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1 | ![]() | Juneau, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 58.3014 / -134.4216 | The City and Borough of Juneau (; Tlingit:), commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality on Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area (...) |
2 | ![]() | Isles of Scilly ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 49.9212 / -6.2943 | The Isles of Scilly (; or ') is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall. One of the islands, St Agnes, is the most southerly point in both England and the United Kingdom, being over further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point (...) |
3 | ![]() | Reno, Nevada ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1374 Lat/Lng : 39.5269 / -119.8217 | Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe. Known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", Reno is famous for its hotels and casinos and as the birthplace of Harrah's Entertainment (now known as Caesars Entertainment (...) |
4 | 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 (...) | |
5 | Puntland ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 2.0333 / 45.35 | Puntland , officially the Puntland State of Somalia , is a region in northeastern Somalia. Centered on the town of Garoowe in the Nugal province, its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998 but is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia (...) | |
6 | Basque Country (greater region) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 999 Lat/Lng : 43.0463 / -1.4412 | The Basque Country is the name given to the home of the Basque people.Trask, R.L. The History of Basque Routledge: 1997 The Basque country is located in the western Pyrenees, straddling the border between France and Spain on the coast of the Bay of Biscay (...) | |
7 | Erkelenz ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 51.0787 / 6.3141 | Erkelenz is a town in the Rhineland in western Germany that lies southwest of Mönchengladbach on the northern edge of the Cologne Lowland, halfway between the Lower Rhine region and the Lower Meuse. It is a medium-sized town (over 44,000) and the largest in the district of Heinsberg in North (...) | |
8 | Anna University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 13.0127 / 80.2364 | Anna University is a state technical university in Tamil Nadu, India. The main campus is in Guindy, Chennai. (...) | |
9 | Huawei ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 22.6533 / 114.0546 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese telecommunications-equipment and consumer-electronics company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, South China. Huawei has deployed its products and services in more than 170 countries, and it served 45 of the 50 largest telecoms operators (...) | |
10 | Nahualá ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2467 Lat/Lng : 14.8429 / -91.317 | Nahualá is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The town is sometimes known as Santa Catarina Nahualá, in honor of the town’s patron saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, but the official name is just "Nahualá" (...) | |
11 | Gilgandra, New South Wales ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 287 Lat/Lng : -31.7117 / 148.6625 | Gilgandra is a country town in the central west region of New South Wales, Australia, and services the surrounding agricultural area where wheat is grown extensively together with other cereal crops, and sheep and beef cattle are raised.Gilgandra Shire Council website, "Community". http://www (...) | |
12 | Soomaa National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 58.3611 / 25.0833 | Soomaa National Park is a national park in south-western Estonia. Soomaa ("land of bogs") protects 390 km², and is a Ramsar site of protected wetlands. The park was created in 1993. (...) | |
13 | George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 38.899 / -77.0498 | The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. is a technical school which specializes in engineering, technology, communications, and transportation (...) | |
14 | Wah Yan College, Kowloon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 22.3146 / 114.1735 | Wah Yan College, Kowloon (WYK; Traditional Chinese: 九龍華仁書院; Jyutping: gau2 lung4 wa4 jan2 syu1 jyun2, demonym: Wahyanite, pl.: Wahyanites) is a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys run by the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus (...) | |
15 | University of the Philippines College of Engineering ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 14.6567 / 121.0694 | The College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines Diliman is the largest degree-granting unit in the U.P. System in terms of student population. The college is also known formally as UP COE, COE, and informally as Eng'g (pronounced "eng") (...) | |
16 | Slender-billed curlew ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 57.0 / 74.0 | The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is a bird in the wader family Scolopacidae. It breeds in marshes and peat bogs in the taiga of Siberia, and is migratory, formerly wintering in shallow freshwater habitats around the Mediterranean (...) | |
17 | Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1810 Lat/Lng : 36.3427 / -113.621 | Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (sometimes referred to as Parashant National Monument) is located on the northern edge of the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona. The monument was established by Presidential on January 11, 2000 (...) | |
18 | C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 8.5094 / 76.9614 | The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC(T)), formerly (ER & DCI), Thiruvananthapuram, is a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India (...) | |
19 | Royal Jordanian Air Force ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 771 Lat/Lng : 31.9727 / 35.9916 | The Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF; Arabic: سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني, transliterated Silāḥ ul-Jawu al-Malakī ’al-Urdunī) is the air force of the Jordanian Armed Forces. (...) | |
20 | Estonian Aviation Museum ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 58.2879 / 26.7642 | The Estonian Aviation Museum is located in Lange near Tartu in Estonia. It is the only aviation museum in the country. The museum was founded in December 1999 in accordance with a private initiative procedure and officially opened to the public on 14 June 2002 (...) | |
21 | Arrow Electronics ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1756 Lat/Lng : 39.5906 / -104.8691 | Arrow Electronics is an American Fortune 500 company headquartered in Centennial, Colorado. The company specializes in distribution and value added services relating to electronic components and computer products. The company ranked No (...) | |