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| 1 | Chittagong ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 22.3475 / 91.8123 | Chittagong , officially known as Chattogram, is a major coastal city and financial centre in southeastern Bangladesh. The city has a population of more than 2.5 million while the metropolitan area had a population of 4,009,423 in 2011, making it the second-largest city in the country (...) | |
| 2 | Incheon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 37.4639 / 126.6486 | Incheon (; ; formerly romanized as Inchŏn; literally "kind river"), officially the Incheon Metropolitan City , is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international (...) | |
| 3 | Hermitage Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 59.941 / 30.3151 | The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The second-largest art museum in the world,Cityvision2000.com - it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst (...) | |
| 4 | Russia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 55.75 / 37.6167 | Russia , officially the Russian Federation"The names Russian Federation and Russia shall be equal". , is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144 (...) | |
| 5 | Geography of China ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1982 Lat/Lng : 35.0 / 105.0 | China has great physical diversity. The eastern plains and southern coasts of the country consist of fertile lowlands and foothills and is the location of most of China's agricultural output and human population (...) | |
| 6 | San Diego ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 32.715 / -117.1625 | San Diego (; Spanish for "Saint Didacus";) is a city in the U.S. state of California. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico (...) | |
| 7 | Yekaterinburg ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 56.8333 / 60.5833 | Yekaterinburg , alternatively romanized Ekaterinburg, is the fourth-largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast, located on the Iset River east of the Ural Mountains, in the middle of the Eurasian continent, at the boundary between Asia and Europe.http://www (...) | |
| 8 | Moscow ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 148 Lat/Lng : 55.7525 / 37.6231 | Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limitshttp://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/Popul2016.xls and 17 million within the urban area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities (...) | |
| 9 | Sakha Republic ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Lat/Lng : 66.4 / 129.1667 | The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) , is a federal Russian republic. It had a population of 958,528 at the 2010 Census, mainly ethnic Yakuts and Russians. Comprising half the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world at . (xls) (...) | |
| 10 | Far Eastern Federal University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 43.1178 / 131.8931 | Far Eastern Federal University (Dalnevostochny federalny universitet) is a university located in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. FEFU was established in 1899 as the Eastern Institute as a higher education institution specializing in oriental studies and training for administrative, commercial (...) | |
| 11 | 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 (...) | |
| 12 | World War I ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 108 Lat/Lng : 48.973 / 2.905 | World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as the "war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million (...) | |
| 13 | Eurasian Economic Union ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 55.75 / 37.6167 | The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU, or unofficially EEU),EAEU is the acronym is used in the . However, many media outlets use the acronym EEU. sometimes known informally as the Eurasian Union (EAU), is a political and economic union of states located in central and northern Eurasia (...) | |
| 14 | The Great Game ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 40.02 / 52.97 | "The Great Game" was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of the nineteenth century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan and neighbouring territories in Central and Southern Asia (...) | |
| 15 | Providence University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 24.2269 / 120.58 | Providence University (PU;) is a Catholic co-educational institution in Shalu District, Taichung City, Taiwan. Providence University is one of U12 Consortium member school, and is the only University in Taiwan participating in ISEP program.https://search.isepstudyabroad (...) | |
| 16 | Northeast Passage ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 85.6797 / 135.6479 | The Northeast Passage (abbreviated as NEP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the shipping route to the Pacific Ocean, along the Arctic Ocean coasts of Norway and Russia. The western route through the islands of Canada is accordingly called Northwest Passage (NWP) (...) | |
| 17 | Smiling Buddha ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 226 Lat/Lng : 27.0788 / 71.7224 | Smiling BuddhaThis test has many code names. Civilian scientists called it "Operation Smiling Buddha" and the Indian Army referred to it as Operation Happy Krishna. According to United States Military Intelligence, Operation Happy Krishna was the code name for the Indian Army's construction of the (...) | |
| 18 | Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 35.0 / 18.0 | The Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre was a major theatre of operations during the Second World War. The vast size of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre saw interconnected naval, land, and air campaigns fought for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Middle (...) | |
| 19 | 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 48.5833 / 39.1833 | From the end of February 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in major cities across the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan movement and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution (...) | |
| 20 | Lockheed U-2 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 39.1466 / -121.4328 | The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-jet engine, ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (...) | |
| 21 | Vostochny Port (company) ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 42.7415 / 133.0798 | JSC "Vostochny Port" is the largest stevedoring company in Russia, specializing in coal transshipment using automated conveyor equipment. The level of automation of operations is 100%. The port's main cargo is coal mined in Kuzbass, Eastern Siberia and the Far East.RIA Deita (...) | |
| 22 | 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 (...) | |
| 23 | Timeline of San Diego ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 32.715 / -117.1625 | The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Diego, California, United States. (...) | |
| 24 | Bridge to nowhere ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : 51.5375 / 7.3392 | A bridge to nowhere is a bridge where one or both ends are broken or incomplete and does not lead anywhere. If it is an overpass or an interchange, the term overpass to nowhere or interchange to nowhere may be used respectively (...) | |
| 25 | USS The Sullivans (DD-537) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : 42.8777 / -78.8806 | USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is a . She is a United States Navy ship named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers (George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert) aged 20 to 27 who lost their lives when their ship, , was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November (...) | |
| 26 | Giant current ripples ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 909 Lat/Lng : -39.8167 / -70.8 | Giant current ripples are active channel topographic forms up to 20 m high, which develop within near-talweg areas of the main outflow valleys created by glacial lake outburst floods. Giant current ripple marks are morphologic and genetic macroanalogues of small current ripples formed in sandy (...) | |
| 27 | Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 69.0854 / 33.4256 | Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union (...) | |
| 28 | Wat Suthiwararam School ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 13.7124 / 100.5122 | Wat Suthiwararam School or, in brief, ST is a state all-boys school in Sathon, Bangkok, Thailand, for Matthayom 1 through 6. It was named by King Vajiravudh and established on July 3, 1911. The School's area holds 5 rai, 2 ngan, 320 square metres (approx. 2.25 acres) (...) | |
| 29 | Indo-China Steam Navigation Company Ltd. ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 39.1 / 121.15 | The Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited (ICSNC), was established in 1873 as a subsidiary of Hong Kong based Jardine, Matheson & Co., one of the largest trading companies in the Far East at that time. (...) | |
| 30 | SS Tellus (1911) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 41.2333 / 6.4 | Tellus was a steam cargo ship built in 1911 by the William Doxford & Sons of Pallion for the Wabanas Dampskibskompani, a subsidiary of Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company and managed by Wilhelm Wilhelmsen. She was named after Tellus, the Earth goddess. (...) | |
| 31 | Russian cruiser Svetlana (1896) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.1 / 129.8333 | The Russian cruiser Svetlana was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Russian Navy and was used as a royal yacht in peacetime. She was sunk in combat during Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War. (...) | |