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| Vancouver  FeatureType : city Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 49.2611 / -123.1139 | Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011 (...) |
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| Burnaby FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 49.2745 / -122.9727 | Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada, located immediately to the east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in British Columbia by population, surpassed only by nearby Surrey and Vancouver. Burnaby was incorporated in 1892 and achieved City status in 1992, one hundred years after (...) |
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| Richmond, British Columbia FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 49.1556 / -123.1589 | Richmond is a coastal city located in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is part of the Metro Vancouver area. As of 2016, it has an estimated population of 198,309 people with 60% being immigrants, the highest proportion of immigrants in Canada (...) |
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| Xiamen FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 24.4798 / 118.0894 | Xiamen, formerly known from its Hokkien pronunciation as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, Haicang, and Xiang'an (...) |
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| Haneda Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : -2 Lat/Lng : 35.5526 / 139.7797 | , commonly known as , Tokyo Haneda Airport, and Haneda International Airport , is one of the two primary airports that serve the Greater Tokyo Area, and is the primary base of Japan's two major domestic airlines, Japan Airlines (Terminal 1) and All Nippon Airways (Terminal 2), as well as Air Do, (...) |
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| Pacific Ocean FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 0.0 / -160.0 | The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east (...) |
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| Aomori (city) FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 40.8223 / 140.7307 | is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 287,800 in 136,209 households, and a population density of 350 persons per km2. The city is one of Japan's 48 core cities. The total area of the city was . (...) |
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| Oregon FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1255 Lat/Lng : 43.9358 / -120.575 | Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary along Washington state, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary along Idaho (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Seattle FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 47.6097 / -122.3331 | Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 730,000 residents , Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S (...) |
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| Guangzhou FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 23.1288 / 113.259 | Guangzhou (; or ;), also known as Canton," ". Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed September 12, 2010. is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong in southern China. On the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 (...) |
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| Auckland FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -36.8406 / 174.74 | Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. Auckland is the largest urban area in the country, with an urban population of around It is located in the Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, resulting (...) |
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| Los Angeles FeatureType : null Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 34.0522 / -118.2436 | Los Angeles , officially the City of Los Angeles and known colloquially by its initials LA, is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City, and the largest and most populous city in the Western United States (...) |
| 14 | East Vancouver FeatureType : city Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 49.244 / -123.057 | East Vancouver (also "East Van" or the "East Side") is a region within the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Geographically, East Vancouver is bordered to the north by Burrard Inlet, to the south by the Fraser River, and to the east by the city of Burnaby (...) | |
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| Ghana FeatureType : country Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 7.6833 / -0.9833 | Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Spanning a land mass of , Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic (...) |
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| United States FeatureType : country Elevation : 691 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / -100.0 | The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9 (...) |
| 17 | University of British Columbia FeatureType : edu Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 49.2669 / -123.2475 | The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, UBC is British Columbia's oldest university. The university is ranked among the top 20 public universities worldwide and top threeQS World (...) | |
| 18 | Jinjiang, Fujian FeatureType : city Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 24.82 / 118.57 | Jinjiang is a county-level city of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. It is located in the southeastern part of the province, on the right or south bank of the Jin River, across from Quanzhou's urban district of Fengze (...) | |
| 19 | Vancouver Island University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 49.1576 / -123.967 | Vancouver Island University (abbreviated as VIU, formerly known as Malaspina University-College and before that as Malaspina College) is a Canadian public university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia (...) | |
| 20 | Sun Yat-sen FeatureType : null Elevation : 726 Lat/Lng : 20.6918 / -156.3785 | Sun Yat-sen (; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)Singtao daily. Saturday edition. 23 October 2010. section A18. Sun Yat-sen Xinhai revolution 100th anniversary edition . was the founding father of the Republic of China (...) | |
| 21 | Chinatown, Vancouver FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 49.28 / -123.0994 | Chinatown in Vancouver, British Columbia, is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centred on Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown and the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Downtown Eastside to the north, the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast, and the residential (...) | |
| 22 | Jiangsu FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 32.9 / 119.8 | Jiangsu (; formerly romanised as Kiangsu), is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing (...) | |
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| 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 (...) |
| 24 | 2010 Chile earthquake FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : -35.846 / -72.719 | The 2010 Chile earthquake occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes (...) | |
| 25 | 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 (...) | |
| 26 | Prague FeatureType : null Elevation : 203 Lat/Lng : 50.0878 / 14.4205 | Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1 (...) | |
| 27 | 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 38.322 / 142.369 | The was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately (...) | |
| 28 | Port of Vancouver (1964–2008) FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 49.2854 / -123.0805 | The Port of Vancouver was the name of the largest port in Canada, the largest in the Pacific Northwest, and the largest port on the West Coast of North America by metric tons of total cargo, with 76.5 million metric tons (...) | |
| 29 | Eastern Washington University FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 744 Lat/Lng : 47.491 / -117.583 | Eastern Washington University (EWU) is a regional, comprehensive public university Washington State Four-year Institutions located in Cheney, Washington, with programs offered at campuses in Cheney, EWU Spokane at the Riverpoint Campus and at multiple campus locations throughout the state (...) | |
| 30 | Johnnie Walker FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 55.6144 / -4.501 | Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch whisky now owned by Diageo that originated in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. The brand was first established by grocer John Walker. It is the most widely distributed brand of blended Scotch whisky in the world, sold in almost every country, with (...) | |
| 31 | Alliance Française FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 48.8464 / 2.3286 | L'Alliance Française (French Alliance), or AF, is an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world. Created in Paris on 21 July 1883 under the name Alliance française pour la propagation de la langue nationale dans les colonies et à l'étranger (French (...) | |
| 32 | Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School (Vancouver) FeatureType : null Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 49.2208 / -123.1244 | Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School is a public secondary school located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Churchill Secondary is one of two International Baccalaureate schools (along with Britannia Secondary School) and one of three French Immersion secondary schools in Vancouver (...) | |
| 33 | Zhongshan Park FeatureType : null Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 39.9097 / 116.3883 | Zhongshan Park is a common name for Chinese parks, in honour of Sun Yat-sen, better-known in Chinese as Sun Zhongshan, who is considered by many to be the "Father of modern China". Currently there are more than 40 Zhongshan Parks in China, and some in overseas areas. (...) | |
| 34 | North Pacific right whale FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 53.0 / -157.0 | The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered. The Northeast Pacific population, which summers in the southeastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, may have no more than 40 animals (...) | |
| 35 | New York Institute of Technology FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 40.7697 / -73.9825 | New York Institute of Technology (also known as NYIT) is a private, independent, nonprofit, non-sectarian, coeducational research university founded in 1955. The university has two New York campuses: one in Old Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, and one near Columbus Circle in Manhattan (...) | |
| 36 | Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 39.9042 / 116.3917 | The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. The incident is disputed; Chinese government sources say that five members of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that is persecuted in mainland China, set (...) | |
| 37 | USS Badger (FF-1071) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.8517 / -160.55 | USS Badger (FF-1071) was a Knox-class destroyer escort, originally designated as DE-1071 and reclassified as a frigate in 1975 in the United States Navy. Her primary mission of ASW remained unchanged. This ship was not the first to bear the name. The first was named for Commodore Oscar C (...) | |
| 38 | Taishanese people FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 22.2856 / 112.5658 | Sze Yap Cantonese (Chinese: ; Sze Yap: Hlei Yip Gong Ong Ngin; Cantonese: Sei Yap Gwong Dong Yan; Mandarin: Sìyì guǎngdōng rén) are a Han Chinese group coming from a region in Guangdong Province in China called Sze Yap , which consisted of the four county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, (...) | |
| 39 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 23.2003 / 113.2892 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies is a public university with emphasis in foreign languages and cultures, overseas economy and trade, and international strategies in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The university offers 61 bachelor-degree specialties and teaches 18 foreign languages (...) | |
| 40 | 1984 Winter Olympics FeatureType : null Elevation : 566 Lat/Lng : 43.87 / 18.41 | The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games , was a winter multi-sport event which took place from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden (...) | |
| 41 | Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -51.6667 / -59.5 | Sovereignty over the Falkland Islands is disputed by Argentina and the United Kingdom. The British claim to sovereignty dates from 1690, and the United Kingdom has exercised de facto sovereignty over the archipelago almost continuously since 1833 (...) | |
| 42 | USS Blueback (SS-581) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 45.5078 / -122.6669 | USS Blueback (SS-581) is a decommissioned formerly in the United States Navy. She was the second Navy submarine to bear the name. Blueback was laid down by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi on 15 April 1957 (...) | |
| 43 | Astor House Hotel (Shanghai) FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 31.246 / 121.4866 | The Astor House Hotel , known as the Pujiang Hotel in Chinese since 1959, has been described as once "one of the famous hotels of the world". Established in 1846 as Richards' Hotel and Restaurant on The Bund in Shanghai, it has been at 15 Huangpu Lu, Shanghai, near the confluence of the Huangpu (...) | |
| 44 | USS Archerfish (SS-311) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 24.7333 / 140.3333 | USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao-class submarine. She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish. Archerfish is best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano in November 1944, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine (...) | |
| 45 | Providence FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 32.3418 / -87.7806 | Providence often refers to: * Divine providence, divinely ordained events and outcomes * Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of Rhode Island in the United States Providence may also refer to: (...) | |
| 46 | Princess May (steamship) FeatureType : event Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 58.5475 / -134.9244 | Princess May was a steamship built in 1888 which was operated under a number of different names and owners. The ship is best known for having been involved in a grounding in 1910 which left the ship jutting completely out of the water, which became the subject of a famous shipwreck photograph. (...) | |
| 47 | Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 35.5377 / 139.8065 | On March 4, 1966, Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 (CP402), struck the approach lights and a seawall during a night landing attempt in poor visibility at Tokyo International Airport in Japan. Of the 62 passengers and 10 crew, only 8 passengers survived (...) | |
| 48 | Yushima Seidō FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 35.7007 / 139.7664 | , located in the Yushima neighbourhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, was established as a Confucian temple in the Genroku era of the Edo period (end of the 17th century). (...) | |
| 49 | Expo 2010 pavilions FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 31.1941 / 121.4864 | This article contains the details of the pavilions in Expo 2010. The 2010 World Expo Shanghai is the largest Expo site ever, covering more than 5.2 square kilometers and containing more than 70 exposition pavilions (...) | |
| 50 | Ling Yen Mountain Temple FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 49.1404 / -123.0911 | The Lingyen Mountain Temple in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada is a Buddhist monastery, designed by Pacific Rim Architecture in the Chinese palatial style and completed in 1996. The temple has about 10,000 members in Greater Vancouver and several dozen resident monastics. (...) | |
| 51 | USS John R. Craig (DD-885) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 30.3167 / -119.5333 | USS John R. Craig (DD-885) was a in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1979. She was sunk as a target in June 1980. (...) | |
| 52 | ProMéxico FeatureType : null Elevation : 2419 Lat/Lng : 19.3108 / -99.2182 | ProMéxico is a trust fund of the Federal government of Mexico —a subdivision of the Secretariat of Economy— that promotes international trade and investment. ProMéxico drives the country's active participation in the international arena and firmly establishes it as an attractive, safe and (...) | |
| 53 | Club Monaco FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 40.7514 / -74.0064 | Club Monaco is a high-end casual clothing retailer owned by Polo Ralph Lauren. With more than 140 locations worldwide, the retailer has locations in United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, South Korea, China, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, (...) | |
| 54 | Cenotaph FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 22.2815 / 114.1606 | A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the vast majority of cenotaphs honour individuals, many noted cenotaphs are instead (...) | |
| 55 | Sato Pharmaceutical Canada Inc FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 49.1868 / -123.1072 | Sato Pharmaceutical Canada Inc is the Canadian subsidiary of the Sato Pharmaceutical Corporation, which is based in Japan. The company's Canadian headquarters are located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sato Pharmaceutical's main focus is on over-the-counter medicines (...) | |
| 56 | USS Barbour County (LST-1195) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.9556 / -160.0837 | USS Barbour County (LST-1195) was the seventeenth ship of the s of the United States Navy. Named after Barbour County, Alabama,USS Barbour County Commissioning Brochure she was laid down on 7 November 1970 at San Diego, California, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Corporation and launched on (...) | |
| 57 | GEOS (eikaiwa) FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 35.6198 / 139.7294 | was one of the Big Four The Japan Times. February 24, 2004. Retrieved June 14, 2007 private eikaiwa, or English conversation teaching companies, in Japan. Its extensive network of overseas schools made it the world's largest language school chain (...) | |
| 58 | KMS Tools FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 49.2348 / -122.8708 | KMS Tools & Equipment is an industrial distributor that carries a huge selection of tools, from high quality heavy-duty professional tools to value-priced occasional use tools. KMS is a Canadian retailer of power tools, woodworking, metalworking, construction equipment and C.A (...) | |
| 59 | Expo 67 pavilions FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 45.523 / -73.535 | The Expo 67 International and Universal Exposition featured 90 pavilions representing Man and His World, on a theme derived from , written by the famous French pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The exposition displayed many nations, corporations, industries, technologies, social themes, religions and (...) | |
| 60 | School of the Nations (Macau) FeatureType : edu Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 22.16 / 113.5509 | The School of the Nations is a Bahá'í-inspired school located in Taipa, Macau."." Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (Macau). Retrieved on April 9, 2017. "Endereço : Rua do Minho, Taipa" - : "學校地址: 米尼奧街" It is owned by the Badi Foundation (...) | |
| 61 | Calgary True Buddha Pai Yuin Temple FeatureType : null Elevation : 1081 Lat/Lng : 51.0683 / -114.0629 | The Calgary True Buddha Pai Yuin Temple is a Chinese Vajrayana Buddhist temple in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was built in 1984 through the concerted efforts of a small group who wanted a place to practice and spread Buddhism as taught by their founding guru, Grandmaster Sheng-yen Lu (...) | |
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