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| 1 | Granada ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 689 Lat/Lng : 37.1781 / -3.6008 | Granada Former names: , DIN: Ġarnāṭah; Elibýrge (Stephanus of Byzantium), (Ptolemy ii. 4. § 11) or (Pliny iii. 1. s. 3 is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain (...) | |
| 2 | Madrid ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 700 Lat/Lng : 40.4333 / -3.6833 | Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole. The city has almost 3.2 million, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2015. inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.5 million (...) | |
| 3 | Marbella ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 36.5167 / -4.8833 | Marbella is a city and municipality in southern Spain, belonging to the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is part of the Costa del Sol and is the headquarters of the Association of Municipalities of the region; it is also the head of the judicial district that bears its (...) | |
| 4 | University of California, Davis ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.5371 / -121.7541 | The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a public research university and land-grant university as well as one of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system (...) | |
| 5 | 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 (...) | |
| 6 | 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 (...) | |
| 7 | 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 (...) | |
| 8 | 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 (...) | |
| 9 | NBBJ ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 47.6201 / -122.3308 | NBBJ is an American global architecture, planning and design firm with offices in Beijing, Boston, Columbus, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Pune, San Francisco, Seattle, and Shanghai. NBBJ provides services in architecture, interiors, planning and urban design, branding, consulting, (...) | |
| 10 | Boeing 777 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 6.9208 / 103.5786 | The Boeing 777 is a long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world's largest twinjet and has a typical seating capacity of 314 to 396 passengers, with a range of (...) | |
| 11 | 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 (...) | |
| 12 | Boeing ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 47.514 / -122.2969 | The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support services (...) | |
| 13 | 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 (...) | |
| 14 | 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 (...) | |
| 15 | USS Barry (DD-933) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 38.871 / -76.996 | USS Barry (DD-933) was one of eighteen Forrest Sherman–class destroyers of the United States Navy, and was the third US destroyer to be named for Commodore John Barry. Commissioned in 1954, she spent most of her career in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean, but also served in the Vietnam (...) | |
| 16 | Butuan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 8.95 / 125.533 | (pronounced), officially the (; Butuanon: Dakbayan hong), or simply known as City, is a highly urbanized city and regional center of the Caraga Region, . According to the , it has a population of people. It served as the former capital of the Rajahnate of Butuan before 1001 until 1756 (...) | |
| 17 | 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 (...) | |
| 18 | Baltimore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 39.2864 / -76.615 | Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States. Baltimore was established by the Constitution of MarylandThe form and type of government of the city is described by Article XI of the State Constitution (...) | |
| 19 | United Airlines Flight 175 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 40.7117 / -74.0136 | United Airlines Flight 175 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Logan International Airport, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles International Airport, in Los Angeles, California. On September 11, 2001, the Boeing 767-200 operating the route was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists (...) | |
| 20 | Santa Bárbara d'Oeste ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 567 Lat/Lng : -22.7539 / -47.4139 | Santa Bárbara d'Oeste is a municipality in the State of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. It lies about northwest of the State capital. It occupies an area of , of which is urban (...) | |
| 21 | Atlantis The Palm, Dubai ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 25.1309 / 55.1172 | Atlantis The Palm, Dubai is a luxury hotel resort located at the apex of the Palm Jumeirah in the United Arab Emirates. It was the first resort to be built on the island and is themed on the myth of Atlantishttp://www.atlantisthepalm.com Atlantis but includes distinct Arabian elements (...) | |
| 22 | Syro-Malankara Catholic Church ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 8.525 / 76.9375 | The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church also known as the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the Pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (...) | |
| 23 | Maersk ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 55.688 / 12.5976 | A.P. Moller–Maersk Group , also known as simply Maersk, it is a Danish business conglomerate with activities in the transport, logistics and energy sectors. Maersk has been the largest container ship and supply vessel operator in the world since 1996 (...) | |
| 24 | Academi ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 125 Lat/Lng : 38.9484 / -77.3618 | Academi is an American private military company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince as Blackwater,, 6 December 2012, RT renamed as Xe Services in 2009 and now known as Academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors. (...) | |
| 25 | Virgin Megastores ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 363 Lat/Lng : 31.753 / -8.1718 | Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded by Sir Richard Branson as a record shop on London's Oxford Street in early 1976. In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road (...) | |
| 26 | Demographics of California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 35.4636 / -119.3254 | California is the most populated U.S. state, with an estimated population of 39.497 million as of 2017. It has people from a wide variety of ethnic, racial, national, and religious backgrounds. (...) | |
| 27 | Charlie Hebdo shooting ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 48.8592 / 2.3703 | On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others (...) | |
| 28 | Hult International Business School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 42.3694 / -71.0736 | Hult International Business School is a private business school with campuses in London, San Francisco, Dubai, Boston, New York City, and Shanghai. Hult, named for the school's benefactor Bertil Hult, is the successor of an American institution, the Arthur D (...) | |
| 29 | Expo Pilipino ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 15.2047 / 120.5281 | Clark Expo (formerly, Expo Pilipino) was the Philippine National Centennial Exposition and centerpiece of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the declaration of Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898 (...) | |
| 30 | Jamba Juice ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 262 Lat/Lng : 34.1456 / -118.1491 | Jamba, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Jamba Juice Company form an American restaurant retailer headquartered in Frisco, Texas and previously headquartered in Emeryville, California. The company has over 875 locations operating in 26 U.S (...) | |
| 31 | 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 37.7786 / -122.3892 | The 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the seventh edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens. Organised by World Rugby, it was held at AT&T Park in San Francisco, United States. A total of 84 matches (52 men's and 32 women's) were played over three days from July 20–22, 2018 with both tournaments being (...) | |
| 32 | Falcon (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 26.5584 / -99.1693 | A falcon is a bird of prey. Falcon may also refer to: (...) | |
| 33 | History of the Nicaragua Canal ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 11.5 / -85.0 | There is a long history of attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Construction of such a shipping route—using the San Juan River as an access route to Lake Nicaragua—was first proposed in the early colonial era (...) | |
| 34 | Diptyque ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 48.8497 / 2.3517 | Diptyque is a Paris-based luxury goods company that produces a high-end line of scented candles, perfumes, face and body care. The name Diptyque is from Ancient Greek δίπτυχος (díptykhos) and refers to a painting or sculpture composed of two panels. (...) | |
| 35 | USS Acadia (AD-42) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 21.3817 / -157.9886 | USS Acadia (AD-42) was a in the service of the United States Navy, named after Acadia National Park. She was inactive and in reserve after her 1994 decommissioning at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii under Maintenance Category B, until sunk off Guam during a (...) | |
| 36 | MODUL University Vienna ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 438 Lat/Lng : 48.2744 / 16.3366 | MODUL University Vienna (MU Vienna) is a private university established in 1908 in Vienna, Austria, focusing on social and economic development, particularly in the areas of tourism, new media information technology, sustainability, business management, and public governance (...) | |
| 37 | Bridge to nowhere ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : 51.5375 / 7.3392 | A bridge to nowhere is a bridge where one or both ends are broken or incomplete and does not lead anywhere. If it is an overpass or an interchange, the term overpass to nowhere or interchange to nowhere may be used respectively (...) | |
| 38 | Holy See of Cilicia ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 33.9183 / 35.5853 | The Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia is a hierarchal see of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Since 1930, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia has been headquartered in Antelias, Lebanon. Aram I is the Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church since 1995. (...) | |
| 39 | SS Independence ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 72.191 / 21.2987 | SS Independence was a US built and flagged ocean liner which entered service in February 1951 for American Export Lines. Between 1974 and 1982 the vessel sailed as Oceanic Independence for Atlantic Far East Lines and American Hawaii Cruises, before reverting to the original name (...) | |
| 40 | TechShop ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 37.4832 / -122.178 | TechShop was a chain of membership-based, open-access, do-it-yourself (DIY) workshops and fabrication studios. they had ten locations in the United States: three in California, one in Arizona, one in Arlington, Virginia (near DC), one in Michigan, one in Texas, one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and (...) | |
| 41 | Embassy of Austria, Washington, D.C. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 38.9442 / -77.0687 | The Embassy of Austria in Washington, D.C. is the primary diplomatic mission of the Republic of Austria to the United States and represent the interests of Austria and Austrian citizens in the U.S. It is located at 3524 International Court, NW, Washington, D.C (...) | |
| 42 | New York Mercantile Exchange ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 40.7146 / -74.017 | The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is a commodity futures exchange owned and operated by CME Group of Chicago. NYMEX is located at One North End Avenue in Brookfield Place in the Battery Park City section of Manhattan, New York City (...) | |
| 43 | Victory (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : 43.1973 / -76.6544 | Victory is successful conclusion of a fight or competition.. Victory may also refer to: (...) | |
| 44 | USS Elliot (DD-967) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -24.7167 / 155.8333 | USS Elliot (DD-967) was a in the United States Navy. Built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi, the ship was named for Lieutenant Commander Arthur J. Elliot II, USN (1933–1968), who as commanding officer of Patrol Boat River Squadron 57, was (...) | |
| 45 | BizX ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 47.5786 / -122.154 | BizX is an American financial technology company that operates a digital private currency (the BizX dollar) that facilitates business-to-business exchange of goods and services. Originally designed as a barter exchange, BizX has been upgraded to the digital private currency model, one that (...) | |
| 46 | Estadio Virgilio Tejeira ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 8.4931 / -80.3394 | Estadio Virgilio Tejeira is a Football stadium in Penonomé, Coclé, Panama which for the 2008 ANAPROF will host San Francisco F.C. and Atlético Veragüense. Virgilio Tejeira is the name of the person whom donated the lands for the constructions of the stadium (...) | |