| 45 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Bertelsmann  FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 51.9081 / 8.4192 | Bertelsmann is a German multinational corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest mass media companies and also active in the service sector and education. Bertelsmann was founded as a publishing house by Carl Bertelsmann in 1835 (...) |
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| Conakry FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 9.5479 / -13.6704 | Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973 Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the Îles de Los, it has since spread up the (...) |
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| Kinshasa FeatureType : null Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : -4.3317 / 15.3139 | Kinshasa (; ; formerly Léopoldville (or Dutch nocat=true)) is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is situated alongside the Congo River. Once a site of fishing and trading villages, Kinshasa is now a megacity with an estimated population of more than (...) |
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| Yale University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 41.3111 / -72.9267 | Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Tehran FeatureType : null Elevation : 1181 Lat/Lng : 35.6961 / 51.4231 | Tehran is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With a population of around 8.4 million in the city and 15 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia,See List of metropolitan areas in Asia (...) |
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| Chile FeatureType : country Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : -33.45 / -70.6667 | Chile , officially the Republic of Chile (RepChile.ogg), is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far (...) |
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| Columbia University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 40.8088 / -73.9623 | Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Established in 1754, Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest institution of higher (...) |
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| Saudi Arabia FeatureType : country Elevation : 943 Lat/Lng : 24.0 / 45.0 | Saudi Arabia , officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA; '), is a country in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. With a land area of approximately , Saudi Arabia is the largest sovereign state in the Middle East, geographically the fifth-largest in Asia, second-largest in (...) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 42.3598 / -71.0921 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied (...) |
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| Montevideo FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : -34.8833 / -56.1667 | Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . The southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the (...) |
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| Medellín FeatureType : null Elevation : 1475 Lat/Lng : 6.2359 / -75.5751 | Medellín (or ;), officially the Municipality of Medellín , is the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes Mountains in South America (...) |
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| Brazil FeatureType : country Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : -14.16 / -51.9 | Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (listen), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers (3.2 million square miles) and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most (...) |
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| Thailand FeatureType : country Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 13.75 / 100.4833 | Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| North Korea FeatureType : country Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 39.5462 / 126.0632 | North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (abbreviated as DPRK, PRK, DPR Korea, or Korea DPR), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang the capital and the largest city in the country (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
| 18 | Engie FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 48.8962 / 2.2399 | ENGIE (known as GDF Suez prior to April 2015) is a French multinational electric utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy (...) | |
| 19 | United States Department of State FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 38.8942 / -77.0483 | The United States Department of State (DOS),http://2001-2009.state.gov/g/oes/rlnks/gl/ often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues (...) | |
| 20 | City FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 31.3222 / 45.6361 | A city is a large human settlement.Goodall, B. (1987) The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. London: Routledge (...) | |
| 21 | Pumped-storage hydroelectricity FeatureType : null Elevation : 646 Lat/Lng : 38.2089 / -79.8 | Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing. The method stores energy in the form of gravitational potential energy of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir (...) | |
| 22 | Ithaca, New York FeatureType : null Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 42.4441 / -76.5032 | Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca–Tompkins County metropolitan area. This area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in (...) | |
| 23 | Northeastern University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 42.3389 / -71.0903 | Northeastern University (NU, formerly NEU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as an R1 institution (Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (...) | |
| 24 | 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) (...) | |
| 25 | Rice University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 29.7169 / -95.4028 | William Marsh Rice University, commonly known as Rice University, is a private research university located on a 300-acre (121 ha) campus in Houston, Texas, United States. The university is situated near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center (...) | |
| 26 | Sewage treatment FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1424 Lat/Lng : -22.4764 / 18.9516 | Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from municipal wastewater, containing mainly household sewage plus some industrial wastewater. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are used to remove contaminants and produce treated wastewater (or treated effluent) that is safe (...) | |
| 27 | Gordon B. Hinckley FeatureType : null Elevation : 1394 Lat/Lng : 40.7745 / -111.8635 | Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995, until his death (...) | |
| 28 | 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) (...) | |
| 29 | Henry Ford FeatureType : null Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 42.3579 / -83.2012 | Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production (...) | |
| 30 | Photovoltaics FeatureType : null Elevation : 1292 Lat/Lng : 37.55 / 105.0539 | Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. A photovoltaic system employs solar panels, each comprising a number of solar cells, which (...) | |
| 31 | Ichalkaranji FeatureType : city Elevation : 558 Lat/Lng : 16.6869 / 74.4647 | Ichalkaranji pronunciation) is a city in Kolhapur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is governed by a municipal council. Ichalkaranji City is known for its export of Textile goods and textile manufacturing industry (...) | |
| 32 | Tagum FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 7.4469 / 125.8094 | , officially the , , or simply referred to as Tagum City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines and capital of the , . According to the , it has a population of people. It is the most populous component city in Mindanao (...) | |
| 33 | Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 1188 Lat/Lng : -27.7464 / 29.9328 | Newcastle is the third-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with a population of 363,236 citizens as of the 2011 census. 56,144 of these citizens reside in Newcastle West, whilst the balance of the population reside in the main townships of Madadeni and Osizweni, which form (...) | |
| 34 | History of the Philippines FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 20.35 / 121.54 | The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or boats at least 67,000 years ago as the 2007 discovery of Callao Man suggested. Negrito groups first inhabited the isles. Groups of Austronesians later migrated to the islands (...) | |
| 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 | Almarai FeatureType : Elevation : 660 Lat/Lng : 24.7856 / 46.7074 | Almarai is a Saudi-based conglomerate, listed on the Tadawul stock exchange. It specializes in food and beverage manufacturing and distribution. The company's main offices are located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. According to Almarai literature, the dairy company - founded by Irish Agri Pioneers Paddy (...) | |
| 37 | Z/Yen FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 51.5151 / -0.0914 | Z/Yen is a commercial think-tank, consultancy and venture firm headquartered in the City of London. It works in the financial services, technology and voluntary sectors on a range of projects from research to performance review and strategic management (...) | |
| 38 | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 38.7742 / -9.1342 | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal is the airport authority of Portugal. The authority manages various airports including Portugal's largest airport, Lisbon Airport. The authority has its head office in Building 120 on the grounds of the airport." ." ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal (...) | |
| 39 | Forest Stewardship Council FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 50.717 / 7.1336 | The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization established in 1993 to promote responsible management of the world’s forests. The FSC does this by setting standards on forest products, along with certifying and labeling them as eco-friendly. (...) | |
| 40 | George W. Bush Presidential Center FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 182 Lat/Lng : 32.8409 / -96.7781 | The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opened on April 25, 2013, is a complex that includes the 43rd President George W. Bush's presidential library and museum, the George W. Bush Policy Institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation (...) | |
| 41 | Tamera FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 162 Lat/Lng : 37.7153 / -8.5153 | Tamera is a peace research village with the goal of becoming "a self-sufficient, sustainable and duplicable communitarian model for nonviolent cooperation and cohabitation between humans, animals, nature, and Creation for a future of peace for all (...) | |
| 42 | Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 51.4105 / 5.4571 | The Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (English translation: Philips Physics Laboratory) or NatLab was the Dutch section of the Philips research department, which did research for the product divisions of that company (...) | |
| 43 | Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 5.35 / 5.35 | The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is one of the largest militant groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The organization claims to expose exploitation and oppression of the people of the Niger Delta and devastation of the natural environment by public-private (...) | |
| 44 | Prvi Partizan FeatureType : null Elevation : 410 Lat/Lng : 43.8508 / 19.8547 | Prvi Partizan (; abbr. PPU) is a Serbian manufacturer of ammunition and handloading components, based in Užice, Serbia. The company produces ammunition for civilian and military consumers in a variety of calibers in various loadings (...) | |
| 45 | Riedel Communications FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 203 Lat/Lng : 51.2775 / 7.1584 | RIEDEL Communications GmbH & Co. KG (formerly Riedel Funk- und Intercomtechnik) is a German manufacturer of communications equipment and an equipment distributor. Riedel was founded in 1987 in Wuppertal, Germany by Thomas Riedel. Stadionwelt-business (...) | |
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