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| 1 | Singapore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 1.35 / 103.85 | Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: ; Chinese: ; Tamil:), is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to (...) | |
| 2 | 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 (...) | |
| 3 | North Korea ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 39.5462 / 126.0632 | North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (abbreviated as DPRK, PRK, DPR Korea, or Korea DPR), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang the capital and the largest city in the country (...) | |
| 4 | Strait of Malacca ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 1.4633 / 102.8072 | The Strait of Malacca (; Jawi: سلت ملاک) or Straits of Malacca is a narrow, stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. As the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, it is one of the most important shipping (...) | |
| 5 | 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 (...) | |
| 6 | Incheon International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.4691 / 126.4505 | Incheon International Airport (IIA) (sometimes referred to as Seoul–Incheon International Airport) is the largest airport in South Korea, the primary airport serving the Seoul Capital Area, and one of the largest and busiest airports in the world (...) | |
| 7 | Sentosa ![]() FeatureType : isle}} Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 1.2472 / 103.8272 | Sentosa, previously called Pulau Blakang Mati, is a resort island in Singapore. It was once a British military base and a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and many Chinese were found killed on its beach during the Japanese occupation (...) | |
| 8 | Batam ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 1.0833 / 104.05 | Batam is the largest city in the province of Riau Islands, Indonesia. The city administrative area covers three main islands of Batam, Rempang, and Galang (collectively called Barelang), as well as several small islands (...) | |
| 9 | Suzhou ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 31.3039 / 120.6164 | Suzhou (Wu Chinese), formerly romanized as Soochow, is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about northwest of Shanghai. It is a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce, and the second largest city in the province, after its capital Nanjing (...) | |
| 10 | Ryugyong Hotel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 39.0364 / 125.7306 | The Ryugyong Hotel (; sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, is an unfinished 105-story, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name ("capital of willows") is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang (...) | |
| 11 | Putrajaya ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 2.9431 / 101.6994 | Putrajaya, officially the Federal Territory of Putrajaya , is a planned city and the federal administrative centre of Malaysia. The seat of government was shifted in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya because of overcrowding and congestion in the former (...) | |
| 12 | Malaysia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 3.1333 / 101.7 | Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of 13 states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (...) | |
| 13 | Indian Ocean ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : -20.0 / 80.0 | The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface). It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by (...) | |
| 14 | 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 (...) | |
| 15 | 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 (...) | |
| 16 | Yantai ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.541 / 121.394 | Yantai, formerly known as Zhifu or Chefoo, is a prefecture-level city on the Bohai Strait in northeastern Shandong Province, China. Lying on the southern coast of the Korea Bay, Yantai borders Qingdao on the southwest and Weihai on the east. It is the largest fishing seaport in Shandong (...) | |
| 17 | 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 (...) | |
| 18 | Yangon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 16.8053 / 96.1561 | Yangon (MLCTS rankun mrui, ; formerly known as Rangoon, lit. "End of Strife") is the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the capital to the purpose-built city of Naypyidaw in central (...) | |
| 19 | Newcastle, New South Wales ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -32.9167 / 151.75 | The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas. It is the hub of the Greater Newcastle area which includes most parts of the local government areas of City of (...) | |
| 20 | 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. (...) | |
| 21 | 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 (...) | |
| 22 | Baguio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1449 Lat/Lng : 16.4151 / 120.5954 | , officially the (Ibaloi: Ciudad ne Bag-iw; ;) and popularly referred to as Baguio City, is a mountain resort city located in Northern Luzon, Philippines. It is known as the Summer Capital of the Philippines, owing to its cool climate since the city is located approximately 4810 feet above mean sea (...) | |
| 23 | Murdoch University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : -32.0665 / 115.8351 | Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university in July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975 (...) | |
| 24 | 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 (...) | |
| 25 | 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 (...) | |
| 26 | Changsha ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 28.2278 / 112.9388 | Changsha (Changsha dialect: Tsanso) is the capital and most populous city of Hunan province in the south central part of the People's Republic of China. It covers and is bordered by Yueyang and Yiyang to the north, Loudi to the west, Xiangtan and Zhuzhou to the south, Yichun and Pingxiang of Jiangxi (...) | |
| 27 | 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 (...) | |
| 28 | 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 (...) | |
| 29 | 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 (...) | |
| 30 | 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 (...) | |
| 31 | Barcelona–El Prat Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 41.2969 / 2.0783 | Barcelona–El Prat Airport. BOE. (Catalan: Aeroport de Barcelona – el Prat, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Barcelona-El Prat), also known as El Prat Airport, is an international airport located southwest. Eurocontrol.int. Retrieved on 4 October 2011 (...) | |
| 32 | 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 (...) | |
| 33 | 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 (...) | |
| 34 | 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 (...) | |
| 35 | Narita International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 35.7644 / 140.3917 | , also known as Tokyo Narita Airport, formerly and originally known as , is an international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan. It is located approximately east of central Tokyo in Chiba Prefecture, straddling the border between the city of Narita and the adjacent town of Shibayama (...) | |
| 36 | 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) (...) | |
| 37 | 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, (...) | |
| 38 | Emory University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : 33.7911 / -84.3233 | Emory University is a private research university in the Druid Hills neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory (...) | |
| 39 | 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 (...) | |
| 40 | 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 (...) | |
| 41 | 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 (...) | |
| 42 | 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 (...) | |
| 43 | 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 (...) | |
| 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 | Changchun ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 43.8833 / 125.3167 | Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 2 county-level cities. According to the 2010 census of China, Changchun had a total population of 7,674,439 under its (...) | |
| 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 | Brunei ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 4.4167 / 114.5833 | Brunei , officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of PeacePeter Haggett (ed). Encyclopedia of World Geography, Volume 1, Marshall Cavendish, 2001, . (Jawi:), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia (...) | |
| 48 | 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 (...) | |
| 49 | Mandalay ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 21.9769 / 96.0869 | Mandalay (or ;) is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar (Burma). Located north of Yangon on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census). Mandalay is the economic centre of Upper Burma and considered the centre of Burmese culture (...) | |
| 50 | 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 (...) | |
| 51 | Kuching ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 1.5485 / 110.3414 | Kuching , officially the City of Kuching, is the capital and the most populous city in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. It is also the capital of Kuching Division. The city is situated on the Sarawak River at the southwest tip of the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo and covers an area of (...) | |
| 52 | Turkmenistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 39.0667 / 60.2667 | Turkmenistan (or ;), formerly known as Turkmenia,; New York Times – 28 October 1991. Retrieved on 16 November 2016. officially the Republic of Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to (...) | |
| 53 | Phnom Penh ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 11.5717 / 104.9231 | Phnom Penh (or ;Dictionary Reference The Free Dictionary: phnum pɨñ), formerly known as Krong Chaktomuk or Krong Chaktomuk Serimongkul , is the capital and most populous city in Cambodia. Phnom Penh has been the national capital since French colonization of Cambodia, and has grown to become the (...) | |
| 54 | Australia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 607 Lat/Lng : -35.3081 / 149.1244 | Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area (...) | |
| 55 | 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 (...) | |
| 56 | 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 (...) | |
| 57 | 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 (...) | |
| 58 | Cebu City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 10.3032 / 123.8994 | , officially the , , is a highly urbanized city of the island of Cebu in the Central Visayas Region, . According to the , it has a population of people, making it the fifth most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the Visayas (...) | |
| 59 | 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 (...) | |
| 60 | Diego Garcia ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : -7.3133 / 72.4111 | Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. It was settled by the French in the 1790s and was transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars (...) | |
| 61 | Hangzhou ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 30.2731 / 120.1769 | Hangzhou (Mandarin: ; local dialect: /ɦɑŋ tseɪ/) formerly romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China. It sits at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo (...) | |
| 62 | 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 (...) | |
| 63 | 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 (...) | |
| 64 | 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 (...) | |
| 65 | 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 = (...) | |
| 66 | 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 (...) | |
| 67 | 2018 North Korea–United States summit ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 1.2494 / 103.8244 | The 2018 North Korea—United States summit was a June 12, 2018 summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, held at the Capella Hotel, Sentosa, Singapore. This was the first-ever meeting between leaders of the United States and North Korea (...) | |
| 68 | Kota Kinabalu ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 5.9714 / 116.0952 | Kota Kinabalu (Jawi:), formerly known as Jesselton, is the state capital of Sabah, Malaysia and the capital of the Kota Kinabalu District. It is also the capital of the West Coast Division of Sabah. The city is located on the northwest coast of Borneo facing the South China Sea (...) | |
| 69 | 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 (...) | |
| 70 | 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 (...) | |
| 71 | 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 (...) | |
| 72 | 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 (...) | |
| 73 | Yemen ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 711 Lat/Lng : 15.8134 / 47.7905 | Yemen , officially known as the Republic of Yemen , is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying . The coastline stretches for about (...) | |
| 74 | 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 (...) | |
| 75 | Kathmandu ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1301 Lat/Lng : 27.7033 / 85.3181 | Kathmandu (; , Yei, Nepali pronunciation:) is the capital city of Nepal. It is the largest metropolis in Nepal, with a population of 1.5 million in the city proper, and 3 million in its urban agglomeration across the Kathmandu Valley, which includes the towns of Lalitpur, Kirtipur, Madhyapur Thimi, (...) | |
| 76 | Montreal ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 45.5077 / -73.5626 | Montreal (; is the local English pronunciation; in the rest of Canada, it tends to be , but the British and American pronunciation is . ; officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada (...) | |
| 77 | 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 (...) | |
| 78 | 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 (...) | |
| 79 | Saga Prefecture ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 33.2831 / 130.1664 | is a prefecture in the northwest part of the island of Kyushu, Japan. It touches both the Sea of Japan and the Ariake Sea. The western part of the prefecture is a region famous for producing ceramics and porcelain, particularly the towns of Karatsu, Imari, and Arita. The capital is the city of Saga (...) | |
| 80 | 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 (...) | |
| 81 | Shanghai ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 31.2323 / 121.4691 | Shanghai is one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of the central government of China, the largest city in China by population, and the second most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million (...) | |
| 82 | 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 (...) | |
| 83 | 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 (...) | |
| 84 | 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 (...) | |
| 85 | Korean Peninsula ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 264 Lat/Lng : 38.3279 / 127.228 | The Korean Peninsula is located in East Asia. It extends southwards for about from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east and the Yellow Sea (West sea) to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the two bodies of water. (...) | |
| 86 | Tamworth, New South Wales ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 378 Lat/Lng : -31.0833 / 150.9167 | Tamworth is a city and the major regional centre in the New England region of northern New South Wales, Australia. Situated on the Peel River within the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council, approximately 318 kilometres from the Queensland border, it is located almost midway between (...) | |
| 87 | 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 (...) | |
| 88 | Bangkok ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 13.7525 / 100.4942 | Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep (listen). The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand, and has a population of over eight million, or 12.6 percent of the country's population (...) | |
| 89 | 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 (...) | |
| 90 | 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 (...) | |
| 91 | 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 (...) | |
| 92 | 2006 North Korean missile test ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 40.8471 / 129.6285 | Two rounds of North Korean missile tests were conducted on July 5, 2006. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) reportedly fired at least seven separate missiles. These included one long-range Taepodong-2 missile and short-range Scud derived missiles including the enlarged (...) | |
| 93 | Lapu-Lapu, Philippines ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 10.2662 / 123.9973 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a highly urbanized city in the region of Central Visayas, . According to the , it has a population of people. Formerly known as Opon, the city was renamed to its present name in 1961. It is one of the cities that make up Metro Cebu in the Philippines (...) | |
| 94 | MIT Sloan School of Management ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 42.3607 / -71.0838 | The MIT Sloan School of Management (also known as MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, as well as executive education (...) | |
| 95 | 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 (...) | |
| 96 | 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 (...) | |
| 97 | Riau Islands ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 0.9 / 104.45 | The Riau Islands is a province of Indonesia. It comprises a total of 1,796 islands lying between the Malacca Strait, the Karimata Strait and the South China Sea.https://kepri.antaranews.com/berita/37908/jumlah-pulau-di-kepri-berubah The province is located on one of the world's busiest shipping (...) | |
| 98 | The Little Mermaid (statue) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 55.6929 / 12.5993 | The Little Mermaid is a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, depicting a mermaid. The sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is tall - denmark.net. Retrieved January 29, 2012. and weighs (...) | |
| 99 | 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 (...) | |
| 100 | 2007 AFC Asian Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : -6.2052 / 106.8501 | The 2007 AFC Asian Cup was the 14th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held from 7 to 29 July 2007 (...) | |
| 101 | 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 (...) | |
| 102 | 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 (...) | |
| 103 | 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. (...) | |
| 104 | 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 (...) | |
| 105 | 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 (...) | |
| 106 | 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 (...) | |
| 107 | Asian Games ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 220 Lat/Lng : 28.637 / 77.2144 | The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games (...) | |
| 108 | Korean Armistice Agreement ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 37.9611 / 126.6645 | The Korean Armistice Agreement is the armistice which brought about a complete cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. It was signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr. representing the United Nations Command (UNC), North Korean General Nam Il representing the Korean People's (...) | |
| 109 | One Raffles Place ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 1.2846 / 103.851 | One Raffles Place, formerly Overseas Union Bank Centre or OUB Centre is one of the tallest skyscrapers in the city of Singapore. It was the tallest together with the UOB Plaza and Republic Plaza until the construction of Tanjong Pagar Centre in 2016 (...) | |
| 110 | Mountain Home Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 913 Lat/Lng : 43.0436 / -115.8724 | Mountain Home Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in the western United States. Located in southwestern Idaho in Elmore County, the base is southwest of Mountain Home, which is southeast of Boise via Interstate 84 (...) | |
| 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 | 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. (...) | |
| 113 | Tian Tan Buddha ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 475 Lat/Lng : 22.254 / 113.9051 | The Big Buddha, is a large bronze statue of Buddha Shakyamuni, completed in 1993, and located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, in Hong Kong. The statue is sited near Po Lin Monastery and symbolises the harmonious relationship between man and nature, people and faith (...) | |
| 114 | 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 (...) | |
| 115 | South Vietnam ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 10.75 / 106.6667 | South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), was a country that existed from 1955 to 1975 and comprised the southern half of what is now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It received international recognition in 1949 as the "State of Vietnam" (a self-governing entity in the French (...) | |
| 116 | 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 (...) | |
| 117 | Labuan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 5.3203 / 115.2112 | Labuan (Jawi: لابوان), officially the Federal Territory of Labuan (Malay: Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan, Jawi: ولايه ڤرسكوتوان لابوان), is a federal territory of Malaysia. It is made up of the eponymous Labuan Island and six smaller islands, and is located off the coast of the state of Sabah in East (...) | |
| 118 | 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 (...) | |
| 119 | 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 (...) | |
| 120 | National Museum of Singapore ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 1.2967 / 103.8486 | The National Museum of Singapore is the oldest museum in Singapore. Its history dates back to 1849, when it was started as a section of a library at Singapore Institution and called the Raffles Library and Museum (...) | |
| 121 | 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 (...) | |
| 122 | Shikoku ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 607 Lat/Lng : 33.75 / 133.5 | is the smallest (long and between wide) and least populous (3.8 million) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima (...) | |
| 123 | Bintan Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 1.0767 / 104.5003 | Bintan Island or Negeri Segantang Lada is an island in the Riau archipelago of Indonesia. It is part of the Riau Islands province, the capital of which, Tanjung Pinang, lies in the island's south and is the island's main community. Bintan's land area is (total area is including 96% sea area) (...) | |
| 124 | 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 (...) | |
| 125 | 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 (...) | |
| 126 | 2017 North Korean nuclear test ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 1810 Lat/Lng : 41.343 / 129.0362 | North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test on 3 September 2017, stating it had tested a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb). The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of 6.3-magnitude not far from North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site (...) | |
| 127 | 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 (...) | |
| 128 | Hsinchu ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 24.8098 / 120.9689 | Hsinchu (Hokkien POJ: Sin-tek; Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Sîn-tsuk), officially known as Hsinchu City, is a city in northern Taiwan. Hsinchu is popularly nicknamed "The Windy City" for its windy climate. (...) | |
| 129 | Gelora Bung Karno Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : -6.2186 / 106.8025 | Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium (; literally "Bung Karno Sports Arena Main Stadium") is a multi-purpose stadium located at the center of the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The stadium is named after Sukarno, Indonesia's first President (...) | |
| 130 | Singapore Premier League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 1.462 / 103.8981 | The Singapore Premier League (SPL) is the Singaporean professional league for men's association football clubs. It was previously known as the S.League. At the highest level of domestic football competition in Singapore, it is the country's primary football competition (...) | |
| 131 | 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 (...) | |
| 132 | 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 (...) | |
| 133 | Tourism in North Korea ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 38.8631 / 125.415 | Tourism in North Korea is tightly controlled by the North Korean government. Only about 4,000 to 6,000 Western tourists visit North Korea each year. All tourism is organized by one of several state-owned tourism bureaus, including Korea International Travel Company (KITC), Korean International (...) | |
| 134 | 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 (...) | |
| 135 | October 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 45.2 / 36.6 | It is the first day of the fourth quarter of the year. (...) | |
| 136 | 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 (...) | |
| 137 | September 2016 North Korean nuclear test ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 2115 Lat/Lng : 41.298 / 129.015 | The government of North Korea conducted a nuclear detonation on 9 September 2016, the fifth since 2006, at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, approximately northwest of Kilju City in Kilju County. (...) | |
| 138 | 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 (...) | |
| 139 | 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 (...) | |
| 140 | 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). (...) | |
| 141 | Yunnan ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1042 Lat/Lng : 24.5 / 101.5 | Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan (...) | |
| 142 | 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 (...) | |
| 143 | 2016 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 30.6004 / 114.6192 | 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International (...) | |
| 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 | 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 (...) | |
| 146 | 1999 Jiji earthquake ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1347 Lat/Lng : 23.772 / 120.982 | The Jiji earthquake , known locally as the 921 earthquake , was a 7.3 ML or 7.6–7.7 Mw earthquake which occurred in Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan on Tuesday, 21 September 1999 at 01:47:12 local time. 2,415 people were killed, 11,305 injured, and billion worth of damage was done (...) | |
| 147 | Yogyakarta ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 125 Lat/Lng : -7.7833 / 110.3667 | Yogyakarta (; also Jogjakarta or Jogja; ; formerly Dutch: Djokjakarta/Djocjakarta or Djokja) is a city on the island of Java in Indonesia. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, Yogyakarta is regarded as an important centre for classical Javanese fine arts and culture such as (...) | |
| 148 | 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 (...) | |
| 149 | March 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1968 Lat/Lng : 35.8 / 103.5 | ==Events== *509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. *86 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, (...) | |
| 150 | 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 (...) | |
| 151 | Gordon B. Hinckley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1394 Lat/Lng : 40.7745 / -111.8635 | Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995, until his death (...) | |
| 152 | Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : -3.2466 / 109.3682 | Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia – an AirAsia Group affiliate – from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. On 2014, the Airbus A320 flying the route crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board (...) | |
| 153 | Nalanda ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 25.135 / 85.4421 | Nalanda was a Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery, in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India. The site is located about southeast of Patna near the city of Bihar Sharif, and was a centre of learning from the fifth century CE to . It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (...) | |
| 154 | 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 (...) | |
| 155 | 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) (...) | |
| 156 | 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 (...) | |
| 157 | Seremban ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 2.7122 / 101.9486 | Seremban (Minangkabau: Soghomban or Somban) is a town and the capital of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, located within Seremban District. The town's administration is run by the Seremban Municipal Council. On 9 September 2009, Seremban was to be declared as a city, but it was later deferred due to (...) | |
| 158 | Sihanoukville (city) ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 10.6333 / 103.5 | Sihanoukville (Krong Preah Sihanouk), also known as "Kampong Som" , is a coastal city in Cambodia and the capital city of Sihanoukville Province, at the tip of an elevated peninsula in the country's south-west on the Gulf of Thailand (...) | |
| 159 | Quanzhou ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 24.907 / 118.587 | Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. It is Fujian's largest metropolitan region, with an area of and, as of the 2010 census, a population of 8,128,530. Compilation by Lianxin website (...) | |
| 160 | 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 (...) | |
| 161 | China ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 3868 Lat/Lng : 32.8 / 103.083 | China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around . Covering approximately , it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the source consulted (...) | |
| 162 | Boeing AH-64 Apache ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 314 Lat/Lng : 31.074 / -97.8265 | The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems (...) | |
| 163 | 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 (...) | |
| 164 | A-League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -34.91 / 138.57 | The A-League is a professional men's soccer league run by Football Federation Australia (FFA). At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's primary competition for the sport. The A-League was established in 2004 as a successor to the National Soccer League (NSL) and competition (...) | |
| 165 | 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 (...) | |
| 166 | 2008 Sichuan earthquake ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2338 Lat/Lng : 31.015 / 103.365 | The 2008 Sichuan earthquakeSome early Western reports used the term Chengdu quake; e.g., , , etc. This term never picked up widely in media reports, but was reportedly used by BBC America in a follow-up report on preparations for winter and housing rebuilding efforts aired November 12, 2008, in (...) | |
| 167 | Korean conflict ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 38.3167 / 127.2333 | The Korean conflict is based on the division between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north and the Republic of Korea in the south, both of which claim to be the government of the entire peninsula (...) | |
| 168 | Aung San Suu Kyi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 16.8256 / 96.1503 | Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991). She is the leader of the National League for Democracy and the first and incumbent State Counsellor, a position akin to a prime minister (...) | |
| 169 | 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 49.1822 / -0.3706 | The 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games were held in the region of Normandy, France. It was the seventh edition of the Games, which are held every four years and run by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) (...) | |
| 170 | Table tennis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 53.0636 / 8.8429 | Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, the rules are generally as follows: players must allow a ball (...) | |
| 171 | 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 (...) | |
| 172 | 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 (...) | |
| 173 | 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 (...) | |
| 174 | 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 (...) | |
| 175 | Macquarie University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : -33.7753 / 151.1129 | Macquarie University is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney (...) | |
| 176 | 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 (...) | |
| 177 | Antipodes ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -21.4167 / -140.1833 | In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it; the antipodes of a region similarly represent the area opposite it. A pair of points antipodal to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through (...) | |
| 178 | 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 (...) | |
| 179 | Sony ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 35.6312 / 139.7437 | is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo."." Sony Global. Retrieved 6 December 2011. "1–7–1 Konan Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan" – – : "〒108-0075 東京都港区港南1–7–1" Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, (...) | |
| 180 | 2015 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 29.7565 / 112.9243 | 2015 was designated as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soils __TOC__ (...) | |
| 181 | ISG Business School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 48.867 / 2.2796 | The ISG business school or Institut Superieur de Gestion, is a business school, based in Paris, France. It was founded in 1967 by a group of French CEOs led by Pierre-Alexandre Dumas. Since 1983, ISG is associated with universities in Tōkyō, New York City, Singapore, Germany, England, China, South (...) | |
| 182 | Ateneo de Manila University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 14.6623 / 121.0525 | The Ateneo de Manila University (Filipino: Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila; Spanish: Universidad Ateneo de Manila) is a private Roman Catholic research university in Quezon City, Philippines. Founded in 1859 by the Society of Jesus, the Ateneo is the third-oldest university in the Philippines (...) | |
| 183 | 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 (...) | |
| 184 | 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 (...) | |
| 185 | Indian Space Research Organisation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 909 Lat/Lng : 13.0352 / 77.5706 | The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore. Its vision is to "harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration (...) | |
| 186 | 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 (...) | |
| 187 | Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.0069 / 116.3834 | The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The bank currently has 87 member states from around the world (...) | |
| 188 | Sinking of MV Sewol ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 34.2181 / 125.95 | The sinking of Sewol , also referred to as the Sewol Ferry Disaster, occurred on the morning of 16 April 2014, when the passenger/ro-ro ferry was en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. The South Korean ferry sank while carrying 476 people, mostly secondary school students from Danwon (...) | |
| 189 | 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 (...) | |
| 190 | Swissôtel The Stamford ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 1.2935 / 103.8535 | Swissôtel The Stamford, formerly known as the Westin Stamford, is a hotel in Singapore managed by Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts. Designed by architect I.M. Pei, at a height of it is one of Southeast Asia's tallest hotels (...) | |
| 191 | Tufts University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 42.406 / -71.12 | Tufts University is a private research university in Medford, Massachusetts. A charter member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), Tufts College was founded in 1852 by Christian universalists who worked for years to open a nonsectarian institution of higher learning (...) | |
| 192 | Sauber ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 540 Lat/Lng : 47.3085 / 8.8172 | Sauber Motorsport AG, competing as Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team, is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in (...) | |
| 193 | Raytheon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 42.4056 / -71.2827 | The Raytheon Company is a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft until early 2007 (...) | |
| 194 | Boeing 737 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 47.5197 / -122.2994 | The Boeing 737 is a short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States. Originally developed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from the 707 and 727, the 737 has developed into a family of thirteen (...) | |
| 195 | Ultra Music Festival ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 25.7848 / -80.1869 | Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place during March in Miami, Florida, United States. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes and is named after the 1997 Depeche Mode album, Ultra (...) | |
| 196 | Police Coast Guard (Singapore) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 1.2567 / 103.8331 | The Police Coast Guard (Abbreviation: PCG; ;) is the Marine Police division of the Singapore Police Force which also takes on roles of the coast guard typically handled by the military or as separate organisations in other countries (...) | |
| 197 | Kuala Lumpur–Singapore high-speed rail ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 3.1086 / 101.6939 | The Kuala Lumpur–Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project is a currently postponed and upcoming project to link Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Singapore via a planned high-speed rail line. It was announced by then Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak in September 2010 and he and Singapore's prime (...) | |
| 198 | Hurricane Katrina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 29.9667 / -90.05 | Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in August 2005, causing catastrophic damage from central Florida to eastern Texas. Subsequent flooding, caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the flood (...) | |
| 199 | University of Cambridge ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 52.2053 / 0.1172 | The University of Cambridge (formally The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge) is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a Royal Charter by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the (...) | |
| 200 | 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 (...) | |