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| 1 | Tsushima Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 34.404 / 129.333 | is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in the Korea Strait, approximately halfway between the Japanese mainland and the Korean Peninsula. The main island of Tsushima was once a single island but was divided into two in 1671 by the Ōfunakoshiseto canal and into three in 1900 by the (...) | |
| 2 | Culver City, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 34.0081 / -118.4014 | Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California. The city was named after its founder, Harry Culver. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,883. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County (...) | |
| 3 | Tokyo ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 35.6894 / 139.6917 | , officially , one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, has served as the Japanese capital since 1869.http://houseikyoku.sangiin.go.jp/column/column081.htm "There is no laws to define where Japan's capital is. Because Tokyo was built to stabilize East and North (...) | |
| 4 | Burbank, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 180 Lat/Lng : 34.1803 / -118.3283 | Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of Southern California, United States, northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The population at the 2010 census was 103,340. Billed as the "Media Capital of the World" and only a few miles northeast of Hollywood, numerous media (...) | |
| 5 | Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 34.0522 / -118.2436 | Los Angeles , officially the City of Los Angeles and known colloquially by its initials LA, is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City, and the largest and most populous city in the Western United States (...) | |
| 6 | Cerritos, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 33.87 / -118.07 | Cerritos (Spanish for little hills), formerly named Dairy Valley because of the preponderance of dairy farms in the area, is an affluent suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County (...) | |
| 7 | Jinan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 36.6667 / 116.9833 | Jinan, formerly romanized as Tsinan, is the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China. The area of present-day Jinan has played an important role in the history of the region from the earliest beginnings of civilization and has evolved into a major national administrative, economic, and (...) | |
| 8 | Querétaro City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1822 Lat/Lng : 20.5875 / -100.3928 | Santiago de Querétaro , known simply as Querétaro, is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico. It is part of the macroregion of Bajío. It is located northwest of Mexico City, southeast of San Miguel de Allende and south of San Luis Potosí (...) | |
| 9 | Beijing ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 39.9035 / 116.3876 | (1st)—very high blank5_name_sec1 = License plate prefixes blank5_info_sec1 = (taxis) (outside urban area) (police and authorities) blank6_name_sec1 = Abbreviation blank6_info_sec1 = BJ / (jīng) blank2_name_sec2 = City flowers blank2_info_sec2 =China rose (Rosa chinensis) blank3_name_sec2 = (...) | |
| 10 | Lahore ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 31.5497 / 74.3436 | Lahore is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, and is the country’s second-most populous city after Karachi. The city is located in the north-eastern end of Pakistan's Punjab province. Lahore is one of Pakistan's wealthiest cities with an estimated GDP of $127 billion (PPP) as of (...) | |
| 11 | Yasukuni Shrine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 35.6942 / 139.7431 | The Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, informally known as the , is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of Japan from the Boshin War of 1868–1869 to the First Indochina War of 1946–1954 (...) | |
| 12 | Los Angeles River ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 33.7564 / -118.1889 | The Los Angeles River (L.A. River) starts in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains and flows through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the western end of the San Fernando Valley, nearly southeast to its mouth in Long Beach (...) | |
| 13 | Bairnsdale ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : -37.8167 / 147.6167 | Bairnsdale Macquarie Dictionary, Fourth Edition (2005). Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. is a city in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The estimated population of Bairnsdale urban area was 14,887 at June 2016 (...) | |
| 14 | Orange County, California ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 33.67 / -117.78 | Orange County is a county in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,010,232, making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth-most populous in the United States, and more populous than 21 U.S. states (...) | |
| 15 | Sikeston, Missouri ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 36.8794 / -89.5853 | Sikeston is a city located both in southern Scott County and northern New Madrid County, in the state of Missouri. It is situated just north of the "Missouri Bootheel", although many locals consider Sikeston a part of it. By way of Interstate 55, Interstate 57, and U.S (...) | |
| 16 | Table tennis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 53.0636 / 8.8429 | Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, the rules are generally as follows: players must allow a ball (...) | |
| 17 | Irvine, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 33.6842 / -117.7925 | Irvine is a master-planned city in Orange County, California, United States in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971 (...) | |
| 18 | Tesla, Inc. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.3947 / -122.1503 | Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing (...) | |
| 19 | Hurricane Katrina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 29.9667 / -90.05 | Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in August 2005, causing catastrophic damage from central Florida to eastern Texas. Subsequent flooding, caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the flood (...) | |
| 20 | British Army ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 51.2333 / -1.2167 | The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces. As of 2018, the British Army comprises just over 81,500 trained regular (full-time) personnel and just over 27,000 trained reserve (part-time) personnel (...) | |
| 21 | Rajneesh ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 18.5375 / 73.8869 | Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and latterly as Osho , was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and (...) | |
| 22 | La Palma, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 33.8494 / -118.0439 | La Palma is a city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 15,568 at the 2010 Census, up from 15,408 at the 2000 census. In 2013, La Palma was ranked 31st in the "Best places to live" among small cities (50,000 or less) in the United States by CNN's Money magazine (...) | |
| 23 | Spring Branch, Houston ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 29.8161 / -95.5177 | Spring Branch is a district in west-northwest Harris County, Texas, United States, roughly bordered by Tanner Road and Hempstead Road to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 to the south, and the 610 Loop to the east; it is almost entirely within the City of Houston (...) | |
| 24 | Leader, Saskatchewan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 660 Lat/Lng : 50.8834 / -109.5515 | Leader is a town in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, located approximately directly east of Calgary, Alberta and is near the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta. It has a population of 863 as of 2016. (...) | |
| 25 | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2275 Lat/Lng : 19.4067 / -99.1911 | Miguel Hidalgo is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Federal District of Mexico City is divided. It was created in 1970, joining the historic areas of Tacuba, Chapultepec and Tacubaya along with a number of notable neighborhoods such as Polanco and Lomas de Chapultepec (...) | |
| 26 | Japanese cemeteries and cenotaphs ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 15.2801 / 145.8073 | Many and cenotaphs are located outside of Japan for Japanese people who died by various reasons and situations in history and internees during and after war. This article also lists tombs and burial places. (...) | |
| 27 | Coast Guard Squadron One ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 10.13 / 104.0 | Coast Guard Squadron One, also known in official message traffic as COGARDRON ONE or RONONE, was a combat unit formed by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 for service during the Vietnam War. Placed under the operational control of the United States Navy, it was assigned duties in Operation (...) | |
| 28 | Braddon, Australian Capital Territory ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 579 Lat/Lng : -35.2719 / 149.1356 | Braddon (postcode: 2612) is an inner north suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia located adjacent to the Canberra CBD. The suburb is one of the oldest suburbs in Canberra, a relatively young city, settled in 1922 and gazetted as a division name in September 1928 (...) | |
| 29 | Whistler Blackcomb ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 677 Lat/Lng : 50.1163 / -122.9571 | Whistler Blackcomb is a ski resort located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. By many measures it is the largest ski resort in North America and has the greatest uphill lift capacity. It is owned by Vail Resorts of Colorado, and features the Peak 2 Peak Gondola for moving between Whistler and (...) | |
| 30 | Phonsavan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1086 Lat/Lng : 19.4591 / 103.18 | Phonsavan (Lao: ໂພນສະຫວັນ) (population 37,507)Paek District Office, Statistics Department. Paek District has a population of 70,215. Xiengkhouang Province has 250,000 people. The borders from town to district are not very clear, and Phonsavan administratively is a collection of villages (...) | |
| 31 | Eryldene, Gordon ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 122 Lat/Lng : -33.758 / 151.1576 | Eryldene is a heritage-listed former family residence and now house museum located at 17 McIntosh Street in the Sydney North Shore suburb of Gordon, Ku-ring-gai Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by William Hardy Wilson and built from 1913 to 1936 by Rudolph G. Ochs (...) | |
| 32 | Fort Ord ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 36.6392 / -121.7353 | Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay of the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. Most of the fort's land now makes up the Fort Ord National Monument, managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management (...) | |
| 33 | Jehol Biota ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 41.3 / 122.6 | The Jehol Biota includes all the living organisms – the ecosystem – of northeastern China between 133 and 120 million years ago. This is the Lower Cretaceous ecosystem which left fossils in the Yixian Formation and Jiufotang Formation (...) | |
| 34 | Gleniffer Brae ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : -34.4094 / 150.8729 | Gleniffer Brae is a heritage-listed former residence and school and now conservatorium of music and function centre at Murphys Avenue, Keiraville, City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Geoffrey D. Loveridge and built from 1937 to 1939 by L. Benbow in conjunction with W (...) | |
| 35 | Ingleburn Army Camp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : -33.9742 / 150.8539 | Ingleburn Army Camp was a purpose built camp constructed in 1940 for the Australian Army at Ingleburn, New South Wales, Australia. (...) | |