 | 2016 Munich shooting ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 506 Lat/Lng : 48.1842 / 11.5311 | On 22 July 2016, a shooting occurred in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany. Ten people, including the perpetrator, were killed and 36 others were injured. The shooting took place at a McDonald's restaurant near the shopping mall, in front of a Saturn (...) | |