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1 | ![]() | Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 327 Lat/Lng : 40.9 / -77.7167 | Pennsylvania,Pronounced , officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The Commonwealth is bordered by Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West (...) |
2 | ![]() | Delaware ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 38.9108 / -75.5277 | Blue Hen State; The Diamond State Former = Delaware Colony Capital = Dover LargestCity = Wilmington LargestMetroArea = Wilmington Governor = Lieutenant Governor = Legislature = General Assembly Upperhouse = Senate Lowerhouse = House of Representatives Senators = Tom Carper (D)Chris Coons (...) |
3 | ![]() | Narva ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 59.3758 / 28.1961 | Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, at the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus. (...) |
4 | ![]() | Bessarabia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 46.8333 / 29.0 | Bessarabia (; ; , Bessarabiya; ; , Bessarabiya; , Besarabiya) is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. Today Bessarabia is mostly (approx (...) |
5 | ![]() | Rhode Island ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 41.678 / -71.4743 | Rhode Island , officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest state in area, the seventh least populous, and is the second most densely populated. It has the longest official name of any state (...) |
6 | ![]() | 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 (...) |
7 | ![]() | Transnistria ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 47.3338 / 29.1976 | Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (see more on names below) is an unrecognised state which split off from Moldova after the dissolution of the USSR and mostly consists of a narrow strip of land between the river Dniester and the territory of Ukraine (...) |
8 | ![]() | Massachusetts ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 329 Lat/Lng : 42.2833 / -71.9 | Massachusetts , officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and (...) |
9 | ![]() | University of Vienna ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 48.2131 / 16.3597 | The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is one of the oldest universities in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich history, the University of Vienna has developed into one of the largest universities in (...) |
10 | ![]() | Staunton, Virginia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 442 Lat/Lng : 38.1578 / -79.0764 | Staunton is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,746. In Virginia, independent cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County are in Verona, which is contiguous to (...) |
11 | ![]() | Newport, Rhode Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -11 Lat/Lng : 41.49 / -71.3131 | Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck IslandAquidneck Island was called Rhode Island during Colonial times, and is still shown on some nautical charts as Rhode Island. in Newport County, Rhode Island, located approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, (...) |
12 | ![]() | Palma de Mallorca ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 39.5714 / 2.6517 | Palma de Mallorca, since December 2016 PalmaSince December 2016 the city is officially "Palma", (or), is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma (...) |
13 | ![]() | Bahrain ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 26.0675 / 50.5511 | Bahrain , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (help=no), is an island country in the Persian Gulf. The sovereign state comprises a small archipelago centered around Bahrain Island, situated between the Qatar peninsula and the north eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the King (...) |
14 | ![]() | English Channel ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 50.1836 / -0.5311 | The English Channel ("The Sleeve"; , "Sleeve Channel"; , "Sea of Brittany"; , "British Sea"; , "The Channel"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (...) |
15 | ![]() | San Marino ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 43.9385 / 12.4571 | San Marino (; in careful speech, more usually), officially the Republic of San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino , is an enclaved microstate surrounded by Italy, situated on the Italian Peninsula on the northeastern side of the Apennine Mountains (...) |
16 | ![]() | Providence, Rhode Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 41.8308 / -71.415 | Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony (...) |
17 | ![]() | Valbonne ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 43.6424 / 7.0095 | Valbonne is a commune near Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Valbonne means "the good valley" in Provençal and translates to "Vaubona" in Occitan. The commune is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis (...) |
18 | ![]() | Île Amsterdam ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 556 Lat/Lng : -37.8278 / 77.5611 | Île Amsterdam , also known as Amsterdam Island, New Amsterdam, or Nouvelle Amsterdam, is an island of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the southern Indian Ocean that together with neighbouring Île Saint-Paul to the south forms one of the five districts of the territory (...) |
19 | ![]() | Tahiti ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 824 Lat/Lng : -17.6767 / -149.4544 | Tahiti (; ; previously also known as Otaheite (obsolete) is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia. The island is located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the central Southern Pacific Ocean, and is divided into two parts: the bigger, northwestern part, Tahiti Nui, (...) |
20 | ![]() | Hong Kong ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 22.2806 / 114.1653 | Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7 (...) |
21 | ![]() | Panama Canal ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 9.08 / -79.68 | The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade. Canal locks are at each end to lift ships up to Gatun Lake, an artificial lake created to reduce the amount (...) |
22 | ![]() | 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 (...) |
23 | ![]() | Bulgaria ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 414 Lat/Lng : 42.65 / 25.4 | Bulgaria (; , tr. '), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (tr. '), is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east (...) |
24 | ![]() | New Hampshire ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 43.1939 / -71.5724 | New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north (...) |
25 | ![]() | Hillsborough, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 166 Lat/Lng : 36.0706 / -79.1042 | The town of Hillsborough is the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina and is located along the Eno River. The population was 6,087 in 2010. Its name was unofficially shortened to "Hillsboro" during the 19th century (...) |
26 | ![]() | 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 (...) |
27 | ![]() | Haiti ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 18.5392 / -72.3364 | Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic (...) |
28 | ![]() | El Salvador ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 638 Lat/Lng : 13.6833 / -89.1833 | El Salvador , officially the Republic of El Salvador (literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean (...) |
29 | ![]() | Nicaragua ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 12.9042 / -84.9219 | Nicaragua , officially the Republic of Nicaragua (República de Nicaragua.ogg), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest (...) |
30 | ![]() | Jordan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 784 Lat/Lng : 31.95 / 35.9333 | Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , is an Arab country in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north, Israel and Palestine to the west (...) |
31 | ![]() | Eritrea ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2343 Lat/Lng : 15.3333 / 38.9167 | Eritrea , , officially the State of Eritrea International Organization for Standardization is a country in the Horn of Africa, with its capital at Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast (...) |
32 | ![]() | 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 (...) |
33 | ![]() | Puerto Rico ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 500 Lat/Lng : 18.2189 / -66.5733 | Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately southeast of Miami, Florida (...) |
34 | ![]() | United Kingdom ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : 53.55 / -2.4333 | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed. Some organisations, including the and , prefer to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European (...) |
35 | ![]() | Estonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 59.4167 / 24.75 | Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland with Finland on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with Sweden to the west (Scandinavia to the far west and north), to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to (...) |
36 | ![]() | Tutuila ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : -14.2944 / -170.725 | Tutuila is the largest and the main island of American Samoa in the archipelago of Samoan Islands. It is the third largest island in the Samoan Islands chain of the Central Pacific located roughly north-east of Brisbane, Australia and over northeast of Fiji (...) |
37 | ![]() | Santa Paula, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 34.3558 / -119.0683 | Santa Paula is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. Situated amidst the orchards of the fertile Santa Clara River Valley, the city advertises itself to tourists as the "Citrus Capital of the World." Santa Paula was one of the early centers of California's petroleum industry (...) |
38 | ![]() | Imbros ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 40.1608 / 25.8444 | Imbros or İmroz, officially changed to Gökçeada since 29 July 1970,Alexis Alexandris, "The Identity Issue of The Minorities In Greece An Turkey", in Hirschon, Renée (ed.), Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey, Berghahn Books, 2003, , (...) |
39 | ![]() | Nevada Test Site ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1287 Lat/Lng : 37.1111 / -116.0711 | The Nevada National Security Site (N2S2 or NNSS), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas (...) |
40 | ![]() | Nuclear program of Iran ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 28.829 / 50.887 | The nuclear program of Iran has included several research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities that include three known uranium enrichment plants. In 1970, Iran ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), making its nuclear program subject to the IAEA's (...) |
41 | ![]() | Romanian Athenaeum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 44.4413 / 26.0973 | The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's main concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu annual international (...) |
42 | Vairano Patenora ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 41.3333 / 14.1333 | Vairano Patenora is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about north of Naples and about northwest of Caserta. (...) | |
43 | ![]() | Aspendos ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 36.9389 / 31.1722 | Aspendos or Aspendus (Pamphylian: ΕΣΤϜΕΔΥΣ; Attic: Ἄσπενδος) was an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province of Turkey. The site is located northeast of central Serik. (...) |
44 | University of Bologna ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 44.4939 / 11.3428 | The University of Bologna (UNIBO), founded in 1088, is the oldest university in continuous operation,Nuria Sanz, Sjur Bergan: "The heritage of European universities", 2nd edition, Higher Education Series No. 7, Council of Europe, 2006, ISBN, p (...) | |
45 | Kent County, Delaware ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 39.1 / -75.5 | Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2010 census, the population was 162,310, making it the least populous county in Delaware. The county seat is Dover, the state capital of Delaware. It is named for Kent, an English county (...) | |
46 | Muscogee County, Georgia ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 32.51 / -84.87 | Muscogee County is a county located on the central western border of the U.S. state of Georgia; its western border with the state of Alabama is formed by the Chattahoochee River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 189,885 (...) | |
47 | Kingdom of Romania ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 44.4167 / 26.1 | The Kingdom of Romania was a constitutional monarchy at the crossroads of Eastern and Southeastern Europe which existed from 1881, when prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was crowned as King Carol I of Romania, until 1947, when King Michael I of Romania abdicated and the Parliament proclaimed (...) | |
48 | Ulster County, New York ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 230 Lat/Lng : 41.89 / -74.26 | Ulster County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 182,493. The county seat is Kingston. The county is named after the Irish province of Ulster. Ulster County comprises the Kingston, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also (...) | |
49 | ![]() | Maryland State House ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.9791 / -76.491 | The Maryland State House is located in Annapolis, Maryland and is the oldest U.S. state capitol in continuous legislative use, dating to 1772. It houses the Maryland General Assembly, plus the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor (...) |
50 | South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 33.95 / -80.95 | South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States and the easternmost of the Deep South. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the southwest by Georgia across the Savannah River. South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U (...) | |
51 | World Trade Organization ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 385 Lat/Lng : 46.2239 / 6.1496 | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement, signed by 124 nations on 15 April 1994, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which (...) | |
52 | Maloelap Atoll ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 8.7487 / 171.0749 | The Maloelap Atoll (Marshallese:) (also spelled Maleolap) is a coral atoll of 71 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is only , but that encloses a lagoon of . It is located north of the atoll of Aur (...) | |
53 | Georgia (U.S. state) ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 153 Lat/Lng : 33.0 / -83.5 | Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States. It began as a British colony in 1733, the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. Named after King George II of Great Britain, the Province of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina down to Spanish Florida (...) | |
54 | Shelby County, Tennessee ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 35.18 / -89.89 | Shelby County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 927,644. It is the state's largest county both in terms of population and geographic area. Its county seat is Memphis, a port on the Mississippi River and the second most populous city in Tennessee (...) | |
55 | Veliko Tarnovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 43.0778 / 25.6167 | Veliko Tarnovo ("Great Tarnovo") is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred to as the "City of the Tsars", Veliko Tarnovo is located on the Yantra River and is famously known as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, (...) | |
56 | Bacău ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 170 Lat/Lng : 46.5675 / 26.9036 | Bacău is the main city in Bacău County, Romania. At the 2016 national estimation it had a population of 196,883, making it the 12th largest city in Romania. The city is situated in the historical region of Moldavia, at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and on the Bistrița River (which meets (...) | |
57 | Max Planck Society ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 48.141 / 11.5815 | The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and renamed the Max Planck Society in 1948 in honor of its former president, (...) | |
58 | Lewes, Delaware ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 38.775 / -75.1417 | Lewes is an incorporated city on the Delaware Bay in eastern Sussex County, Delaware. According to the 2010 census, the population is 2,747. Along with neighboring Rehoboth Beach, Lewes is one of the principal cities of Delaware's rapidly growing Cape Region (...) | |
59 | Fujairah ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 25.1289 / 56.3366 | Fujairah is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, and the only one of the seven that has a coastline solely on the Gulf of Oman and none on the Persian Gulf. The capital is Fujairah City. (...) | |
60 | Heber J. Grant ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1438 Lat/Lng : 40.777 / -111.858 | Heber Jeddy Grant (November 22, 1856 – May 14, 1945) was an American religious leader who served as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Grant worked as a bookkeeper and a cashier, then was called to be an LDS apostle on October 16, 1882, at (...) | |
61 | Union of South American Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2461 Lat/Lng : -0.0044 / -78.4539 | The Union of South American Nations (USAN; , UNASUR; , UNASUL; , UZAN; and sometimes referred to as the South American Union) is an intergovernmental regional organization comprising twelve South American countries (...) | |
62 | Grand Duchy of Tuscany ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 43.7833 / 11.25 | The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was a central Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1859, replacing the Duchy of Florence.Strathern, Paul: The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, Vintage books, London, 2003, , pp. 315–321 The grand duchy's capital was Florence (...) | |
63 | Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 7.2167 / 124.25 | The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Al-ḥukm adh-dhātiyy al-'aqlīmiyy limuslimiyy mindanāu; abbreviated ARMM) is an autonomous region of the Philippines, located in the Mindanao island group of the Philippines, that consists of five predominantly Muslim provinces: Basilan (except Isabela City), (...) | |
64 | Great Britain ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 53.826 / -2.422 | Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island, and the ninth-largest island in the world (...) | |
65 | Ohio ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 41.122 / -80.684 | Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Of the fifty states, is the 34th largest by area, the seventh most populous, and the tenth most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus (...) | |
66 | European Court of Human Rights ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 48.5964 / 7.7742 | The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR;) is a supranational or international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights provisions concerning civil and political (...) | |
67 | Argentine Senate ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : -34.6105 / -58.391 | The Argentine Senate (; lit. "Honourable Senate of the Argentine Nation") is the upper house of the National Congress of Argentina. (...) | |
68 | New York (state) ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 43.1167 / -75.95 | New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.85 million residents in 2017, it is the fourth most populous state (...) | |
69 | West Germany ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 50.7339 / 7.0997 | West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990. During this Cold War era, NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border (...) | |
70 | Hamtramck, Michigan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 42.3978 / -83.0572 | Hamtramck is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 22,423. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion of the western border that touches the similarly surrounded city of Highland Park (...) | |
71 | Porterville, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 36.0686 / -119.0275 | Porterville is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Tulare County, California, United States. It is part of the Visalia-Porterville metropolitan statistical area. Since its incorporation in 1902, the city's population has grown as it annexed nearby unincorporated areas (...) | |
72 | Kingdom of Hungary ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 100 Lat/Lng : 47.4667 / 19.05 | The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century (1000–1946 with the exception of 1918–1920). The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom in about the year (...) | |
73 | Narmada River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 22.08 / 74.9 | The Narmada, also called the Rewa and previously also known as Nerbudda, is a river in central India after the Godavari, and the Krishna. It is also known as "Life Line of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh" for its huge contribution to the state of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in many ways (...) | |
74 | UNESCO ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 48.8501 / 2.3062 | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms (...) | |
75 | Basque Country (greater region) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 999 Lat/Lng : 43.0463 / -1.4412 | The Basque Country is the name given to the home of the Basque people.Trask, R.L. The History of Basque Routledge: 1997 The Basque country is located in the western Pyrenees, straddling the border between France and Spain on the coast of the Bay of Biscay (...) | |
76 | Battle of San Jacinto ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 29.7489 / -95.0803 | The Battle of San Jacinto , fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes (...) | |
77 | Church of Scotland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 55.9497 / -3.195 | The Church of Scotland (CoS; ;), also known by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland., royal.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2015. It is Presbyterian and adheres to the Bible and Westminster Confession; the Church of Scotland celebrates two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's (...) | |
78 | Kingdom of the Netherlands ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 52.0 / 5.5 | The Kingdom of the Netherlands , commonly known as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy with the large majority of its territory in Western Europe and with several small island territories in the Caribbean Sea, in the West Indies islands (Leeward Islands and Lesser (...) | |
79 | Hof, Bavaria ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 546 Lat/Lng : 50.37 / 11.92 | Hof is a town located on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtelgebirge and Frankenwald upland regions (...) | |
80 | LZ 129 Hindenburg ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 40.0303 / -74.3258 | LZ 129 Hindenburg (; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume (...) | |
81 | Pisa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 43.7167 / 10.4 | Pisa is a city in the Tuscany region of Central Italy straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower (the bell tower of the city's cathedral), the city of over 91,104 residents (...) | |
82 | Tennessee ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 35.8333 / -86.3667 | Tennessee is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to (...) | |
83 | Northwest Territory ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 41.0 / -86.0 | The Northwest Territory in the United States (also known as the Old Northwest) was formed after the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), and was known formally as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. It encompassed most of the pre-war British colonial territory north of the Ohio River of (...) | |
84 | Cherokee Nation ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 35.8522 / -94.9908 | The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, Tsalagihi Ayeli), also known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. It was established in the 20th century and includes people descended from members of the Old Cherokee Nation (...) | |
85 | Parliament of Australia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 594 Lat/Lng : -35.3069 / 149.1256 | The Parliament of Australia (officially the Federal Parliament; also known as the Commonwealth Parliament or just Parliament) is the legislative branch of the government of Australia. It consists of three elements: the Crown (represented by the Governor-General), the Senate and the House of (...) | |
86 | East African Community ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1421 Lat/Lng : -3.3667 / 36.6969 | The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. John Magufuli, the president of Tanzania, is the EAC's chairman (...) | |
87 | 2015 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 29.7565 / 112.9243 | 2015 was designated as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soils __TOC__ (...) | |
88 | Kootenay River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 420 Lat/Lng : 49.3167 / -117.6511 | The Kootenay (Kootenai in the U.S. and historically called the Flatbow) is a major river in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and northern Montana and Idaho in the United States. It is one of the uppermost major tributaries of the Columbia River, the largest North American river that empties (...) | |
89 | United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : -22.9 / -43.2333 | The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was a pluricontinental monarchy formed by the elevation of the Portuguese colony named State of Brazil to the status of a kingdom and by the simultaneous union of that Kingdom of Brazil with the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of the (...) | |
90 | Kingdom of Great Britain ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 51.5 / -0.1167 | The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called simply Great Britain,Parliament of the Kingdom of England. ', Article I, from legislation.gov.uk. "That the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundred and seven and for (...) | |
91 | Egypt Eyalet ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 30.05 / 31.2167 | The Eyalet of Egypt was the result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottoman Empire in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) and the absorption of Syria into the Empire in 1516. Egypt was administered as an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 until 1867, with an interruption (...) | |
92 | North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : 35.5 / -80.0 | North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states (...) | |
93 | Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 48.8239 / 2.2117 | The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. Involving diplomats from 32 countries and nationalities, the major or main decisions were (...) | |
94 | Mary, Queen of Scots ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 56.2 / -3.39 | Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary StuartAlso spelled as Marie and as Steuart or Stewart or Mary I of Scotland, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567 (...) | |
95 | United States House of Representatives ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 38.8889 / -77.0089 | The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they comprise the legislature of the United States. The composition of the House is established by Article One of the United States Constitution (...) | |
96 | Delaware Valley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 39.877 / -75.323 | The Delaware Valley is the valley through which the Delaware River flows. By extension, this toponym is commonly used to refer to Greater Philadelphia or Philadelphia metropolitan area ("the Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area"), which straddles the Lower Delaware River just north of its estuary (...) | |
97 | Weimar Republic ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 52.5167 / 13.4 | The Weimar Republic is an unofficial historical designation for the German state from 1918 to 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place. The official name of the state remained Deutsches Reich unchanged from 1871 (...) | |
98 | Russian Empire ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 77.6136 / 103.4533 | The Russian Empire also known as Imperial Russia or simply Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917 (...) | |
99 | Colorado River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 31.9 / -114.9508 | The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande). The river drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. and two Mexican states (...) | |
100 | Syria ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 690 Lat/Lng : 33.5 / 36.3 | Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Syria's capital and largest city is Damascus (...) | |
101 | Mississippi ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 32.7833 / -89.6333 | Mississippi is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and (...) | |
102 | Serbia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 487 Lat/Lng : 43.95 / 20.9333 | Serbia (/ Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: ; ; Albanian and Romanian: ; Slovak and Czech: , ; . officially the Republic of Serbia (/ Republika Srbija), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans (...) | |
103 | Association of Southeast Asian Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : -6.239 / 106.7993 | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) , ASEAN-10: Meeting the Challenges, by Termsak Chalermpalanupap, , ASEAN Secretariat official website. Retrieved 27 June 2008. is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten Southeast Asian countries, which promotes intergovernmental (...) | |
104 | Commonwealth of Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 51.505 / -0.1358 | The Commonwealth of Nations, normally known as the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental aspects, (...) | |
105 | Bovino ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 476 Lat/Lng : 41.25 / 15.35 | Bovino is a comune and hilltop town at the foot of the Irpinia mountains in the province of Foggia, in the region of Apulia in southern Italy. Bovino is currently a member of the society "Italy's Most Beautiful Villages" (...) | |
106 | Senate of the Republic (Mexico) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2248 Lat/Lng : 19.4365 / -99.1387 | The Senate of the Republic, constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union , is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congress. After a series of reforms during the 1990s, it is now made up of 128 senators: *Two for each of the 32 states elected under the principle of (...) | |
107 | Ballia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 25.7604 / 84.1471 | Ballia is a city with a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh bordering Bihar. The eastern boundary of the city lies at the junction of two major rivers, the Ganges and the Ghaghara.The city is situated east of Varanasi. Bhojpuri is the primary local language (...) | |
108 | Ancient Rome ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 41.89 / 12.48 | In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire (...) | |
109 | July Monarchy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 48.8167 / 2.4833 | The July Monarchy was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting with the July Revolution of 1830 and ending with the Revolution of 1848. It marks the end of the Bourbon Restoration (1814–30) (...) | |
110 | Northern England ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 112 Lat/Lng : 53.0 / -2.1833 | Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area. It extends from the Scottish border in the north to near the River Trent in the south, although precise definitions of its southern extent vary (...) | |
111 | World War I ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 108 Lat/Lng : 48.973 / 2.905 | World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as the "war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million (...) | |
112 | Madison, Mississippi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 32.4569 / -90.1086 | Madison is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 24,841 at the 2010 census. The population is currently over 25,000. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. (...) | |
113 | ![]() | Bischofstein Castle (Germany) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 50.2136 / 7.3839 | Bischofstein Castle is a castle on the Moselle in Germany. The castle sits between Moselkern and Hatzenport and across from the borough of Burgen. It was a stronghold belonging to the Archbishops of Treves. A characteristic attribute of the castle are its tall cylindrical donjon tower girt round (...) |
114 | Legislative Yuan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 25.0439 / 121.5195 | The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China now based in Taiwan. It is one of the five branches of government stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic of China, which follows Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People (...) | |
115 | Supreme People's Assembly ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 39.0286 / 125.7497 | The Supreme People's Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea. It consists of one deputy from each of the DPRK's 687 constituencies, elected to five-year terms (...) | |
116 | Bella Bella, British Columbia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 52.1631 / -128.144 | Bella Bella, also known as Waglisla, is the home of the Heiltsuk and is an unincorporated community and Indian Reserve community located within Bella Bella Indian Reserve No. 1 on the east coast of Campbell Island in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada (...) | |
117 | Casco Bay ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 43.6333 / -70.05 | Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England, United States. Its easternmost approach is Cape Small and its westernmost approach is Two Lights in Cape Elizabeth. The city of Portland sits along its southern edge and the Port of Portland lies within. (...) | |
118 | Battle of Zama ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 367 Lat/Lng : 36.2989 / 9.4492 | The Battle of Zama—fought in 202 BC near Zama (Tunisia)—marked the end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (Scipio), with crucial support from Numidian leader Masinissa, defeated the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal (...) | |
119 | Varennes, Somme ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 50.0503 / 2.535 | Varennes-en-Croix is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. (...) | |
120 | Georgia House of Representatives ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 336 Lat/Lng : 33.7491 / -84.3884 | The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state legislature) of the U.S. state of Georgia. There are currently 180 elected members. (...) | |
121 | Republic of Hawaii ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 235 Lat/Lng : 21.3114 / -157.7964 | The Republic of Hawaii was the formal name of the nation of Hawaii between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii ended, and August 12, 1898, when it was annexed by the United States as a territory of the United States (...) | |
122 | Battle of Minden ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 52.3278 / 8.8909 | The Battle of Minden—or Tho(r)nhausen—was a decisive engagement during the Seven Years' War, fought on 1 August 1759. An Anglo-German army under the overall command of Field Marshal Ferdinand of Brunswick defeated a French army commanded by Marshal of France, Marquis de Contades (...) | |
123 | Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 14.0167 / -60.9833 | The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS; French: Organisation des États de la Caraïbe orientale, OECO) is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance between (...) | |
124 | Shoghi Effendi ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 51.624 / -0.1441 | Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi , was the Guardian and appointed head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. Shoghi Effendi spent his early life in ʿAkkā (Acre) (...) | |
125 | Inter-American Court of Human Rights ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 45.0 / -122.0 | The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is an autonomous judicial institution based in the city of San José, Costa Rica. Together with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, it makes up the human rights protection system of the Organization of American States (OAS), which serves to uphold (...) | |
126 | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 48.2333 / 16.4169 | The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) (...) | |
127 | Bryn Mawr College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 40.0264 / -75.3136 | Bryn Mawr College (; Welsh:)Mackey & Mackey (1922) The Pronunciation of 10,000 Proper Names; also example at is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges and the Tri-College Consortium (...) | |
128 | WestJet Encore ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 85 Lat/Lng : 45.42 / -75.7 | WestJet Encore is a Canadian regional airline that began operations in 2013. It is owned by WestJet Airlines, Ltd. which also is the holding company for WestJet Airlines. The airline is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta (...) | |
129 | Imus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 14.4297 / 120.9367 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. It is the de jure capital of Cavite, located south of Metro Manila (...) | |
130 | International Maritime Organization ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 51.4901 / -0.1227 | The International Maritime Organization (IMO), known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) until 1982, is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping (...) | |
131 | Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.0069 / 116.3834 | The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The bank currently has 87 member states from around the world (...) | |
132 | Unified Patent Court ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 48.0 / 2.3 | The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a proposed common patent court open for participation of all member states of the European Union.Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, Article 84(1): "This Agreement shall be open for signature by any Member State on 19 February 2013 (...) | |
133 | Bretton Woods system ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 481 Lat/Lng : 44.2544 / -71.4479 | The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and Japan after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement (...) | |
134 | Special member state territories and the European Union ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 57.9058 / 27.7132 | The special territories of the European Union are 31 territories of EU member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union. The special territories divided themselves in two categories: 9 Outermost Regions (OMR) that form (...) | |
135 | Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : -3.2466 / 109.3682 | Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia – an AirAsia Group affiliate – from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. On 2014, the Airbus A320 flying the route crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board (...) | |
136 | Province of Maryland ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 38.1892 / -76.4322 | The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. Its first settlement and capital was St (...) | |
137 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 44.4075 / 8.9316 | The Archdiocese of Genoa is a metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in Italy. Erected in the 3rd century, it was elevated to an archdiocese on 20 March 1133.Kehr, p. 266 no. 5. The archdiocese of Genoa was, in 1986, united with the diocese of Bobbio-San Colombano, forming the Archdiocese of (...) | |
138 | Nicopolis ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 39.0267 / 20.7336 | Nicopolis (Nikópolis, "City of Victory") or Actia Nicopolis was the capital city of the Roman province of Epirus Vetus. It was located in the western part of the modern state of Greece. The city was founded in 29 BC by Caesar Augustus in commemoration of his victory in 31 BC over Antony and (...) | |
139 | Fort Detrick ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 39.4356 / -77.4272 | Fort Detrick is a United States Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. Historically, Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological (...) | |
140 | Shays' Rebellion ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 218 Lat/Lng : 42.1958 / -73.3625 | Shays Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts, mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787. American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in a protest against perceived economic and civil rights injustices (...) | |
141 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 741 Lat/Lng : 44.5581 / 6.0781 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap and Embrun (Latin: Dioecesis Vapincensis et Ebrodunensis; French: Diocèse de Gap et d'Embrun) is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Marseille in Provence-Alpes-Côte (...) | |
142 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 43.7911 / 7.6028 | The Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Liguria, northern Italy. The name of the historic Diocese of Ventimiglia (dioecesis Albintimiliensis, and Intimiliensis) was changed in 1975 (...) | |
143 | Chincha Islands War ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -43.8111 / -74.0083 | The Chincha Islands War, also known as Spanish–South American War , was a series of coastal and naval battles between Spain and its former colonies of Peru and Chile from 1864 to 1866. The conflict began with Spain's seizure of the guano-rich Chincha Islands in one of a series of attempts by Spain, (...) | |
144 | Altranstädt ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 51.3161 / 12.1794 | Altranstädt is a village in Saxony, Germany, now part of the Markranstädt district of Leipzig. The village is historically famous for two treaties that were concluded there, the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706) and the Treaty of Altranstädt (1707) (...) | |
145 | British Honduras ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 575 Lat/Lng : 17.0667 / -88.7 | British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1862 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, , Caribbean Community. (accessed 23 June 2015) until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize (...) | |
146 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Como ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 45.8118 / 9.0839 | The Catholic Diocese of Como in northern Italy, has existed since the fourth century. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Milan. The bishops' seat is in Como Cathedral.David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, ; retrieved February 29, 2016. Gabriel Chow, GCatholic (...) | |
147 | Second Federal Republic of Mexico ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 2233 Lat/Lng : 19.4333 / -99.1333 | The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is the name given to the second attempt to achieve a federalist government in Mexico. Officially called the United Mexican States , a federal republic was implemented again on August 22, 1846 when interim president José Mariano Salas issued a decree restoring (...) | |
148 | Nord Stream ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.5289 / 28.0725 | Nord Stream (former names: North Transgas and North European Gas Pipeline; , Severny potok) is a fully operational natural gas pipeline from Vyborg in the Russian Federation to Greifswald in Germany that is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG. The project includes two parallel lines (...) | |
149 | Guimaras ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 150 Lat/Lng : 10.5667 / 122.583 | Guimaras is an island province in the Philippines located in the region of Western Visayas. Among the smallest provinces, its capital is Jordan. The province is situated in the Panay Gulf, between the islands of Panay and Negros (...) | |
150 | Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 347 Lat/Lng : 40.5264 / -80.0219 | Ross Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. Ross Township is a sprawling suburban community adjacent to the northern border of the city of Pittsburgh. While most areas of the Township are residential, a strong retail corridor is located along McKnight Road, along (...) | |
151 | Portuguese Cortes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 467 Lat/Lng : 41.1 / -7.8 | In the Medieval Kingdom of Portugal, the Cortes was an assembly of representatives of the estates of the realm - the nobility, clergy and bourgeoisie. It was called and dismissed by the King of Portugal at will, at a place of his choosing.O'Callaghan, J.F (...) | |
152 | People's Republic of Kampuchea ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 12.25 / 105.6 | The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK; , ;) was founded in Cambodia by the Salvation Front, a group of Cambodian communists dissatisfied with the Khmer Rouge after the overthrow of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot's government (...) | |
153 | Arena Football League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 42.6486 / -73.7547 | The Arena Football League (AFL) is a professional indoor American football league in the United States. It was founded in 1987 by Jim Foster, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America, after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (...) | |
154 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Bergamo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 380 Lat/Lng : 45.7033 / 9.6631 | The Diocese of Bergamo is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan. Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. retrieved March 24, 2016 GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 24, 2016 Geographically, Bergamo stood between the mainland interests of the (...) | |
155 | Columbia River Treaty ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 548 Lat/Lng : 50.2508 / -116.9508 | The Columbia River Treaty is a 1964 agreement between Canada and the United States on the development and operation of dams in the upper Columbia River basin for power and flood control benefits in both countries (...) | |
156 | Bleiburg repatriations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 485 Lat/Lng : 46.5679 / 14.8179 | The Bleiburg repatriations (see terminology) occurred in May 1945, at the end of World War II in Europe, when tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians associated with the Axis fleeing Yugoslavia were repatriated to that country (...) | |
157 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 49.8942 / 2.3019 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens (Latin: Dioecesis Ambianensis; French: Diocèse d'Amiens) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Somme, of which the city of Amiens is the capital. (...) | |
158 | Negro league baseball ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 39.8 / -84.3 | The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven (...) | |
159 | People's Mujahedin of Iran ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 41.4267 / 19.5739 | The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran or the Mojahedin-e Khalq (abbreviated MEK, PMOI or MKO) is an Iranian political–militant organization based on Islamic and Socialist ideology and advocates "overthrowing the Iranian government and installing its own leadership (...) | |
160 | Thermonuclear weapon ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 73.85 / 54.5 | A thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design using a secondary nuclear fusion stage consisting of implosion tamper, fusion fuel, and spark plug which is bombarded by the energy released by the detonation of a primary fission bomb within, compressing the fuel material (tritium, (...) | |
161 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 46.5667 / 141.2833 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (also known as KAL007 and KE007)KAL 007 was used by air traffic control, while the public flight booking system used KE 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska (...) | |
162 | Glen Canyon Dam ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1139 Lat/Lng : 36.9371 / -111.4844 | Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town of Page. The high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S (...) | |
163 | Dasmariñas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 14.3264 / 120.9361 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Nicknamed Dasma, it has a land area of and is located south of Manila (...) | |
164 | George Mason ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 38.6686 / -77.1682 | George Mason (sometimes referred to as George Mason IV; October 7, 1792) was an American planter, politician and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three delegates, together with fellow Virginian Edmund Randolph and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, who refused to sign the (...) | |
165 | Reichsautobahn ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 306 Lat/Lng : 50.2664 / 9.7132 | The Reichsautobahn system was the beginning of the German autobahns under the Third Reich. There had been previous plans for controlled-access highways in Germany under the Weimar Republic, and two had been constructed, but work had yet to start on long-distance highways (...) | |
166 | Nunatsiavut ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 223 Lat/Lng : 59.66 / -64.2737 | Nunatsiavut is an autonomous area claimed by the Inuit in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The settlement area includes territory in Labrador extending to the Quebec border. In 2002, the Labrador Inuit Association submitted a proposal for limited autonomy to the government of Newfoundland and (...) | |
167 | Lemhi County, Idaho ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 1336 Lat/Lng : 44.96 / -113.95 | Lemhi County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,936. The largest city and county seat is Salmon. The county was established in 1869, named after Fort Lemhi (or Limhi), a remote Mormon missionary settlement from 1855–58 in Bannock and Shoshone (...) | |
168 | Control Yuan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 25.0454 / 121.5199 | The Control Yuan (CY), one of the five branches of the Government of the Republic of China, is an investigatory agency that monitors the other branches of government. It may be compared to the Court of Auditors of the European Union or the Government Accountability Office of the United States (...) | |
169 | Bangladesh–India border ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 26.2619 / 88.7517 | The Bangladesh–India border, known locally as the International Border (IB), is an international border running between Bangladesh and India that demarcates the eight divisions of Bangladesh and the Indian states (...) | |
170 | European Stability Mechanism ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 359 Lat/Lng : 49.6353 / 6.1684 | The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is an intergovernmental organization located in Luxembourg City, which operates under public international law for all eurozone Member States having ratified a special ESM intergovernmental treaty (...) | |
171 | 2011 Wisconsin protests ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 280 Lat/Lng : 43.0749 / -89.3856 | The 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February involving at its zenith as many as 100,000 protesters opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair bill (...) | |
172 | North Pacific right whale ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 53.0 / -157.0 | The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered. The Northeast Pacific population, which summers in the southeastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, may have no more than 40 animals (...) | |
173 | Sino-Indian War ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4357 Lat/Lng : 27.9924 / 91.9566 | The Sino-Indian War , also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict , was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war, but other issues played a role (...) | |
174 | Timeline of Boston ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 42.3581 / -71.0636 | This is a of the history of the city of Boston, US. (...) | |
175 | National Council (Slovakia) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 48.1419 / 17.0972 | The National Council , abbreviated to NR SR, is the national parliament of Slovakia. It is unicameral, and consists of 150 members, who are elected by universal suffrage under proportional representation with seats distributed via Hagenbach-Bischoff quota every four years (...) | |
176 | Jacona, Michoacán ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1667 Lat/Lng : 19.9495 / -102.3179 | Jacona de Plancarte (Jacona) is a city, and the county seat of Jacona in the state of Michoacán. Located in the northwest of the state, on the northern slope of the Sierra de Patamban, part of the Volcanic Belt, at 1,600 meters altitude (...) | |
177 | Frank Church ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1810 Lat/Lng : 44.247 / -114.678 | Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981. He is known for heading the Church Committee, which investigated abuses within the United States (...) | |
178 | Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 46.817 / -71.217 | Joseph-Antoine le Fèbvre, sieur de La Barre (or Antoine Lefebvre, Antoine Lefèvre; 1622–1688) was a French lawyer and administrator best known for his disastrous three years term as governor of the colony of New France (Quebec). As a young man he served in the administration in France (...) | |
179 | Asian Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 14.0791 / 100.6114 | The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), founded in 1959, is an international institution for higher education in Khlong Luang, Thailand. It specializes in engineering, advanced technologies, sustainable development, and management and planning (...) | |
180 | 2006 Southeast Asian haze ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 3.3547 / 117.5965 | The 2006 Southeast Asian haze event was caused by continued uncontrolled burning from "slash and burn" cultivation in Indonesia, and affected several countries in the Southeast Asian region and beyond, such as Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, and as far as Saipan; the effects of the haze may (...) | |
181 | Glenbrook Tunnel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : -33.7651 / 150.6323 | The Glenbrook Tunnel is a heritage-listed single-gauge former railway tunnel and mustard gas storage facility and now mushroom farm located on the former Main Western Line (since deviated) at the Great Western Highway, Glenbrook, in the City of Blue Mountains local government area of New South (...) | |
182 | Expulsion of the Chagossians ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -5.3333 / 71.85 | The depopulation of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago was the forced expulsion of the inhabitants of the island of Diego Garcia and the other islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) by the United Kingdom, at the request of the United States, beginning in 1968 and concluding on 27 (...) | |
183 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Tortona ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 122 Lat/Lng : 44.9 / 8.8667 | The Diocese of Tortona is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in northern Italy, spanning parts of three regions of Piedmont (Province of Alessandria), Lombardy (Province of Pavia) and Liguria (Province of Genoa) (...) | |
184 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Città di Castello ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 284 Lat/Lng : 43.47 / 12.2314 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Città di Castello is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve, in the central Italian region of Umbria. GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved 26 March 2017 Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M (...) | |
185 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 45.1846 / 9.1536 | The Diocese of Pavia is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy. It has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan only since 1817. Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016. GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 (...) | |
186 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Fidenza ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 44.8667 / 10.0667 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fidenza in the Province of Parma, Italy, was until 1927 named the Diocese of Borgo San Donnino. It is now a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola, though historically it was long subject to the Archdiocese of Bologna. Catholic-Hierarchy.org (...) | |
187 | Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 28.8296 / 50.886 | The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Iran southeast of the city of Bushehr, between the fishing villages of Halileh and Bandargeh along the Persian Gulf. Construction of the plant was started in 1975 by German companies, but the work was stopped in 1979 after the Islamic (...) | |
188 | Briny Breezes, Florida ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 26.5089 / -80.0542 | Briny Breezes is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 411 at the 2000 census. Briny Breezes (or "Briny" as it is known locally) is a small coastal community of approximately 488 mobile homes along State Road A1A (...) | |
189 | Cabuyao ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 14.2247 / 121.0764 | , officially the , , or known simply as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. It used to be known as the "richest municipality in the Philippines" because of the large populace of migrants working in the town's (...) | |
190 | Manuel Torres (diplomat) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 39.9456 / -75.1484 | Manuel de Trujillo y Torres (November 1762July15, 1822) was a Spanish American publicist and diplomat. He is best known for being received as the first ambassador of Colombia by U.S. President James Monroe on June 19, 1822. This act represented the first U.S (...) | |
191 | Colfax massacre ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 31.5169 / -92.7117 | The Colfax massacre, or Colfax riot as the events are termed on the 1950 state historic marker, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the seat of Grant Parish, when approximately 150 black men were murdered by white Southerners (...) | |
192 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Châlons ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 48.9559 / 4.3589 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Châlons (Latin: Dioecesis Catalaunensis; French: Diocèse de Châlons) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Châlons-sur-Marne, France. The diocese comprises the department of Marne, excluding the arrondissement of Reims (...) | |
193 | United States national missile defense ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 357 Lat/Lng : 48.7244 / -97.8994 | National missile defense (NMD) is a generic term for a type of missile defense intended to shield an entire country against incoming missiles, such as intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) or other ballistic missiles (...) | |
194 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 295 Lat/Lng : 43.1142 / 1.6089 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers, Couserans, and Mirepoix (Latin: Dioecesis Apamiensis, Couseranensis, et Mirapicensis; French: Diocèse de Pamiers, Mirepoix, et Couserans) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in southern France (...) | |
195 | Water politics in the Jordan River basin ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 33.2486 / 35.6525 | Water politics in the Jordan River basin refers to political issues of water within the Jordan River drainage basin, including competing claims and water usage, and issues of riparian rights of surface water along transnational rivers, as well as the availability and usage of ground water (...) | |
196 | Mississippi Civil Rights Museum ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 32.3018 / -90.1781 | The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi. Its mission is to document, exhibit the history of, and educate the public about the American Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. state of Mississippi between 1945 and 1970. Jackson Free Press. January 27, 2012 (...) | |
197 | Battle of Würzburg ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 181 Lat/Lng : 49.7934 / 9.9296 | The Battle of Würzburg was fought on 3 September 1796 between an army of Habsburg Austria led by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and an army of the First French Republic led by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. The French attacked the archduke's forces, but they were resisted until the arrival of (...) | |
198 | Rudd Concession ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1424 Lat/Lng : -18.5864 / 31.0817 | The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and other adjoining territories in what is today Zimbabwe, was granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, three agents acting on behalf of (...) | |
199 | EFTA Court ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 45.0 / -122.0 | The Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association States (more commonly known as the EFTA Court) is a supranational judicial body responsible for the three EFTA members who are also members of the European Economic Area (EEA): Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (...) | |
200 | Timeline of Baltimore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 39.2833 / -76.6167 | The following is a of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States (...) | |