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| 1 | New York University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 40.7292 / -73.9942 | New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU's primary campus is in Greenwich Village with other campuses throughout New York City. NYU students can also study abroad at its degree-granting campuses in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU (...) | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 80 Lat/Lng : 39.33 / -76.6206 | Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins (...) | |
| 3 | Tsinghua University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 40.0003 / 116.3267 | Tsinghua University (abbreviated THU; ; also romanized as Qinghua) is a major research university in Beijing, China, and a member of the elite C9 League of Chinese universities. Since its establishment in 1911, it has graduated numerous Chinese leaders in politics, business, academia, and culture (...) | |
| 4 | University of California, Davis ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.5371 / -121.7541 | The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a public research university and land-grant university as well as one of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system (...) | |
| 5 | Seoul ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.5657 / 126.978 | Seoul (like soul; ;), officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. With surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, Seoul forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area, home to roughly half of the country's population (...) | |
| 6 | London School of Economics ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 51.514 / -0.1167 | The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the LSE) is a public research university located in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London (...) | |
| 7 | University of Hamburg ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 53.5669 / 9.9839 | The University of Hamburg (also referred to as UHH) is a comprehensive university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919, having grown out of the previous General lecture system (Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen) and the Colonial Institute of Hamburg (Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut) as well (...) | |
| 8 | Illinois ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 41.2782 / -88.3802 | Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is the 6th-most populous U.S. state and 25th-largest state in terms of land area, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire United States (...) | |
| 9 | Technical University of Berlin ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 52.5119 / 13.3264 | The Technical University of Berlin (official name , known as TU Berlin, which has no official english translation) is a research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1879 and became one of the most prestigious education institutions in Europe (...) | |
| 10 | Bhutan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 2778 Lat/Lng : 27.417 / 90.435 | Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan , is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, the Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the (...) | |
| 11 | George Washington University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 38.9007 / -77.0508 | The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was charted in 1821 by an act of the United States Congress. The university is organized into 14 colleges and schools, including the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the (...) | |
| 12 | Panama Canal ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 9.08 / -79.68 | The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade. Canal locks are at each end to lift ships up to Gatun Lake, an artificial lake created to reduce the amount (...) | |
| 13 | Bahrain ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 26.0675 / 50.5511 | Bahrain , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (help=no), is an island country in the Persian Gulf. The sovereign state comprises a small archipelago centered around Bahrain Island, situated between the Qatar peninsula and the north eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the King (...) | |
| 14 | The Gambia ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 13.4667 / -16.6 | The Gambia , officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa that is almost entirely surrounded by Senegal with the exception of its western coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the smallest country within mainland Africa.Hoare, Ben (...) | |
| 15 | Grenada ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 294 Lat/Lng : 12.1333 / -61.6833 | Grenada is a country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself plus six smaller islands which lie to the north of the main island (...) | |
| 16 | Kamloops ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 353 Lat/Lng : 50.6766 / -120.339 | Kamloops is a city in south-central British Columbia in Canada at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River near Kamloops Lake. Kamloops is the Tournament Capital of Canada and hosts over 100 tournaments each year at world class sports facilities such as the Tournament Capital Centre, (...) | |
| 17 | Angkor ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 13.4333 / 103.8333 | Angkor ("Capital City")Headly, Robert K.; Chhor, Kylin; Lim, Lam Kheng; Kheang, Lim Hak; Chun, Chen. 1977. Cambodian-English Dictionary. Bureau of Special Research in Modern Languages. The Catholic University of America Press. Washington, D.C (...) | |
| 18 | Gulf of Mexico ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 25.3686 / -90.3905 | The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The U.S (...) | |
| 19 | Argentina ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : -34.5997 / -58.3819 | Argentina , officially named the Argentine Republic , is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South (...) | |
| 20 | Duke University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 36.0011 / -78.9389 | Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The (...) | |
| 21 | Long Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 40.8081 / -73.2775 | Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York (...) | |
| 22 | Times Square ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 40.7589 / -73.9851 | Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.Rybczynski, Witold (...) | |
| 23 | Kolkata ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 22.568 / 88.345 | Kolkata (also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River approximately west of the border with Bangladesh, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the (...) | |
| 24 | Dhaka ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 23.7 / 90.375 | Dhaka (or ;), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the world's largest cities, with a population of 18.89 million people in the Greater Dhaka Area. It is also the most densely populated city in the world (...) | |
| 25 | Oman ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 21.0 / 57.0 | Oman , officially the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab country on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. Its official religion is Islam. Holding a strategically important position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the country shares land borders with the United Arab Emirates (...) | |
| 26 | University of Virginia ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 38.0355 / -78.5035 | The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The flagship university of Virginia, it is also a World Heritage site of the United States. It was founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author and former President Thomas Jefferson (...) | |
| 27 | Purdue University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 40.4239 / -86.9289 | Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in (...) | |
| 28 | 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 (...) | |
| 29 | Brown University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 41.8262 / -71.4032 | Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S (...) | |
| 30 | Carnegie Mellon University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 40.4433 / -79.9436 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private nonprofit research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and began granting four-year degrees (...) | |
| 31 | Tijuana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 32.5282 / -117.0208 | Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and on the Baja California Peninsula. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana international transborder agglomeration. As one of the largest and fastest growing cities of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on local economics, (...) | |
| 32 | Free University of Berlin ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 52.4531 / 13.2906 | The Free University of Berlin (often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a research university located in Berlin, Germany. One of Germany's most distinguished universities, it is known for its research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in the field of natural and life sciences (...) | |
| 33 | Lesotho ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 2302 Lat/Lng : -29.6 / 28.3 | Lesotho officially the Kingdom of Lesotho is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa. It is just over in size and has a population of around million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho was previously known as Basutoland, but it declared independence from the United Kingdom (...) | |
| 34 | Gold Coast, Queensland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : -28.0 / 153.431 | The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales. With a census-estimated 2016 population of 638,090, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, (...) | |
| 35 | Columbia University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 40.8088 / -73.9623 | Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Established in 1754, Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest institution of higher (...) | |
| 36 | Vienna ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 48.2083 / 16.3731 | Vienna is the federal capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primate city, with a population of about 1.9 million (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of Austria's population), and its cultural, economic, and political (...) | |
| 37 | Guangzhou ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 23.1288 / 113.259 | Guangzhou (; or ;), also known as Canton," ". Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed September 12, 2010. is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong in southern China. On the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 (...) | |
| 38 | Ghana ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 7.6833 / -0.9833 | Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Spanning a land mass of , Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic (...) | |
| 39 | Mallorca ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : 39.6167 / 2.95 | Mallorca , or Majorca , is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The native language, as on the rest of the Balearic Islands, is Catalan, which is co-official with Spanish (...) | |
| 40 | Singapore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 1.35 / 103.85 | Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: ; Chinese: ; Tamil:), is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to (...) | |
| 41 | Christchurch ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : -43.53 / 172.6203 | Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. The Christchurch urban area lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula. It is home to residents, making it New Zealand's third-most populous city behind Auckland and (...) | |
| 42 | Sundarbans ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 21.9497 / 89.1833 | The Sundarbans (lit. "The beautiful forest") is a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal. Located in the delta region of Padma, Meghna and Brahmaputra river basins, this unique forest extends across Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat districts of Bangladesh and South 24 Parganas, (...) | |
| 43 | Dubai ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 25.205 / 55.2698 | Dubai is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. D Long, B Reich. p (...) | |
| 44 | Lima, Ohio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 40.7408 / -84.115 | Lima is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwestern Ohio along Interstate 75 approximately north of Dayton and south-southwest of Toledo. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,771 (...) | |
| 45 | Belize ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 17.25 / -88.75 | Belize , is a country located on the eastern coast of Central America. Belize is bordered on the northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala. It has an area of and a population of 387,879 (2017). Its mainland is about long and wide (...) | |
| 46 | Emory University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : 33.7911 / -84.3233 | Emory University is a private research university in the Druid Hills neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory (...) | |
| 47 | Columbus, Ohio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 39.9621 / -82.9986 | Columbus is the state capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a population of 879,170 as of 2017 estimates, it is the 14th-most populous city in the United Stateshttps://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/05/25/columbus-overtakes-indianapolis-now-countrys-14th (...) | |
| 48 | Brooklyn ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 40.6444 / -73.9483 | Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island (...) | |
| 49 | Michigan State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 42.7234 / -84.4814 | Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. MSU was founded in 1855 and served as a model for land-grant universities later created under the Morrill Act of 1862 (...) | |
| 50 | University of Maryland, College Park ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 38.9881 / -76.9447 | The University of Maryland, College Park (commonly referred to as the University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, and is the largest university in (...) | |
| 51 | University of Pittsburgh ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 317 Lat/Lng : 40.4446 / -79.9533 | The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded as the Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on the edge of the American frontier (...) | |
| 52 | Australia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 607 Lat/Lng : -35.3081 / 149.1244 | Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area (...) | |
| 53 | Czech Republic ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 324 Lat/Lng : 49.85 / 15.4667 | The Czech Republic , also known by its short-form name, Czechia , is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast (...) | |
| 54 | Melbourne ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : -37.8136 / 144.9631 | Melbourne In the UK and US, another pronunciation variant is : is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. ERP at 24 April 2018 (...) | |
| 55 | Mono Lake ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 1948 Lat/Lng : 38.0166 / -119.0093 | Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake. These salts also make the lake water alkaline (...) | |
| 56 | Uzbekistan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 41.6667 / 64.0667 | Uzbekistan , officially also the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a landlocked country—the only doubly landlocked one (i.e. surrounded solely by other landlocked countries)—in Central Asia and one of the only two in the world (...) | |
| 57 | Pittsburgh ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 295 Lat/Lng : 40.4396 / -79.9763 | Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2017, a population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S (...) | |
| 58 | Tel Aviv ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 32.0452 / 34.7698 | Tel Aviv is the second most populous city in Israel—after Jerusalem—and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area. Located on the country's Mediterranean coastline and with a population of , it is the economic and technological center of the country (...) | |
| 59 | Stanford University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 37.43 / -122.17 | Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially "the Farm") is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford is known for its academic strength, wealth, proximity to Silicon Valley, and ranking as one of the world's top universities (...) | |
| 60 | Lebanon ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1210 Lat/Lng : 33.8333 / 35.8333 | Lebanon (; ; Lebanese pronunciation: ;), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies. The phrase Lebanese Republic is a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names, no longer in use (...) | |
| 61 | Alappuzha ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 9.4977 / 76.3385 | Alappuzha (pronunciation), also known by its former name Alleppey, is the administrative headquarters of Alappuzha District in the Indian State of Kerala. Alappuzha is a city and a municipality in Kerala with an urban population of 174,164http://www.censusindia.gov (...) | |
| 62 | Jordan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 784 Lat/Lng : 31.95 / 35.9333 | Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , is an Arab country in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north, Israel and Palestine to the west (...) | |
| 63 | Bogotá ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2613 Lat/Lng : 4.5981 / -74.0758 | Bogotá , officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santafé/Santa Fé de Bogotá between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, administered as the Capital District, although often erroneously thought of as part of Cundinamarca (...) | |
| 64 | Kenya ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1709 Lat/Lng : -1.2667 / 36.8 | Kenya , officially the Republic of Kenya , is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi. Kenya's territory lies on the equator and overlies the East African Rift, covering a diverse and expansive terrain that extends roughly from Lake Victoria to Lake Turkana (formerly called (...) | |
| 65 | Wake Island ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.29 / 166.601 | Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu and southeast of Tokyo. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claimed by the (...) | |
| 66 | Mauritius ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : -20.2 / 57.5 | Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) off the southeast coast of the African continent. The country includes the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, 560 kilometres (350 mi) east of Mauritius, and the outer islands (...) | |
| 67 | United States ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 691 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / -100.0 | The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9 (...) | |
| 68 | Qatar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 25.2694 / 51.2128 | Qatar (Pronunciation adopted by Qatar Airways' advertisements, such as ' , or ; ' ; local vernacular pronunciation:), officially the State of Qatar , is a country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula (...) | |
| 69 | 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 (...) | |
| 70 | Switzerland ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1522 Lat/Lng : 46.8011 / 8.2267 | Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities.Bern is referred to as "federal city" . Swiss law does not designate a capital as such, but the federal parliament and government are (...) | |
| 71 | Somalia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : 6.1833 / 47.0 | Somalia , officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the . , is a sovereign state with its territory located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, (...) | |
| 72 | New Orleans ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 29.9647 / -90.0706 | New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster. ;) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an estimated population of 393,292 in 2017, it is the most populous city in Louisiana (...) | |
| 73 | Cornell University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 268 Lat/Lng : 42.4485 / -76.4786 | Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the (...) | |
| 74 | The Coca-Cola Company ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 317 Lat/Lng : 33.771 / -84.3966 | The Coca-Cola Company is an American corporation, and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia (...) | |
| 75 | Detroit ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 42.3314 / -83.0458 | Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States (...) | |
| 76 | Iran ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1188 Lat/Lng : 35.7 / 51.4167 | Iran , also known as Persia , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country. Comprising a land area of , it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world (...) | |
| 77 | Savai'i ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1739 Lat/Lng : -13.625 / -172.4867 | Savaii is the largest (area 1,694 km2) and highest (Mt Silisili at 1,858 m) island in Samoa and the Samoan Islands chain. The island is the fifth largest in Polynesia, behind the two main islands of New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands of Hawaii and Maui (...) | |
| 78 | Atlanta ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 335 Lat/Lng : 33.755 / -84.39 | Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 39th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5 (...) | |
| 79 | Leipzig ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 51.3403 / 12.3748 | Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. With a population of 591,686 inhabitants as of 30 June 2018, (1.1 million residents in the larger urban zone) it is Germany's tenth most populous city.http://www.statistik-bremen.de/aktuelle_statistiken/01a (...) | |
| 80 | California Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : 34.1386 / -118.1255 | The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as . The Institute is also occasionally referred to as "CIT", most notably in its alma mater, but this is uncommon (...) | |
| 81 | Thailand ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 13.75 / 100.4833 | Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country (...) | |
| 82 | South Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 766 Lat/Lng : -43.9825 / 170.4489 | The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean (...) | |
| 83 | Abidjan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 5.3364 / -4.0267 | Abidjan is the economic capital of Ivory Coast and one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa. According to the 2014 census, Abidjan's population was 4.7 million, which is 20 percent of the overall population of the country, and this also makes it the fourth most populous city proper (...) | |
| 84 | Germany ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 51.165 / 10.4553 | Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany (listen), is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the (...) | |
| 85 | France ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to (...) | |
| 86 | São Paulo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 765 Lat/Lng : -23.5477 / -46.6364 | São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world (...) | |
| 87 | Venezuela ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 7.0 / -65.0 | Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ,Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999) (...) | |
| 88 | Lithuania ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 54.6833 / 25.2667 | Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania , is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe. Since its independence, Lithuania has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark (...) | |
| 89 | Estonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 59.4167 / 24.75 | Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland with Finland on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with Sweden to the west (Scandinavia to the far west and north), to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to (...) | |
| 90 | Winfield, Kansas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 363 Lat/Lng : 37.2478 / -96.9806 | Winfield is a city and county seat of Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Walnut River in South Central Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,301 and second most populous city of Cowley County. (...) | |
| 91 | Banaba Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : -0.8651 / 169.541 | Banaba IslandThe correct spelling and etymology in Gilbertese should be Bwanaba but the Constitution of Kiribati writes Banaba. Because of the spelling in English or French, the name was very often written Paanapa or Paanopa, as it was in 1901 Act (...) | |
| 92 | Jersey City, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 40.7114 / -74.0648 | Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark. , United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 7, 2011. It is the seat of Hudson County as well as the county's largest city., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017 (...) | |
| 93 | Chicago Loop ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 210 Lat/Lng : 41.88 / -87.63 | The Loop, one of the Chicago's 77 designated community areas, is the central business district in the downtown area of the city. It is home to Chicago's commercial core, City Hall, and the seat of Cook County. Bounded on the north and west by the Chicago River, on the east by Lake Michigan, and on (...) | |
| 94 | Fairfield University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 41.1815 / -73.2903 | Fairfield University is a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in the coastal town of Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (...) | |
| 95 | University of Massachusetts Amherst ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 80 Lat/Lng : 42.3889 / -72.5278 | The University of Massachusetts Amherst (abbreviated UMass Amherst and colloquially referred to as UMass or Massachusetts) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system (...) | |
| 96 | Ohio State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 235 Lat/Lng : 40.0008 / -83.0114 | The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and the ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio (...) | |
| 97 | MIT Sloan School of Management ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 42.3607 / -71.0838 | The MIT Sloan School of Management (also known as MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, as well as executive education (...) | |
| 98 | Roslyn, Washington ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 712 Lat/Lng : 47.2251 / -121.003 | Roslyn is a city in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. The population was 893 at the 2010 census. Roslyn in located in the Cascade Mountains, about 80 miles east of Seattle. The town was founded in 1886 as a coal mining company town (...) | |
| 99 | Weddell Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -51.8786 / -61.0067 | Weddell Island Falkland Islands. GeoNames Geographical Database is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is situated west-northwest of South Georgia Island, north of Livingston Island, northeast of Cape Horn, northeast of Isla de (...) | |
| 100 | Biosphere 2 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1180 Lat/Lng : 32.5788 / -110.8506 | Biosphere 2 is an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. It has been owned by the University of Arizona since 2011. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the (...) | |
| 101 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 47.6236 / -122.3456 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), previously branded as the 'William H. Gates Foundation', is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It was launched in 2000, and is said to be the largest private foundation in the United States, holding US$50.7 billion in assets (...) | |
| 102 | Queensland University of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : -27.4769 / 153.0281 | The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area: Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove (...) | |
| 103 | University of Melbourne ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : -37.7963 / 144.9614 | The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Melbourne's main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of the Melbourne central business district, with (...) | |
| 104 | Indian subcontinent ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 325 Lat/Lng : 20.0 / 78.0 | The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geologically, the Indian subcontinent is related to the land mass that rifted from Gondwana and merged with the Eurasian plate (...) | |
| 105 | Fu Jen Catholic University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 25.0358 / 121.4332 | Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or) is a top private university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing as Fu Jen Academy, at the request of Pope Pius XI, and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at the request of Pope John XXIII (...) | |
| 106 | University of Washington ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 47.6559 / -122.3031 | The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub)"Dub" being a phonetic shorthand for "W" ("double-you"). is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington was first established in downtown Seattle approximately a (...) | |
| 107 | Salk Institute for Biological Studies ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 32.8872 / -117.2462 | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an independent, non-profit, scientific research institute located in the La Jolla community in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis (...) | |
| 108 | Université libre de Bruxelles ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 50.8117 / 4.3811 | The Université libre de Bruxelles (in English: Free University of Brussels), abbreviated ULB, is a French-speaking private research university in Brussels, Belgium. It was established in 1834 by Belgian lawyer Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, it is one of the most important Belgian universities (...) | |
| 109 | Durham University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 54.7728 / -1.5739 | Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a royal charter in 1837. It was one of the first universities to commence tuition in England for more than 600 years, (...) | |
| 110 | Seoul National University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 122 Lat/Lng : 37.4593 / 126.9531 | Seoul National University (SNU; , colloquially Seouldae) is a national research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is considered to be the most prestigious university in the country (...) | |
| 111 | Chevrolet ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 220 Lat/Lng : 43.0086 / -83.7099 | Chevrolet , colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C (...) | |
| 112 | University of California, San Diego ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : 32.881 / -117.238 | The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States. The university occupies near the coast of the Pacific Ocean with the main campus resting on approximately (...) | |
| 113 | Imperial College London ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 51.4983 / -0.1769 | Imperial College London (officially Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its founder, Prince Albert, envisioned a cultural area composed of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall, (...) | |
| 114 | Rice University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 29.7169 / -95.4028 | William Marsh Rice University, commonly known as Rice University, is a private research university located on a 300-acre (121 ha) campus in Houston, Texas, United States. The university is situated near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center (...) | |
| 115 | PricewaterhouseCoopers ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.5077 / -0.1241 | PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. PwC ranks as the second largest professional services firm in the world behind Deloitte, and is one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG (...) | |
| 116 | Texas A&M University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 30.6014 / -96.3145 | Texas A&M University (Texas A&M or A&M) is a coeducational public research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It is a state flagship university and since 1948 is the founding member of the Texas A&M University System (...) | |
| 117 | West Virginia ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 316 Lat/Lng : 38.6667 / -80.6833 | West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region in the Southern United States and is also considered to be a part of the Middle Atlantic States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio (...) | |
| 118 | University College Dublin ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 53.3076 / -6.2198 | University College, Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD;) is a research university in Dublin, Ireland. It has over 1,482 faculty and 32,000 students, and it is Ireland's largest university. The university originates in a body founded in 1854 with John Henry Newman as the first rector known as the (...) | |
| 119 | Assam ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 26.14 / 91.77 | Assam (listen) is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and the state of Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, (...) | |
| 120 | City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 31.3222 / 45.6361 | A city is a large human settlement.Goodall, B. (1987) The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. London: Routledge (...) | |
| 121 | University of Colorado Boulder ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 1649 Lat/Lng : 40.0072 / -105.2669 | The University of Colorado Boulder (commonly referred to as CU or Colorado) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the Union in 1876 (...) | |
| 122 | South Asia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 26.9 / 72.2 | South Asia or Southern Asia, is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east (...) | |
| 123 | Virginia Tech ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 632 Lat/Lng : 37.2289 / -80.4236 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech and by the initialisms VT and VPI, is an American public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in (...) | |
| 124 | University of Bristol ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 64 Lat/Lng : 51.4564 / -2.6044 | The University of Bristol (simply referred to as Bristol University and abbreviated as Bris. in post-nominal letters, or UoB) is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1909, although like the University of the West of England and the (...) | |
| 125 | University of Texas at Austin ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 30.2861 / -97.7394 | The University of Texas at Austin (also known as UT Austin, or UT) is a public research university and flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located in Austin, Texas, United States, approximately from the Texas State Capitol (...) | |
| 126 | City of London ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 51.5157 / -0.0921 | The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the agglomeration has since grown far beyond the City's (...) | |
| 127 | Tufts University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 42.406 / -71.12 | Tufts University is a private research university in Medford, Massachusetts. A charter member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), Tufts College was founded in 1852 by Christian universalists who worked for years to open a nonsectarian institution of higher learning (...) | |
| 128 | Iraqi Kurdistan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 700 Lat/Lng : 36.9167 / 44.0333 | Iraqi Kurdistan, officially called the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by the Iraqi constitution, is an autonomous region located in northern Iraq. It is also referred to as Southern Kurdistan , as Kurds generally consider it to be one of the four parts of Greater Kurdistan, which also includes parts of (...) | |
| 129 | Florida International University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 25.7574 / -80.3733 | Florida International University (FIU) is a metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida. FIU has two major campuses in Miami-Dade County, with its main campus in University Park."" . United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on January 3, 2015." ." Florida International University (...) | |
| 130 | University of Oxford ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 51.754 / -1.2544 | The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation (...) | |
| 131 | National Geographic Society ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 38.9051 / -77.0379 | The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational organizations in the world. Founded in 1888, its interests include geography, archaeology, and natural science, the promotion of environmental and (...) | |
| 132 | Stuttgart ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 48.7766 / 9.1777 | Stuttgart (; ; Swabian: , ;) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known locally as the "Stuttgart Cauldron." It lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest (...) | |
| 133 | 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 (...) | |
| 134 | National University of Singapore ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 1.2956 / 103.7767 | The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an autonomous research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as a medical college, NUS is the oldest higher education institution in Singapore and its achievements in research and education have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities (...) | |
| 135 | Nestlé ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 389 Lat/Lng : 46.4669 / 6.835 | Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenues and other metrics, since 2014., CNN Money, 1 April 2011, The Economist, 29 October 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2012 It ranked No (...) | |
| 136 | Basel ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 47.567 / 7.583 | Basel (; also Basle ; ; ;) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany (...) | |
| 137 | World Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 38.8989 / -77.0425 | The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA) (...) | |
| 138 | Joplin, Missouri ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 308 Lat/Lng : 37.0842 / -94.5131 | Joplin is a city in southern Jasper County and northern Newton County in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri. Joplin is the largest city in Jasper County, though it is not the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 50,150 (...) | |
| 139 | Oregon State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 44.5646 / -123.2757 | Oregon State University (OSU) is an international, public research university in the northwest United States, located in Corvallis, Oregon. The university offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees (...) | |
| 140 | University of Cambridge ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 52.2053 / 0.1172 | The University of Cambridge (formally The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge) is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a Royal Charter by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the (...) | |
| 141 | UBS ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 416 Lat/Lng : 47.372 / 8.536 | UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centers as the largest Swiss banking institution in the world (...) | |
| 142 | University of Exeter ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 50.7365 / 3.5344 | The University of Exeter is a public research university in Exeter, Devon, South West England, United Kingdom. It was founded and received its Royal Charter in 1955, although its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of (...) | |
| 143 | General Electric ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 42.3518 / -71.0478 | General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston. As of 2018, the company operates through the following segments: aviation, healthcare, power, renewable energy, digital, additive manufacturing, venture capital and finance, (...) | |
| 144 | Simi Valley, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 282 Lat/Lng : 34.2711 / -118.7394 | The city of Simi Valley (from the Chumash word, '), in the eponymous valley, is in the southeast corner of Ventura County, California, United States, from downtown Los Angeles, making it part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city sits next to Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, and Los Angeles (...) | |
| 145 | New York metropolitan area ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 40.8086 / -74.0204 | The New York metropolitan area, also referred to as the Tri-State Area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, at . The metropolitan area includes New York City (the most populous city in the United States), Long Island, and the Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of (...) | |
| 146 | Daphne, Alabama ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 30.6311 / -87.8864 | Daphne is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay. The city is located along I-10, 11 miles east of Mobile and 170 miles southwest of the state capital of Montgomery (...) | |
| 147 | University of Notre Dame ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 229 Lat/Lng : 41.703 / -86.239 | The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States. The main campus covers in a suburban setting and it contains a number of recognizable (...) | |
| 148 | Texas ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 504 Lat/Lng : 31.6667 / -99.45 | Texas (; or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the (...) | |
| 149 | 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 (...) | |
| 150 | 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 (...) | |
| 151 | Prague ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 203 Lat/Lng : 50.0878 / 14.4205 | Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1 (...) | |
| 152 | San Diego State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 138 Lat/Lng : 32.7753 / -117.0722 | San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California, and is the largest and oldest higher education institution in San Diego County. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university in the 23-member California State University (CSU) (...) | |
| 153 | Fordham University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 40.8608 / -73.8844 | Fordham University is a private research university in New York City. Founded by the Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841, it is the oldest Catholic university in the northeastern United States, the third-oldest university in New York, and the only Jesuit university in New York City (...) | |
| 154 | Villanova University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 130 Lat/Lng : 40.0377 / -75.3375 | Villanova University is a private research university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the United States. Named after Saint Thomas of Villanova, the school is the oldest Catholic university in the Commonwealth of (...) | |
| 155 | Tesco ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 51.7052 / -0.0268 | Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and ninth-largest retailer in the world (...) | |
| 156 | Nissan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 35.4609 / 139.6292 | , usually shortened to Nissan (or ; Japanese:), is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama. The company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo (...) | |
| 157 | Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 37.4214 / 141.0325 | The was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Immediately after the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their sustained fission reactions (...) | |
| 158 | YouTube ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 37.6281 / -122.4264 | YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1 (...) | |
| 159 | Yahoo! ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 37.4171 / -122.0253 | Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc.. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995 (...) | |
| 160 | Guadalajara ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1546 Lat/Lng : 20.6661 / -103.3519 | Guadalajara (entry in Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1), or Guadalahara, accessed March 18, 2008, retranscribed into IPA) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara (...) | |
| 161 | Jamnagar ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 22.4706 / 70.0575 | Jamnagar (pronunciation) is a city located on the western coast of India in the state of Gujarat in Saurashtra region. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jamnagar District. Jamnagar is the largest city on the westernmost side of India and is the fifth largest city of Gujarat state after (...) | |
| 162 | Renault ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 48.8315 / 2.2283 | Groupe Renault is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured trucks, tractors, tanks, buses/coaches and autorail vehicles (...) | |
| 163 | Opus Dei ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 41.8887 / 12.4866 | Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei , is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church which teaches that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity (...) | |
| 164 | North East England ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 55.0 / -1.8667 | North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and the former county of Cleveland now in North Yorkshire (...) | |
| 165 | Chicago ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 41.8819 / -87.6278 | Chicago , formally the City of Chicago, is located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, and is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the (...) | |
| 166 | Association of Southeast Asian Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : -6.239 / 106.7993 | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) , ASEAN-10: Meeting the Challenges, by Termsak Chalermpalanupap, , ASEAN Secretariat official website. Retrieved 27 June 2008. is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten Southeast Asian countries, which promotes intergovernmental (...) | |
| 167 | Washington State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 773 Lat/Lng : 46.7252 / -117.1596 | Washington State University (WSU or Wazzu) is a public research university in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is a land-grant university with programs in a broad range of academic disciplines. With an undergraduate enrollment of 24,470 and a total enrollment of 29,686, it is the second (...) | |
| 168 | Temple University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 39.981 / -75.155 | Temple University (Temple or TU) is a state-related research university located in the Cecil B. Moore neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by Baptist Minister Russell Conwell (...) | |
| 169 | Canadian Football League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 45.4116 / -75.6984 | The Canadian Football League (CFL;) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. Its nine teams, which are located in nine separate cities throughout Canada, are divided into two divisions: the East Division, with four teams, and the (...) | |
| 170 | International Criminal Court ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 52.0683 / 4.3536 | The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt)International Criminal Court is sometimes abbreviated as ICCt to distinguish it from several other organisations abbreviated as ICC. However the more common abbreviation ICC is used in this article (...) | |
| 171 | University of Nottingham ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 52.9389 / -1.1969 | The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital (Queen's Medical Centre) (...) | |
| 172 | Greenpeace ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 52.3503 / 4.8331 | Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace was founded by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, Canadian and US ex-pat environmental activists in 1971 (...) | |
| 173 | University of Arizona ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 751 Lat/Lng : 32.2317 / -110.9519 | The University of Arizona (also referred to as Arizona, U of A, or UA) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory. , the university enrolls 44,831 students in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of (...) | |
| 174 | Warner Bros. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 34.1492 / -118.3382 | Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (formerly Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.), commonly referred to as Warner Bros. and abbreviated WB, is an American entertainment company headquartered in Burbank, California and a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia (...) | |
| 175 | University of Central Florida ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 28.6016 / -81.2005 | The University of Central Florida, or UCF, is an American public state university in Orlando, Florida. It is the largest college by enrollment in Florida, and is the largest overall among U.S. colleges and universities (...) | |
| 176 | Gujarat ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 23.22 / 72.68 | Gujarat (') is a state in Western IndiaOther sources: * * * and Northwest IndiaOther sources: * * *, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million. It is the sixth largest Indian state by area and the ninth largest state by population (...) | |
| 177 | Bergen County, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.9595 / -74.0688 | Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey., United States Census Bureau. Accessed March 29, 2018. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 948,406, an increase of 4.8% from the 2010 United States Census,, United States Census Bureau (...) | |
| 178 | Roundabout ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 50.8924 / 6.9673 | A roundabout, (also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island), is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is given to traffic already on the junction (...) | |
| 179 | University of Sussex ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 50.8653 / -0.0856 | The University of Sussex is a public research university in Falmer, Sussex, England. Its campus is located in the South Downs National Park and is a short distance away from Central Brighton. The university received its Royal Charter in August 1961, the first of the plate glass university (...) | |
| 180 | Sony ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 35.6312 / 139.7437 | is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo."." Sony Global. Retrieved 6 December 2011. "1–7–1 Konan Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan" – – : "〒108-0075 東京都港区港南1–7–1" Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, (...) | |
| 181 | Houston ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 29.7628 / -95.3831 | Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated population of 2.312 million in 2017. It is the most populous city in the Southern United States and on the Gulf Coast of the United States (...) | |
| 182 | National Park Service ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.8944 / -77.0426 | The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations (...) | |
| 183 | Auckland Zoo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -36.8622 / 174.7189 | Auckland Zoo is a zoological garden in Auckland, New Zealand, situated next to Western Springs park not far from Auckland's central business district. It is run by the Auckland Council with the Auckland Zoological Society as a supporting organisation (...) | |
| 184 | Watchung Mountains ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 261 Lat/Lng : 40.9701 / -74.1984 | The Watchung Mountains (once called the Blue Hills) are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States. The Watchung Mountains are known for their numerous scenic vistas overlooking New York City, Newark and (...) | |
| 185 | Southeastern United States ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 35.0 / -85.3 | The Southeastern United States is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States. It comprises 12 states in the southern United States. (...) | |
| 186 | Walmart ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 398 Lat/Lng : 36.3656 / -94.2175 | Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, (...) | |
| 187 | Boehringer Ingelheim ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 49.9757 / 8.0443 | C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Ko. KG is the parent company of Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, which was founded in 1885 by Albert Boehringer in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany. The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies (...) | |
| 188 | Delft University of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 52.0017 / 4.3725 | Delft University of Technology also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technological university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It counts as one of the best universities for engineering and technology worldwide, typically seen within the top 20 (...) | |
| 189 | Fairfield, Iowa ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 236 Lat/Lng : 41.0072 / -91.9658 | Fairfield is a city in, and the county seat of, Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. It has a population totaling 9,464 people according to the 2010 census. It is a Midwestern city surrounded by rolling farmlands filled with corn, soybean, cattle, and hogs with a median family income of $46,138 (...) | |
| 190 | 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 (...) | |
| 191 | Jehovah's Witnesses ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 366 Lat/Lng : 40.5098 / -80.0157 | Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity.Sources for descriptors: *Millenarian: *Restorationist: *Christian: *Denomination: The group reports a worldwide membership of 8 (...) | |
| 192 | Iowa State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 287 Lat/Lng : 42.0239 / -93.6476 | Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the third largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference (...) | |
| 193 | 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 (...) | |
| 194 | Hudson County, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 40.7303 / -74.0756 | Hudson County, a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey, lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609.Kane, Joseph Nathan; and Aiken, Charles Curry. , p. 140. Scarecrow Press, 2005. . Accessed January 21, 2013 (...) | |
| 195 | Sedgemoor ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 51.1317 / -2.995 | Sedgemoor is a low-lying area of land in Somerset, England. It lies close to sea level south of the Polden Hills, historically largely marsh (or "moor" in its older sense). The eastern part is known as King's Sedgemoor, and the western part West Sedgemoor (...) | |
| 196 | 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 (...) | |
| 197 | Elvis Presley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 35.0461 / -90.0231 | Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply the "King" (...) | |
| 198 | Denver Museum of Nature and Science ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1632 Lat/Lng : 39.7475 / -104.9425 | The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is a municipal natural history and science museum in Denver, Colorado. It is a resource for informal science education in the Rocky Mountain region. A variety of exhibitions, programs, and activities help museum visitors learn about the natural history of (...) | |
| 199 | Cardamom Mountains ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 340 Lat/Lng : 12.3086 / 102.9896 | The Krâvanh Mountains, literally the "Cardamom Mountains" (Chuor Phnom Krâvanh; , Thio Khao Banthat), is a mountain range in the south west of Cambodia and Eastern Thailand. The silhouette of the Cardamom Mountains appears in the provincial seal of Trat Province in Thailand. (...) | |
| 200 | Jersey Shore (TV series) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 39.9455 / -74.0701 | Jersey Shore is an American reality television series that ran on MTV from December 3, 2009 to December 20, 2012 in the United States. The series follows the lives of eight housemates who spend their summer together at a vacation home: in Seaside Heights, New Jersey in seasons one, three, five and (...) | |