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| 1 | Surgut ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 61.2594 / 73.3994 | Surgut is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River. It is one of the few cities in Russia to be larger than the capital or the administrative center of its federal subject in terms of population, economic activity, and tourist (...) | |
| 2 | Dushanbe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 825 Lat/Lng : 38.5702 / 68.7803 | Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. Dushanbe means Monday in the Tajik language. D. Saimaddinov, S. D. Kholmatova, and S. Karimov, Tajik-Russian Dictionary, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Scientific Center for (...) | |
| 3 | Moscow ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 148 Lat/Lng : 55.7525 / 37.6231 | Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limitshttp://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/Popul2016.xls and 17 million within the urban area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities (...) | |
| 4 | Tajikistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 3602 Lat/Lng : 38.7667 / 71.2833 | Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Jumhuriyi Tojikiston), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an area of and an estimated population of million people as of . It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China (...) | |
| 5 | 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 (...) | |
| 6 | Kyrgyzstan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 779 Lat/Lng : 42.8667 / 74.6 | Kyrgyzstan (;Or , or with the stress on the first syllable. See J. C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd., 2008). Kyrgyzstan ; or Кыргызстан), officially the Kyrgyz Republic , and also known as Kirghizia, is a sovereign state in Central Asia (...) | |
| 7 | 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 (...) | |
| 8 | Indian Ocean ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : -20.0 / 80.0 | The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface). It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by (...) | |
| 9 | CN Tower ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 43.6428 / -79.3871 | The CN Tower is a concrete communications and observation tower located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976. Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower (...) | |
| 10 | Warsaw Chopin Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 52.1657 / 20.9671 | Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport , more commonly referred to as Chopin Airport or Warsaw-Chopin Airport, is an international airport located in the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland. As Poland's largest, covering of land, and busiest airport, Warsaw Chopin handles just under 40% of the country's air (...) | |
| 11 | Basra ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 30.4889 / 47.81 | Basra (al-Baṣrah), is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab between Kuwait and Iran. It had an estimated population of 2.5 million in 2012. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is handled at the port of Umm Qasr (...) | |
| 12 | Pyongyang ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 39.0167 / 125.7333 | Pyongyang, or P'yŏngyang , is the capital and largest city of North Korea. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 population census, it has a population of 3,255,288. Retrieved on 2018-02-17 (...) | |
| 13 | Algeria ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 387 Lat/Lng : 27.25 / 3.45 | Algeria (; ', familary Algerian Arabic ';), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb (Northwest Africa) on the Mediterranean coast. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country (...) | |
| 14 | Cebu City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 10.3032 / 123.8994 | , officially the , , is a highly urbanized city of the island of Cebu in the Central Visayas Region, . According to the , it has a population of people, making it the fifth most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the Visayas (...) | |
| 15 | Solomon Islands ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 553 Lat/Lng : -9.6667 / 160.2 | Solomon Islands is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of . The country's capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal (...) | |
| 16 | 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 (...) | |
| 17 | Chongqing ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 29.55 / 106.5069 | Chongqing , formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China. Administratively, it is one of China's four municipalities under the direct administration of central government (the other three are Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin), and the only such municipality in China located far (...) | |
| 18 | Beirut ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 33.8898 / 35.5003 | Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been conducted, but 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to 2.2 million as part of Greater Beirut."". The World Bank. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016 (...) | |
| 19 | 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 (...) | |
| 20 | Headquarters of the United Nations ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 40.7494 / -73.9681 | The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison, and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952 (...) | |
| 21 | Ahmedabad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 23.0225 / 72.5714 | Ahmedabad , also pronounced as, Amdavad in Gujarati, is the largest city and former capital of the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarter of the Ahmadabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court (...) | |
| 22 | Barcelona ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 41.3825 / 2.1769 | Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home (...) | |
| 23 | Frankfurt ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 50.117 / 8.683 | Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; "Frank ford at the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city of the German federal state of Hesse, and its 736,414 (2016) inhabitants make it the fifth-largest city of Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Cologne (...) | |
| 24 | Chabahar ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 25.2955 / 60.634 | Chābahār (; meaning four springs or spring well; formerly Bandar Beheshtī) is a city and capital of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. It is a free port (Free Trade Zone) on the coast of the Gulf of Oman, and is Iran's southernmost city (...) | |
| 25 | Samara ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 53.2028 / 50.1408 | Samara , known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev , is the sixth largest city (as of 2010) in Russia and the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Some statistics indicate that it is the eighth or ninth-largest city by population., rather than sixth (...) | |
| 26 | Expo 2020 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 25.2683 / 55.3423 | Expo 2020 is a World Expo to be hosted by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, opening on October 20, 2020. The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) general assembly in Paris awarded Dubai as the host on November 27, 2013. (...) | |
| 27 | Ferris wheel ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 641 Lat/Lng : 36.1174 / -115.1681 | A Ferris wheel (sometimes called in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in (...) | |
| 28 | 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 25.35 / 55.4167 | The 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, governed by FIFA. Previous editions before 2005 were not governed by FIFA and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championships (...) | |
| 29 | Rostov-on-Don Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 47.2583 / 39.8183 | Rostov-on-Don Airport Aeroport Rostov-na-Donu was an international airport located east of the city of Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia. It was one of the largest airports in the south-west of Russia and the 12th busiest in the country (...) | |
| 30 | Deutsche Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 103 Lat/Lng : 50.114 / 8.6693 | Deutsche Bank AG is a German investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. The bank is operational in 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, the Americas and Asia (...) | |
| 31 | 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 (...) | |
| 32 | NBBJ ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 47.6201 / -122.3308 | NBBJ is an American global architecture, planning and design firm with offices in Beijing, Boston, Columbus, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Pune, San Francisco, Seattle, and Shanghai. NBBJ provides services in architecture, interiors, planning and urban design, branding, consulting, (...) | |
| 33 | Flydubai Flight 981 ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 47.2639 / 39.8267 | Flydubai Flight 981 was a scheduled international passenger flight that crashed during an aborted landing at Rostov-on-Don Airport, Russia, on 19 March 2016, resulting in the deaths of all 62 passengers and crew on board (...) | |
| 34 | Lyon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 45.7597 / 4.8422 | Lyon (also spelled Lyons and in this case alternatively pronounced ; ;) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located in the country's east-central part at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, about south from Paris, north from Marseille and northeast from (...) | |
| 35 | CNBC ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 40.8986 / -73.9392 | CNBC is an American pay television business news channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast. Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, " ." NBC Universal. Retrieved on August 28, 2009 (...) | |
| 36 | Sky News ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 51.487 / -0.33 | Sky News is a British pay television news-based channel owned by Sky, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the Head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. Sky News is currently Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the eleventh time it has held the award (...) | |
| 37 | Malappuram ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 11.0437 / 76.081 | Malappuram (also Malapuram; മലപ്പുറം) is a city in the southern Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of . The first municipality in the district formed in 1970, Malappuram serves as the administrative headquarters of Malappuram district (...) | |
| 38 | World Economic Forum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 46.2253 / 6.1917 | The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization. It gained formal status in January 2015 under the Swiss Host-State Act, confirming the role of the Forum as an International Institution for Public-Private Cooperation (...) | |
| 39 | Santa Catarina (state) ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : -26.3014 / -48.8439 | Santa Catarina ("Saint Catherine") is a state in the southern region of Brazil. According to the Index of Economic Well-Being calculated between 2002 and 2008, Santa Catarina was the Brazilian state that consistently showed the highest economic well-being in relation to any other state in Brazil (...) | |
| 40 | Hewlett-Packard ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 37.4136 / -122.1451 | The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related (...) | |
| 41 | Milan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : 45.4666 / 9.1666 | Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,372,075 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,242,420 (...) | |
| 42 | Railway electrification system ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 53.4491 / 10.0015 | A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply. Electric railways use electric locomotives to haul passengers or freight in separate cars or electric multiple units, passenger cars with their own motors (...) | |
| 43 | 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 (...) | |
| 44 | Twitter ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.7768 / -122.4166 | Twitter, Inc. is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (...) | |
| 45 | Tram ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 530 Lat/Lng : 48.1484 / 11.4616 | A tram (in North America streetcar or trolley) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets; some include segments of segregated right-of-way. The lines or networks operated by tramcars are called tramways (...) | |
| 46 | Dubai International City ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 25.1419 / 55.4047 | Dubai International city is a country-themed architecture of residences, business, and tourist attractions. Spreading over an area of 800 hectares (8 million square meters), the arrangement of the city is inspired by the traditional carpets of Middle East (...) | |
| 47 | Inland port ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 43.89 / -78.86 | An inland port is a port on an inland waterway, such as a river, lake, or canal, which may or may not be connected to the ocean. The term "inland port" is also used to refer to a dry port, which is an inland extension of a seaport, usually connected by rail to the docks (...) | |
| 48 | Tivat ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 42.4364 / 18.6961 | Tivat (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Тиват) is a coastal town in southwest Montenegro, located in the Bay of Kotor. , its population was 14,111. Tivat is the centre of Tivat Municipality, which is the smallest municipality by area in Montenegro. (...) | |
| 49 | 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -22.9667 / -43.1667 | The 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the third edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, governed by FIFA. Previous editions before 2005 were not governed by FIFA and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championships (...) | |
| 50 | 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 24.4528 / 54.392 | The 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the fifteenth tournament of the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The tournament was held in the United Arab Emirates between 17 October and 8 November. Nigeria won the tournament after defeating Mexico 3–0 in the final, claiming the country's fourth title (...) | |
| 51 | 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 (...) | |
| 52 | Hambantota ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 6.1241 / 81.1185 | Hambantota is the main town in Hambantota District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka. This underdeveloped area was hit hard by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and is undergoing a number of major development projects including the construction of a new sea port and international airport finished in 2013 (...) | |
| 53 | Grenoble School of Management ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 218 Lat/Lng : 45.1901 / 5.7131 | Grenoble École de Management (GEM) is a French graduate business school specialised in business and management. It was founded in 1984 in Grenoble, France by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Grenoble. GEM is known for its teaching in business strategy, finance, and technology management (...) | |
| 54 | Qabala ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 795 Lat/Lng : 40.9825 / 47.8491 | Gabala (Гәбәлә; , Q̇wepele, قوهپهله), also known as Qabala, is a city in the Republic of Azerbaijan and the capital of the Qabala Rayon. The municipality consists of the city of Gabala and the village of Küsnat (...) | |
| 55 | Mossad ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 32.1424 / 34.804 | Mossad (; , ; , ', ; literally meaning "the Institute"), short for ' (meaning "Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations"), is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin (...) | |
| 56 | Islamic Azad University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1214 Lat/Lng : 35.7004 / 51.3836 | The Islamic Azad University (IAU; , Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi) is a semi-private university system in Iran. It is one of the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the world. (...) | |
| 57 | Okhta Center ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 59.9418 / 30.4073 | Okhta Center or phonetically Oḱhta-Tseńtr (Russian: О́хта-це́нтр), known before March 2007 as Gazprom City (Russian:Газпро́м-си́ти), is a failed construction project of a business centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was supposed to include the first supertall skyscraper in the city (...) | |
| 58 | Dabolim Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 15.3806 / 73.8322 | Dabolim Airport or Goa Airport is the sole airport in Goa. It is located in Dabolim and operates as a civil enclave in a military airbase named INS Hansa. It is 4 km from the nearest city Vasco da Gama, 23 km from Margao, and about 30 km from the state capital Panjim (...) | |
| 59 | Enclave and exclave ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 45.0134 / -73.1933 | An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state. Territorial waters have the same sovereign attributes as land, and enclaves may therefore exist within territorial waters (...) | |
| 60 | The Indian High School, Dubai ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 25.2405 / 55.3152 | The Indian High School is a CBSE-affiliated Indian school in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was established in 1961 to provide education to the children of Indian expatriates, the first expatriate educational institution there (...) | |
| 61 | Synergy University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 25.0694 / 55.1423 | Synergy University (Russian:) or Moscow University of Industry and Finance “Synergy” (Russian: Московский финансово-промышленный университет «Синергия») is one of the largest universities in Russia with 35000+ students, 40 regional units & wide international representation in London, Singapore and (...) | |
| 62 | Ground-effect vehicle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -21 Lat/Lng : 42.8819 / 47.6567 | A ground-effect vehicle (GEV) is a vehicle that is designed to attain sustained flight over a level surface (usually over the sea) by making use of ground effect, the aerodynamic interaction between the wings and the surface (...) | |
| 63 | Alibaba Group ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 30.192 / 120.1861 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology. Founded in 1999, the company provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals, as well as electronic (...) | |
| 64 | Death of Muammar Gaddafi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 31.1956 / 16.5214 | Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured and killed on 20 October 2011 during the Battle of Sirte. Gaddafi was found hiding in a culvert west of Sirte and captured by National Transitional Council forces. He was killed shortly afterwards (...) | |
| 65 | 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 (...) | |
| 66 | 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 43.25 / 5.3667 | The 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, governed by FIFA. Previous editions before 2005 were not governed by FIFA and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championships (...) | |
| 67 | 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 41.0122 / 28.976 | On 15 July 2016, a coup d'état was attempted in Turkey against state institutions, including the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The attempt was carried out by a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces that organized themselves as the Peace at Home Council (...) | |
| 68 | Franklin & Marshall College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 40.0469 / -76.3206 | Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is a private co-educational residential liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. It employs 175 full-time faculty members and has a student body of approximately 2,300 full-time students. (...) | |
| 69 | Piracy off the coast of Somalia ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 3.18 / 68.86 | Piracy off the coast of Somalia has been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War, around 2000, when foreign ships exploited the coastline area because of the absence of an effective national coast guard by invading the fishing grounds and also dumping (...) | |
| 70 | ENGECON Dubai ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 59.0 / 30.0 | The Dubai Branch of former Saint-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, now a part of the Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics. The Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics has an International branch outside the Russian Federation in Dubai (...) | |
| 71 | Yara International ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 59.9146 / 10.715 | Yara International ASA is a Norwegian chemical company. Its largest business area is the production of nitrogen fertilizer, however it also encompasses the production of nitrates, ammonia, urea and other nitrogen-based chemicals (...) | |
| 72 | London Gateway ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 51.5052 / 0.4902 | DP World London Gateway is a recently-developed port within the wider Port of London, United Kingdom. The site is a fully integrated logistics facility, comprising a semi-automated, deep-sea container terminal on the same site as the UK's largest land bank for development of warehousing, (...) | |
| 73 | 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 (...) | |
| 74 | Grozny-City Towers ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 43.3156 / 45.6978 | The Grozny-City Towers is a five-star skyscraper hotel and business centre complex located near Grozny Central Mosque in Grozny, Chechnya. It stands at 492 ft (150 m).http://rt.com/all-about-russia/blogs/madina-kochenova/dubai-grozny-kadyrov/ (...) | |
| 75 | Minya bus attack ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 28.7395 / 30.6205 | On May 26, 2017, masked gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts from Maghagha in Egypt's Minya Governorate to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor, killing at least 28 people and injuring 22 others. (...) | |
| 76 | Bigelow Aerospace ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 646 Lat/Lng : 36.212 / -115.167 | Bigelow Aerospace is an American space technology startup company based in North Las Vegas, Nevada, that manufactures and develops expandable space station modules. Bigelow Aerospace was founded by Robert Bigelow in 1998 and is funded in large part by the profit Bigelow gained through his ownership (...) | |
| 77 | 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : -22.9122 / -43.2302 | The opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday 5 August 2016 in the Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, starting at 20:00 BRT (23:00 UTC). As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal ceremonial opening of this international sporting (...) | |
| 78 | Eurowings ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 51.5095 / 7.6011 | Eurowings GmbH is a German low-cost airline"." CAPA. Retrieved on October 5, 2017. "Eurowings Airline Profile." headquartered in Düsseldorf and a fully owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. Founded in 1996, it serves a network of domestic and European destinations as well as some long-haul routes (...) | |
| 79 | Port of Baku ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -24 Lat/Lng : 40.3722 / 49.8625 | Port of Baku is a sea port located in the Bay of Baku, on the coast of city of Baku, Azerbaijan. The main entrance faces the Neftchiler Avenue. (...) | |
| 80 | Asian Volleyball Confederation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 13.7596 / 100.6265 | The Asian Volleyball Confederation, commonly known by the acronym AVC, is the governing body for the sports of indoor, beach and grass volleyball in Asia and Oceania. It has 65 member countries, mostly located on the Asian and Australian continents, but excludes the transcontinental countries with (...) | |
| 81 | McKinsey & Company ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 454 Lat/Lng : 48.3304 / 11.7366 | McKinsey & Company is an American worldwide management consulting firm. It conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis to evaluate management decisions across public and private sectors. McKinsey publishes the McKinsey Quarterly since 1964, funds the McKinsey Global Institute research (...) | |
| 82 | Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 52.3728 / 4.8882 | The Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, West Asia, and the former USSR. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, with a branch office in Dubai."." RIPE NCC. Retrieved on 10 February 2009 (...) | |
| 83 | Chabahar Port ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 25.3003 / 60.6128 | Chabahar Port is a seaport in Chabahar located in southeastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman. It serves as Iran's only oceanic port, and consists of two separate ports named Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti, each of which has five berths (...) | |
| 84 | HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 53.55 / 9.9895 | HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration is a private business school located in Hamburg, Germany. Founded by Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in 2004, HSBA now cooperates with more than 250 companies. As a state-recognised third-level institution, it offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in (...) | |
| 85 | United 2026 FIFA World Cup bid ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 631 Lat/Lng : 53.5333 / -113.5 | United 2026 was a successful joint bid, led by the United States Soccer Federation, together with the Canadian Soccer Association and the Mexican Football Federation, to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico (...) | |
| 86 | Fuqua School of Business ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 35.9992 / -78.9471 | The Fuqua School of Business (pronounced) is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. It currently enrolls more than 1,300 students in degree-seeking programs. These programs include the Daytime Master of Business Administration (MBA), the Global Executive (...) | |
| 87 | Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 53.9124 / -1.6937 | Prince Henry's Grammar School (Specialist Language College), also known as Prince Henry's or PHGS, is a secondary school and sixth form established in 1607 in the market town of Otley, West Yorkshire, England. The school teaches boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 18 and has around 1,400 (...) | |
| 88 | Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 59.9271 / 30.3522 | The Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics was a university in Russia , which was known as ENGECON (Russian: ИНЖЭКОН). It is now a part of Saint Petersburg State University of Economics (http://unecon (...) | |
| 89 | Okryu-gwan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 39.0286 / 125.7583 | Okryu-gwan or Okryu Restaurant is a restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea, founded in 1960. North Korea analyst Andrei Lankov describes it as one of two restaurants, the other being Ch'ongryugwan, which have "defined the culinary life of Pyongyang" since the 1980s, and a "living museum of culinary (...) | |
| 90 | University of London (Worldwide) ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 51.5211 / -0.1275 | The University of London is a central academic body that manages external study programmes within the University of London collegiate university system. It formerly had the subtitles External Programmes, External System or International Programmes, and the current internal name for the department is (...) | |
| 91 | Halliburton ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 29.9364 / -95.3404 | Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation. One of the world's largest oil field service companies, it has operations in more than 70 countries. It owns hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions worldwide and employs approximately 50,000 people (...) | |
| 92 | Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (September–December 2012) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 251 Lat/Lng : 36.0564 / 36.4006 | The following is a timeline of the Syrian Civil War from September to December 2012. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found at Casualties of the Syrian Civil War. (...) | |
| 93 | Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 59.9313 / 30.3264 | Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance as it was known formally was established in 1930 as "Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics" (Ленинградский финансово-экономический институт; hence the colloquial name Финэк (Finec)) (...) | |
| 94 | Killing of Jamal Khashoggi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 119 Lat/Lng : 41.086 / 29.0121 | Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident and journalist for The Washington Post, author, and former general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi Arabian government (...) | |
| 95 | 2007 St. Petersburg Open ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 59.9339 / 30.3061 | The 2007 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 13th edition of the St. Petersburg Open, and was part of the International Series of the 2007 ATP Tour. It took place at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from October (...) | |
| 96 | Updown Court ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 51.3686 / -0.6446 | Updown Court is a Californian style residence situated in the village of Windlesham in Surrey, England. The 103-room mansion has of landscaped gardens and private woodland.Conradi, Peter and Davies, Helen (2007). The Sunday Times, 15 July 2007, Accessed 11 April 2010 (...) | |
| 97 | Singapore Airshow ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 1.364 / 104.0222 | The Singapore Airshow, formerly known as Changi International Airshow, is a biennial aerospace event held in Singapore, debuted in 2008. The event was launched as a partnership between Singaporean agencies Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the Defence Science and Technology Agency after the (...) | |
| 98 | Hamleys ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 51.5128 / -0.1402 | Hamleys is the oldest and largest toy shop in the world and one of the world's best-known retailers of toys. Founded by William Hamley as "Noahs Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760, it moved to its current site on Regent Street in 1881 (...) | |
| 99 | Analytik Jena ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 151 Lat/Lng : 50.8848 / 11.5988 | Analytik Jena AG, based in Jena (Thuringia, Germany), is a provider of analytical, bioanalytical and optical systems for industrial and scientific applications. Analytik Jena was founded in 1990 as a sales and service company for analytical technology (...) | |
| 100 | John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : -31.8586 / 115.8568 | John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School (JSRACS or JSR) is a dual-campus, co-educational private school in Perth, Western Australia named after the notable West Australian and first Surveyor-General of Western Australia, John Septimus Roe. It is the largest memberhttp://www.asc.wa.edu (...) | |
| 101 | Millennium Tower (Frankfurt) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 50.1094 / 8.6556 | The Millennium Tower is a proposed supertall skyscraper whose completion date is unknown. If ever completed, it would be Europe's second tallest building. It would be located in Frankfurt, Germany and would have a height of with 104 stories (...) | |
| 102 | Royal Academy of Dance ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 51.4747 / -0.1757 | The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a UK-based examination board specialising in dance education and training, with an emphasis on classical ballet. The RAD was founded in London, England in 1920 as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1935 (...) | |
| 103 | Birmingham City University ![]() FeatureType : edu}} Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 52.5172 / -1.8981 | Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a modern university in the city of Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843, it was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992 (...) | |
| 104 | PERI ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 496 Lat/Lng : 48.3052 / 10.1461 | With a turnover of EUR 1,480 Billion in 2017, PERI is today one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of formwork and scaffolding systems. Central functions, development and production facilities are located in Weissenhorn,Germany since the founding of the company in 1969 (...) | |
| 105 | Grozny-City Towers Facade Clocks ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 43.3158 / 45.6967 | The Grozny-City Clocks, located at approximately , are near the apex of the northwest and southeast sides of the Grozny-City Towers, located in Grozny, Chechnya. The towers opened on 5 October 2011, during the birthday celebration for Chechnyan President Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov (...) | |
| 106 | MEVA Schalungs-Systeme ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 630 Lat/Lng : 48.5084 / 8.629 | MEVA Formwork Systems is a worldwide producer of formwork systems. Headquartered in Germany under the name MEVA Schalungs-System GmbH, the MEVA group has 40 subsidiaries, plants and logistics centers on 5 continents. (...) | |