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| 1 | South Korea ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 943 Lat/Lng : 35.8891 / 127.793 | South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying to the east of the Asian mainland. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of (...) | |
| 2 | Incheon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 37.4639 / 126.6486 | Incheon (; ; formerly romanized as Inchŏn; literally "kind river"), officially the Incheon Metropolitan City , is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international (...) | |
| 3 | San Diego ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 32.715 / -117.1625 | San Diego (; Spanish for "Saint Didacus";) is a city in the U.S. state of California. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico (...) | |
| 4 | Cupertino, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 37.3175 / -122.0419 | Cupertino is a U.S. city in Santa Clara County, California, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 58,302 as of the 2010 census.census (...) | |
| 5 | Santa Rosa, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 38.4486 / -122.7047 | Santa Rosa (lit. Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in California's Wine Country. Its estimated 2016 population was 175,155. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Redwood Empire, Wine Country and the North Bay; the fifth most populous city in the (...) | |
| 6 | Loja, Ecuador ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2057 Lat/Lng : -3.9906 / -79.205 | Loja , formerly Loxa and fully City of the Immaculate Conception of Loja , is the capital of Ecuador's Loja Province. It is located in the Cuxibamba valley in the south of the country, sharing borders with the provinces of Zamora-Chinchipe and El Oro, and with Peru in the south (...) | |
| 7 | Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 34.0522 / -118.2436 | Los Angeles , officially the City of Los Angeles and known colloquially by its initials LA, is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City, and the largest and most populous city in the Western United States (...) | |
| 8 | Tsushima Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 34.404 / 129.333 | is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in the Korea Strait, approximately halfway between the Japanese mainland and the Korean Peninsula. The main island of Tsushima was once a single island but was divided into two in 1671 by the Ōfunakoshiseto canal and into three in 1900 by the (...) | |
| 9 | Querétaro City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1822 Lat/Lng : 20.5875 / -100.3928 | Santiago de Querétaro , known simply as Querétaro, is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico. It is part of the macroregion of Bajío. It is located northwest of Mexico City, southeast of San Miguel de Allende and south of San Luis Potosí (...) | |
| 10 | Mérida, Yucatán ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 20.967 / -89.6205 | Mérida is the capital and largest city in Yucatan state in Mexico, as well as the largest city of the Yucatán Peninsula. The city is located in the northwest part of the state, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico (...) | |
| 11 | Senkaku Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 25.7449 / 123.4877 | The are a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan in the East China Sea. They are located roughly due east of Mainland China, northeast of Taiwan, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands (...) | |
| 12 | Panama City ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 8.9709 / -79.5348 | Panama City is the capital and largest city of Panama.Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, «Lista de países y capitales, con sus gentilicios», Ortografía de la lengua española, Madrid, Espasa It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1 (...) | |
| 13 | Haneda Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : -2 Lat/Lng : 35.5526 / 139.7797 | , commonly known as , Tokyo Haneda Airport, and Haneda International Airport , is one of the two primary airports that serve the Greater Tokyo Area, and is the primary base of Japan's two major domestic airlines, Japan Airlines (Terminal 1) and All Nippon Airways (Terminal 2), as well as Air Do, (...) | |
| 14 | Bakersfield, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 35.3572 / -119.0317 | Bakersfield is a city and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. It covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population is approximately 380,000, making it the ninth-most populous city in California and the (...) | |
| 15 | Guam ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 13.4522 / 144.7703 | Guam (; Chamorro: ') is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States in Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. Office of Insular Affairs. Retrieved October 31, 2008. It is the easternmost point and territory of the United States, along with the Northern Mariana Islands (...) | |
| 16 | Chile ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : -33.45 / -70.6667 | Chile , officially the Republic of Chile (RepChile.ogg), is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far (...) | |
| 17 | Narita, Chiba ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 35.7934 / 140.3203 | is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the site of Narita International Airport, the main international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area. As of February 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 131,096, and a population density of 613 persons per km². Its total area is . (...) | |
| 18 | Acapulco ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 16.8517 / -99.9097 | Acapulco de Juárez , commonly called Acapulco, is a city, municipality and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico's history (...) | |
| 19 | Lompoc, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 34.6461 / -120.4603 | Lompoc (Purisimeño: Lompo', "Stagnant Water" McCall, Lynne & Rosalind, Perry, red. (1991): The Chumash People: Materials for Teachers and Students. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. San Luis Obispo, CA: EZ Nature Books. . Page 29 (...) | |
| 20 | Luzon ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 865 Lat/Lng : 16.075 / 121.0031 | Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. It is ranked 15th largest in the world by land area. Located in the northern region of the archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon City, (...) | |
| 21 | Osaka ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 34.6938 / 135.5022 | (; listen) is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan. It is the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Japan and among the largest in the world with over 19 million inhabitants (...) | |
| 22 | Alamodome ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 228 Lat/Lng : 29.4169 / -98.4789 | The Alamodome is a domed 64,000-seat, multi-purpose facility used as a football, basketball, soccer, baseball stadium, and convention center. It is located on the southeastern fringe of Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States (...) | |
| 23 | Spratly Islands ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 10.35 / 114.7668 | The Spratly Islands ((Nánshā Qúndǎo)) are a disputed group of islands, islets and cays and more than 100 reefs, sometimes grouped in submerged old atolls, in the South China Sea. The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia, and southern Vietnam (...) | |
| 24 | Hiroshima ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 34.3871 / 132.4453 | is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu – the largest island of Japan. Hiroshima gained city status on April 1, 1889. On April 1, 1980, Hiroshima became a designated city. , the city had an estimated population of 1,196,274 (...) | |
| 25 | Japan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 35.6839 / 139.7744 | Japan (; Nippon or Nihon ; formally Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea (...) | |
| 26 | Ryukyu Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 26.3328 / 127.749 | The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost (...) | |
| 27 | Ulaanbaatar ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1299 Lat/Lng : 47.9167 / 106.9167 | Ulaanbaatar, formerly anglicised as Ulan Bator (Ulaγanbaγatur, literally "Red Hero"), is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. The city is not part of any aimag (province), and its population was over 1.3 million, almost half of the country's total population (...) | |
| 28 | Havana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 23.1388 / -82.3573 | Havana (; Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest (...) | |
| 29 | Da Nang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 16.0486 / 108.2206 | Da Nang is the fifth largest city in Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Hanoi, Can Tho and Haiphong in terms of urbanization and economy. Located on the coast of the South China Sea at the mouth of the Han River, it is one of Vietnam's most important port cities (...) | |
| 30 | Tokyo ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 35.6894 / 139.6917 | , officially , one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, has served as the Japanese capital since 1869.http://houseikyoku.sangiin.go.jp/column/column081.htm "There is no laws to define where Japan's capital is. Because Tokyo was built to stabilize East and North (...) | |
| 31 | Vientiane ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 17.9667 / 102.6 | Vientiane (; ; ; , Viang chan) is the capital and largest city of Laos, on the banks of the Mekong River near the border with Thailand. Vientiane became the capital in 1563 due to fears of a Burmese invasion but was later looted then razed to the ground in 1827 by the Siamese (Thai) (...) | |
| 32 | Guatemala ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1511 Lat/Lng : 14.6317 / -90.5236 | Guatemala , officially the Republic of Guatemala , is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, Honduras to the east, El Salvador to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the south (...) | |
| 33 | 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 (...) | |
| 34 | Helsinki Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Lat/Lng : 60.3172 / 24.9633 | Helsinki Airport is the main international airport of the city of Helsinki, its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region. The airport is located in the city of Vantaa, about west of Tikkurila, the administrative center of Vantaa and north of Helsinki city center (...) | |
| 35 | Mexico City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2230 Lat/Lng : 19.4327 / -99.1333 | Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (;In isolation, de is pronounced . abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centres in the Americas (...) | |
| 36 | Khabarovsk ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 48.4833 / 135.0833 | Khabarovsk (is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the Chinese border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, about north of Vladivostok. The city also became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia (...) | |
| 37 | Culver City, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 34.0081 / -118.4014 | Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California. The city was named after its founder, Harry Culver. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,883. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County (...) | |
| 38 | Buenos Aires ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : -34.6081 / -58.3703 | Buenos Aires (or ;) is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning (...) | |
| 39 | Chongqing ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 29.55 / 106.5069 | Chongqing , formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China. Administratively, it is one of China's four municipalities under the direct administration of central government (the other three are Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin), and the only such municipality in China located far (...) | |
| 40 | Port of Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 33.7292 / -118.262 | The Port of Los Angeles, also called America's Port, is a port complex that occupies of land and water along of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. The port is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro and Wilmington neighborhoods of Los Angeles, approximately south of downtown (...) | |
| 41 | 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 (...) | |
| 42 | Davis, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 38.5539 / -121.7381 | Davis, formerly known as Davisville, is a city in the U.S. state of California and the most populous city in Yolo County. It had a population of 65,622 in 2010, not including the on-campus population of the University of California, Davis, which was over 9,400 (not including students' families) in (...) | |
| 43 | 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 (...) | |
| 44 | Vietnam ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 934 Lat/Lng : 16.1667 / 107.8333 | Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula. With an estimated million inhabitants , it is the world's 15th-most-populous country, and the ninth-most-populous Asian country (...) | |
| 45 | 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 (...) | |
| 46 | 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 (...) | |
| 47 | Bogotá ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2613 Lat/Lng : 4.5981 / -74.0758 | Bogotá , officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santafé/Santa Fé de Bogotá between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, administered as the Capital District, although often erroneously thought of as part of Cundinamarca (...) | |
| 48 | Sydney ![]() FeatureType : city(4575532) Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : -33.8694 / 151.2083 | Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, and Macarthur to the south (...) | |
| 49 | Wake Island ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.29 / 166.601 | Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu and southeast of Tokyo. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claimed by the (...) | |
| 50 | Mount Pinatubo ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 929 Lat/Lng : 15.1417 / 120.35 | Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains, located on the tripoint boundary of the Philippine provinces of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga, all in Central Luzon on the northern island of Luzon., pg. 141. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1901 (...) | |
| 51 | University of Utah ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 1434 Lat/Lng : 40.7649 / -111.8488 | The University of Utah (also referred to as the U, U of U, or Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. As the state's flagship university, the university offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and more than 92 graduate degree programs (...) | |
| 52 | Atlanta ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 335 Lat/Lng : 33.755 / -84.39 | Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 39th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5 (...) | |
| 53 | Honduras ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1001 Lat/Lng : 14.0819 / -87.1981 | Honduras , officially the Republic of Honduras , is a country in Central America. It has at times been referred to as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became modern-day Belize. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El (...) | |
| 54 | 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 (...) | |
| 55 | Suez Canal ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 30.705 / 32.3442 | The Suez Canal is an original sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869, it was officially opened on 17 November 1869 (...) | |
| 56 | Philippines ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 14.5889 / 120.9715 | The Philippines (; or '), officially the Republic of the Philippines , is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and (...) | |
| 57 | Oahu ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 276 Lat/Lng : 21.473 / -157.9868 | O‘ahu (anglicized Oahu), known as "The Gathering Place", is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is home to roughly one million people -- about two-thirds of the population of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. The state capital, Honolulu, is on O‘ahu's southeast coast (...) | |
| 58 | Allianz ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 515 Lat/Lng : 48.1544 / 11.5888 | Allianz SE is a European financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. As of 2014, it is the world's largest insurance company, the largest financial services group and the largest company according to a composite measure by (...) | |
| 59 | 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 (...) | |
| 60 | Lower East Side ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.7152 / -73.9843 | The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly located between the Bowery and the East River, and Canal Street and Houston Street (...) | |
| 61 | Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 41.0292 / 28.9517 | The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; ; Vatican City State, 1978, p. 3 ,Ortaylı, İlber (2003). "Osmanlı Barışı", p. 14. .In Turkey it is also referred to unofficially as Fener Rum Patrikhanesi, "Roman Patriarchate of the Phanar" "Roman (...) | |
| 62 | National Palace Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 25.1019 / 121.5487 | The National Palace Museum,Distinguished from the Palace Museum in Beijing. In common usage in Chinese, as the "Taipei Former Palace" , while the Palace Museum is known as the "Beijing Former Palace" . located in Taipei and Taibao, Taiwan, has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of (...) | |
| 63 | Victoria and Albert Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 51.4967 / -0.1719 | The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (...) | |
| 64 | Ninoy Aquino International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 14.5086 / 121.0196 | The Ninoy Aquino International Airport or NAIA , formerly known as Manila International Airport as well as its codename Nichols Field (Nichols), is the airport serving Manila and its surrounding metropolitan area (...) | |
| 65 | Macau ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 22.1986 / 113.5447 | Macau or Macao , officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia. Along with Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and several other major cities in Guangdong, the territory (...) | |
| 66 | Washington, D.C. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 38.8951 / -77.0366 | Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of (...) | |
| 67 | Philadelphia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 40.0094 / -75.1333 | Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863. Since 1854, the city has been coterminous with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in (...) | |
| 68 | University of Virginia ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 38.0355 / -78.5035 | The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The flagship university of Virginia, it is also a World Heritage site of the United States. It was founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author and former President Thomas Jefferson (...) | |
| 69 | Barcelona ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 41.3825 / 2.1769 | Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home (...) | |
| 70 | University of Southern California ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 34.0205 / -118.2856 | The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is an American private research university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research university in California. . Usc.edu. Retrieved on 2015-11-28 (...) | |
| 71 | Daniel K. Inouye International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 21.3187 / -157.9224 | Daniel K. Inouye International Airport , also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the principal aviation gateway of the City and County of Honolulu on Oahu in the State of Hawaii. It is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 21 million (...) | |
| 72 | United States ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 691 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / -100.0 | The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9 (...) | |
| 73 | Minneapolis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 262 Lat/Lng : 44.9802 / -93.2641 | Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2017, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 45th-largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 422,331 (...) | |
| 74 | Hackensack, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 40.8894 / -74.0457 | Hackensack is a city in Bergen County in New Jersey, United States, and serves as its county seat., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but it was informally known as Hackensack since at least the 18th century (...) | |
| 75 | São Paulo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 765 Lat/Lng : -23.5477 / -46.6364 | São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world (...) | |
| 76 | Yasukuni Shrine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 35.6942 / 139.7431 | The Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, informally known as the , is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of Japan from the Boshin War of 1868–1869 to the First Indochina War of 1946–1954 (...) | |
| 77 | USS Oriskany (CV-34) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 30.0425 / -87.0064 | USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) – nicknamed Mighty O, and occasionally referred to as the O-boat – was one of the few s completed after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War (...) | |
| 78 | 63 Building ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 37.5198 / 126.9403 | The 63 Building (Korean: 63 빌딩 or 육삼 빌딩), officially called 63 SQUARE (formerly Hanwha 63 City), is a skyscraper on Yeouido island, overlooking the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. It was designed by Harry D Som and Helen W Som, principals of Som and Associates of San Francisco (...) | |
| 79 | Northbrook, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : 42.1292 / -87.8408 | Northbrook is a suburb of Chicago, located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, United States. When incorporated in 1901, the village was known as Shermerville in honor of Frederick Schermer, who donated the land for its first train station (...) | |
| 80 | USS Iowa (BB-61) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 33.7423 / -118.2772 | USS Iowa (BB-61) is the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing to the cancellation of the s, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to have served in the (...) | |
| 81 | East China Sea ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 30.0 / 125.0 | The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China. The East China Sea is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of roughly . To the east lies the Japanese islands of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands, to the south, lies the South China Sea, and to the west by the Asian continent (...) | |
| 82 | Exploratorium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 37.8014 / -122.3976 | The Exploratorium is a museum in San Francisco that allows visitors to explore the world through science, art, and human perception. Its mission is to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide (...) | |
| 83 | Alpha Phi Alpha ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 268 Lat/Lng : 42.4485 / -76.4786 | Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is the first African-American, intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved into a fraternity with a founding date of December 4, 1906, at (...) | |
| 84 | USS New Jersey (BB-62) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 39.9392 / -75.1328 | USS New Jersey (BB-62) ("Big J" or "Black Dragon") is an , and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of New Jersey. New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa-class battleships, and was the only US battleship (...) | |
| 85 | San Antonio ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 29.4286 / -98.4933 | San Antonio (; from Spanish, "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States., Census.gov – "American Factfinder" July 2014 (...) | |
| 86 | University of San Francisco ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 37.7794 / -122.4519 | The University of San Francisco (USF) is a Jesuit Catholic university located in San Francisco, California, United States. The school's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park (...) | |
| 87 | USS Bataan (CVL-29) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 26.7 / 130.6333 | USS Bataan (CVL-29/AVT-4), originally planned as USS Buffalo (CL-99) and also classified as CV-29, was an 11,000 ton light aircraft carrier which was commissioned in the United States Navy during World War II. (...) | |
| 88 | Timeline of San Francisco ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 37.7833 / -122.4167 | The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Francisco, California, United States. (...) | |
| 89 | Alameda, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 37.7653 / -122.2417 | Alameda (; Spanish:) is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island, and is adjacent to and south of Oakland and east of San Francisco across the San Francisco Bay (...) | |
| 90 | San Fernando, La Union ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 16.6167 / 120.3167 | , officially the , is a component settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. The city is bounded by San Juan to the north, Bauang to the south, Bagulin and Naguilian to the east, and the South China Sea to the west (...) | |
| 91 | USS Wisconsin (BB-64) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 36.8483 / -76.2953 | USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an , the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. She was built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and launched on 7 December 1943 (the second anniversary of the Pearl Harbor raid), sponsored by (...) | |
| 92 | Bien Hoa Air Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 10.9769 / 106.8183 | Bien Hoa Air Base is a Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF; Vietnamese: Không quân Nhân dân Việt Nam) military airfield located in South-Central southern Vietnam about from Saigon, across the Dong Nai river in the northern ward of Tân Phong, and within the city of Biên Hòa within Đồng Nai Province (...) | |
| 93 | Caloocan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 14.65 / 120.9667 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in , . According to the , it has a population of people making it as the fourth most populous city in the Philippines. It is divided into two geographical locations with a total combined area of 5,333 (...) | |
| 94 | Penang Bridge ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 5.3692 / 100.3422 | The Penang Bridge , route , is a dual carriageway toll bridge and controlled-access highway in the state of Penang, Malaysia. The bridge connects Perai on the mainland side of the state with Gelugor on the island, crossing the Penang Strait (...) | |
| 95 | USS Ranger (CV-61) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 47.5532 / -122.6526 | The seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) was one of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four ships of the class were completed with angled decks, Ranger had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the beginning as an angled-deck (...) | |
| 96 | Kōfu ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 279 Lat/Lng : 35.6622 / 138.5683 | is the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. As of November 1, 2015, the city had an estimated population of 193,127, and a population density of 909 persons per km2. The total area is . Kōfu's name means "capital of Kai Province" (...) | |
| 97 | Chevrolet ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 220 Lat/Lng : 43.0086 / -83.7099 | Chevrolet , colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C (...) | |
| 98 | Segovia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1014 Lat/Lng : 40.9494 / -4.1192 | Segovia is a city in the autonomous region of Castile and León, Spain. The city is famous for its historic buildings including the three main landmarks: its midtown Roman aqueduct, its cathedral (one of the last Gothic to be built in Europe), and the castle, which was an influence for Walt Disney's (...) | |
| 99 | Zapopan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1631 Lat/Lng : 20.672 / -103.4165 | Zapopan is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the population of Zapopan city proper makes it the second largest city in the state, very close behind the population of Guadalajara proper (...) | |
| 100 | Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 37.5333 / 126.9833 | The Korean Provisional Government (KPG), formally the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was a partially recognized Korean government-in-exile, based in Shanghai, China, and later in Chungking, during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea (...) | |
| 101 | Extreme points of Earth ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -80.0 / -115.0 | This is a list of extreme points of Earth, the geographical locations that are farther north or south than, higher or lower in elevation than, or farthest inland or out to sea from, any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries (...) | |
| 102 | Surigao City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 9.7833 / 125.4833 | , officially the , (Surigaonon: Dakbayan nan Surigao; Spanish: Ciudad de Surigao), is a settlement_text of the Philippines and capital of the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Located at the north-easternmost tip of Mindanao, it has a total land area of 245 (...) | |
| 103 | Jim Jones ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 838 Lat/Lng : -19.9167 / -43.9333 | James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious cult leader who, along with his inner circle, initiated and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana (...) | |
| 104 | Asiana Airlines Flight 214 ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 37.6133 / -122.3647 | Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passenger flight from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco International Airport in the United States. On the morning of Saturday, July 6, 2013, the Boeing 777-200ER crashed on final approach into San (...) | |
| 105 | Hialeah, Florida ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 25.8606 / -80.2939 | Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. With the population of 224,669 at the 2010 census, Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in Florida. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census (...) | |
| 106 | Pasay ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 14.55 / 121.0 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in , . According to the , it has a population of people. Due to its location just south of the City of Manila, Pasay quickly became an urban town during the American colonial period. (...) | |
| 107 | Fu Jen Catholic University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 25.0358 / 121.4332 | Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or) is a top private university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing as Fu Jen Academy, at the request of Pope Pius XI, and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at the request of Pope John XXIII (...) | |
| 108 | Wuhan Tianhe International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 30.7836 / 114.2081 | Wuhan Tianhe International Airport serves Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It was opened on 15 April 1995 substituting the old Hankou Wangjiadun Airport and Nanhu Airport as the major airport of Wuhan (...) | |
| 109 | Orange County, California ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 33.67 / -117.78 | Orange County is a county in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,010,232, making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth-most populous in the United States, and more populous than 21 U.S. states (...) | |
| 110 | Iron Age ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.7164 / -46.0331 | The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age. It is an archaeological era in the prehistory and protohistory of Europe and the Ancient Near East, and by analogy also used of other parts of the Old World (...) | |
| 111 | October 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 45.2 / 36.6 | It is the first day of the fourth quarter of the year. (...) | |
| 112 | 1994 FIFA World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 248 Lat/Lng : 34.1614 / -118.1675 | The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, held in nine cities across the United States from 17 June to 17 July 1994. The United States was chosen as the host by FIFA on 4 July 1988. Despite the host nation's lack of football tradition, the tournament was the most financially successful in (...) | |
| 113 | San Isidro District, Lima ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : -12.0992 / -77.0347 | San Isidro (Lima 27) is a district of the Lima Province in Peru, and one of the upscale districts that comprise the city of Lima. Officially established on April 24, 1930, San Isidro has become a major financial quarter in recent years, as many banks and businesses left downtown Lima to set up their (...) | |
| 114 | Peoples Temple ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 34.0452 / -118.281 | The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ,http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DissolutionPeoplesTemple.pdf commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was a new religious movement founded in 1955 by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana (...) | |
| 115 | Order of Saint Augustine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 41.9007 / 12.457 | The Order of Saint Augustine (abbreviated as OSA; historically Ordo eremitarum sancti Augustini, OESA, the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine), generally called Augustinians or Austin Friars (not to be confused with the Augustinian Canons Regular), is a Catholic religious order (...) | |
| 116 | Downtown Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 34.057 / -118.238 | Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people. A 2013 study found that the district is home to over 500,000 jobs. It is also part of Central Los Angeles (...) | |
| 117 | DHL Express ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 50.7152 / 7.1301 | DHL Express"DHL" stands for Dalsey, Hillblom & Lynn, the surnames of the founders. is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post DHL providing international courier, parcel, and express mail services (...) | |
| 118 | Manila ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 14.5833 / 120.9667 | Manila (; , or), officially the City of Manila , is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the most densely populated cities proper in the world. It was the first chartered city by virtue of the Philippine Commission Act 183 on July 31, 1901 and gained autonomy with the passage of Republic Act (...) | |
| 119 | USCGC Taney (WHEC-37) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 39.2858 / -76.6064 | USCGC Taney (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last warship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although Taney was moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself (a non-combatant vessel at Pearl Harbor, the US Navy tug , (...) | |
| 120 | Pittsburg, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 38.015 / -121.8925 | Pittsburg is an industrial suburb city in Contra Costa County, California. The population was 63,264 at the 2010 census. It is located on the southern shore of the Suisun Bay in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is part of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta area. (...) | |
| 121 | Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 221 Lat/Lng : 14.9306 / 102.0808 | Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base is a base of the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) in northeast Thailand, approximately 250 km (157 mi) northeast of Bangkok and about 8 km (5 mi) south of the centre of Nakhon Ratchasima Province (also known as "Khorat" or "Korat"), the largest province in Thailand (...) | |
| 122 | Parañaque ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 14.4667 / 121.0167 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in , . According to the , it has a population of people. It is bordered to the north by Pasay, to the northeast by Taguig, to the southeast by Muntinlupa, to the southwest by Las Piñas, and to the west by (...) | |
| 123 | Pontevedra ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 42.4336 / -8.6475 | Pontevedra is a Spanish city in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the Comarca (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rias Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality which is, in fact, often considered as an extension of the actual city (...) | |
| 124 | Chatsworth, Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 302 Lat/Lng : 34.2572 / -118.6003 | Chatsworth is a neighborhood in the northwestern San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States. The area was home to Native Americans, some of whom left caves containing rock art. Chatsworth was explored and colonized by the Spanish beginning in the 18th century (...) | |
| 125 | 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 (...) | |
| 126 | May 5 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.6 / 21.0 | This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox). (...) | |
| 127 | Pablo Picasso ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 420 Lat/Lng : 43.5541 / 5.6044 | Pablo Ruiz Picasso (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France (...) | |
| 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 | 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 (...) | |
| 130 | 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 (...) | |
| 131 | Irvine, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 33.6842 / -117.7925 | Irvine is a master-planned city in Orange County, California, United States in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971 (...) | |
| 132 | United Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 40.75 / -73.9675 | The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote and secure international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II with the (...) | |
| 133 | Tram ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 530 Lat/Lng : 48.1484 / 11.4616 | A tram (in North America streetcar or trolley) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets; some include segments of segregated right-of-way. The lines or networks operated by tramcars are called tramways (...) | |
| 134 | Davao City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 7.0791 / 125.6211 | , officially the is a highly urbanized city in the island of Mindanao, . The city has a total land area of , and has a population of based on the , making it the largest city in the Philippines in terms of land area (...) | |
| 135 | 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 (...) | |
| 136 | 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 (...) | |
| 137 | Major League Baseball ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams play in the National League (NL) and American League (AL), with 15 teams in each league (...) | |
| 138 | Vandenberg Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 94 Lat/Lng : 34.7373 / -120.5843 | Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base northwest of Lompoc, California. It is under the jurisdiction of the 30th Space Wing, Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). Vandenberg AFB is a Department of Defense space and missile testing base, with a mission of placing satellites into polar (...) | |
| 139 | IKEA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.1671 / 4.4824 | IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008 (...) | |
| 140 | USS Missouri (BB-63) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 21.3621 / -157.9534 | USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is an and was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship commissioned by the United States and is best remembered as the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which (...) | |
| 141 | University of California, Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 34.0722 / -118.4441 | The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest (after UC Berkeley) undergraduate campus of the 10-campus (...) | |
| 142 | Flushing, Queens ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 40.7583 / -73.8294 | Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. While much of the neighborhood is residential, Downtown Flushing, centered on the northern end of Main Street in Queens, is a large commercial and retail area and is the fourth largest central business district (...) | |
| 143 | Everland ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 152 Lat/Lng : 37.2956 / 127.204 | Everland is South Korea's largest theme park. Located at the Everland Resort in Yongin, a city in Gyeonggi-do, it receives 7.3 million visitors annually and was ranked sixteenth in the world for amusement park attendance in 2014 (...) | |
| 144 | Silk Road ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 391 Lat/Lng : 34.3044 / 108.8572 | The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West. It was central to cultural interaction between the regions for many centuries. The Silk Road refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with East Africa, West (...) | |
| 145 | 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 34.0142 / -118.2878 | The 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the fifth edition of the Gold Cup, the soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF), and the 15th overall CONCACAF tournament. It was held in Los Angeles, Miami, and San Diego in the United States (...) | |
| 146 | Nevada ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1767 Lat/Lng : 39.0 / -117.0 | Nevada is a state in the Western United States.Also sometimes placed in the Mountain West and Southwestern United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east (...) | |
| 147 | San Diego–Tijuana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 32.5422 / -117.0296 | San Diego–Tijuana is an international metropolitan conurbation, straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 2012 population of the region was 4,922,723, making it the largest bi-national (...) | |
| 148 | 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 (...) | |
| 149 | Koreatown, Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 34.0618 / -118.3006 | Koreatown is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street, west of MacArthur Park. The rectangular area covers about 150 blocks, spanning 10 streets and 15 avenues (east-west) (...) | |
| 150 | Tony Lema ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 41.5545 / -87.5242 | Anthony David Lema (February 25, 1934 – July 24, 1966) was an American professional golfer who rose to fame in the mid-1960s and won a major title, the 1964 Open Championship at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. He lost his life two years later at age 32 in an aircraft accident near Chicago (...) | |
| 151 | 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 (...) | |
| 152 | ESSEC Business School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 49.0332 / 2.0775 | ESSEC Business School is an international higher education institution located in France (Cergy-Pontoise and La Défense in the Paris area), Singapore and Morocco. Founded in 1907, ESSEC Business School is one of the 76 schools in the world to have obtained the triple accreditation of AACSB, EQUIS (...) | |
| 153 | Dead Sea Scrolls ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -338 Lat/Lng : 31.7408 / 35.4586 | Dead Sea Scrolls (also Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish religious, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves in the West Bank near the Dead Sea. (...) | |
| 154 | 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" (...) | |
| 155 | Pyeongchang-dong ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 37.6113 / 126.9685 | Pyeongchang-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Jongno-gu in Seoul, South Korea. Sometimes called the "Beverly Hills" of Seoul, due to it being a preferred residential location for Korean celebrities, it still remains a common location used in Korean films and television (...) | |
| 156 | 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 (...) | |
| 157 | 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 (...) | |
| 158 | Deepwater Horizon oil spill ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 28.7381 / -88.3659 | The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill/leak, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest (...) | |
| 159 | Pacific Heights, San Francisco ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 37.7917 / -122.4356 | Pacific Heights is an affluent neighborhood of San Francisco, California, which is known for the notable people who reside in the area. It offers panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, the Palace of Fine Arts, Alcatraz, and the Presidio (...) | |
| 160 | Pellaro ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 38.0167 / 15.65 | Pellaro is the southernmost quarter of the commune of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy. It has approximately 13,000 inhabitants. The town is located on the 38° latitude, which is shared by the cities of Seoul, Athens, San Francisco and Córdoba. A monument was erected in 1987 to indicate this. (...) | |
| 161 | La Piedad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1767 Lat/Lng : 20.3167 / -102.0311 | La Piedad de Cabadas is a city and its surrounding municipality (La Piedad municipality) located at in the north-west of the Mexican state of Michoacán, bordering Jalisco and Guanajuato. The original colonial name was San Sebastián. It is bordered by the town of Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato (...) | |
| 162 | Brisbane central business district ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : -27.4625 / 153.0243 | The Brisbane central business district (CBD), officially gazetted as the suburb of Brisbane City and colloquially referred to as 'the city', is the heart of the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River (...) | |
| 163 | Leo Ryan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 7.66 / -60.187 | Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. Representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until his assassination as part of the Jonestown massacre in 1978 (...) | |
| 164 | USS Midway (CV-41) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 32.7138 / -117.1749 | USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is a decommissioned aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S (...) | |
| 165 | Sogod, Southern Leyte ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 10.3861 / 124.98 | , (IPA:), officially the , is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. The name of the municipality originated from the Cebuano word, sogod, meaning "to start (...) | |
| 166 | Sakhalin ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 320 Lat/Lng : 51.0 / 143.0 | Sakhalin (Karafuto) is a large Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N. It is Russia's largest island, and is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast. Sakhalin, which is about one third the size of Honshu, is just off the east coast of Russia, and just north of (...) | |
| 167 | Hard Rock Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 25.9581 / -80.2389 | Hard Rock Stadium is a multipurpose football stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida, a city north of Miami. It is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Hard Rock Stadium also plays host to the Miami Hurricanes football team during their regular season (...) | |
| 168 | Brea, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : 33.92 / -117.87 | Brea (meaning "oil" or "tar" in Spanish) is a city in Orange County, California. The population as of the 2010 census was 39,282. It is located southeast of Los Angeles. The city began as a center of crude oil production, was later propelled by citrus production, and is now an important retail (...) | |
| 169 | National Taiwan Normal University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 25.0258 / 121.5266 | National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU;),The name of the university is translated using Chinese word order. By English grammar rules, it is National Normal University of Taiwan. or Shīdà , is an institution of higher education and normal school operating out of three campuses in Taipei, Taiwan (...) | |
| 170 | Bellefonte, Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : 40.9147 / -77.7747 | Bellefonte is a borough and the county seat of Centre County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is about twelve miles northeast of State College and is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The borough population was 6,187 at the 2010 Census (...) | |
| 171 | Fuji TV ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 35.6268 / 139.7744 | is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's call sign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (...) | |
| 172 | San Francisco National Cemetery ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 37.7997 / -122.4644 | San Francisco National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery, located in the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Because of the name and location, it is frequently confused with Golden Gate National Cemetery, a few miles south of the city (...) | |
| 173 | 2012 Major League Baseball season ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | The 2012 Major League Baseball season began on March 28 with the first of a two-game series between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. On November 22, 2011, a new contract between Major League Baseball and its players union was ratified, and as a result, an (...) | |
| 174 | Alliance Française ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 48.8464 / 2.3286 | L'Alliance Française (French Alliance), or AF, is an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world. Created in Paris on 21 July 1883 under the name Alliance française pour la propagation de la langue nationale dans les colonies et à l'étranger (French (...) | |
| 175 | Paine Field ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 47.9063 / -122.2816 | Paine Field , also known as Snohomish County Airport, is a small international airport serving part of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in unincorporated Snohomish County, between the cities of Mukilteo and Everett, about north of Seattle (...) | |
| 176 | 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 (...) | |
| 177 | Amami Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 28.2667 / 129.35 | The The name Amami-guntō was standardized on February 15, 2010. Prior to that, another name, Amami shotō , was also used. is an archipelago in the Satsunan Islands, which is part of the Ryukyu Islands, and is southwest of Kyushu. Administratively, the group belongs to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (...) | |
| 178 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 46.5667 / 141.2833 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (also known as KAL007 and KE007)KAL 007 was used by air traffic control, while the public flight booking system used KE 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska (...) | |
| 179 | Japanese cemeteries and cenotaphs ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 15.2801 / 145.8073 | Many and cenotaphs are located outside of Japan for Japanese people who died by various reasons and situations in history and internees during and after war. This article also lists tombs and burial places. (...) | |
| 180 | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2275 Lat/Lng : 19.4067 / -99.1911 | Miguel Hidalgo is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Federal District of Mexico City is divided. It was created in 1970, joining the historic areas of Tacuba, Chapultepec and Tacubaya along with a number of notable neighborhoods such as Polanco and Lomas de Chapultepec (...) | |
| 181 | Lapu-Lapu ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 10.3108 / 124.0152 | Lapu-Lapu (Baybayin: , Abecedario: Lápú-Lápú) (fl. 1521) was a ruler of Mactan in the Visayas. Modern Philippine society regards him as the first Filipino hero because he was the first native to resist Imperial Spanish colonization (...) | |
| 182 | 10th Cavalry Regiment (United States) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 20.02 / -75.7982 | The 10th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one of the original "Buffalo Soldier" regiments in the post-Civil War Regular Army (...) | |
| 183 | Tan Son Nhut Air Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 10.8189 / 106.6519 | Tan Son Nhut Air Base (1955–1975) was a Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility. It was located near the city of Saigon in southern Vietnam. The United States used it as a major base during the Vietnam War (1959–1975), stationing Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine units there (...) | |
| 184 | Tenafly High School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 40.9317 / -73.9667 | Tenafly High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school in Tenafly in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Tenafly Public Schools (...) | |
| 185 | Asian Art Museum (San Francisco) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 37.7803 / -122.4166 | The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture Asian Art Museum website. Quote: "Strategically located on the Pacific Rim and serving one of the most diverse communities in the United States, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for (...) | |
| 186 | USS Enterprise (CVN-65) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 36.9575 / -76.3297 | USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned United States Navy aircraft carrier. She was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name. Like her predecessor of World War II fame, she is nicknamed "Big E" (...) | |
| 187 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 35.0458 / -85.2999 | The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, (variously called UT-Chattanooga, UTC, or Chattanooga) is a public university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The university is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System (UT (...) | |
| 188 | Electronic Arts ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 37.5221 / -122.2546 | Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible (...) | |
| 189 | Project Nike ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 53.6625 / 7.9153 | Project Nike, (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory", pronounced), was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953 (...) | |
| 190 | Westin St. Francis ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 37.7877 / -122.4084 | The Westin St. Francis is a luxury hotel located on Powell and Geary Streets on Union Square in San Francisco, California. The two twelve-story south wings of the hotel were built in 1904, and the double-width north wing was completed in 1913, initially as apartments for permanent guests (...) | |
| 191 | Train ferry ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 55.3696 / 13.1589 | A train ferry is a ship (ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles. Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with railway tracks, and the vessel has a door at the front and/or rear to give access to the wharves (...) | |
| 192 | Universal Studios Japan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 34.6647 / 135.4331 | , located in Osaka, is one of four Universal Studios theme parks, owned and operated by USJ Co., Ltd., which is wholly owned by NBCUniversal (as of 2017). The park is similar to the Universal Orlando Resort since it also contains selected attractions from Universal Orlando Resort and Universal (...) | |
| 193 | 2011 Major League Baseball season ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | The 2011 Major League Baseball season began on Thursday, March 31, and ended on Wednesday, September 28. This marked the first time a season began on a Thursday since 1976, and the first time a regular season ended on a Wednesday since 1990 (...) | |
| 194 | USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 47.5525 / -122.6558 | The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was both the first and last active ship of her class, and the last oil-fired aircraft carrier in (...) | |
| 195 | Fort Riley ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 402 Lat/Lng : 39.0952 / -96.8264 | Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in North Central Kansas, on the Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 101,733 acres (41,170 ha) in Geary and Riley counties (...) | |
| 196 | Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 40.6524 / -74.3848 | Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, or SPFHS, is a comprehensive regional four-year public high school in Union County, New Jersey, which serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the Township of Scotch Plains and the Borough of Fanwood, operating as the lone secondary school of the Scotch (...) | |
| 197 | Japanese cruiser Izumo ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 34.2333 / 132.5 | was the lead ship of her class of armored cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, the ship was built in Britain (...) | |
| 198 | Pace University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 40.7114 / -74.005 | Pace University is a private institution that was founded in 1906. It has a campus in Manhattan, New York City, and two campuses in Westchester County, New York, in Pleasantville and White Plains. The school also operates other properties, including a women's justice center in nearby Yonkers, city (...) | |
| 199 | USS Worden (CG-18) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.9517 / -160.0033 | The fourth USS Worden (DLG/CG-18), a , was a ship of the United States Navy named in honor of Admiral John L. Worden. Originally called a "destroyer leader" or frigate, in 1975 she was redesignated a cruiser in the Navy's ship reclassification (...) | |
| 200 | University of Music and Theatre Leipzig ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 51.3327 / 12.3669 | The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music, it is the oldest university school of music in Germany (...) | |