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| 1 | Bhubaneswar ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 20.27 / 85.84 | Bhubaneswar , is the capital of the Indian state of Odisha. It is the largest city in Odisha and is a centre of economic and cultural importance in Eastern India. Along with the old town, the region, historically was often depicted as Ekamra Khetra (Temple City) (...) | |
| 2 | Chandigarh ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 350 Lat/Lng : 30.7353 / 76.7911 | Chandigarh is a city and a union territory in India that serves as the capital of the two neighbouring states of Haryana and Punjab. The city is unique as it is not a part of either of the two states but is governed directly by the Union Government, which administers all such territories in the (...) | |
| 3 | Karachi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 24.8453 / 66.9919 | Karachi (; ALA-LC: , ;) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the most populous city in Pakistan, and sixth-most-populous city proper in the world. Ranked as a beta world city, the city is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre (...) | |
| 4 | Bangalore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 12.9779 / 77.5925 | Bangalore , officially known as Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of over ten million, making it a megacity and the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India. It is located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau (...) | |
| 5 | Terracotta Army ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 492 Lat/Lng : 34.3849 / 109.2731 | The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife (...) | |
| 6 | Ajanta Caves ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 580 Lat/Lng : 20.5336 / 75.7497 | The Ajanta Caves are 30 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian (...) | |
| 7 | École Centrale Paris ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 48.7658 / 2.2884 | École Centrale Paris (ECP, often referred to as École Centrale or Centrale) was a French postgraduate-level institute of research and higher education in engineering and science. It was also known by its official name École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (...) | |
| 8 | Vorwerk (company) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 180 Lat/Lng : 51.2739 / 7.2003 | Vorwerk is an international diversified corporate group headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany. The main business is the direct distribution of various products like household appliances (e.g. Kobold vacuum cleaners), fitted kitchens or cosmetics. Vorwerk was founded in 1883 (...) | |
| 9 | Hyundai Motor Company ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 37.4641 / 127.0423 | The Hyundai Motor Company (help=no; , ,Pronunciations in English vary. Among the variants are: * * * * The closest English pronunciation to the original Korean would be , but the final vowel is checked and cannot occur word-final in English (...) | |
| 10 | Facebook ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4848 / -122.1484 | Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and (...) | |
| 11 | Himalayas ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 8806 Lat/Lng : 27.9881 / 86.9253 | The Himalayas, or Himalaya , form a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest (...) | |
| 12 | Google ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4222 / -122.0844 | Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D (...) | |
| 13 | IKEA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.1671 / 4.4824 | IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008 (...) | |
| 14 | Georgia Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 299 Lat/Lng : 33.7765 / -84.4002 | The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, is a public research university and institute of technology located in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, (...) | |
| 15 | Harley-Davidson ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : 43.0461 / -87.96 | Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D), or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1903. One of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression (along with Indian), . Popularmechanics.com. Retrieved on July 7, 2011 (...) | |
| 16 | Bayer ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 51.0137 / 6.983 | Bayer AG is a German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company. Headquartered in Leverkusen, where its illuminated corporate logo, the Bayer cross, is a landmark, Bayer's areas of business include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products; agricultural chemicals (...) | |
| 17 | Hadhramaut ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 626 Lat/Lng : 15.9823 / 49.0196 | Hadramaut, Hadhramaut, Hadramout, Hadramawt or Ḥaḍramūt (Ḥaḍramawt; Musnad: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩) is a region on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. The name is officially retained in Hadhramaut Governorate of the Republic of Yemen. The people of Hadhramaut are called Hadhrami and speak Hadhrami Arabic (...) | |
| 18 | Apple Inc. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 37.3318 / -122.0312 | Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal (...) | |
| 19 | Dam ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 730 Lat/Lng : -26.9314 / 17.9383 | A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aquaculture, and navigability (...) | |
| 20 | August 16 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2571 Lat/Lng : 0.31 / -78.18 | ==Events== *1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who had died the previous day, had no heirs. * 963 – Nikephoros II Phokas is crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire (...) | |
| 21 | Adoni ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 15.6244 / 77.2731 | Adoni is a city in Kurnool district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Adoni mandal, administered under the Adoni Revenue Division.Obulesul, M. Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 2006 p. 70 – 72. . Accessed 4 November 2014 (...) | |
| 22 | Gated community ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 52.4133 / 13.0903 | In its modern form, a gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences (...) | |
| 23 | Novartis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 47.5744 / 7.5765 | Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies by both market capitalization and sales. Novartis manufactures the drugs clozapine (Clozaril), diclofenac (Voltaren), carbamazepine (Tegretol), (...) | |
| 24 | The Doon School ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 676 Lat/Lng : 30.3334 / 78.0305 | The Doon School (informally Doon) is a boys-only independent boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. It was founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, a Kolkata lawyer, who prevised a school modelled on the British public school, but conscious of Indian ambitions and desires (...) | |
| 25 | Keolis ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 48.8708 / 2.328 | Keolis is a Franco-Québécois private operator of public transport. The company manages bus, metro, tramways and coach networks, rental bikes, car parks, boat shuttles, cable cars, trolleybuses and airport services (...) | |
| 26 | 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 (...) | |
| 27 | JPMorgan Chase ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 40.7558 / -73.9754 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City. JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, and the sixth largest bank in the world by total assets, with the amount of $2.534 trillion (...) | |
| 28 | Peter Sugandhar ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 530 Lat/Lng : 17.4456 / 78.4931 | B. P. SugandharThe Church of England Yearbook 2007, Volume 123, 2007, p.404. (28 September 1943 – 5 December 2017)Times of India Hyderabad edition, Former CSI moderator passes away, 7.12.2017. was the fifth successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop - in - Medak of the Church of South India whose (...) | |
| 29 | International School of Information Management ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 781 Lat/Lng : 12.3143 / 76.6216 | The International School of Information Management (ISiM) is the first Indian i-School and is an autonomous constituent institute of the University of Mysore, located in Mysore in Karnataka State, Southern India (...) | |
| 30 | History of India ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1357 Lat/Lng : 36.7833 / 70.0 | The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the advancement of civilisation from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the eventual blending of the Indo-Aryan culture to form the Vedic Civilisation; the rise of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism;AL (...) | |
| 31 | Tarim, Yemen ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 614 Lat/Lng : 16.05 / 49.0 | Tarim (tarīm) is a historic town situated in the Hadhramaut Valley of South Yemen, South Arabia. Tarim is widely acknowledged as the theological, juridical, and academic center of the Hadhramaut Valley. An important focus of Islamic learning, it is estimated to contain the highest concentration of (...) | |
| 32 | Bella Vista ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : -28.5 / -58.8333 | Bella Vista (Spanish and Italian for "beautiful sight") is the name of several places in the world: (...) | |
| 33 | Menlo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 34.4848 / -85.4763 | Menlo may refer to: (...) | |
| 34 | Metro ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : -8.1831 / 112.5342 | Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to: (...) | |
| 35 | Bonaventure (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 48.0653 / -65.4551 | Bonaventure, a French and Italian name (from Latin Bonaventura, meaning "good fortune") may refer to: (...) | |
| 36 | March (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1084 Lat/Lng : 46.2076 / 9.1305 | March is the third month of the year between February and April in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, having 31 days. March may also refer to: *March (surname), a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname) *March Avery (born 1932), American painter (...) | |
| 37 | Saint Paul (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 45.958 / -73.4154 | Saint Paul and Apostle Paul usually refers to Paul the Apostle, the Christian religious leader. (...) | |
| 38 | Moravian College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 40.6302 / -75.3817 | Moravian College, a private liberal-arts college, and the associated Moravian Theological Seminary are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region. The college traces its founding to 1742 by Moravians, descendants of followers of the Bohemian Reformation (John Amos (...) | |
| 39 | Niphad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 689 Lat/Lng : 20.0833 / 73.8 | Niphad is the name both of the town and the Taluka headquartered there. It is within the Nashik District of Maharashtra, India. The Marathi name signifies "a place without mountains", and indeed the taluka's topography is fairly level, with hardly any hills. It is served by Niphad railway station (...) | |
| 40 | Phoenix Technologies ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.4139 / -121.925 | Phoenix Technologies Ltd is an American company that designs, develops and supports core system software for personal computers and other computing devices. The company's products commonly referred to as BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) or firmware support and enable the compatibility, connectivity, (...) | |
| 41 | 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 (...) | |
| 42 | Clifford Chance ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 51.5027 / -0.017 | Clifford Chance LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and a member of the "Magic Circle" of leading British law firms. It is one of the ten largest law firms in the world measured both by number of lawyers and revenue (...) | |
| 43 | Tittenhurst Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 51.4065 / -0.6349 | Tittenhurst Park is a Grade II listed early Georgian country house in an estate of off London Road at Beggar's Bush near Ascot and over the parish border into Sunningdale, both in the English county of Berkshire (...) | |
| 44 | Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 556 Lat/Lng : 17.3453 / 78.3236 | Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology (VJIT) is a college in Hyderabad, India, established in 1999 by A.P. Jithender Reddy and V. Purushottam Reddy. It is located on the way to Chilkur Balaji Temple from Mrugavani National Park. (...) | |
| 45 | Operation Clean-up ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 24.86 / 67.01 | Operation Clean-up (other codename: Operation Blue Fox), was an armed military intelligence program led by the Sindh Police and Pakistan Rangers, with an additional assistance from the Pakistan Army and its related intelligence agencies (...) | |
| 46 | Sultan (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2377 Lat/Lng : 33.762 / 68.3784 | Sultan is an Islamic title of authority. Sultan may also refer to: (...) | |
| 47 | Dülük ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 37.1553 / 37.36 | Dülük is a village in Şehitkamil district, a district of Greater Gaziantep, Turkey. At , it is about from Gaziantep city center. The population of Dülük was 2,256 as of 2012. As ancient Doliche , a former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see. (...) | |
| 48 | Herguan University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 37.3865 / -121.9969 | Herguan University is a private, unaccredited university in Sunnyvale, California. (...) | |
| 49 | Microsemi ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 198 Lat/Lng : 33.5855 / -117.7334 | Microsemi Corporation was an Aliso Viejo, California-based provider of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center and industrial markets. In February 2018, it was announced that Chandler, Arizona-based Microchip Technology was acquiring the company for (...) | |
| 50 | Cave research in India ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 15.1023 / 78.1115 | Cave research, encompassing the study of speleology and biospeleology, is still in its infancy in India. Although there are thousands of caves in India, research expeditions occur in few states. The Siju Cave of state Meghalaya is the first limelighted natural cave from India (...) | |
| 51 | Red Hills ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 616 Lat/Lng : 37.3417 / -99.0795 | Red Hills may refer: (...) | |