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| 1 | South Pole ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -90.0 / 180.0 | The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole (...) | |
| 2 | Big Sur ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 36.1075 / -121.6258 | Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery (...) | |
| 3 | Anfield ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 53.4308 / -2.9608 | Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has a seating capacity of 54,074, making it the sixth largest football stadium in England. It has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since their formation in 1892. It was originally the home of Everton F.C (...) | |
| 4 | Chartres Cathedral ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 163 Lat/Lng : 48.4472 / 1.4874 | Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres , is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris. Mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220, it stands at the site of at least five cathedrals that have occupied the site since Chartres became a (...) | |
| 5 | Death Valley National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -83 Lat/Lng : 36.2419 / -116.8258 | Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of (...) | |
| 6 | Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 18.3414 / -64.9326 | Charlotte Amalie , located on the island of St. Thomas, is the capital and the largest city of the United States Virgin Islands, founded in 1666 as Taphus (meaning "beer house" or "beer hall"). In 1691, the town was renamed to Amalienborg (in English Charlotte Amalie) after Charlotte Amalie of (...) | |
| 7 | Palace of Westminster ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 51.4994 / -0.1242 | The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Commonly known as the Houses of Parliament after its occupants, the Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, in (...) | |
| 8 | Bryce Canyon National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2505 Lat/Lng : 37.605 / -112.1575 | Bryce Canyon National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau (...) | |
| 9 | Valparaíso ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : -33.05 / -71.62 | Valparaíso is a major city, seaport, and educational center in the commune of Valparaíso, Chile. "Greater Valparaíso" is the second largest metropolitan area in the country. Valparaíso is located about 120 km northwest of Santiago by road and is one of the South Pacific's most important seaports (...) | |
| 10 | 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 (...) | |
| 11 | Curitiba ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 910 Lat/Lng : -25.4298 / -49.2717 | Curitiba (Tupi: "Araucaria Nut Land")The European Portuguese pronunciation is . is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Paraná. The city's population numbered approximately 1,879,355 people , making it the eighth most populous city in the country, and the largest in Brazil's South (...) | |
| 12 | Moreno Valley, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 515 Lat/Lng : 33.9431 / -117.2283 | Moreno Valley is a city located in Riverside County, California, and is part of the San Bernardino-Riverside Metropolitan Area. A relatively young city, its rapid growth from the 1980s to the early 2000s made it the second-largest city in Riverside County by population, and one of the Inland (...) | |
| 13 | Antarctica ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.3578 / -2.2472 | Antarctica (or) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At , it is the fifth-largest continent (...) | |
| 14 | Ogden, Utah ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1338 Lat/Lng : 41.2278 / -111.9611 | Ogden is a city and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City. The population was 84,316 in 2014, according to the US Census Bureau, making it Utah's 7th largest city (...) | |
| 15 | Greenock ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 55.9481 / -4.7602 | Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It forms part of a contiguous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east (...) | |
| 16 | Liverpool ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 53.4091 / -2.9857 | Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017. Its metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK, with a population of 2.24 million in 2011. The local authority is Liverpool City Council, the most populous local government district in the metropolitan (...) | |
| 17 | Bethlehem ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 774 Lat/Lng : 31.7031 / 35.196 | Bethlehem (; help=no , "House of Meat"; ', , "House of Bread"; ; ; initially named after Canaanite fertility god Lehem) is a Palestinian city located in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000 people.Amara, 1999, .Brynen, 2000, (...) | |
| 18 | Area 51 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1363 Lat/Lng : 37.2388 / -115.8105 | The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range. According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the correct names for the facility are Homey Airport and Groom Lake, (...) | |
| 19 | Wiesbaden ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : 50.0821 / 8.2414 | Wiesbaden is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. In January 2018, it had 289,544 inhabitants, plus approximately 19,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area is home to approx. 560,000 people (...) | |
| 20 | Glendale, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : 34.1461 / -118.255 | Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,167, making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 23rd-largest city in California. It is located about north of downtown Los Angeles (...) | |
| 21 | Colombia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1215 Lat/Lng : 3.8167 / -73.9167 | Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia (Es-republica_de_colombia.ogg), is a country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with (...) | |
| 22 | Alabama ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 108 Lat/Lng : 32.7917 / -86.8308 | Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states (...) | |
| 23 | Logan, Utah ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1387 Lat/Lng : 41.7378 / -111.8308 | Logan City, commonly referred to Logan, is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2010 census recorded the population was 48,174, with an estimated population of 48,997 in 2014. By 2050 the population of Logan is expected to double (...) | |
| 24 | Denver ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1615 Lat/Lng : 39.7619 / -104.8811 | Denver , officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains (...) | |
| 25 | Frederick, Maryland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 39.4139 / -77.4111 | Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. Frederick has long been an important crossroads, located at the intersection of a major north–south Indian trail and east–west routes to the (...) | |
| 26 | Santorini ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 36.388 / 25.4598 | Santorini , classically Thera (English pronunciation), and officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago, which bears the same name and is the remnant of a (...) | |
| 27 | Maldives ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 4.1743 / 73.51 | The Maldives (; Dhivehi Raa'jey), officially the Republic of Maldives, is a South Asian country, located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea. It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to the Addu City in the south (...) | |
| 28 | Palo Alto, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 37.4292 / -122.1381 | Palo Alto is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Palo Alto means tall tree in Spanish; the city is named after a coastal redwood tree called El Palo Alto. The city was established by Leland Stanford Sr (...) | |
| 29 | Kraków ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 219 Lat/Lng : 50.0617 / 19.9372 | Kraków , also spelled Cracow or Krakow, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading (...) | |
| 30 | Saint Croix ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 17.7397 / -64.7389 | Saint Croix; ; ; Danish and , Taino: Ay Ay is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. St. Croix is the largest of the islands in the territory (...) | |
| 31 | Gulf of Mexico ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 25.3686 / -90.3905 | The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The U.S (...) | |
| 32 | Darwin, Northern Territory ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : -12.4362 / 130.8412 | Darwin Macquarie Dictionary, Fourth Edition (2005). Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, with a population of 145,916 (...) | |
| 33 | Nogales, Arizona ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1187 Lat/Lng : 31.3539 / -110.9392 | Nogales is a city in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The population was 20,837 at the 2010 census and estimated 20,407 in 2014. Nogales forms part of the larger Tucson-Nogales combined statistical area, with a total population of 1,027,683 as of the 2010 Census (...) | |
| 34 | Beverly Hills, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 34.0731 / -118.3994 | Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Beverly Hills is surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood. Sometimes referred to as "90210," one of its primary ZIP codes, it is home to many celebrities, luxury hotels and the Rodeo Drive shopping (...) | |
| 35 | Hartlepool ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 54.69 / -1.21 | Hartlepool is a town in County Durham, England. The town lies on the North Sea coast, north of Middlesbrough and south of Sunderland. The town is governed as part of the Borough of Hartlepool, a unitary authority which also controls outlying villages such as Seaton Carew, Greatham and Elwick (...) | |
| 36 | Asheville, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 633 Lat/Lng : 35.58 / -82.5558 | Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 12th-most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 89,121 according to 2016 estimates.https://www.census (...) | |
| 37 | Boise, Idaho ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 834 Lat/Lng : 43.6136 / -116.2033 | Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho, and is the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, the population of Boise at the 2010 Census was 205,671, the 99th largest in the United States. Its estimated population in 2016 was 223,154 (...) | |
| 38 | San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 37.8047 / -122.3708 | The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks (...) | |
| 39 | 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 3.316 / 95.854 | The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra and a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 , reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas (...) | |
| 40 | South Africa ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1155 Lat/Lng : -28.6167 / 24.3333 | South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and (...) | |
| 41 | Mecca ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 299 Lat/Lng : 21.4225 / 39.8262 | Mecca is a city in the Hejazi region of the Arabian Peninsula, and the plain of Tihamah in Saudi Arabia, and is also the capital and administrative headquarters of the Makkah Region. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level, and south of Medina (...) | |
| 42 | Fremont, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 37.5483 / -121.9876 | Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the annexing of Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San José, and Warm Springs. The city is named after John C (...) | |
| 43 | Bayonne ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 43.4936 / -1.475 | Bayonne (; Gascon: Baiona ; ;) is a city and commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers in the northern part of the cultural region of the (...) | |
| 44 | Washington Monument ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 38.8894 / -77.0353 | The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States (...) | |
| 45 | Kiritimati ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 1.8833 / -157.4 | Kiritimati,Kiritimati is the rendition of Christmas in Taetae ni Kiribati, the local Kiribati language, and it is pronounced very closely to "Christmas," with the same meaning. or Christmas Island, is a Pacific Ocean raised coral atoll in the northern Line Islands (...) | |
| 46 | 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 (...) | |
| 47 | Nagercoil ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 8.17 / 77.43 | Nagercoil ("Temple of the Nāgas" Nagaraja Temple) is a town in the southernmost Indian district of Kanyakumari and a municipality and administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamilnadu. The town is situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, locked with the Western Ghats on (...) | |
| 48 | Nashville, Tennessee ![]() FeatureType : adm3rd Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 36.1658 / -86.7844 | Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The city is the county seat of Davidson County and is located on the Cumberland River. The city's population ranks 24th in the U.S. According to 2017 estimates from the U.S (...) | |
| 49 | New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / -74.5 | New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States. It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the (...) | |
| 50 | Santa Fe, New Mexico ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2123 Lat/Lng : 35.6839 / -105.9478 | Santa Fe (or ; Tewa: Oghá P’o'oge, Navajo: Yootó; Zuni: Ts'u'yala) is the capital and fourth-most populous city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. In addition to being the eponymous seat of , it has approximately 83,875 inhabitants with a metropolitan area population of approximately 144,170 (...) | |
| 51 | Havana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 23.1388 / -82.3573 | Havana (; Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest (...) | |
| 52 | Santa Cruz, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 36.9721 / -122.0262 | Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2013 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 62,864. Situated on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, about south of San Jose and 75 mi (120 km) south of San Francisco, the city is part of the (...) | |
| 53 | Mesa Verde National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2119 Lat/Lng : 37.1838 / -108.4887 | Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United States (...) | |
| 54 | Germany ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 51.165 / 10.4553 | Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany (listen), is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the (...) | |
| 55 | Florence ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 43.7717 / 11.2536 | Florence Alternative obsolete form: Fiorenza ; is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area (...) | |
| 56 | Battle Creek, Michigan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 285 Lat/Lng : 42.3122 / -85.2042 | Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which encompasses all of Calhoun County (...) | |
| 57 | Jerusalem ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 802 Lat/Lng : 31.7833 / 35.2167 | Jerusalem (; Yerushaláyim;) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (...) | |
| 58 | University of Southern California ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 34.0205 / -118.2856 | The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is an American private research university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research university in California. . Usc.edu. Retrieved on 2015-11-28 (...) | |
| 59 | Sacramento, California ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 38.5816 / -121.4944 | Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's estimated 2018 population of 501,334 makes it the sixth-largest city in (...) | |
| 60 | Washington, D.C. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 38.8951 / -77.0366 | Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of (...) | |
| 61 | Orlando, Florida ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 28.54 / -81.38 | Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County. Located in Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,802,570, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in July 2017 (...) | |
| 62 | Omaha Beach ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 49.3689 / -0.8686 | Omaha, commonly known as Omaha Beach, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II. 'Omaha' refers to a section of the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel long, from east (...) | |
| 63 | Scotland ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 56.26 / -4.21 | Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain. It shares a border with England to the south, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south-west (...) | |
| 64 | Phoenix, Arizona ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 366 Lat/Lng : 33.4483 / -112.0739 | Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With 1,626,078 people , Phoenix is the fifth most populous city nationwide, the most populous state capital in the United States, and the only state capital with a population of more than one million residents (...) | |
| 65 | Richmond, Virginia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 37.5489 / -77.4474 | Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond Region. Richmond was incorporated in 1742 and has been an independent city since 1871 (...) | |
| 66 | Jalisco ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1492 Lat/Lng : 20.5667 / -103.6764 | Jalisco , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco , is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and is bordered by six states which are Nayarit, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Michoacán and (...) | |
| 67 | 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 (...) | |
| 68 | England ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 51.5 / -0.1167 | England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest (...) | |
| 69 | 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 (...) | |
| 70 | San Joaquin River ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3353 Lat/Lng : 37.0942 / -118.7383 | The San Joaquin River is the longest river of Central California in the United States. The long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean (...) | |
| 71 | Bolivia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 208 Lat/Lng : -16.712 / -64.666 | Bolivia , officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz (...) | |
| 72 | West Hollywood, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 34.0833 / -118.3667 | West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo , is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is home to the Sunset Strip. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, its population was 34,399 (...) | |
| 73 | Louisville, Kentucky ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 38.2253 / -85.7417 | Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being Lexington, the state's second-largest city (...) | |
| 74 | University of California, Berkeley ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 37.8717 / -122.2589 | The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a top-ranked public research university in the United States. Located in the city of Berkeley, it was founded in 1868, and serves as the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the (...) | |
| 75 | Duluth, Minnesota ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 46.7869 / -92.0982 | Duluth is a major port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Saint Louis County. Duluth has a population of 86,293 and is the 4th largest city in Minnesota. It is the second-largest city on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada (...) | |
| 76 | Latvia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 56.95 / 24.1 | Latvia (or ;), officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Since its independence, Latvia has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia in the northern region, Lithuania in the southern, to the east is Russia, and Belarus to (...) | |
| 77 | Poland ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 52.2323 / 21.0084 | Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38 (...) | |
| 78 | University of Virginia ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 38.0355 / -78.5035 | The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The flagship university of Virginia, it is also a World Heritage site of the United States. It was founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author and former President Thomas Jefferson (...) | |
| 79 | Ponce, Puerto Rico ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 18.0017 / -66.6067 | Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government. Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza,Mariano Vidal Armstrong (...) | |
| 80 | Nebra sky disk ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 255 Lat/Lng : 51.2839 / 11.52 | The Nebra sky disk is a bronze disk of around diameter and a weight of , with a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. These are interpreted generally as a sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, and stars (including a cluster interpreted as the Pleiades) (...) | |
| 81 | 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 (...) | |
| 82 | Burnley ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 53.7896 / -2.2482 | Burnley is a market town in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun. The town is partially surrounded by countryside to the south and east, with the smaller towns of Padiham and Nelson (...) | |
| 83 | 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 (...) | |
| 84 | Thessaloniki ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 40.6472 / 22.9639 | Thessaloniki (Thessaloníki , also familiarly known as Thessalonica, Salonica, or Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized (...) | |
| 85 | 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 (...) | |
| 86 | Melbourne Cricket Ground ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -37.82 / 144.9832 | The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known simply as "The G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Home to the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the 10th-largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, the largest (...) | |
| 87 | Clipperton Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 10.3039 / -109.2177 | Clipperton Island (or ;) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America. It is 10,677 kilometres away from Paris, France, 5,400 km from Papeete, Tahiti, and 1,081 km from Mexico (...) | |
| 88 | Winfield, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 363 Lat/Lng : 37.2478 / -96.9806 | Winfield is a city and county seat of Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Walnut River in South Central Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,301 and second most populous city of Cowley County. (...) | |
| 89 | Kitwe ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1222 Lat/Lng : -12.8096 / 28.2198 | Kitwe is the second largest city in terms of size and population in Zambia. With a population of 522,092 (2010 census provisional) Kitwe is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside Ndola and Lusaka (...) | |
| 90 | Bethany Beach, Delaware ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 38.5394 / -75.0553 | Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census Bureau figures, the population of the town is 1,060; however, during the summer months some 15,000 more populate the town as vacationers., Graeme Browning, Washington Post, July 22, 1989 (...) | |
| 91 | Attu Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 431 Lat/Lng : 52.9025 / 172.9094 | Attu is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, and America. The island became uninhabited in 2010 (...) | |
| 92 | South Pasadena, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 34.1161 / -118.1503 | South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 25,619, up from 24,292 at the 2000 census. It is located in the West San Gabriel Valley. It is 3 (...) | |
| 93 | Lloret de Mar ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 41.6986 / 2.8472 | Lloret de Mar is a Mediterranean coastal town in Catalonia, Spain. One of the most popular holiday resorts on the Costa Brava, it is south of Girona and northeast of Barcelona. With a population of 39,363 in 2009, it is the second largest town in the Selva comarca of Catalonia (...) | |
| 94 | Columbus Circle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 40.769 / -73.982 | Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59th Street), and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park (...) | |
| 95 | Mount Jefferson (Oregon) ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3077 Lat/Lng : 44.6743 / -121.7996 | Mount Jefferson is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, part of the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. The second highest mountain in Oregon, it is situated within Linn County, Jefferson County, and Marion County and forms part of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness (...) | |
| 96 | Redwood National and State Parks ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 516 Lat/Lng : 41.1667 / -123.9833 | The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of several state and national parks located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968) and California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State (...) | |
| 97 | Quneitra ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 935 Lat/Lng : 33.1686 / 35.8699 | Quneitra (also Al Qunaytirah, Qunaitira, or Kuneitra; al-Qunayṭrah) is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria. It is situated in a high valley in the Golan Heights at an elevation of 1,010 metres (3,313 feet) above sea level (...) | |
| 98 | RMS Queen Mary ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 33.7531 / -118.1898 | The RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line – known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service. She was the flagship of the Cunard and White Star Lines, built by John Brown & Company in (...) | |
| 99 | Olympic Mountains ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2369 Lat/Lng : 47.8014 / -123.7108 | The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest at ; however, the eastern slopes rise out of Puget Sound from sea level and the (...) | |
| 100 | Nyssa, Oregon ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 664 Lat/Lng : 43.8792 / -116.9969 | Nyssa is a city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. The population was 3,267 at the 2010 census. The city is located along the Snake River on the Idaho border, in the region of far eastern Oregon known as the "Treasure Valley" (...) | |
| 101 | Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 39.9347 / -77.6564 | Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley, and north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and southwest of Harrisburg, the state (...) | |
| 102 | Columbia, Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 107 Lat/Lng : 40.0331 / -76.4967 | Columbia, formerly Wright's Ferry, is a borough (town) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg on the east (left) bank of the Susquehanna River, across from Wrightsville and York County and just south of U.S. Route 30 (...) | |
| 103 | Rennell Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 148 Lat/Lng : -11.6667 / 160.1667 | Rennell Island, locally known as Mugaba, is the main island of two inhabited islands that make up the Rennell and Bellona Province in the Solomon Islands. Rennell Island has a land area of that is about long and wide (...) | |
| 104 | Mount Diablo ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1146 Lat/Lng : 37.8817 / -121.9142 | Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton and northeast of Danville. It is an isolated upthrust peak of , visible from most of the San Francisco Bay Area (...) | |
| 105 | Trump Tower ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.7625 / -73.9742 | Trump Tower is a 58-story, mixed-use skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Trump Tower serves as the headquarters for The Trump Organization. Additionally, it houses the penthouse condominium residence of the building's namesake and (...) | |
| 106 | Tower of Babel ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 32.5363 / 44.4208 | The Tower of Babel (Migdal Bavel) as told in Genesis 11:1-9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the (...) | |
| 107 | Windsor, Colorado ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1467 Lat/Lng : 40.4772 / -104.9119 | The Town of Windsor is a Home Rule Municipality in Larimer and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.http://www.ci.windsor.co.us/planning.html#regional According to June 2016 estimates, the population of the town was 24,500. Windsor is located in the region known as Northern Colorado (...) | |
| 108 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 46.9985 / -85.1102 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there (...) | |
| 109 | Pulaski Skyway ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 40.7358 / -74.0917 | The Pulaski Skyway is a four-lane bridge-causeway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, carrying an expressway designated U.S. Route 1/9 (US 1/9) for most of its length. The landmark structure has a total length of . Its longest bridge spans (...) | |
| 110 | Walt Disney Concert Hall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 34.0553 / -118.25 | The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It opened on October 24, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and (...) | |
| 111 | Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 40.1547 / -76.725 | Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI) is a nuclear power plant located on Three Mile Island in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, TMI-1 and TMI-2 (...) | |
| 112 | Independence Pass (Colorado) ![]() FeatureType : pass Elevation : 3691 Lat/Lng : 39.1086 / -106.564 | Independence Pass, originally known as Hunter Pass, is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. It is at elevation on the Continental Divide in the Sawatch Range. The pass is midway between Aspen and Twin Lakes, on the border between Pitkin and Lake (...) | |
| 113 | Mount Evans ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4321 Lat/Lng : 39.5883 / -105.6438 | Mount Evans is the highest summit of the Chicago Peaks in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,271-foot (4350 m) fourteener is located in the Mount Evans Wilderness, southwest by south (bearing 214°) of the City of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, (...) | |
| 114 | Manchester Town Hall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 53.4792 / -2.2442 | Manchester Town Hall is a Victorian, Neo-gothic municipal building in Manchester, England. It is the ceremonial headquarters of Manchester City Council and houses a number of local government departments. The building faces Albert Square to the north and St Peter's Square to the south, with (...) | |
| 115 | Garwood, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 40.6512 / -74.3231 | Garwood is a borough in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 4,226, reflecting an increase of 73 (+1.8%) from the 4,153 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 74 (-1.8%) from the 4,227 counted in the 1990 Census (...) | |
| 116 | George Washington Bridge ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 40.8516 / -73.9525 | The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River and connecting between the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City with the borough of Fort Lee in New Jersey (...) | |
| 117 | USS Thresher (SSN-593) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 41.7667 / -65.05 | The second USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark. On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about east of Boston, (...) | |
| 118 | Roselle Park, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 40.6653 / -74.2667 | Roselle Park is a borough in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 13,297, reflecting an increase of 16 (+0.1%) from the 13,281 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 476 (+3 (...) | |
| 119 | Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 39.3294 / -76.6014 | Memorial Stadium was a sports stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, that formerly stood on 33rd Street (aka 33rd Street Boulevard or renamed "Babe Ruth Plaza") on an oversized block (officially designated as Venable Park, a former city park from the 1920s) also bounded by Ellerslie Avenue (west), 36th (...) | |
| 120 | U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 14.8078 / 120.2781 | Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the Spanish Navy and subsequently the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines. The base was 262 square miles, about the size of Singapore (...) | |
| 121 | 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 (...) | |
| 122 | Scottsdale, Arizona ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 397 Lat/Lng : 33.5458 / -111.8958 | Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, part of the Greater Phoenix Area. Named Scottsdale in 1894 after founder Winfield Scott and incorporated in 1951 with a population of 2,000, the 2015 population of the city is estimated to be 236,839 according to (...) | |
| 123 | Parihaka ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : -39.2883 / 173.8404 | Parihaka is a small community in the Taranaki region of New Zealand, located between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea. In the 1870s and 1880s the settlement, then reputed to be the largest Māori village in New Zealand, became the centre of a major campaign of non-violent resistance to European (...) | |
| 124 | Jefferson County, Florida ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 30.42 / -83.9 | Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,761. Its county seat is Monticello. Jefferson County is part of the Tallahassee, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. (...) | |
| 125 | Dry Tortugas National Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 24.6167 / -82.8667 | Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park in the United States about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the seven Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys (...) | |
| 126 | Charleroi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 50.4117 / 4.4447 | Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By January 1, 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. Population of all municipalities in Belgium, as of January 1, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-10-19 (...) | |
| 127 | Cecilienhof ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 52.4192 / 13.0708 | Cecilienhof Palace is a palace in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English Tudor manor house. Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the House of Hohenzollern that ruled the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire until the end of World War I (...) | |
| 128 | United States Supreme Court Building ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 38.8905 / -77.0045 | The Supreme Court Building houses the Supreme Court of the United States. Completed in 1935, it is in Washington, D.C. at 1 First Street, NE, in the block immediately east of the United States Capitol. The building is under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol (...) | |
| 129 | Story County, Iowa ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 302 Lat/Lng : 42.0378 / -93.4664 | Story County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 89,542. The county seat is Nevada. Story County comprises the Ames, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Des Moines-Ames-West Des Moines, IA Combined Statistical Area (...) | |
| 130 | Marinduque ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 337 Lat/Lng : 13.4014 / 121.9669 | Marinduque is an island province in the Philippines located in Southwestern Tagalog Region or MIMAROPA, formerly designated as Region IV-B. Its capital is the municipality of Boac. Marinduque lies between Tayabas Bay to the north and Sibuyan Sea to the south (...) | |
| 131 | Laysan ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 25.7706 / -171.7344 | Laysan (; Hawaiian: Kauō), located northwest of Honolulu at N25° 42' 14" W171° 44' 04", is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of , about in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds a shallow central lake some above sea level that has a (...) | |
| 132 | Bisbee, Arizona ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1665 Lat/Lng : 31.4428 / -109.9211 | Bisbee is a U.S. city in Cochise County, Arizona, southeast of Tucson. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city was 5,575. The city is the county seat of Cochise County. (...) | |
| 133 | Hunter Mountain (New York) ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1228 Lat/Lng : 42.1779 / -74.2304 | Hunter Mountain is in the towns of Hunter and Lexington, just south of the village of Hunter, in Greene County, New York, United States. At approximately in elevation, it is the highest peak in the county and the second-highest peak in the Catskill Mountains (...) | |
| 134 | Lubumbashi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1255 Lat/Lng : -11.6697 / 27.4833 | Lubumbashi (former names: (French) and Elisabethstad (Dutch)) in the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second-largest city in the country, the largest being the capital, Kinshasa. Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, acting as a hub (...) | |
| 135 | University of Ottawa ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 45.4222 / -75.6824 | The University of Ottawa (uOttawa or U of O) is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on in the residential neighbourhood of Sandy Hill, adjacent to Ottawa's Rideau Canal.https://www.uottawa (...) | |
| 136 | Molokai ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 222 Lat/Lng : 21.1333 / -157.0333 | Molokai (; Hawaiian:), nicknamed “The Friendly Isle”, is the fifth largest island of eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Island Chain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) in size at its extreme length and width with a usable land area of , making it the (...) | |
| 137 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1950 Lat/Lng : 39.6653 / -105.2058 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure near Morrison, Colorado, west of Denver, where concerts are given in the open-air amphitheatre. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from (...) | |
| 138 | Hadrian's Wall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 55.0242 / -2.2925 | Hadrian's Wall , also called the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It ran from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish (...) | |
| 139 | Kim Il-sung ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 910 Lat/Lng : 39.9721 / 126.3214 | Kim Il-sung (officially transcribed Kim Il Sung; ; ; ; born Kim Sŏng-ju ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first Supreme Leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994 (...) | |
| 140 | Joint Security Area ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 37.956 / 126.6769 | The Joint Security Area (JSA) is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where North and South Korean forces stand face-to-face. It is often called the Truce Village of Panmunjom (the Truce Village; or simply, Panmunjom) in the media and various military accounts (...) | |
| 141 | Society of Jesus ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 41.9014 / 12.4606 | The Society of Jesus (SJ;) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain. The members are called Jesuits .Spiteri, Stephen C. (2016). . University of Malta. p. 16 (...) | |
| 142 | Racine, Wisconsin ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 42.7261 / -87.8058 | Racine is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River. Racine is located 22 miles south of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 U.S (...) | |
| 143 | Ludwig Wittgenstein ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 52.2176 / 0.1001 | Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language (...) | |
| 144 | Jackson County, Missouri ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 267 Lat/Lng : 39.01 / -94.34 | Jackson County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 674,158. making it the second-most populous county in the state (after St. Louis County) (...) | |
| 145 | Merced, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 37.3061 / -120.4778 | Merced (Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As of 2014, the city had a population of 81,743. Incorporated on April 1, 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council-manager government (...) | |
| 146 | Houghton, Michigan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 262 Lat/Lng : 47.1172 / -88.5625 | Houghton is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and largest city in the Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,708. It is the county seat of Houghton County. It has been listed as one of the "100 Best Small Towns in America (...) | |
| 147 | Wrangell, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 56.4694 / -132.3814 | The City and Borough of Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,369, up from 2,308 in 2000. Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census (...) | |
| 148 | Pan Am Flight 103 ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 55.1156 / -3.3585 | Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew – a disaster known as the (...) | |
| 149 | American Samoa ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 340 Lat/Lng : -14.2958 / -170.7075 | American Samoa (; , ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa. Its location is centered around 14.2710° S, 170.1322° W. It is on the eastern border of the International Date Line, while independent Samoa is west of it (...) | |
| 150 | Ohio River ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 40.4417 / -80.0161 | The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States. At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi (Ohio at Cairo: 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m3/s);Frits van (...) | |
| 151 | Natchitoches, Louisiana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 31.7431 / -93.095 | Natchitoches is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis as part of French Louisiana, the community was named after the indigenous Natchitoches people (...) | |
| 152 | Klondike Gold Rush ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 64.0569 / -139.4361 | The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896, and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it (...) | |
| 153 | Nuclear weapons testing ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1224 Lat/Lng : 37.0114 / -116.0598 | Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the twentieth century, most nations that developed nuclear weapons tested them (...) | |
| 154 | Columbia River ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 400 Lat/Lng : 49.0036 / -117.6203 | The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.According to the United States Geological Survey fact sheet, , "Rivers are considered large on the basis of one or more of three characteristics: total length from source to mouth, area of basin (watershed) (...) | |
| 155 | World Economic Forum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 46.2253 / 6.1917 | The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization. It gained formal status in January 2015 under the Swiss Host-State Act, confirming the role of the Forum as an International Institution for Public-Private Cooperation (...) | |
| 156 | European Parliament ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 48.5974 / 7.7687 | The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU (...) | |
| 157 | Shoshone National Forest ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1809 Lat/Lng : 44.4644 / -109.6136 | Shoshone National Forest is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States and covers nearly in the state of Wyoming. Originally a part of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve, the forest is managed by the United States Forest Service and was created by an act of Congress and (...) | |
| 158 | Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 40.04 / -76.25 | Lancaster County , (Pennsylvania German: Lengeschder Kaundi) sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the south central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 519,445 (...) | |
| 159 | George Orwell ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 56.1108 / -5.6917 | Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism (...) | |
| 160 | Eton College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 51.492 / -0.608 | Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor. It educates more than 1,300 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as 'The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor',Nevill, p.3 ff (...) | |
| 161 | University of Oxford ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 51.754 / -1.2544 | The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation (...) | |
| 162 | V-2 rocket ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 452 Lat/Lng : 50.1885 / 5.9038 | The V-2 ("Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range"Long-range" in the context of the time. See guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a "vengeance (...) | |
| 163 | 2008 Mumbai attacks ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 18.9221 / 72.8326 | --> The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a group of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four (...) | |
| 164 | Pernambuco ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 511 Lat/Lng : -8.34 / -37.81 | Pernambuco In Brazilian Portuguese. The European Portuguese pronunciation is . is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. The state of Pernambuco also includes the archipelago Fernando de Noronha. With an estimated population of 9 (...) | |
| 165 | Stockton, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 37.9756 / -121.3008 | Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Captain Charles Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after Robert F (...) | |
| 166 | Ontario ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 50.0 / -85.0 | Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada (along with Manitoba) (...) | |
| 167 | Panama Canal Zone ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 9.1177 / -79.7202 | The Panama Canal Zone was an unincorporated territory of the United States from 1903 to 1979, centered on the Panama Canal and surrounded by the Republic of Panama.Liptak, Adam. , New York Times (July 11, 2008) (...) | |
| 168 | Ferndale, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 40.5767 / -124.2633 | Ferndale is a city in Humboldt County, California, United States. Its population was 1,371 at the 2010 census, down from 1,382 at the 2000 census. The city contains dozens of well-preserved Victorian storefronts and homes (...) | |
| 169 | Columbanus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 48.6481 / -2.0075 | Columbanus (543 – 21 November 615), also known as St. Columban, was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy (...) | |
| 170 | Illinois Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 41.8353 / -87.6262 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech or IIT) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It was established from the merger in 1940 of Armour Institute and Lewis Institute. The university has programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, (...) | |
| 171 | Dirmstein ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 107 Lat/Lng : 49.5637 / 8.2469 | Dirmstein is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With its roughly 3,000 inhabitants, it is the thirdlargest Ortsgemeinde in the Verbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland, whose (...) | |
| 172 | Hudson River ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 43.246 / -73.8278 | The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States. The river originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, flows southward through the Hudson Valley, and eventually drains into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor, (...) | |
| 173 | Pittsfield, Massachusetts ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2655 Lat/Lng : 42.4519 / 73.2514 | Pittsfield is the largest city and the historic county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. The population was 44,737 at the 2010 census (...) | |
| 174 | John Wayne ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 33.6095 / -117.8534 | Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed "The Duke", was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades (...) | |
| 175 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 34.3948 / 132.4548 | During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement (...) | |
| 176 | Bathurst, New Brunswick ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 47.6175 / -65.6491 | Bathurst (2011 population; UA 12,275; CA population 13,424) is the county seat for Gloucester County, New Brunswick, and is at the estuary of the Nepisiguit River. (...) | |
| 177 | Cisco Systems ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4084 / -121.9541 | Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products (...) | |
| 178 | Ernest Shackleton ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -77.8167 / -35.1167 | Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (; 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was a British polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (...) | |
| 179 | British Columbia ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 981 Lat/Lng : 55.0333 / -124.9667 | British Columbia (BC;) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 4.817 million as of 2017, it is Canada's third-most populous province (...) | |
| 180 | Dumfries ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 55.0696 / -3.6051 | Dumfries (; possibly from) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland, United Kingdom. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries is the traditional county town of the historic county of Dumfriesshire (...) | |
| 181 | Glacier National Park (U.S.) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2033 Lat/Lng : 48.6953 / -113.718 | Glacier National Park is an American national park located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The park encompasses over and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), over (...) | |
| 182 | Camden, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 39.9372 / -75.1061 | Camden is a city and the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, United States. Camden is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 77,344. Camden is the 12th most populous municipality in New Jersey (...) | |
| 183 | Sydney, Nova Scotia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 46.1363 / -60.1955 | Sydney (also known as the steel city) is an urban community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Situated on Cape Breton Island's east coast, it belongs administratively to the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (...) | |
| 184 | Thuringia ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 301 Lat/Lng : 50.9033 / 11.0264 | Thuringia , officially the Free State of Thuringia , is a state of Germany. Thuringia is located in central Germany covering an area of and a population of 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest German state by area and the fifth smallest by population (...) | |
| 185 | Virginia ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 184 Lat/Lng : 37.5 / -78.6667 | Virginia , officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" due to its status as the first English colonial possession (...) | |
| 186 | Normal, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 245 Lat/Lng : 40.5122 / -88.9886 | Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town's population was 52,497. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and Illinois' seventh most populous community outside the Chicago metropolitan area (...) | |
| 187 | Stonewall riots ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 40.7338 / -74.0021 | The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) communityAt the time, the term "gay" was commonly used to refer to all LGBT people (...) | |
| 188 | Amazon (company) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 519 Lat/Lng : 48.1333 / 11.5833 | Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon , is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and (...) | |
| 189 | Palestinian National Authority ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 873 Lat/Lng : 31.9122 / 35.2083 | The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; ') is the interim self-government body established in 1994 following the Gaza–Jericho Agreement to govern the Gaza Strip and Areas A and B of the West Bank,. Encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com (2012-04-11). Retrieved on 2013-08-25 (...) | |
| 190 | University of Nottingham ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 52.9389 / -1.1969 | The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital (Queen's Medical Centre) (...) | |
| 191 | New Apostolic Church ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 507 Lat/Lng : 48.1979 / 11.3717 | The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a chiliastic Christian church that split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during a 1863 schism in Hamburg, Germany. The church has existed since 1863 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands (...) | |
| 192 | Baltimore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 39.2864 / -76.615 | Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States. Baltimore was established by the Constitution of MarylandThe form and type of government of the city is described by Article XI of the State Constitution (...) | |
| 193 | Battle of Culloden ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 57.4912 / -4.1322 | The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart were decisively defeated by Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands (...) | |
| 194 | California ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 37.0 / -120.0 | California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and (...) | |
| 195 | Ocean City, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 39.2636 / -74.6046 | Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 11,701, reflecting a decline of 3,677 (-23.9%) from the 15,378 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 134 (-0 (...) | |
| 196 | Near East ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : -216 Lat/Lng : 32.8 / 35.6 | The Near East is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia. Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire (...) | |
| 197 | Central Intelligence Agency ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 38.9521 / -77.1452 | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the Federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) (...) | |
| 198 | 1939 New York World's Fair ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 40.7428 / -73.8455 | The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (...) | |
| 199 | BP ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 28.7539 / -88.3147 | BP plc (formerly The British Petroleum Company plc and BP Amoco plc) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas "supermajors", whose performance in 2012 made it the world's sixth-largest oil and gas company, the (...) | |
| 200 | Operation Crossroads ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 11.6 / 165.5 | Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (...) | |