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| Don Mueang International Airport  FeatureType : airport Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 13.9136 / 100.6067 | Don Mueang International Airport (or colloquially as) (aka Bangkok International Airport) is one of two international airports serving Greater Bangkok, the other one being Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK). The airport is considered to be one of the world's oldest international airports and Asia's oldest (...) |
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| Persian Gulf FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 26.9047 / 51.5308 | The Persian Gulf , is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest (...) |
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| Egypt FeatureType : country Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 24.1333 / 35.4833 | Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the (...) |
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| Baghdad International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 33.2625 / 44.2346 | Baghdad International Airport is Iraq's largest international airport, located in a suburb about west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate. It is the home base for Iraq's national airline, Iraqi Airways. (...) |
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| Riyadh FeatureType : city Elevation : 612 Lat/Lng : 24.6826 / 46.7379 | Riyadh (; , Najdi pronunciation:) is the capital and most populous city of Saudi Arabia, approximately 790 km (491 mi) North-east of Mecca. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province and belongs to the historical regions of Najd and Al-Yamama (...) |
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| Jeddah FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 21.5433 / 39.1728 | Jeddah (sometimes spelled Jiddah or Jedda; ; ', Hejazi pronunciation:) is a city in the Tihamah region of the Hejaz on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest seaport on the Red Sea, and with a population (...) |
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| Medina FeatureType : null Elevation : 606 Lat/Lng : 24.4687 / 39.6109 | Medina (; , ', "the radiant city"; or , ' , "the city"), also transliterated as Madīnah, is a city in the Hejaz region of the Arabian Peninsula and administrative headquarters of the Al-Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia (...) |
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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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| Amman FeatureType : city Elevation : 820 Lat/Lng : 31.954 / 35.9354 | Amman is the capital and most populous city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political and cultural centre. Situated in north-central Jordan, Amman is the administrative centre of the Amman Governorate. The city has a population of 4,007,526 and a land area of (...) |
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| Ankara FeatureType : null Elevation : 868 Lat/Lng : 39.9272 / 32.8644 | Ankara , historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of the Republic of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center (2014) and 5,150,072 in its province (2015), it is Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul (the former imperial capital), having outranked İzmir in the (...) |
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| Louvre FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 48.8604 / 2.3376 | The Louvre ,The New Oxford American Dictionary gives the respelling "/'lv(rə)/", which has been converted to its IPA equivalent. The portion within parentheses indicates a variant pronunciation. or the Louvre Museum , is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France (...) |
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| Mongolia FeatureType : country Elevation : 1299 Lat/Lng : 47.9167 / 106.9167 | Mongolia (; Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked country in East Asia. Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia, and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state (...) |
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| Yemen FeatureType : country Elevation : 711 Lat/Lng : 15.8134 / 47.7905 | Yemen , officially known as the Republic of Yemen , is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying . The coastline stretches for about (...) |
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| Gaza Strip FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 31.4167 / 34.3333 | The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza..." (...) |
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| Merv FeatureType : city Elevation : 235 Lat/Lng : 37.6626 / 62.1905 | Merv (Мерв, مرو; , Marv), formerly Achaemenid Persian Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria (Margiana) and Antiochia in Margiana , was a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near today's Mary in Turkmenistan (...) |
| 16 | Middle East FeatureType : country Elevation : -216 Lat/Lng : 32.8 / 35.6 | The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa). Saudi Arabia is geographically the largest Middle Eastern nation while Bahrain is the smallest (...) | |
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| Kollam FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 8.8861 / 76.5897 | Kollam pronunciation also known by its former name Quilon (Coulão) and Desinganadu, is an old seaport and city on the Laccadive Sea coast of the Indian state of Kerala. The city is on the banks Ashtamudi Lake. Kollam has had a strong commercial reputation since the days of the Phoenicians and Romans (...) |
| 18 | Arabian Peninsula FeatureType : null Elevation : 590 Lat/Lng : 24.65 / 46.71 | The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia (; ', ‘Arabian island’ or ', ‘Island of the Arabs’), is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate. From a geographical perspective, it is considered a subcontinent of Asia. It is the largest peninsula in the world, at (...) | |
| 19 | OPEC FeatureType : null Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 48.2143 / 16.3659 | The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, , or OPEP in several other languages) is an intergovernmental organization of nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela), and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna, Austria (...) | |
| 20 | Al-Azhar University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 30.0458 / 31.2625 | Al-Azhar University (; , , "the (honorable) University of Al-Azhar") is a university in Cairo, Egypt. Associated with Al-Azhar Mosque in Islamic Cairo, it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting university and is renowned as "Sunni Islam’s most prestigious university" (...) | |
| 21 | Arab League FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 30.0446 / 31.2331 | The Arab League , formally the League of Arab States , is a regional organization of Arab states in and around North Africa, the Horn of Africa and Arabia. It was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945 with six members: Kingdom of Egypt, Kingdom of Iraq, Transjordan (renamed Jordan in 1949), Lebanon, (...) | |
| 22 | Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 24.412 / 54.474 | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for 38 years (6 August 1966 – 2 November 2004). He is the founding father and the principal driving force behind the formation of the United Arab Emirates , becoming the Union's first President , a post (...) | |
| 23 | Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 639 Lat/Lng : 24.5533 / 39.705 | Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport or Medina Airport is a regional airport in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Opened in 1950, it handles domestic flights, while it has scheduled international services to regional destinations such as Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul and Kuwait City (...) | |
| 24 | Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 33.8209 / 35.4884 | Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (Maṭār Bayrūt Rafīq al-Ḥarīrī ad-Dwaliyy) , formerly Beirut International Airport, is located from the city center in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, and is the only operational commercial airport in the country (...) | |
| 25 | United Arab Republic FeatureType : country Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 30.0333 / 31.2167 | The United Arab Republic (UAR; ') was, between 1958 and 1971, a sovereign state in the Middle East, and between 1958 and 1961, a short-lived political union consisting of Egypt (including the occupied Gaza Strip) and Syria (...) | |
| 26 | Larnaca International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 34.8755 / 33.6248 | Larnaca International Airport is an international airport located southwest of Larnaca, Cyprus. Larnaca International Airport is Cyprus' main international gateway and the largest of the country's two commercial airports, the other being Paphos International Airport on the island's southwestern (...) | |
| 27 | Lufthansa FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 50.9415 / 6.9809 | Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or JSC) , commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size, largest airlines in Europe (...) | |
| 28 | 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 (...) | |
| 29 | Egyptian revolution of 2011 FeatureType : country Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 30.0444 / 31.2356 | The Egyptian revolution of 2011, locally known as the January 25 Revolution ,. Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved on 2013-12-06. and as the Egyptian Revolution of DignityFor revolutionary forces' demand for human dignity (karama ensaneya) began on 25 January 2011 and took place across all of Egypt (...) | |
| 30 | Agency for French Education Abroad FeatureType : null Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 48.8374 / 2.3179 | The Agency for French Education Abroad, or Agency for French Teaching Abroad," ." Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved on November 1, 2011. (; abbreviation: AEFE), is a national public agency under the administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France that assures the quality of schools (...) | |
| 31 | TWA Flight 903 FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 30.5833 / 30.3333 | TWA Flight 903 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bombay International Airport, India to New York-Idlewild Airport, via Cairo-King Farouk Airport and Rome-Ciampino Airport. The Star of Maryland, a Lockheed L-749A Constellation, flew the route on the night of 31 August 1950 (...) | |
| 32 | Südwestrundfunk FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 48.7935 / 9.2031 | Südwestrundfunk (SWR, "Southwest Broadcasting") is a regional public broadcasting corporation serving the southwest of Germany, specifically the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The corporation has main offices in three cities: Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz, with the (...) | |
| 33 | Global city FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.39 / -73.56 | A global city, also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales (...) | |
| 34 | Incirlik Air Base FeatureType : city Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 37.0021 / 35.4259 | Incirlik Air Base is a Turkish air base of slightly more than 3320 ac (1335 ha), located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey. The base is within an urban area of 1.7 million people, east of the city core, and inland from the Mediterranean Sea (...) | |
| 35 | 2017 Sinai mosque attack FeatureType : city Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 31.0395 / 33.3478 | At 1:50 PM EET on 24 November 2017, the al-Rawda mosque was attacked by roughly 40 gunmen during Friday prayers. The mosque is located in the village of Al-Rawda east of the town of Bir al-Abed in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate (...) | |
| 36 | 2011 Alexandria bombing FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 31.2633 / 29.9919 | The 2011 Alexandria bombing was an attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, on Saturday, 1 January 2011. Twenty-three people died as a result of the attack, which occurred as Christian worshipers were leaving a new year service. 97 more were injured (...) | |
| 37 | Food and Agriculture Organization FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 41.8823 / 12.4883 | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate arguments and (...) | |
| 38 | August 2013 Rabaa massacre FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 29.9833 / 31.1333 | On 14 August 2013, Egyptian security forces and army under the command of general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi raided two camps of protesters in Cairo: one at al-Nahda Square and a larger one at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square (...) | |
| 39 | Virgin Megastores FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 363 Lat/Lng : 31.753 / -8.1718 | Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded by Sir Richard Branson as a record shop on London's Oxford Street in early 1976. In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road (...) | |
| 40 | Operation Pillar of Defense FeatureType : null Elevation : 743 Lat/Lng : 30.6667 / 34.8333 | Operation Pillar of Defense (ʿAmúd ʿAnán, literally: "Pillar of Cloud") was an eight-day Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation in the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip, which began on 14 November 2012 with the killing of Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Gaza military wing of Hamas by an Israeli airstrike (...) | |
| 41 | Colony of Aden FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 12.8 / 45.0333 | The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963 located in the south of contemporary Yemen. It consisted of the port of Aden and its immediate surroundings (an area of). Prior to 1937, Aden had been governed as part of British India (originally as the Aden Settlement (...) | |
| 42 | Nihonjin gakkō FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 42.1214 / -87.9814 | , also called Japanese school, is a full-day school outside Japan for native speakers of Japanese. It is an expatriate school designed for children whose parents are working on diplomatic, business, or education missions overseas and have plans to repatriate to Japan (...) | |
| 43 | 1953 Iranian coup d'état FeatureType : null Elevation : 1140 Lat/Lng : 32.4279 / 53.688 | The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état , was the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot") and the (...) | |
| 44 | Death of Osama bin Laden FeatureType : null Elevation : 1195 Lat/Lng : 34.17 / 73.23 | Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six) (...) | |
| 45 | American University of Sharjah FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 25.3097 / 55.4906 | American University of Sharjah (abbreviated AUS;) is a private university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It was founded in 1997 by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah. Sheikh Dr (...) | |
| 46 | Institut Français FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 48.8544 / 2.2937 | The Institut Français (French capitalization, Institut français; "French institute") is a French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC). Started in 1907 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting French, francophone as well as local cultures around the world, in 2011 it replaced (...) | |
| 47 | American University of Kuwait FeatureType : edu Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 29.3439 / 48.0831 | The American University of Kuwait is a private liberal arts institution based on the American model of higher education in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Although established in 2003, the University opened to students, faculty and the general public in September 2004 (...) | |
| 48 | Unknown Soldier Memorial (Egypt) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 30.065 / 31.3139 | Many Unknown Soldier Memorials for Egyptian and Arab soldiers were constructed inside and outside Egypt. The most famous is the one in Cairo. The Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo is a pyramid-shaped monument in Nasr City (...) | |
| 49 | Timeline of Baghdad FeatureType : city Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 33.325 / 44.422 | The following is a of the history of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. * 2000 BCE – Babylonian city of Baghdadu in existence (approximate date). * 762 CE ** Round City construction begins per Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur. ** Al-Khassakiyya mosque built. * 767 – Al-Mansur Mosque built (...) | |
| 50 | Darul Huda Islamic University FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 11.0498 / 75.9068 | Darul Huda Islamic University (DHIU) is an Islamic university based at Malappuram in Kerala state of India. It was established as an Islamic academy on 26 June 1986 and was upgraded to Islamic university status on May 10, 2009 (...) | |
| 51 | 2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 27.8598 / 34.2824 | The 2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings were a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by an Islamist organization on 23 July 2005 in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula (...) | |
| 52 | Islamic Development Bank FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 21.4756 / 39.2019 | The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) (Arabic: البنك الإسلامي للتنمية) is a multilateral development financing institution located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1973 by the Finance Ministers at the first Organisation of the Islamic Conference (now called the Organisation of Islamic (...) | |
| 53 | American University in Dubai FeatureType : edu Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 25.0908 / 55.1564 | The American University in Dubai (AUD) is a private, non-sectarian institution of higher learning in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1995. AUD is accredited regionally as a separate unit by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (...) | |
| 54 | Emirate of Jabal Shammar FeatureType : null Elevation : 634 Lat/Lng : 25.0667 / 47.2333 | The Emirate of Jabal Shammar , also known as the Emirate of Haʾil or the Emirate of The House of Rashīd , was a state in the Nejd region of Arabia, existing from the mid-nineteenth century to 1921.J. A. Hammerton. Peoples Of All Nations: Their Life Today And Story Of Their Past (in 14 Volumes) (...) | |
| 55 | Tashkent Islamic University FeatureType : null Elevation : 454 Lat/Lng : 41.3235 / 69.258 | Tashkent Islamic University (TIU) is a public university located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Founded by a decree from the First President of Uzbekistan, Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov, on April 7, 1999, TIU was the first Islamic university not only in Uzbekistan, but also in the region of Central Asia (...) | |
| 56 | KidZania FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2638 Lat/Lng : 19.3611 / -99.2802 | KidZania is a privately held Mexican chain of indoor family entertainment centers currently operating in 24 locations worldwide, allowing children to role play adult jobs and earn currency. KidZania has received more than 68 million visitors since its opening, making it one of the fastest growing (...) | |
| 57 | Bayan FeatureType : null Elevation : 3028 Lat/Lng : 34.5216 / 68.2714 | Bayan may refer to: (...) | |
| 58 | 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking FeatureType : event Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 41.8003 / 12.2389 | The 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking were a set of Palestinian terrorist attacks originating at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino International Airport in Rome, Italy, resulting in the deaths of 34 people. The attacks began with an airport terminal invasion and hostage-taking, followed by the (...) | |
| 59 | Safir Hotels & Resorts FeatureType : null Elevation : 64 Lat/Lng : 33.8915 / 35.4727 | Safir Hotels & Resorts (also known as Safir International Hotels Management) is a Kuwaiti-owned luxury hotel chain in the Arabic world. Clientele includes the sister of the Emir of Kuwait who stayed in the hotel's $3000 a month apartments (as of 1991). (...) | |
| 60 | Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 52.2301 / 21.0222 | The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA;) operates as an independent research institute of the University of Warsaw under the present name since 1990. It is dedicated to organizing, implementing and coordinating archaeological research, both excavations and study projects, as well as (...) | |
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