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| 1 | Technical University of Munich ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 522 Lat/Lng : 48.1486 / 11.5681 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching and Freising-Weihenstephan. It is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology (...) | |
| 2 | Düsseldorf Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 51.2809 / 6.7573 | Düsseldorf Airport (; until March 2013 Düsseldorf International Airport;) is the international airport of Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located approximately north of downtown Düsseldorf, and some south-west of Essen in the Rhine-Ruhr area, Germany's (...) | |
| 3 | Bouaké ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 366 Lat/Lng : 7.6833 / -5.0331 | Bouaké (or Bwake) is the second-largest city in Ivory Coast, with a population of 536,189 (2014 census). It is the seat of three levels of subdivision—Vallée du Bandama District, Gbêkê Region, and Bouaké Department (...) | |
| 4 | Continental AG ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : 46.3708 / -84.5714 | Continental AG, commonly known as Continental, is a leading German automotive manufacturing company specializing in tires, brake systems, interior electronics, automotive safety, powertrain and chassis components, tachographs, and other parts for the automotive and transportation industries (...) | |
| 5 | Sandakan ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 5.837 / 118.1148 | Sandakan (Jawi:) formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the capital of the Sandakan District in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the second largest town in Sabah after Kota Kinabalu. It is located on the east coast of the state in the administrative centre of Sandakan Division and was the former (...) | |
| 6 | Malacca ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 2.2 / 102.25 | Malacca dubbed "The Historic State", is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, next to the Strait of Malacca. The state is bordered by Negeri Sembilan to the north and west and Johor to the south (...) | |
| 7 | London Eye ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 51.5033 / -0.1199 | The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest Ferris wheel, is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.75 million visitors annually, and has made many appearances in popular culture (...) | |
| 8 | Opel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 49.9892 / 8.3908 | Opel (Opel) is a German automobile manufacturer, subsidiary of French automaker Groupe PSA since August 2017. From 1929 until 2017, Opel was owned by American automaker General Motors. Opel vehicles are sold in the United Kingdom under the Vauxhall brand (...) | |
| 9 | Penang ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 5.4 / 100.2333 | Penang is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai (formerly Province Wellesley) on the Malay Peninsula (...) | |
| 10 | Frankfurt Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 50.0326 / 8.5599 | Frankfurt am Main Airport (also known as Rhein-Main-Flughafen) is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres. It is operated by Fraport and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa including Lufthansa CityLine (...) | |
| 11 | Athens International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 37.9364 / 23.9445 | Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" (Diethnís Aeroliménas Athinón "Elefthérios Venizélos") , commonly initialized as "AIA", began operation on 28 March 2001 and is the primary international airport that serves the city of Athens and the region of Attica (...) | |
| 12 | 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 (...) | |
| 13 | Borneo ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 245 Lat/Lng : -0.1758 / 113.6864 | Borneo is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra (...) | |
| 14 | Attack on Pearl Harbor ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 21.365 / -157.95 | The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into (...) | |
| 15 | 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 (...) | |
| 16 | North Sumatra ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1024 Lat/Lng : 2.0 / 99.0 | North Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It is located in the northwest of the island of Sumatra, and its capital is Medan. North Sumatra is fourth most populous province in Indonesia after West Java, East Java and Central Java and the most populous Indonesian province outside Java, with over 13 (...) | |
| 17 | Port Moresby ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : -9.4789 / 147.1494 | (; Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea and the largest city in the South Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the south-western coast of the Papuan (...) | |
| 18 | Medan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 3.5833 / 98.6667 | Medan ; is the capital of North Sumatra province in Indonesia. Located along the northeastern coast of Sumatra island, Medan is the fourth biggest city by population in Indonesia, behind Jakarta, Surabaya and Bandung (...) | |
| 19 | Johns Hopkins University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 80 Lat/Lng : 39.33 / -76.6206 | Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins (...) | |
| 20 | Bandung ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 718 Lat/Lng : -6.9147 / 107.6098 | Bandung is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia. According to 2015 estimate, it is the third-largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya with over 2.5 million inhabitants, while Greater Bandung is the country's second largest metropolitan area with over 8.5 millions inhabitants (...) | |
| 21 | Durban ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : -29.8741 / 31.0102 | Durban (from itheku meaning "bay/lagoon") is the third most populous city in South Africa—after Johannesburg and Cape Town—and the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Located on the east coast of South Africa, Durban is famous for being the busiest port in the country (...) | |
| 22 | Paris ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488."Paris perd ses habitants, la faute à la démographie et aux… meublés touristiques pour la Ville." Le Parisien, 28 December 2017 Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of (...) | |
| 23 | Bali ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 606 Lat/Lng : -8.3692 / 115.1383 | Bali (Balinese:) is a province of Indonesia and an island on the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Located on the east of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan (...) | |
| 24 | Tianjin ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 39.1167 / 117.1833 | Tianjin , formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the nine national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper (...) | |
| 25 | 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 (...) | |
| 26 | Chengdu ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 507 Lat/Lng : 30.657 / 104.066 | Chengdu , formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. It is one of the three most populous cities in Western China, the other two being Chongqing and Xi'an (...) | |
| 27 | 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 (...) | |
| 28 | Slovakia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 48.15 / 17.1167 | Slovakia , officially the Slovak Republic (listen), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's territory spans about and is mostly mountainous (...) | |
| 29 | London School of Economics ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 51.514 / -0.1167 | The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the LSE) is a public research university located in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London (...) | |
| 30 | Tel Aviv University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 32.1118 / 34.8014 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) (Universitat Tel Aviv) is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, the University is the largest in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the University is the center of teaching and research of the city, comprising 9 faculties, 17 (...) | |
| 31 | Shanxi ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1014 Lat/Lng : 37.7 / 112.4 | Shanxi (; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn period (...) | |
| 32 | Bandar Seri Begawan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 4.8907 / 114.9411 | Bandar Seri Begawan (or) (Jawi: بندر سري بڬاوان ;) (formerly known as Brunei Town) is the capital city of the Sultanate of Brunei. It is officially governed as a municipality . Bandar Seri Begawan has an estimated population of 100,700, and including the whole Brunei-Muara District, the metro area (...) | |
| 33 | 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 (...) | |
| 34 | Western New Guinea ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1909 Lat/Lng : -4.0 / 136.0 | Western New Guinea, also known as Papua (: ID-PP),http://www.statoids.com/uid.html is the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea. Since the island is also named as Papua, the region is sometimes called West Papua (...) | |
| 35 | Tashkent ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 467 Lat/Lng : 41.3082 / 69.2598 | Tashkent is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, as well as the most populated city in ex-Soviet Central Asia (though the larger urban centers of Urumqi in China and Kabul in Afghanistan lie well within the geographic region of Central Asia) with a population in 2018 of 2,485,900 (...) | |
| 36 | Thailand ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 13.75 / 100.4833 | Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country (...) | |
| 37 | Thiruvananthapuram ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 8.4874 / 76.952 | Thiruvananthapuram , also known by its former name Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration population is around 1.68 million (...) | |
| 38 | English Channel ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 50.1836 / -0.5311 | The English Channel ("The Sleeve"; , "Sleeve Channel"; , "Sea of Brittany"; , "British Sea"; , "The Channel"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (...) | |
| 39 | Mongolia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1299 Lat/Lng : 47.9167 / 106.9167 | Mongolia (; Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked country in East Asia. Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia, and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state (...) | |
| 40 | Lithuania ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 54.6833 / 25.2667 | Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania , is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe. Since its independence, Lithuania has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark (...) | |
| 41 | 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 (...) | |
| 42 | Dubai International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 25.2536 / 55.3644 | Dubai International Airport is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is also the third-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the sixth-busiest cargo airport in world, the busiest (...) | |
| 43 | Harbin ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 45.8014 / 126.5292 | Harbin (Manchu: Harbin;) is the capital of Heilongjiang province, and largest city in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties (...) | |
| 44 | 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 (...) | |
| 45 | Yale University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 41.3111 / -72.9267 | Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution (...) | |
| 46 | Myanmar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Myanmar , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast (...) | |
| 47 | Bilbao ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 43.2569 / -2.9234 | Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the tenth largest city in Spain, with a population of 345,141 as of 2015 (...) | |
| 48 | Coimbatore ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 422 Lat/Lng : 11.0183 / 76.9747 | Coimbatore , also known as Kovai , is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyyal River and surrounded by the Western Ghats. Coimbatore is the second largest city (by area and population) in the state (after Chennai) and the 16th largest urban (...) | |
| 49 | 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 (...) | |
| 50 | Xi'an ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 415 Lat/Lng : 34.265 / 108.954 | Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province, China. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain in northwestern China, it is one of the oldest cities in China, and the oldest of the Four Great Ancient Capitals, having held the position under several of the most important dynasties in Chinese history, (...) | |
| 51 | New Guinea ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 2230 Lat/Lng : -5.3258 / 141.6072 | New Guinea (; ; ; , historically, ') is a large island off the continent of Australia. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of , and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania (...) | |
| 52 | National Security Agency ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 39.0983 / -76.766 | The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign (...) | |
| 53 | United Kingdom ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : 53.55 / -2.4333 | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed. Some organisations, including the and , prefer to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European (...) | |
| 54 | Shenyang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 41.7956 / 123.4481 | Shenyang , formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian , is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.2010 census According to the 2010 census, the city's urban area has 6 (...) | |
| 55 | Kenya ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1709 Lat/Lng : -1.2667 / 36.8 | Kenya , officially the Republic of Kenya , is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi. Kenya's territory lies on the equator and overlies the East African Rift, covering a diverse and expansive terrain that extends roughly from Lake Victoria to Lake Turkana (formerly called (...) | |
| 56 | Ribe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 55.3269 / 8.7747 | Ribe is a Danish town in south-west Jutland, with a population of 8,168 (1 January 2014). database from Statistics Denmark It is the seat of the Diocese of Ribe covering southwestern Jutland. Until 1 January 2007, Ribe was the seat of both a surrounding municipality, and county (...) | |
| 57 | Jakarta ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : -6.2 / 106.8167 | Jakarta , officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta , is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. It is located on the northwest coast of the world's most populous island, Java. it is the centre of economics, culture and politics of Indonesia. It hosted a population of 10,075,310 (...) | |
| 58 | Beijing ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 39.9035 / 116.3876 | (1st)—very high blank5_name_sec1 = License plate prefixes blank5_info_sec1 = (taxis) (outside urban area) (police and authorities) blank6_name_sec1 = Abbreviation blank6_info_sec1 = BJ / (jīng) blank2_name_sec2 = City flowers blank2_info_sec2 =China rose (Rosa chinensis) blank3_name_sec2 = (...) | |
| 59 | Birmingham ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 52.4831 / -1.8936 | Birmingham is the second-most populous city in the United Kingdom, after London, and the most populous city in the English Midlands. With an estimated population of 1,137,100 , Birmingham is the cultural, social, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands (...) | |
| 60 | 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 (...) | |
| 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 | Jinan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 36.6667 / 116.9833 | Jinan, formerly romanized as Tsinan, is the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China. The area of present-day Jinan has played an important role in the history of the region from the earliest beginnings of civilization and has evolved into a major national administrative, economic, and (...) | |
| 63 | Canberra ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 602 Lat/Lng : -35.3075 / 149.1244 | Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of 403,468, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne (...) | |
| 64 | 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 (...) | |
| 65 | Ko Samui ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 458 Lat/Lng : 9.5019 / 99.9931 | Ko Samui (or Koh Samui) is an island off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus, Thailand. Geographically in the Chumphon Archipelago, it is part of Surat Thani Province, though as of 2012, Ko Samui was granted municipal status and thus is now locally self-governing (...) | |
| 66 | Nanjing ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 32.05 / 118.7667 | Nanjing (help=no), formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with an administrative area of and a total population of 8,270,500 (...) | |
| 67 | Uzbekistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 41.6667 / 64.0667 | Uzbekistan , officially also the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a landlocked country—the only doubly landlocked one (i.e. surrounded solely by other landlocked countries)—in Central Asia and one of the only two in the world (...) | |
| 68 | Qatar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 25.2694 / 51.2128 | Qatar (Pronunciation adopted by Qatar Airways' advertisements, such as ' , or ; ' ; local vernacular pronunciation:), officially the State of Qatar , is a country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula (...) | |
| 69 | 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 (...) | |
| 70 | George Town, Penang ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 5.4167 / 100.3167 | George Town, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang, is located at the north-eastern tip of Penang Island. It is Malaysia's second largest city, with 708,127 inhabitants , while Greater Penang is the nation's second biggest conurbation with a population of 2,412,616 (...) | |
| 71 | Zimbabwe ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1487 Lat/Lng : -17.8268 / 31.0553 | Zimbabwe , officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare (...) | |
| 72 | Carnegie Mellon University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 40.4433 / -79.9436 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private nonprofit research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and began granting four-year degrees (...) | |
| 73 | Hainan ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 373 Lat/Lng : 19.1067 / 109.5675 | Hainan is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , separated from Guangdong's Leizhou Peninsula by the Qiongzhou Strait, is the largest and fifth most populous island under PRC control (Taiwan, which is (...) | |
| 74 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 42.3598 / -71.0921 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied (...) | |
| 75 | Jamaica ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : 18.1096 / -77.2975 | Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the fourth-largest island country in the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the (...) | |
| 76 | Panama ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 9.0 / -79.5 | Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is a country in Central America, Standard Country and Area Codes Classifications (M49), United Nations Statistics Division Atlas of Canada National Geographic bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north (...) | |
| 77 | Nepal ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 26.5333 / 86.7333 | Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal , is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. With an estimated population of 26 (...) | |
| 78 | Laos ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 17.9667 / 102.6 | Laos (;, UK pronunciations, US pronunciations , Lāo), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic , commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia at the heart of the Indochinese (...) | |
| 79 | Columbia, South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 34.0007 / -81.0353 | Columbia is the capital and second largest city of the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population estimate of 134,309 as of 2016. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County (...) | |
| 80 | Liverpool ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 53.4091 / -2.9857 | Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017. Its metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK, with a population of 2.24 million in 2011. The local authority is Liverpool City Council, the most populous local government district in the metropolitan (...) | |
| 81 | 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 (...) | |
| 82 | 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 (...) | |
| 83 | Tenerife ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 2490 Lat/Lng : 28.2686 / -16.6056 | Tenerife is the largest and most populated island of the seven Canary Islands. It is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of and 898,680 inhabitants, 43 percent of the total population of the Canary Islands. Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of Macaronesia (...) | |
| 84 | Guadalcanal Campaign ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : -9.428 / 160.0548 | The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II (...) | |
| 85 | Wimborne Minster ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 50.804 / -1.978 | Wimborne Minster (often referred to as Wimborne) is a market town in East Dorset in South West England, and the name of the Church of England church in that town. According to Office for National Statistics data the population of the Wimborne Minster built-up area is estimated as 15,552 inhabitants (...) | |
| 86 | Malta ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 35.9167 / 14.4333 | Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. Malta is one of the world's smallest and most densely populated countries, at over with a (...) | |
| 87 | 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 (...) | |
| 88 | Battle of Singapore ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 1.3667 / 103.8167 | The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore. Singapore was the major British military base in South-East Asia and was the key to British imperial interwar (...) | |
| 89 | Madame Tussauds ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 51.5228 / -0.1553 | Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. It used to be known as "Madame Tussaud's"; the apostrophe is no longer used.: "Madame Tussaud (who gave the attraction its now-jettisoned apostrophe) .. (...) | |
| 90 | Singapore Flyer ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 1.2894 / 103.8632 | The Singapore Flyer is a giant Ferris wheel in Singapore. Described by its operators as an observation wheel, AFP it opened in 2008, construction having taken about 2½ years. It carried its first paying passengers on 11 February, opened to the public on 1 March, and was officially opened on 15 April (...) | |
| 91 | Sennheiser ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 52.5303 / 9.7525 | Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a German privately held audio company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of high fidelity products, including microphones, headphones, telephone accessories and aviation headsets for personal, professional and business applications. (...) | |
| 92 | Vorwerk (company) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 180 Lat/Lng : 51.2739 / 7.2003 | Vorwerk is an international diversified corporate group headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany. The main business is the direct distribution of various products like household appliances (e.g. Kobold vacuum cleaners), fitted kitchens or cosmetics. Vorwerk was founded in 1883 (...) | |
| 93 | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 39.9532 / -75.198 | The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (; also known as Wharton Business School, The Wharton School or simply Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (...) | |
| 94 | Kowloon Walled City ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 22.3323 / 114.1887 | Kowloon Walled City was a largely ungoverned, densely populated settlement in Kowloon City in Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the Walled City became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to Britain by China in 1898 (...) | |
| 95 | Imperial War Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 51.4958 / -0.1083 | Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and its Empire (...) | |
| 96 | SS America (1939) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 28.3461 / -14.1804 | SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines and was designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS America (carrying this name three (...) | |
| 97 | Rogers Centre ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 43.6415 / -79.3889 | Rogers Centre, originally named SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated just southwest of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989 on the former Railway Lands, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) (...) | |
| 98 | HMS Belfast (C35) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 51.5067 / -0.0812 | HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum. Construction of Belfast, the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of (...) | |
| 99 | Friedrichstadt (Berlin) ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 52.5103 / 13.39 | Friedrichstadt (German pronunciation) was an independent suburb of Berlin, and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I. (...) | |
| 100 | Johor ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 1.4872 / 103.7811 | Johor , formerly known as Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the northwest (...) | |
| 101 | RAF Leuchars ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 56.3731 / -2.8686 | Royal Air Force Leuchars or RAF Leuchars was a Royal Air Force station located in Leuchars, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. Throughout the Cold War and beyond, the station was home to fighter aircraft which policed northern UK airspace (...) | |
| 102 | Japanese battleship Kongō ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 26.15 / 121.3833 | Kongō (金剛, "Indestructible Diamond", named for Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first battlecruiser of the , among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built (...) | |
| 103 | U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 14.8078 / 120.2781 | Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the Spanish Navy and subsequently the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines. The base was 262 square miles, about the size of Singapore (...) | |
| 104 | Weihenstephan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 489 Lat/Lng : 48.395 / 11.7278 | Weihenstephan is a part of Freising north of Munich, Germany. Weihenstephan is known for: * the Benedictine Weihenstephan Abbey, founded 725, which established the oldest still-operating brewery in the world in 1040 (see History of beer).Giebel, Wieland, ed (1992). The New Germany (...) | |
| 105 | 2006 North Korean nuclear test ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 1498 Lat/Lng : 41.294 / 129.134 | The 2006 North Korean nuclear test was the detonation of a nuclear device conducted by North Korea on October 9, 2006. On October 3, 2006, North Korea announced its intention to conduct a nuclear test.Medalia, Jonathan. Congressional Research Service. November 23, 2009. p. 9. (...) | |
| 106 | Swiss Life ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 415 Lat/Lng : 47.3628 / 8.5342 | The Swiss Life Group is the largest life insurance company of Switzerland and one of Europe’s leading comprehensive life and pensions and financial solutions providers, with approximately CHF 224 bn of assets under management (...) | |
| 107 | Süddeutsche Zeitung ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 524 Lat/Lng : 48.1372 / 11.6357 | The Süddeutsche Zeitung (German for South German Newspaper), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. (...) | |
| 108 | Pargny-sur-Saulx ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 48.77 / 4.8386 | Pargny-sur-Saulx is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. Pargny-sur-Saulx is known for its tiles, which are exported sometimes to Singapore, giving it the nickname "the city of the tiles". In addition the town is situated about 18 kilometres from Lac du Der-Chantecoq. (...) | |
| 109 | Jurong Bird Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 1.3181 / 103.7072 | Jurong Bird Park is an aviary and tourist attraction in Jurong, Singapore. The bird park, managed by Wildlife Reserves Singapore, covers an area of on the western slope of Jurong Hill, the highest point in the Jurong region (...) | |
| 110 | USS Saratoga (CV-60) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -19 Lat/Lng : 41.528 / -71.3163 | USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60), was the second of four supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War (...) | |
| 111 | Cathedral of the Good Shepherd ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 1.296 / 103.8513 | The Cathedral of the Good Shepherd is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Singapore. It is located in the Museum Planning Area within the Civic District. Bounded by the parallel Queen and Victoria Streets, and Bras Basah Road, the Cathedral sits within shaded grounds (...) | |
| 112 | Association of Southeast Asian Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : -6.239 / 106.7993 | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) , ASEAN-10: Meeting the Challenges, by Termsak Chalermpalanupap, , ASEAN Secretariat official website. Retrieved 27 June 2008. is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten Southeast Asian countries, which promotes intergovernmental (...) | |
| 113 | USS America (CV-66) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 33.1525 / -71.6519 | USS America (CVA/CV-66) was one of three supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1960s. Commissioned in 1965, she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, but did make three Pacific deployments serving in the Vietnam War (...) | |
| 114 | Force India ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 151 Lat/Lng : 52.0758 / -1.0294 | Force India Formula One Team Limited, commonly known as Force India and later Sahara Force India, was a Formula One racing team and constructor based in Silverstone, United Kingdom, with an Indian licence. The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium led by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya (...) | |
| 115 | University of Greifswald ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 54.0944 / 13.3744 | The University of Greifswald is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Founded in 1456 (teaching existed since 1436), it is one of the oldest universities in Europe, with generations of notable alumni and staff having studied or worked in (...) | |
| 116 | World War II ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 48.7194 / 44.5018 | World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis (...) | |
| 117 | Asia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 46.2833 / 86.6667 | Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa (...) | |
| 118 | Lufthansa ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 50.9415 / 6.9809 | Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or JSC) , commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size, largest airlines in Europe (...) | |
| 119 | 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 (...) | |
| 120 | Interpol ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 45.7822 / 4.8484 | The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-INTERPOL;), more commonly known as Interpol, is the international organization that facilitates international police cooperation. It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923; it chose INTERPOL as its (...) | |
| 121 | TV5Monde ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 48.8836 / 2.3019 | TV5Monde (; formerly known as TV5) is a French pay television network, broadcasting several channels of French language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union. (...) | |
| 122 | Moradabad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 28.8324 / 78.7747 | Moradabad (pronunciation) is a city, commissionary, and a municipal corporation in Moradabad district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 1625A.D. by Rustam Khan and is named after prince Murad Baksh, the youngest son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal (...) | |
| 123 | Ferris wheel ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 641 Lat/Lng : 36.1174 / -115.1681 | A Ferris wheel (sometimes called in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in (...) | |
| 124 | Singapore Management University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 1.2967 / 103.8497 | The Singapore Management University (Abbreviation: SMU) is an autonomous university in Singapore. The university provides an American-style education modelled after the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (...) | |
| 125 | Empire of Japan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 35.6833 / 139.7667 | The was the historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan. Japan's rapid industrialization and militarization under the slogan led to its emergence as a world power and the establishment of a colonial (...) | |
| 126 | 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 (...) | |
| 127 | Renault in Formula One ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 135 Lat/Lng : 51.92 / -1.3903 | Renault are currently involved in Formula One as a constructor, under the name of Renault Sport Formula One Team. They have been associated with Formula One as both constructor and engine supplier for various periods since 1977 (...) | |
| 128 | Bahrain International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 26.2708 / 50.6336 | Bahrain International Airport (maṭār al-Baḥrayn al-dwalī) is the international airport of Bahrain, located in Muharraq, an island about northeast of the capital Manama. It serves as the hub for the national carrier Gulf Air. The airport is currently undergoing a $1 (...) | |
| 129 | Expo 2010 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 31.1941 / 121.4864 | Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the (...) | |
| 130 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 29.9848 / -95.3414 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, under class B airspace, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Located about north of Downtown Houston, between Interstate 45 and Interstate 69/U.S (...) | |
| 131 | Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 3.5667 / 104.4333 | The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in the Second World War, part of the war in the Pacific, that took place north of Singapore, off the east coast of Malaya, near Kuantan, Pahang, where the Royal Navy battleship and battlecruiser were sunk by land-based bombers and (...) | |
| 132 | Zlín ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 227 Lat/Lng : 49.2269 / 17.6689 | Zlín is a city in southeastern Moravia in the Czech Republic, the seat of the Zlín Region, on the Dřevnice river. The development of the modern city is closely connected to the Bata Shoes company and its social scheme, developed after the First World War (...) | |
| 133 | Qaboos bin Said al Said ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 23.6147 / 58.5955 | Qaboos bin Said Al Said (; born 18 November 1940). Encyclopedia.jrank.org. Retrieved on 14 July 2011. is the Sultan of Oman. He rose to power after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur, in a palace coup in 1970. He is the 14th-generation descendant of the founder of the Al Bu Sa'id dynasty (...) | |
| 134 | Airbus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 43.6122 / 1.3631 | Airbus SE , from 2000 to 2014 known as the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), is a European aerospace corporation, registered in the Netherlands and trading shares in France, Germany and Spain (...) | |
| 135 | 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 (...) | |
| 136 | Sciences Po ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 48.8542 / 2.3285 | The Paris Institute of Political Studies , commonly referred to as Sciences Po , is a prestigious and influential academic institution in the social sciences in France (legally a grande école). It was founded in 1872 to promote a new class of French politicians in the aftermath of the French defeat (...) | |
| 137 | 1938 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 53.3937 / 13.7438 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 ** The California Golden Bears defeat the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1938 Rose Bowl with a final score 13-0. ** The Company 1938 OEM Industrial Groups is officially registered (...) | |
| 138 | Wired (magazine) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.7808 / -122.3957 | Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has been in publication since March/April 1993 (...) | |
| 139 | Ryōan-ji ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 35.0344 / 135.7183 | is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"),Nitschke, Le Jardin japonais, pg (...) | |
| 140 | Embraer ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -21.7601 / 48.4034 | Embraer S.A. (can alternatively be spelt as Embrær) is a Brazilian aerospace conglomerate that produces commercial, military, executive and agricultural aircraft and provides aeronautical services. It is headquartered in São José dos Campos, São Paulo (...) | |
| 141 | May 2 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 364 Lat/Lng : 30.0 / 35.2 | ==Events== *1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. *1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. *1335 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia (...) | |
| 142 | Bletchley Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 51.9965 / -0.7428 | Bletchley Park is a nineteenth-century mansion and estate near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, constructed during the years following 1883 for the English financier and politician Sir Herbert Samuel Leon in the Victorian Gothic, Tudor, and Dutch Baroque styles, on the site of older buildings of (...) | |
| 143 | GlobalFoundries ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 37.4153 / -121.9744 | GlobalFoundries is an American semiconductor foundry headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States.By Nathan Donato-Weinstein, Silicon Valley Business Journal. “.” March 12, 2013. Retrieved May 2, 2016 (...) | |
| 144 | BMW ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 513 Lat/Lng : 48.1771 / 11.5593 | BMW AG (; originally an initialism for Bayerische Motoren Werke in German, or Bavarian Motor Works in English) is a German multinational company which currently produces luxury automobiles and motorcycles, and also produced aircraft engines until 1945 (...) | |
| 145 | Sabah ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 371 Lat/Lng : 2.8 / 113.8833 | Sabah is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo Island. Sabah has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest, and Indonesia's Kalimantan region to the south. The Federal Territory of Labuan is an island just off the Sabah coast (...) | |
| 146 | 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 (...) | |
| 147 | UBS ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 416 Lat/Lng : 47.372 / 8.536 | UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centers as the largest Swiss banking institution in the world (...) | |
| 148 | Jolo, Sulu ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 6.052 / 121.002 | , officially the , (Tausūg: Dāira sin Tiyanggi), is a settlement_text of the Philippines and capital of the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Part of its population is of Chinese descent, mainly from Singapore (...) | |
| 149 | Pixar ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.8321 / -122.2826 | Pixar Animation Studios, commonly referred to as Pixar , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company (...) | |
| 150 | University of Wollongong ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : -34.4062 / 150.8795 | The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017 the university has an enrolment of more than 32,000 students (including over 12,800 (...) | |
| 151 | McLaren ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 51.3458 / -0.5478 | McLaren Racing Limited, competing as McLaren F1 Team, is a British Formula One team based at the McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey, England. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in and won the Indianapolis 500 and the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (...) | |
| 152 | WTA Finals ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 1.3006 / 103.8742 | The WTA Finals (formerly known as the WTA Tour Championships short: WTA Championships), is a professional tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour (...) | |
| 153 | 2018 Winter Olympics ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 736 Lat/Lng : 37.667 / 128.706 | The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, was an international winter multi-sport event that was held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain (...) | |
| 154 | Sewage treatment ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1424 Lat/Lng : -22.4764 / 18.9516 | Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from municipal wastewater, containing mainly household sewage plus some industrial wastewater. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are used to remove contaminants and produce treated wastewater (or treated effluent) that is safe (...) | |
| 155 | Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 142 Lat/Lng : 47.4393 / 19.2618 | Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport" ." Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Retrieved on 4 February 2012. , formerly known as Budapest Ferihegy International Airport and still commonly called just Ferihegy, is the international airport serving the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, (...) | |
| 156 | Panasonic ![]() FeatureType : landamrk Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 34.7438 / 135.5701 | , formerly known as , is a Japanese multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan." ." Panasonic Corporation. Retrieved February 15, 2011. "Head Office Location 1006, Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8501, Japan" The company was founded in 1918 as a producer of (...) | |
| 157 | Ford Motor Company ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 181 Lat/Lng : 42.3147 / -83.2106 | Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand (...) | |
| 158 | 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). (...) | |
| 159 | FC Bayern Munich ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 523 Lat/Lng : 48.1437 / 11.5766 | Fußball-Club Bayern München e.V., commonly known as FC Bayern München , FCB, Bayern Munich, or FC Bayern, is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria (Bayern). It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system, (...) | |
| 160 | French Indochina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 21.0333 / 105.85 | French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China)While both 'Indo-China' and 'Indochina' can be found in contemporary English-language sources, 'Indo-China' is the most commonly used spelling (even though Indochine, instead of Indo-Chine', was commonly used in French); contemporary official (...) | |
| 161 | Alor Setar ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 6.1214 / 100.3664 | Alor Setar (Jawi: الور ستار), formerly known as Alor Star from 2004 to 2008, is the state capital of Kedah, Malaysia. It is the second-largest city in the state after Sungai Petani and one of the most-important cities on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia (...) | |
| 162 | Molokai ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 222 Lat/Lng : 21.1333 / -157.0333 | Molokai (; Hawaiian:), nicknamed “The Friendly Isle”, is the fifth largest island of eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Island Chain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) in size at its extreme length and width with a usable land area of , making it the (...) | |
| 163 | US Open (tennis) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 40.7499 / -73.847 | The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament. The tournament is the modern version of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles was first played in 1881 (...) | |
| 164 | November 2015 Paris attacks ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 48.8619 / 2.3468 | The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16 CET, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football (...) | |
| 165 | Scuderia Ferrari ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 44.5331 / 10.8631 | Scuderia Ferrari S.p.A. is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer, Ferrari, and the racing team that competes in Formula One racing. The team is also nicknamed "The Prancing Horse", with reference to their logo (...) | |
| 166 | Nanjing University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 32.0561 / 118.775 | Nanjing University (NJU or NU, sometimes Nanking University), known as Nanda , is a major public university, the oldest institution of higher learning in Nanjing, Jiangsu, and a member of the elite C9 League of Chinese universities (...) | |
| 167 | La Rochelle ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 46.1591 / -1.1517 | La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988 (...) | |
| 168 | Doboj ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 44.7318 / 18.087 | Doboj is a city located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of Bosna river, in the northern region of the Republika Srpska. As of 2013, it has a population of 71,441 inhabitants (...) | |
| 169 | Fudan University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 31.2989 / 121.4992 | Fudan University , located in Shanghai, is a C9 League university that is one of the most prestigious and selective universities in China. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University (...) | |
| 170 | FIFA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 600 Lat/Lng : 47.3813 / 8.5744 | The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA ; French for "International Federation of Association Football") is an organization which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer (...) | |
| 171 | October 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 45.2 / 36.6 | It is the first day of the fourth quarter of the year. (...) | |
| 172 | Pedra Branca dispute ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 1.3297 / 104.4076 | The Pedra Branca dispute was a territorial dispute between Singapore and Malaysia over several islets at the eastern entrance to the Singapore Strait, namely Pedra Branca (previously called Pulau Batu Puteh and now Batu Puteh by Malaysia), Middle Rocks and South Ledge (...) | |
| 173 | Burger King ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 25.7828 / -80.2874 | Burger King (BK) is an American global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in the unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based restaurant chain (...) | |
| 174 | Gatwick Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 51.1482 / -0.1903 | Gatwick Airport , (retrieved 5 September 2012) also known as London Gatwick is a major international airport near Crawley in West Sussex, southeast England, south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow (...) | |
| 175 | Bayer ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 51.0137 / 6.983 | Bayer AG is a German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company. Headquartered in Leverkusen, where its illuminated corporate logo, the Bayer cross, is a landmark, Bayer's areas of business include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products; agricultural chemicals (...) | |
| 176 | Commonwealth of Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 51.505 / -0.1358 | The Commonwealth of Nations, normally known as the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental aspects, (...) | |
| 177 | Death of Lee Kuan Yew ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 1.2787 / 103.8344 | Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore and former leader of the People's Action Party, died at the age of 91 on 23 March 2015, after being hospitalised with severe pneumonia on 5 February 2015. Many world leaders issued public condolences (...) | |
| 178 | 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 (...) | |
| 179 | Williams Grand Prix Engineering ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 51.6181 / -1.4128 | Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, currently racing in Formula One as Williams Martini Racing, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and is run by team owner Sir Frank Williams and automotive engineer Sir Patrick Head (...) | |
| 180 | Battle of Leyte Gulf ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 10.371 / 125.356 | The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) is generally considered to have been the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history. It was fought in waters near the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar and Luzon, from 23–26 (...) | |
| 181 | Tesla, Inc. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.3947 / -122.1503 | Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing (...) | |
| 182 | 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 (...) | |
| 183 | World Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 38.8989 / -77.0425 | The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA) (...) | |
| 184 | World Trade Organization ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 385 Lat/Lng : 46.2239 / 6.1496 | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement, signed by 124 nations on 15 April 1994, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which (...) | |
| 185 | McDonald's ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 33.9475 / -118.1179 | McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand, and later turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo being (...) | |
| 186 | Memphis, Indiana ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1137 Lat/Lng : 38.4869 / 85.7642 | Memphis is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Indiana, United States. The population was 695 at the 2010 census. (...) | |
| 187 | Birsa Munda Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 647 Lat/Lng : 23.3142 / 85.3217 | Birsa Munda Airport , also known as Ranchi Airport, is the primary airport serving the city of Ranchi, the capital city of the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is named after Indian tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda and is currently managed by Airports Authority of India (...) | |
| 188 | Midtown Manhattan ![]() FeatureType : adm3rd Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 40.7469 / -73.9861 | Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Midtown is home to some of the city's most iconic buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the headquarters of the United Nations, as well as the Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and (...) | |
| 189 | Telugu language ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 16.792 / 82.0633 | Telugu (;Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the union territories of Puducherry (Yanam) by the Telugu people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India (...) | |
| 190 | Ramakrishna Mission ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 22.37 / 88.21 | Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the Ramakrishna Movement or the Vedanta Movement. The mission is named after and inspired by the Indian saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and founded by Ramakrishna's (...) | |
| 191 | Pune Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 594 Lat/Lng : 18.5822 / 73.9198 | Pune Airport is located approximately northeast of Pune in the state of Maharashtra, India. The airport is a civil enclave operated by the Airports Authority of India at the eastern side of Lohegaon Air Force Station of the Indian Air Force (...) | |
| 192 | Auckland Zoo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -36.8622 / 174.7189 | Auckland Zoo is a zoological garden in Auckland, New Zealand, situated next to Western Springs park not far from Auckland's central business district. It is run by the Auckland Council with the Auckland Zoological Society as a supporting organisation (...) | |
| 193 | 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 (...) | |
| 194 | International Olympic Committee ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 380 Lat/Lng : 46.5181 / 6.5969 | The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Olympic (...) | |
| 195 | 2015 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 29.7565 / 112.9243 | 2015 was designated as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soils __TOC__ (...) | |
| 196 | Concorde ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 49.0107 / 2.5534 | The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers (...) | |
| 197 | Goodwood Park Hotel ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 1.3083 / 103.8339 | The Goodwood Park Hotel (Chinese: 良木园酒店) is a heritage hotel in Singapore, situated in a 6-hectare landscaped garden on Scotts Road. It was first built as the club house for the Teutonic Club serving the expatriate German community in Singapore, and later converted into a hotel (...) | |
| 198 | Red Bull Racing ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 52.0083 / -0.6928 | Red Bull Racing (also known as Red Bull or RBR and competing as Aston Martin Red Bull Racing) is a Formula One racing team, racing under an Austrian licence and based in the United Kingdom. The team raced under a British licence from to and has raced under an Austrian licence since (...) | |
| 199 | Shandong ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 382 Lat/Lng : 36.315 / 117.839 | Shandong (; formerly romanised as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a (...) | |
| 200 | Sichuan ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1199 Lat/Lng : 30.714 / 103.403 | Sichuan (; formerly romanised as Szechuan or Szechwan), is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south (...) | |