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| 1 | Johannesburg ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1766 Lat/Lng : -26.2044 / 28.0456 | Johannesburg (; ; also known as Jozi, Joburg, and eGoli) is the largest city in South Africa and one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa (...) | |
| 2 | New Delhi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 28.62 / 77.2172 | New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of the Government of India. The foundation stone of the city was laid by George V, Emperor of India during the Delhi Durbar of 1911 (...) | |
| 3 | Durban ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : -29.8741 / 31.0102 | Durban (from itheku meaning "bay/lagoon") is the third most populous city in South Africa—after Johannesburg and Cape Town—and the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Located on the east coast of South Africa, Durban is famous for being the busiest port in the country (...) | |
| 4 | Port Elizabeth ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 85 Lat/Lng : -33.9608 / 25.602 | Port Elizabeth or The Bay is one of the major cities in South Africa; it is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, east of Cape Town. The city, often shortened to PE and nicknamed "The Friendly City" or "The Windy City", stretches for 16 km along Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South (...) | |
| 5 | Saint Helena ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 349 Lat/Lng : -15.9333 / -5.7167 | Saint Helena is a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of Rio de Janeiro and 1,950 kilometres (1,210 mi) west of the Cunene River, which marks the border between Namibia and Angola in southwestern Africa (...) | |
| 6 | Cape Town ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : -33.9227 / 18.4167 | Cape Town (; Xhosa: iKapa; Dutch: Kaapstad) is a coastal city in South Africa. It is the capital and primate city of the Western Cape province. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. As the place where the Parliament of South Africa is found, Cape Town is the legislative (...) | |
| 7 | South Africa ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1155 Lat/Lng : -28.6167 / 24.3333 | South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and (...) | |
| 8 | Dar es Salaam ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -6.82 / 39.27 | Dar es Salaam (Dar) (from ', "the house of peace"; formerly Mzizima) is the former capital as well as the most populous city in Tanzania and a regionally important economic centre. Located on the Swahili coast, the city is one of the fastest growing cities in the world (...) | |
| 9 | Maputo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : -25.9153 / 32.5764 | Maputo (; officially named Lourenço Marques until 1976) is the capital and most populous city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is positioned within 120 km of the Swaziland and South Africa borders (...) | |
| 10 | Diego Garcia ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : -7.3133 / 72.4111 | Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. It was settled by the French in the 1790s and was transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars (...) | |
| 11 | Gaborone ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1020 Lat/Lng : -24.6581 / 25.9122 | Gaborone (; English) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 231,626 based on the 2011 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census (...) | |
| 12 | Malawi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1339 Lat/Lng : -13.3575 / 34.0247 | Malawi (or ; or), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west (...) | |
| 13 | Mozambique ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : -17.7667 / 35.4667 | Mozambique , officially the Republic of Mozambique (or '), is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland (Eswatini) and South Africa to the southwest (...) | |
| 14 | Tuvalu ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -8.5208 / 179.1986 | Tuvalu (or), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, situated in Oceania, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (belonging to the Solomons), southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of (...) | |
| 15 | Graaff-Reinet ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 747 Lat/Lng : -32.2522 / 24.5406 | Graaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the fourth-oldest town in South Africa, after Cape Town, Stellenbosch, and Swellendam. The town was the center of a short-lived republic in the late 18th century (...) | |
| 16 | Paarl ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 160 Lat/Lng : -33.7242 / 18.9558 | Paarl (; Afrikaans: or more commonly ; derived from Parel, meaning Pearl in Dutch) is a city with 191,013 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the third oldest town and European settlement in the Republic of South Africa (after Cape Town and Stellenbosch) and the largest (...) | |
| 17 | George, Western Cape ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : -33.9647 / 22.4714 | George is a city in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The city is a popular holiday and conference centre and the administrative, commercial hub and the capital city of the Garden Route. The city is situated halfway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth on the Garden Route (...) | |
| 18 | Plettenberg Bay ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : -34.05 / 23.37 | Plettenberg Bay, nicknamed Plet or Plett, is the primary town of the Bitou Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. As of the census of 2001, there were 29,149 population. It was originally named Bahia Formosa ("beautiful bay") by early Portuguese explorers and lies on South (...) | |
| 19 | WACA Ground ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -31.96 / 115.8797 | The WACA (formally the WACA Ground) is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium's name derives from the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association. The WACA was Western Australia's "home of cricket" since the early 1890s, with Test cricket (...) | |
| 20 | Tôlanaro ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : -25.0325 / 46.9833 | Tôlanaro or Tolagnaro is a city (commune urbaine) on the southeast coast of Madagascar. It is the capital of the Anosy Region and of the Tôlanaro District. It has been a port of local importance since the early 1500s, and a new port, the Port d'Ehola, has been built by QMM and the World Bank (...) | |
| 21 | Nelson Mandela ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 834 Lat/Lng : -31.8061 / 28.6146 | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully (...) | |
| 22 | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 523 Lat/Lng : -15.9594 / -5.7036 | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha. Its name was Saint Helena and Dependencies until 1 September 2009, when a new (...) | |
| 23 | 2010 FIFA World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1699 Lat/Lng : -26.2348 / 27.9824 | The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations (...) | |
| 24 | Sawai Mansingh Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 427 Lat/Lng : 26.894 / 75.8032 | The Sawai Mansingh Stadium is a cricket stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. It was built during the reign of Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II who was also known as SMS, hence the name of the SMS Stadium. It is situated at one corner of the Rambagh Circle. The stadium seats 23,185 (...) | |
| 25 | New Zealand national cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -43.5419 / 172.6542 | The New Zealand national cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. From 1930 New Zealand had to wait until 1956, more than 26 years, for its first test victory, against the West Indies at (...) | |
| 26 | England cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 51.4772 / -2.5842 | The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1903 until the end of 1996 (...) | |
| 27 | Australia national cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -37.82 / 144.9834 | The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877. The team also plays One Day International cricket and Twenty20 International, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season and the (...) | |
| 28 | Commonwealth Games ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.5072 / -0.1275 | The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and has taken place every four years since then. The Commonwealth Games were known as the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire (...) | |
| 29 | Cairo International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 30.1222 / 31.4056 | Cairo International Airport (Arabic: ; Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawly) is the international airport of Cairo and the busiest airport in Egypt and serves as the primary hub for EgyptAir, EgyptAir Express and Nile Air as well as several other airlines (...) | |
| 30 | Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 963 Lat/Lng : -28.7367 / 29.8264 | Colenso is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is located on the southern bank of the Tugela River. The original settlement was contained within a loop on the river, but it subsequently expanded southwards and eastwards (...) | |
| 31 | King Shaka International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : -29.6118 / 31.1193 | King Shaka International Airport , abbreviated KSIA, is the primary airport serving Durban, South Africa. Located in La Mercy, KwaZulu-Natal, approximately north of the city centre of Durban, it opened its doors to passengers on 1 May 2010, just over a month before the start of the 2010 FIFA World (...) | |
| 32 | 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 (...) | |
| 33 | Monash University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : -37.9083 / 145.138 | Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1958, it is the second oldest university in the State of Victoria. The university has a number of campuses, four of which are in Victoria (Clayton, Caulfield, Peninsula, and Parkville), and one in Malaysia (...) | |
| 34 | Sub-Saharan Africa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 812 Lat/Lng : -27.9136 / 31.6475 | The sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. According to the United Nations, it consists of all African countries that are fully or partially located south of the Sahara (...) | |
| 35 | May 2 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 364 Lat/Lng : 30.0 / 35.2 | ==Events== *1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. *1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. *1335 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia (...) | |
| 36 | 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, (...) | |
| 37 | 2003 Cricket World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : -29.8501 / 31.0278 | The 2003 Cricket World Cup (known officially as ICC Cricket World Cup 2003) was the eighth Cricket World Cup, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya from 9 February to 23 March 2003 (...) | |
| 38 | Aung San Suu Kyi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 16.8256 / 96.1503 | Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991). She is the leader of the National League for Democracy and the first and incumbent State Counsellor, a position akin to a prime minister (...) | |
| 39 | Military history of South Africa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : -33.9258 / 18.4278 | The military history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time. It covers civil wars and wars of aggression and of self-defence both within South Africa and against it (...) | |
| 40 | 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 (...) | |
| 41 | 1938 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 53.3937 / 13.7438 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 ** The California Golden Bears defeat the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1938 Rose Bowl with a final score 13-0. ** The Company 1938 OEM Industrial Groups is officially registered (...) | |
| 42 | La Trobe University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : -37.7207 / 145.0484 | La Trobe University is an Australian, multi-campus, public research university with its flagship campus located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria and the twelfth university in Australia (...) | |
| 43 | South Africa national cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : -33.7413 / 18.9982 | The South African national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas (after South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the "king protea"), is administered by Cricket South Africa. South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day (...) | |
| 44 | Jameson Raid ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1763 Lat/Lng : -26.1 / 27.8 | The Jameson Raid (29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) was a botched raid against the South African Republic (commonly known as the Transvaal) carried out by British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Company troops ("police" in the employ of Alfred Beit's and Cecil Rhodes' British South (...) | |
| 45 | Wanderers Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1630 Lat/Lng : -26.1312 / 28.0574 | The Wanderers Stadium is a stadium situated just south of Sandton in Illovo, Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Test, One Day and First class cricket matches are played here. It is also the home ground for the Highveld Lions, formerly known as Gauteng (Transvaal). (...) | |
| 46 | 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 (...) | |
| 47 | Scientology ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1908 Lat/Lng : 35.5117 / -104.58 | Scientology is a body of religious beliefs and practices launched in May 1952 by American author L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86). Hubbard initially developed a program of ideas called Dianetics, which was distributed through the Dianetics Foundation (...) | |
| 48 | South African Breweries ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1559 Lat/Lng : -26.3135 / 28.1364 | South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016 (...) | |
| 49 | 2012 Champions League Twenty20 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : -29.8501 / 31.0278 | The 2012 Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) was the fourth edition of the Champions League Twenty20, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was held in South Africa from 9 to 28 October 2012. This edition was significant for being the first to feature a Pakistani team (...) | |
| 50 | Ultra Music Festival ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 25.7848 / -80.1869 | Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place during March in Miami, Florida, United States. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes and is named after the 1997 Depeche Mode album, Ultra (...) | |
| 51 | Antipodes ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -21.4167 / -140.1833 | In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it; the antipodes of a region similarly represent the area opposite it. A pair of points antipodal to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through (...) | |
| 52 | Alstom ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 48.8964 / 2.2736 | Alstom is a formerly French, now American multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, (...) | |
| 53 | Indian cricket team in South Africa in 2006–07 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1421 Lat/Lng : -25.8599 / 28.1954 | The Indian cricket team toured South Africa for three Tests and five ODIs from 16 November 2006 to 6 January 2007. South Africa won the Test series 2—1. After India won the first Test at New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa rallied to win the 2nd Test at Kingsmead in Durban and the (...) | |
| 54 | Pepperdine University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 34.0387 / -118.7076 | Pepperdine University is a private, not-for-profit, coeducational research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's 830-acre (340 ha) campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for (...) | |
| 55 | Royal Geographical Society ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 51.5013 / -0.1754 | The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences. Today, it is the leading centre for geographers and geographical learning (...) | |
| 56 | Bara ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 667 Lat/Lng : 44.0186 / 18.3389 | Bara or Barah may refer to: (...) | |
| 57 | Worcester, Western Cape ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : -33.6472 / 19.4319 | Worcester is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is located north-east of Cape Town on the N1 highway north to Johannesburg. Being the largest town in the Western Cape's interior region, it serves as the administrative capital of the Breede Valley Local Municipality and as regional (...) | |
| 58 | The Elders (organization) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 51.51 / -0.13 | The Elders is an international non-governmental organisation of public figures noted as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates, who were brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. They describe themselves as "independent global leaders working together for peace and human (...) | |
| 59 | Food and Agriculture Organization ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 41.8823 / 12.4883 | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate arguments and (...) | |
| 60 | 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 (...) | |
| 61 | Bombardier Transportation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 52.5018 / 13.3758 | Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Bombardier Transportation is headquartered in Berlin (...) | |
| 62 | Frederick Russell Burnham ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 315 Lat/Lng : 36.4218 / -118.9047 | Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia (...) | |
| 63 | FIFPro ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -6 Lat/Lng : 52.2907 / 4.7051 | The Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (English – International Federation of Professional Footballers), generally referred to as FIFPro, is the worldwide representative organisation for 65,000 professional footballers (...) | |
| 64 | Airports Company South Africa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : -33.9694 / 18.5972 | Airports Company of South Africa Limited (ACSA) is a South African airport management company. Founded in 1993, ACSA operates nine of South Africa’s airports. The company is headquartered in the Maples Office Park in Bedfordview, South Africa. (...) | |
| 65 | Human evolution ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 35.5153 / 23.6248 | Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates – in particular genus Homo – and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes (...) | |
| 66 | 1980 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 787 Lat/Lng : 40.85 / 15.28 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Princess Victoria of Sweden first in line to the throne ("heir apparent") and therefore Crown Princess, ahead of her younger brother. * January 4 – U.S (...) | |
| 67 | Schlaich Bergermann Partner ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 480 Lat/Lng : 48.7636 / 9.2058 | schlaich bergermann partner is a nationally and internationally active structural engineering and consulting firm with headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and branch offices in Berlin, New York City, São Paulo, Shanghai and Paris. (...) | |
| 68 | Alexandra (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4974 Lat/Lng : 0.3842 / 29.872 | Alexandra is the feminine form of the given name Alexander. It is often shortened to Alex, Ali, Sandra or Sandy in English. Alexandra may also refer to: (...) | |
| 69 | Stone Town ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : -6.1649 / 39.1988 | Stone Town, also known as Mji Mkongwe (Swahili for "old town"), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania. The newer portion of the city is known as Ng'ambo, Swahili for 'the other side' (...) | |
| 70 | KIMEP University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 877 Lat/Lng : 43.2419 / 76.9553 | KIMEP University (formerly: the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research) is an institution of higher education in Almaty, Kazakhstan. KIMEP is a private, non-profit university offering credit-based, North American-style bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree curricula (...) | |
| 71 | 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 (...) | |
| 72 | SABMiller ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 51.3186 / -0.5624 | SABMiller plc. was a multinational brewing and beverage company headquartered in Woking, England on the outskirts of London until 10 October 2016 when it was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Prior to that date, it was the world's second-largest brewer measured by revenues (after Anheuser-Busch (...) | |
| 73 | Rockefeller Foundation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 40.7508 / -73.9832 | The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. It was established by the six-generation Rockefeller family. The Foundation was started by Standard Oil owner John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), along with his son John D. Rockefeller Jr (...) | |
| 74 | New Brunswick Theological Seminary ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 40.5019 / -74.4481 | New Brunswick Theological Seminary, which has its main campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, was founded in 1784 and is the oldest independent Protestant seminary extant in the United States. It is one of two operated by the Reformed Church in America (RCA), a mainline Reformed Protestant (...) | |
| 75 | United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : -22.9098 / -43.1763 | The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio 2012, Rio+20 , or Earth Summit 2012 was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals of the global community (...) | |
| 76 | Rudd Concession ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1424 Lat/Lng : -18.5864 / 31.0817 | The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and other adjoining territories in what is today Zimbabwe, was granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, three agents acting on behalf of (...) | |
| 77 | Swellendam ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : -34.0333 / 20.4333 | Swellendam is the 3rd oldest town in the Republic of South Africa (after Cape Town and Stellenbosch), a town with 17,537 inhabitants situated in the Western Cape province. The town has over 50 provincial heritage sites, most of them buildings of Cape Dutch architecture (...) | |
| 78 | Institut Français ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 48.8544 / 2.2937 | The Institut Français (French capitalization, Institut français; "French institute") is a French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC). Started in 1907 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting French, francophone as well as local cultures around the world, in 2011 it replaced (...) | |
| 79 | Rosebank, Gauteng ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1685 Lat/Lng : -26.1453 / 28.0406 | Rosebank is a cosmopolitan commercial and residential suburb to the north of central Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, and is the location of a Gautrain station (...) | |
| 80 | Conveyor belt ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 25.1867 / 91.6208 | A conveyor belt is the carrying medium of a belt conveyor system (often shortened to belt conveyor). A belt conveyor system is one of many types of conveyor systems. A belt conveyor system consists of two or more pulleys (sometimes referred to as drums), with an endless loop of carrying medium—the (...) | |
| 81 | Satyagraha House ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1643 Lat/Lng : -26.1525 / 28.0744 | Satyagraha House, commonly known as Gandhi House, is a museum and guest house located in Johannesburg. The house belonged to Mahatma Gandhi: he lived and worked there between 1908 and 1909. It is registered as part of Johannesburg's historical heritage. Satyagraha means insistence on truth (...) | |
| 82 | International University of Business Agriculture and Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 23.8883 / 90.3909 | IUBAT—International University of Business Agriculture and Technology is also known as (IUBAT) is the first non-government university in Bangladesh. It was established in 1991 under the Private University Act 1992 (...) | |
| 83 | Vasco da Gama (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 233 Lat/Lng : -34.3447 / 18.4748 | Vasco da Gama was a famous Portuguese explorer. Vasco da Gama may also refer to: (...) | |
| 84 | 2007 ICC World Twenty20 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : -33.9737 / 18.4689 | The 2007 ICC World Twenty20 was the inaugural Twenty20 International cricket world championship, contested in South Africa from 11 to 24 September 2007. Twelve teams took part in the thirteen-day tournament—the ten Test-playing nations and the finalists of the 2007 WCL Division One tournament: Kenya (...) | |
| 85 | Kaya ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 470 Lat/Lng : 8.45 / 20.5 | Kaya may refer to: ==People== *Kaya (given name) *Kaya (surname) ==Places== *Kaya, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso, capital of the department *Kaya Airport, serving the town *Kaya Department, a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso *Kaya, Fethiye, a village in (...) | |
| 86 | DHL Aviation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 50.7152 / 7.1301 | DHL Aviation is a division of DHL Express (owned by Deutsche Post) responsible for providing air transport capacity. It is not a single airline, but refers to several airlines owned, co owned or chartered by DHL Express. In 2009, Deutsche Post World Net rebranded to Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) (...) | |
| 87 | August 1962 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2986 Lat/Lng : 42.0333 / 75.75 | The following events occurred in August 1962: (...) | |
| 88 | History of cricket in South Africa from 2000–01 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1421 Lat/Lng : -25.8599 / 28.1954 | This article describes the history of South African cricket from the 2000–01 season. Noted South African players in the 21st century have included Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock, Makhaya Ntini, Mark Boucher, Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs (...) | |
| 89 | Bungeni ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 658 Lat/Lng : -23.206 / 30.224 | Bungeni is a large sprawling rural settlement situated on top of one of the foothills of the Soutpansberg mountain close to Elim (17km south-east of Elim Hospital) in the former Gazankulu homeland, Limpopo Province, South Africa (...) | |
| 90 | Durban High School ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : -29.8444 / 30.9978 | Durban High School is an all-boys public school in Durban, South Africa. DHS opened its doors in 1866 in two rooms and with seven pupils in Smith Street. From there it moved to a disused granary in Cato Square in 1880, just after the Zulu War, and then to the Old Hospital on the foreshore (...) | |
| 91 | St Andrew (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 34.0454 / -81.1293 | Saint Andrew most commonly refers to Andrew the Apostle, the Christian apostle and brother of Peter, or one of several saints named Andrew. St Andrew or St Andrews may also refer to: (...) | |
| 92 | 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 (...) | |
| 93 | Oswald Reid ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1690 Lat/Lng : -26.1851 / 28.0185 | Oswald Austin Reid VC (2 November 1893––27 October 1920) was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. (...) | |
| 94 | Sezela ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -30.4167 / 30.6833 | Sezela is a small town on the mouth of iSezela River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is notable for its large sugar mill. The river and the town are named after a crocodile. In 1828, the Zulu king, Shaka, hunted down a man-eating crocodile here (...) | |
| 95 | Thiaroye ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 14.7458 / -17.3561 | Thiaroye (or Tiaroye) is the name of a historic town in Sénégal, situated in the suburbs of Dakar, on the southeast coast of the Cap-Vert peninsula, between Pikine and Rufisque. Since the administrative reform in 1996, Thiaroye has been divided into independent communes, Thiaroye-Gare, (...) | |
| 96 | Mc Group ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 52.5125 / 13.4132 | The mc Group (formerly Media Consulta) is an international public relations network and advertising agency. Established in 1993 in Cologne, the company has been headquartered in Berlin since the year 2000. The mc Group is Germany's largest communication agency and the third-largest German (...) | |
| 97 | Kwaaihoek ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : -33.7183 / 26.6238 | Kwaaihoek is a rocky headland on the coast of Algoa Bay, near Bushman's River Mouth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is here that the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias erected the Padrão de São Gregório, his first padrão, or stone cross on 12 March 1488 (...) | |
| 98 | Global Citizen Festival ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 40.7833 / -73.9667 | The Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival started in 2012 and organized by Global Poverty Project. In 2015, the organization announced that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin would serve as the festival's curator for the next 15 years. (...) | |
| 99 | KidZania ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2638 Lat/Lng : 19.3611 / -99.2802 | KidZania is a privately held Mexican chain of indoor family entertainment centers currently operating in 24 locations worldwide, allowing children to role play adult jobs and earn currency. KidZania has received more than 68 million visitors since its opening, making it one of the fastest growing (...) | |
| 100 | Joseph Chamberlain ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 135 Lat/Lng : 52.4912 / -1.9143 | Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then, after opposing home rule for Ireland, a Liberal Unionist, and eventually served as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives (...) | |
| 101 | History of cricket in South Africa from 1990–91 to 2000 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1400 Lat/Lng : -29.1167 / 26.2053 | South Africa resumed official international cricket in 1991 after the moratorium imposed by the International Cricket Conference in 1970 was lifted. This had restricted official contact with South Africa as a response to the policy of apartheid and South Africa's refusal to select non-white players (...) | |
| 102 | LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 47.4146 / 8.5598 | The LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction is a non-profit organization. Its goal is to raise awareness of the role that architecture, engineering, urban planning and construction have in achieving a sustainable built future (...) | |
| 103 | Waterford Kamhlaba ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1394 Lat/Lng : -26.3029 / 31.1041 | Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa (WKUWCSA), one of 17 international schools and colleges in the UWC educational movement, is located in Mbabane, Swaziland, and became a UWC in 1981. The UWC movement originated in the ideas of the educationalist Kurt Hahn in the 1950s and (...) | |
| 104 | Melkbosstrand ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : -33.7333 / 18.4333 | Melkbosstrand (Afrikaans for "Milkbush beach") is a coastal suburb and beach located on the South West Coast of South Africa, 35 km north of Cape Town. Named after the species of Euphorbiaceae bushes which grow on the dunes and give off a milky latex like substance, it is commonly referred to simply (...) | |
| 105 | District Six ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : -33.932 / 18.434 | District Six (Afrikaans Distrik Ses) is a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. Over 60,000 of its inhabitants were forcibly removed during the 1970s by the apartheid regime. The area of District Six is now partly divided between the suburbs of Walmer Estate, Zonnebloem, and (...) | |
| 106 | Bhagwant University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 478 Lat/Lng : 26.5374 / 74.6586 | Bhagwant University is located in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. It is a co-educational private university in Ajmer in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is a venture of Bhagwant Group of Institutions, Established in 1999 (...) | |
| 107 | Instituto Camões ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 38.7248 / -9.149 | The Instituto Camões (Camões Institute) is an institution created in 1992 for the worldwide promotion of the Portuguese language and culture. The Instituto Camões has administrative and patrimonial autonomy, that, under the supervision of the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, assures the (...) | |
| 108 | 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 (...) | |
| 109 | Bryanston Square ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.5175 / -0.1608 | Bryanston Square is a long, rectangular, terraced square in Marylebone, Westminster, London, originally of 50 sequentially numbered houses. (Some of them have subsequently been combined in bigger units, such as the Swiss Embassy (...) | |
| 110 | Indian cricket team in the West Indies in 1996–97 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 13.1051 / -59.6226 | The India national cricket team toured the West Indies from 28 February to 3 May 1997. They played five Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODI) against the West Indies. West Indies won the Test series 1–0 (...) | |
| 111 | Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 127 Lat/Lng : 50.0855 / 8.2421 | The ' (Association for the German Language), or , is Germany's most important government-sponsored language society. Its headquarters are in Wiesbaden Re-founded shortly after the Second World War in 1947, the is politically independent and the declared successor of the ' , the General Association (...) | |
| 112 | Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : 51.2553 / 7.1525 | The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy is a German research institution that explores and develops models, strategies and instruments to support sustainable development at local, national and international level (...) | |
| 113 | Clifton School (South Africa) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : -29.8296 / 31.0208 | Clifton School is an independent day school for boys located in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, in the Republic of South Africa. (...) | |
| 114 | Regenesys Business School ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1632 Lat/Lng : -26.1108 / 28.0558 | Regenesys Business School is one of the top 5 private business schools based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Regenesys Group includes Regenesys School of Public Management, Regenesys Foundation, MyWealth Investments, a loans department and having campuses in South Africa, Mumbai and Lagos (...) | |
| 115 | Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 51.5006 / -0.1272 | The statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Westminster, London, is a work by the sculptor Philip Jackson. (...) | |
| 116 | South African War Memorial, Richmond Cemetery ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 51.4553 / -0.2884 | The South African War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Richmond Cemetery in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial is in the form of a cenotaph, similar to that on Whitehall, also by Lutyens (...) | |
| 117 | Cathcart William Methven ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 254 Lat/Lng : 29.8168 / 30.9019 | Cathcart William Methven FRSE (24 September 1849 Edinburgh – 30 August 1925 Pietermaritzburg) was Engineer-in-Chief at Greenock on the Clyde, and appointed in 1888 as Harbour Engineer in Durban. Besides being an architect and able musician, he was, unusually, a gifted landscape artist and produced (...) | |
| 118 | Dubé ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 18.55 / -72.17 | Dubé and Dube are common surnames, mostly French-based. Dube, Dubey and Dobé are surnames frequently used in India (mostly northern parts of India (Uttar Pradesh)). For Indian variant also see Dwivedi. Dube / Dubé may refer to: (...) | |
| 119 | Regent's Park (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : -33.8833 / 151.0167 | Regent's Park, Regents Park or Regent Park can mean: (...) | |
| 120 | New Zealand cricket team in South Africa in 1994–95 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : -29.8501 / 31.0278 | The New Zealand national cricket team toured South Africa from November 1994 to January 1995 and played a three-match Test series against the South Africa national cricket team. The tour was the third time that New Zealand had visited South Africa and their first tour to the country since the end of (...) | |
| 121 | Eagle's Nest ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 295 Lat/Lng : 51.9967 / -9.5714 | Eagle's Nest, Eagle Nest, Eagles Nest or Eaglenest may refer to: (...) | |