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| Bikaner  FeatureType : null Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 28.0167 / 73.3119 | Bikaner (pronunciation) is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. Bikaner city is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division (...) |
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| Helsinki Airport FeatureType : airport Lat/Lng : 60.3172 / 24.9633 | Helsinki Airport is the main international airport of the city of Helsinki, its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region. The airport is located in the city of Vantaa, about west of Tikkurila, the administrative center of Vantaa and north of Helsinki city center (...) |
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| Udaipur FeatureType : null Elevation : 600 Lat/Lng : 24.58 / 73.68 | Udaipur (pronunciation), also known as the "City of Lakes" is a small city, municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is the historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar in the former Rajputana Agency (...) |
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| Chennai International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 12.9944 / 80.1805 | Chennai International Airport is an international airport serving the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and its metropolitan area. It is located in Meenambakkam & Tirusulam, 21 km (13 mi) from the city centre. It is the 4th busiest airport in India behind Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru and the 52nd (...) |
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| Pondicherry FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 11.931 / 79.7852 | Pondicherry (or), officially known as Puducherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry, with a population of 657,209 and an area of 492 sq km. The city is situated in Puducherry district of the union territory, and is surrounded by the state of Tamil (...) |
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| Leuven FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 50.8792 / 4.7019 | Leuven or Louvain is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic city and the former neighbouring municipalities of Heverlee, Kessel-Lo, a part of Korbeek-Lo, Wilsele and Wijgmaal (...) |
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| Osborne County, Kansas FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 464 Lat/Lng : 39.5325 / -98.665 | Osborne County (standard abbreviation: OB) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 3,858. The largest city and county seat is Osborne. (...) |
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| Varanasi FeatureType : null Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 25.282 / 82.9563 | Varanasi , also known as Benares, Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is a city on the banks of the river Ganga in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India, south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of Allahabad (...) |
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| Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg FeatureType : edu Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 51.4864 / 11.9689 | The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg , also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. MLU offers German and international (English) courses leading to academic degrees such as BA, BSc, MA, MSc, doctoral (...) |
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| Library of Congress FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 38.8868 / -77.0046 | The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States (...) |
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| Bertelsmann FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 51.9081 / 8.4192 | Bertelsmann is a German multinational corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest mass media companies and also active in the service sector and education. Bertelsmann was founded as a publishing house by Carl Bertelsmann in 1835 (...) |
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| India FeatureType : country Elevation : 215 Lat/Lng : 28.6367 / 77.2247 | India (IAST:), also known as the Republic of India (IAST:), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world (...) |
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| Kabul FeatureType : null Elevation : 1817 Lat/Lng : 34.517 / 69.133 | Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan and its largest city, located in the eastern section of the country. It is also a municipality, forming part of the greater Kabul Province. According to estimates in 2015, the population of Kabul is 4.635 million, which includes all the major ethnic groups (...) |
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| Maldives FeatureType : country Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 4.1743 / 73.51 | The Maldives (; Dhivehi Raa'jey), officially the Republic of Maldives, is a South Asian country, located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea. It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to the Addu City in the south (...) |
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| Buckingham Palace FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.501 / -0.142 | Buckingham Palace is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality (...) |
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| Bangalore FeatureType : city Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 12.9779 / 77.5925 | Bangalore , officially known as Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of over ten million, making it a megacity and the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India. It is located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Turin FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 45.0792 / 7.6761 | Turin , then Taurinum. is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Turin (an administrative division of Italy) and of the Piedmont region, and was the first capital city of Italy from 1861 to 1865 (...) |
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| Kathmandu FeatureType : city Elevation : 1301 Lat/Lng : 27.7033 / 85.3181 | Kathmandu (; , Yei, Nepali pronunciation:) is the capital city of Nepal. It is the largest metropolis in Nepal, with a population of 1.5 million in the city proper, and 3 million in its urban agglomeration across the Kathmandu Valley, which includes the towns of Lalitpur, Kirtipur, Madhyapur Thimi, (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 51.4967 / -0.1719 | The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (...) |
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| Ulaanbaatar FeatureType : null Elevation : 1299 Lat/Lng : 47.9167 / 106.9167 | Ulaanbaatar, formerly anglicised as Ulan Bator (Ulaγanbaγatur, literally "Red Hero"), is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. The city is not part of any aimag (province), and its population was over 1.3 million, almost half of the country's total population (...) |
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| Madame Tussauds FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 51.5228 / -0.1553 | Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. It used to be known as "Madame Tussaud's"; the apostrophe is no longer used.: "Madame Tussaud (who gave the attraction its now-jettisoned apostrophe) .. (...) |
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| 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, (...) |
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| Mongolia FeatureType : country Elevation : 1299 Lat/Lng : 47.9167 / 106.9167 | Mongolia (; Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked country in East Asia. Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia, and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state (...) |
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| India Gate FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 28.6129 / 77.2293 | The India Gate भारत द्वार(originally called the All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath, on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, (...) |
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| Afghanistan FeatureType : country Elevation : 1817 Lat/Lng : 34.5167 / 69.1333 | Afghanistan (; Pashto/Dari: , Pashto: Afġānistān ,The phoneme ف occurs only in loanwords in Pashto, it tends to be replaced with پ. is also an allophone of before voiced consonants; is an allophone of before voiced consonants in loanwords (...) |
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| Trincomalee FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 8.5833 / 81.2333 | Trincomalee (; Tirukōṇamalai; Trikuṇāmalaya) also known as Gokanna, is the administrative headquarters of the Trincomalee District and major resort port city of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. Located on the east coast of the island overlooking the Trincomalee Harbour, 113 miles south of Jaffna and 69 (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Pakistan FeatureType : country Elevation : 173 Lat/Lng : 30.6667 / 73.1667 | Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan , is a country in South Asia. It is the sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning (...) |
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| Meerut FeatureType : null Elevation : 228 Lat/Lng : 28.9902 / 77.7038 | Meerut (pronunciation, IAST: Meraṭha), is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is an ancient city with settlements dating back to the Indus Valley civilisation having been found in and around the area (...) |
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| Keighley FeatureType : city Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 53.867 / -1.911 | Keighley is a town and civil parish within the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, northwest of Bradford at the confluence of the rivers Aire and Worth. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Keighley lies between Airedale and Keighley Moors (...) |
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| Buddhas of Bamiyan FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2565 Lat/Lng : 34.832 / 67.8267 | The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Persian: – bott-hâye Bāmiyān) were 6th-century monumental statues of Gautam Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, northwest of Kabul at an elevation of (...) |
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| Arch of Titus FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 41.8907 / 12.4886 | The Arch of Titus is a 1st-century AD honorific arch,It was not a triumphal arch; Titus's triumphal arch was in the Circus Maximus. located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum. It was constructed in AD 82 by the Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older (...) |
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| Auroville FeatureType : city Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 12.0069 / 79.8106 | Auroville (; City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India with some parts in the Union Territory of Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (known as "the Mother") and designed by architect Roger Anger (...) |
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| Operation Opera FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 33.2083 / 44.525 | Operation Opera ,Perlmutter, p. 172. also known as Operation Babylon,Amos Perlmutter, Michael I. Handel, Uri Bar-Joseph. Two Minutes over Baghdad. Routledge (2nd ed.), 2008. p. 120. was a surprise Israeli air strike carried out on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor under (...) |
| 37 | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 22.6547 / 88.4467 | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (Bengali: নেতাজি সুভাষচন্দ্র বসু আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর) is an international airport located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, serving the Kolkata metropolitan area (...) | |
| 38 | 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 (...) | |
| 39 | UNESCO FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 48.8501 / 2.3062 | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms (...) | |
| 40 | Silk Road FeatureType : null Elevation : 391 Lat/Lng : 34.3044 / 108.8572 | The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West. It was central to cultural interaction between the regions for many centuries. The Silk Road refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with East Africa, West (...) | |
| 41 | Indian Space Research Organisation FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 909 Lat/Lng : 13.0352 / 77.5706 | The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore. Its vision is to "harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration (...) | |
| 42 | International Society for Krishna Consciousness FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 23.26 / 88.23 | The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishnas, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organisation. ISKCON was founded in 1966 in New York City by A. C (...) | |
| 43 | Telugu language FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 16.792 / 82.0633 | Telugu (;Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the union territories of Puducherry (Yanam) by the Telugu people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India (...) | |
| 44 | 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 (...) | |
| 45 | 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 (...) | |
| 46 | Deccan Plateau FeatureType : null Elevation : 398 Lat/Lng : 17.0 / 77.0 | The Deccan PlateauPage 46, is a large plateau in western and southern India. It rises to in the north, and to more than in the south, forming a raised triangle within the South-pointing triangle of the Indian subcontinent's coastline (...) | |
| 47 | Split, Croatia FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 43.5086 / 16.4378 | Split (; see other names) is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia, with about 200,000 people living in its urban area. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings (...) | |
| 48 | University of Freiburg FeatureType : edu Elevation : 282 Lat/Lng : 47.9942 / 7.847 | The University of Freiburg (colloquially), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the second university in Austrian-Habsburg (...) | |
| 49 | Gandhara FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 510 Lat/Lng : 33.756 / 72.8291 | Gandhāra was an ancient state, a mahajanapada, in the Peshawar basin at the northwest of historical India, present day Pakistan. The center of the region was at the confluence of the Kabul and Swat rivers, bounded by the Sulaiman Mountains on the west and the Indus River on the east (...) | |
| 50 | Hindu temple FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 20.888 / 70.4013 | A Hindu temple is a symbolic house, seat and body of god. It is a structure designed to bring human beings and gods together, using symbolism to express the ideas and beliefs of Hinduism., Quote: "The temple is the seat and dwelling of God, according to the majority of the names" (p (...) | |
| 51 | Tipu Sultan FeatureType : null Elevation : 683 Lat/Lng : 12.41 / 76.7139 | Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tipu Sahib, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He was the eldest son of Sultan Hyder Ali of Mysore. Tipu Sultan introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including his (...) | |
| 52 | Kapisa Province FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2184 Lat/Lng : 35.0 / 69.7 | Kapisa (Pashto/Persian: کاپيسا) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Located in the north-east of the country. The population of Kapisa is estimated to be 364,900, although there has never been an official estimate (...) | |
| 53 | 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 (...) | |
| 54 | Heidelberg University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 49.4103 / 8.7064 | Heidelberg University is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest university and one of the world's oldest surviving universities (...) | |
| 55 | Adidas FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 327 Lat/Lng : 49.5825 / 10.9094 | Adidas AG (; stylized as ɑdidɑs since 1949) is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that designs and manufactures shoes, clothing and accessories. It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the world, after Nike (...) | |
| 56 | Vizianagaram district FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 18.1167 / 83.4167 | Vizianagaram district is a northern coastal district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The town of Vizianagaram is the district headquarters. The district is bounded on the east by the district of Srikakulam, southwest by the district of Visakhapatnam, southeast by the Bay of Bengal, and northwest by the (...) | |
| 57 | 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 (...) | |
| 58 | Audi FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 377 Lat/Lng : 48.7833 / 11.418 | Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets and distributes luxury vehicles. Audi is a member of the Volkswagen Group and has its roots at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Audi-branded vehicles are produced in nine production facilities worldwide (...) | |
| 59 | Arch bridge FeatureType : null Elevation : 155 Lat/Lng : 29.5889 / 106.5775 | An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side (...) | |
| 60 | 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 (...) | |
| 61 | 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) (...) | |
| 62 | Ellora Caves FeatureType : city Elevation : 626 Lat/Lng : 20.0268 / 75.1771 | Ellora (\e-ˈlȯr-ə\, IAST:), located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India, is one of the largest rock-cut monastery-temple cave complexes in the world, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, featuring Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monuments, and artwork, dating from the 600-1000 CE period (...) | |
| 63 | August 16 FeatureType : null Elevation : 2571 Lat/Lng : 0.31 / -78.18 | ==Events== *1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who had died the previous day, had no heirs. * 963 – Nikephoros II Phokas is crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire (...) | |
| 64 | IKEA FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.1671 / 4.4824 | IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008 (...) | |
| 65 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 45.42 / -75.66 | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; , "Royal Gendarmerie of Canada"; colloquially known as The "Mounties", and internally as "the Force") is the federal and national police force of Canada. The RCMP provides law enforcement at the federal level (...) | |
| 66 | 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 (...) | |
| 67 | Georgy Zhukov FeatureType : null Elevation : 806 Lat/Lng : 47.6203 / 118.5753 | Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (– 18 June 1974) was a Soviet Red Army General who became Chief of General Staff, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence and a member of the Politburo. During World War II he participated in multiple battles, ultimately commanding the 1st Belorussian Front in (...) | |
| 68 | History of Iran FeatureType : country Elevation : 1623 Lat/Lng : 29.9344 / 52.8914 | The history of Iran, commonly also known as Persia in the Western world, is intertwined with the history of a larger region, also to an extent known as Greater Iran, comprising the area from Anatolia, the Bosphorus, and Egypt in the west to the borders of Ancient India and the Syr Darya in the east, (...) | |
| 69 | Rajneesh FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 18.5375 / 73.8869 | Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and latterly as Osho , was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and (...) | |
| 70 | Kingdom of Mysore FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 741 Lat/Lng : 12.3 / 76.65 | The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom in southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore. The kingdom, which was ruled by the Wodeyar family, initially served as a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire (...) | |
| 71 | Lahore Fort FeatureType : null Elevation : 211 Lat/Lng : 31.5903 / 74.3097 | The Lahore Fort (Punjabi and : Shahi Qila, or "Royal Fort"), is a citadel in the city of Lahore,Punjab, Pakistan. The fortress is located at the northern end of walled city Lahore, and spreads over an area greater than 20 hectares (...) | |
| 72 | Greco-Bactrian Kingdom FeatureType : null Elevation : 342 Lat/Lng : 36.7731 / 66.8736 | The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was – along with the Indo-Greek Kingdom – the easternmost part of the Hellenistic world, covering Bactria and Sogdiana in Central Asia from 250 to 125 BC. It was centered on the north of present-day Afghanistan (...) | |
| 73 | Norfolk County, Ontario FeatureType : null Elevation : 235 Lat/Lng : 42.8334 / -80.383 | Norfolk County is a rural single-tier municipality on the north shore of Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario, Canada with a 2016 population of 64,044. The largest community in Norfolk County is Simcoe, Ontario with a 2016 population of 13,922 (...) | |
| 74 | Cyclone Nargis FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 16.0503 / 94.8089 | Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar during early May 2008., The Australian, 9 May 2008 The cyclone made landfall in Myanmar on Friday, 2 May 2008, sending a storm surge 40 kilometres up the densely populated Irrawaddy delta, (...) | |
| 75 | Indira Gandhi National Open University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 261 Lat/Lng : 28.4945 / 77.2045 | Indira Gandhi National Open University known as IGNOU, is a Central University located at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India. Named after former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of 20 million, after the Parliament of India passed the Indira (...) | |
| 76 | Alliance Française FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 48.8464 / 2.3286 | L'Alliance Française (French Alliance), or AF, is an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world. Created in Paris on 21 July 1883 under the name Alliance française pour la propagation de la langue nationale dans les colonies et à l'étranger (French (...) | |
| 77 | Centre national de la recherche scientifique FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 48.8477 / 2.264 | The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is the largest governmental research organisation in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engineers and technical staff, and 7,085 (...) | |
| 78 | Trio World Academy FeatureType : null Elevation : 914 Lat/Lng : 13.0594 / 77.5828 | Trio World Academy was established in 2007 in Sahakara Nagar, Bangalore, India. It is an international day and residential/boarding school offering IB Primary Year Program (IB PYP), Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge Secondary 1, IGCSE IB diploma program and ICSE (In a separate Academic (...) | |
| 79 | University at Albany, SUNY FeatureType : edu Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 42.6862 / -73.8239 | The State University of New York at Albany, also known as University at Albany, SUNY Albany or UAlbany, is a public research university with campuses in the New York cities of Albany and Rensselaer and the Township of Guilderland, United States (...) | |
| 80 | JPMorgan Chase FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 40.7558 / -73.9754 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City. JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, and the sixth largest bank in the world by total assets, with the amount of $2.534 trillion (...) | |
| 81 | Tablighi Jamaat FeatureType : city Elevation : 209 Lat/Lng : 31.2569 / 74.2228 | Tablighi Jamaat (; Society for spreading faith) is a non-political global Sunni Islamic missionary movement that focuses on urging Muslims to return to primary Sunni Islam, and particularly in matters of ritual, dress, and personal behavior (...) | |
| 82 | Military Air Transport Service FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 15.1228 / 145.7041 | The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) is an inactive Department of Defense Unified Command. Activated on 1 June 1948, MATS was a consolidation of the United States Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force's Air Transport Command (ATC) into a single joint command (...) | |
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| England Air Force Base FeatureType : airport Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 31.3275 / -92.5486 | England Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Louisiana, located Northwest of Alexandria and about Northwest of New Orleans. Originally known as Alexandria Army Air Base, on 23 June 1955 the facility was renamed England Air Force Base in honor of Lt Col John Brooke England (...) |
| 84 | Perth, Ontario FeatureType : null Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 44.9 / -76.25 | Perth is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Tay River, southwest of Ottawa, and is the seat of Lanark County. (...) | |
| 85 | Ganderbal district FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 1596 Lat/Lng : 34.23 / 74.78 | Ganderbal is a newly formed district of the state of Jammu and Kashmir of India. It has 6 tehsils Ganderbal tehsil, Tullamulla, Wakoora, Laar, Kangan and Gund. (...) | |
| 86 | Netherlands national cricket team FeatureType : null Elevation : -7 Lat/Lng : 51.9679 / 4.485 | The Netherlands national cricket team is the team that represents the Kingdom of the Netherlands and is administered by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (Royal Dutch Cricket Association) which is based in Nieuwegein in the centre of the country and is older than many renowned cricket clubs (...) | |
| 87 | Triumphal arch FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 41.3908 / 2.1806 | A triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road. In its simplest form a triumphal arch consists of two massive piers connected by an arch, crowned with a flat entablature or attic on which a statue might be (...) | |
| 88 | Legal deposit FeatureType : null Elevation : 119 Lat/Lng : 49.0078 / 8.3992 | Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or group submit copies of their publications to a repository, usually a library. The requirement is mostly limited to books and periodicals. The number of copies varies and can range from one to 19 (in Poland) (...) | |
| 89 | 2016 Uri attack FeatureType : null Elevation : 1312 Lat/Lng : 34.0861 / 74.0333 | The 2016 Uri attack was an attack by four heavily armed militants on 18 September 2016, near the town of Uri in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was reported as "the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades" (...) | |
| 90 | 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 (...) | |
| 91 | Amaravati FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 16.5138 / 80.5157 | Amaravati is the de facto capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The planned city is located on the southern banks of the Krishna river in Guntur district, within the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region, being built on a 217 sq km riverfront designed to have 51% of green spaces and 10% of (...) | |
| 92 | Valparaiso University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 41.4636 / -87.0436 | Valparaiso University is a regionally accredited private university located in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States. Commonly known as Valpo, the university is a coed, four-year, Lutheran institution that enrolls about 4,500 students from over 50 countries on a campus of (...) | |
| 93 | University of Essex FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 51.8763 / 0.9449 | The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. It was established in 1963, welcomed its first students in 1964 and received its Royal Charter in 1965. Essex's largest campus is the Colchester Campus within Wivenhoe Park, less than a mile (1 (...) | |
| 94 | Tower Hill Memorial FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 51.5097 / -0.0777 | The Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square, on Tower Hill in London, England. The memorials, one for the First World War and one for the Second, commemorate civilian merchant sailors and fishermen who were killed as a result of enemy action (...) | |
| 95 | Air India Express Flight 812 FeatureType : airport Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 12.9333 / 74.8736 | On 22 May 2010, the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operating Air India Express Flight 812 from Dubai to Mangalore, India, crashed on landing at Mangalore. The Captain had continued an unstabilized approach, despite three calls from the First Officer to "go around", resulting in the aircraft (...) | |
| 96 | Suzuki FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 34.6923 / 137.6881 | Suzukiis pronounced in Japanese. It is pronounced in English, with a stressed zu. This pronunciation is used by the Suzuki company in marketing campaigns directed towards English-speakers. is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu (...) | |
| 97 | Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 41.8889 / 12.4031 | The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur are a Roman Catholic institute of religious sisters, founded to provide education to the poor. The institute was founded in Amiens, France, in 1804, but the opposition of the local bishop to missions outside his diocese led to the moving of headquarters to Namur, (...) | |
| 98 | Chilean Antarctic Territory FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -75.0009 / -71.5931 | The Chilean Antarctic Territory or Chilean Antarctica (Spanish: Territorio Chileno Antártico, Antártica Chilena) is the territory in Antarctica claimed by Chile. The Chilean Antarctic Territory ranges from 53° West to 90° West and from the South Pole to the 60° South parallel, partially overlapping (...) | |
| 99 | 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 (...) | |
| 100 | Port Dover, Ontario FeatureType : null Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 42.7867 / -80.2031 | Port Dover is an unincorporated community and former town located in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada on the north shore of Lake Erie. Prior to the War of 1812, this community was known as Dover Mills. This community is the southern terminus for Ontario Highway 6; located to the south of the Northern (...) | |
| 101 | Pokhran-II FeatureType : null Elevation : 226 Lat/Lng : 27.0788 / 71.7221 | The Pokhran-I tests were a series of four nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998. It was the second instance of nuclear testing conducted by India; the first test, code-named Smiling Buddha, was conducted in May 1974 (...) | |
| 102 | RT (TV network) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 55.7716 / 37.7144 | RT (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian international television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic and Russian (...) | |
| 103 | Durham Light Infantry FeatureType : null Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 54.7844 / -1.5811 | The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1968. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and the 106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry) along (...) | |
| 104 | Communities in Norfolk County, Ontario FeatureType : null Elevation : 234 Lat/Lng : 42.7631 / -80.5942 | Norfolk County in the Canadian province of Ontario consists of a long list of communities. Its four designated population centres are Simcoe, Port Dover, Delhi, and Waterford. The population of the County at the time of the 2016 Census was 64,044.http://www12.statcan.gc (...) | |
| 105 | Persian gardens FeatureType : null Elevation : 1842 Lat/Lng : 30.1667 / 53.1667 | The tradition and style of garden design represented by Persian gardens or Iranian gardens has influenced the design of gardens from Andalusia to India and beyond. The gardens of the Alhambra show the influence of Persian garden philosophy and style in a Moorish palace scale, from the era of (...) | |
| 106 | City, University of London FeatureType : edu Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.5273 / -0.1025 | City, University of London is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Since 2016 it has been a constituent college of The University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute and became a university when The City University was created by royal charter in 1966 (...) | |
| 107 | 1967 FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the (...) | |
| 108 | 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 (...) | |
| 109 | Wiki Loves Monuments FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 52.3822 / 4.6364 | Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is an annual international photographic competition held during the month of September, organised worldwide by Wikipedia community members with the help of local Wikimedia affiliates across the globe (...) | |
| 110 | Jaipur bombings FeatureType : null Elevation : 439 Lat/Lng : 26.926 / 75.8235 | The Jaipur bombings were a series of nine synchronized bomb blasts that took place on 13 May 2008 within a span of fifteen minutes at locations in Jaipur, the capital city of the Indian state of Rajasthan, and a tourist destination. A tenth bomb was found and defused."", Thaindian News, 20 May 2008 (...) | |
| 111 | Documenta FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 51.3025 / 9.4858 | documenta is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultural Show) which took place in Kassel at that time,Adrian Searle (June 11, 2012), (...) | |
| 112 | San Diego–Tijuana FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 32.5422 / -117.0296 | San Diego–Tijuana is an international metropolitan conurbation, straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 2012 population of the region was 4,922,723, making it the largest bi-national (...) | |
| 113 | 2002 Gujarat riots FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 22.0 / 73.0 | The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence and the Gujarat pogrom, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Following the initial incident there were further outbreaks of violence in Ahmedabad for three months; statewide, there (...) | |
| 114 | 2016 Pathankot attack FeatureType : event Elevation : 309 Lat/Lng : 32.2336 / 75.6344 | The 2016 Pathankot attack was a terrorist attack committed on 2 January 2016 by a heavily armed group which attacked the Pathankot Air Force Station, part of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force. Four attackers and two security forces personnel were killed in the initial battle, with an (...) | |
| 115 | St. Xavier's High School, Patna FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 25.6192 / 85.1406 | St. Xavier's High School, Patna (often abbreviated: SXS Patna or SXHS), is a private, co-ed, college-preparatory high school, in the neighborhood of Gandhi Maidan in Patna, Bihar, India. It is the oldest Jesuit school in the city of Patna and in the state of Bihar, established by missionaries from (...) | |
| 116 | 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 (...) | |
| 117 | Oxfam FeatureType : null Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 51.727 / -1.2085 | Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. It is a major nonprofit group with an extensive collection of operations (...) | |
| 118 | Air India Flight 101 (1966) FeatureType : event Elevation : 2573 Lat/Lng : 45.8778 / 6.8667 | Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London that accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France on the morning of 24 January 1966. The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot in lieu of VOR data, one of (...) | |
| 119 | 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 45.3 / -74.05 | The 8th (King's) Regiment of Foot, also referred to in short as the 8th Foot and the King's, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1685 and retitled the King's (Liverpool Regiment) on 1 July 1881 (...) | |
| 120 | Aga Khan III FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 24.0883 / 32.8787 | Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III (2 November 187711 July 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili religion. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). His goal was the advancement of Muslim agendas and protection of Muslim rights in India (...) | |
| 121 | University of Prince Edward Island FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 46.259 / -63.138 | The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is a public university in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the sole university in the province. Founded in 1969, the enabling legislation is the University Act, R.S.P.E.I 2000. http://www.gov.pe.ca/law/statutes/pdf/u-04 (...) | |
| 122 | 2013 Hyderabad blasts FeatureType : null Elevation : 511 Lat/Lng : 17.3601 / 78.4734 | On 21 February 2013, at around 19:00 IST, two blasts occurred in the city of Hyderabad, India. The bombs exploded in Dilsukhnagar, a crowded shopping area, within of each other. The first explosion occurred outside a roadside eatery named A1 Mirchi, next to the Anand Tiffin Centre and opposite the (...) | |
| 123 | Kedleston Hall FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 52.9592 / -1.537 | Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy. Today it is a National Trust property (...) | |
| 124 | International Management Institute, New Delhi FeatureType : edu Elevation : 241 Lat/Lng : 28.5391 / 77.1812 | International Management Institute, New Delhi, known as IMI, New Delhi is a private business school located in New Delhi, India.http://bschools.businesstoday.in/?year=2014&college=IMI-Delhi&rank=9 Established in the year 1981, it was India's first corporate sponsored business school.http://www.imi (...) | |
| 125 | Wilson College, Mumbai FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 18.9563 / 72.8109 | The Wilson College, set up in 1832 in Mumbai, is one of India's oldest colleges; its foundation precedes that of the University of Mumbai, to which it is affiliated, by 25 years. It was awarded an A rating by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in 2005 (...) | |
| 126 | Haridwar Kumbh Mela FeatureType : event Elevation : 327 Lat/Lng : 29.958 / 78.171 | The Kumbh Mela at Haridwar is a mela held every 12 years at Haridwar, India. The exact date is determined according to Hindu astrology: the Mela is held when Jupiter is in Aquarius and the sun enters Aries. An Ardh Kumbh ("Half Kumbh") Mela is held six years after a Kumbh Mela (...) | |
| 127 | Madras Christian College FeatureType : edu Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 12.9213 / 80.122 | The Madras Christian College (MCC) is an arts and sciences college based in Madras (Chennai), India. Consistently ranked among the top ten colleges in India, it is considered to be one of the most prestigious colleges in India. Founded in 1837, MCC is one of Asia's oldest extant colleges (...) | |
| 128 | Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 21.3061 / 73.2294 | Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi (20 August 1671 – 1 June 1748) was a nobleman of Indian and Turkic descent and the founder of the Asaf Jahi dynasty. He established the Hyderabad state, and ruled it from 1724 to 1748 (...) | |
| 129 | Mount St Bernard Abbey FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 52.7414 / -1.3231 | Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Trappist monastery near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick, and now in that of Charley. The abbey was the first permanent monastery to be founded in England since the Reformation and is the only Trappist house in England (...) | |
| 130 | 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 (...) | |
| 131 | Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.5081 / -0.0761 | The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, originally the Crown Jewels of England, are 140 royal ceremonial objects kept in the Tower of London, which include the regalia and vestments worn by British kings and queens at their coronations. Symbols of 800 years of monarchy,Mears, et al., p. 5 (...) | |
| 132 | Malcolm Wanklyn FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 58.4667 / 5.0167 | Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn VC, DSO & Two Bars (28 June 1911 – missing in action 14 April 1942) was a Second World War British Royal Navy submarine ace and one of the most successful submariners in the Western Allied navies. Wanklyn and his crew sank 16 enemy vessels (...) | |
| 133 | St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 52.409 / -4.061 | Saint Padarn's Church is a parish church of the Church in Wales, and the largest mediaeval church in mid-Wales. Founded in the early sixth century, St Padarn's Church has gone through many changes, from a Welsh monastic centre (a clas), a Benedictine priory, a clas again, a royal rectory, a church (...) | |
| 134 | Amaravathi (village), Andhra Pradesh FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 16.573 / 80.358 | Amaravathi is a village in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located on the banks of Krishna River in Amaravathi mandal of Guntur revenue division. The village is a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region, located west of the foundation stone of Amaravathi laid at (...) | |
| 135 | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology FeatureType : null Elevation : 525 Lat/Lng : 17.421 / 78.541 | The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (IAST: Kośikīya evam āṇavik jīvavijñāna kendra) or CCMB is an Indian biotechnology research establishment located in Hyderabad that operates under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (...) | |
| 136 | École des Mines de Douai FeatureType : edu Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.3752 / 3.0678 | The École des mines de Douai (École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT) since 2018) also called "École nationale supérieure des mines de Douai (Mines Douai)" (ENSMD) is a French National Graduate School of Engineering (Grande école d'ingénieurs) located in the cities of Douai and (...) | |
| 137 | Arcot, Vellore FeatureType : city Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 12.9047 / 79.3239 | Arcot is a town and urban of Vellore city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Located on the southern banks of Palar River, the city straddles a trade route between Chennai and Bangalore or Salem, between the Mysore Ghat and the Javadi Hills (Javvadhu malai). , the city had a population 55,955 (...) | |
| 138 | Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 153 Lat/Lng : 43.0458 / -2.1895 | Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF, literally "Construction & Other Railway Services") is a Spanish publicly-listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment. It is based in Beasain, Basque Autonomous Community (...) | |
| 139 | French Institute of Pondicherry FeatureType : edu Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 11.937 / 79.8361 | The French Institute of Pondicherry UMIFRE 21 CNRS-MAEE is a French financially autonomous institution in Puducherry, India, under the joint supervision of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MAEE) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (...) | |
| 140 | Faculty of Management Studies (Delhi) FeatureType : edu Elevation : 223 Lat/Lng : 28.6841 / 77.2083 | Faculty of Management Studies (also known as FMS Delhi and The Red Building of Dreams) is a business school located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1954 under the aegis of the University of Delhi and is often cited as the best business school in India owing to its great ROI and very high (...) | |
| 141 | Georges Mathieu FeatureType : null Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 48.8878 / 2.329 | Georges Mathieu (27 January 1921 Boulogne-sur-Mer – 10 June 2012 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French abstract painter, art theorist and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism. (...) | |
| 142 | Nuclear power in India FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 14.8644 / 74.4365 | Nuclear power is the fifth-largest source of electricity in India after coal, gas, hydroelectricity and wind power. , India has 22 nuclear reactors in operation in 7 nuclear power plants, having a total installed capacity of 6,780 MW. Nuclear power produced a total of 35 TWh and supplied 3 (...) | |
| 143 | Battle of Saragarhi FeatureType : null Elevation : 1971 Lat/Lng : 33.5542 / 70.8875 | The Battle of Saragarhi was fought before the Tirah Campaign on 12 September 1897 between Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army and Pashtun Orakzai tribesmen. It occurred in the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) (...) | |
| 144 | American College, Madurai FeatureType : null Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 9.929 / 78.132 | The American College, often referred to as American College, is one of the oldest colleges present in India. It is in Madurai, Tamil Nadu state, south of India. It was founded in 1881 by American Christian missionaries (...) | |
| 145 | Vulcan Foundry FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 53.4408 / -2.6286 | The Vulcan Foundry Limited was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. (...) | |
| 146 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology FeatureType : null Elevation : 319 Lat/Lng : 21.1233 / 79.0514 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT Nagpur), formerly Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur (VRCE), is a public engineering and research institution in India. It is located in Nagpur, Maharashtra, in central India (...) | |
| 147 | Techfest FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 19.1336 / 72.9154 | Techfest is the annual science and technology festival of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. It also refers to the independent body of students who organize this event along with many other social initiatives and outreach programs around the year (...) | |
| 148 | Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research FeatureType : null Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 11.9547 / 79.7983 | The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) is a medical school in India. It is located at Pondicherry, the capital of the union territory of Puducherry, in southern India. JIPMER is an Indian central government funded institute with autonomy to run its internal (...) | |
| 149 | International Energy Agency FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 48.8547 / 2.2915 | The International Energy Agency (IEA;) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis (...) | |
| 150 | Fateh Sagar Lake FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 588 Lat/Lng : 24.6 / 73.67 | Fateh Sagar Lake is situated in the city of Udaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is an artificial lake named after Maharana Fateh Singh of Udaipur and Mewar, constructed north-west of Udaipur, to the north of Lake Pichola in the 1680s (...) | |
| 151 | 1950 French Annapurna expedition FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 7940 Lat/Lng : 28.5953 / 83.8256 | The 1950 French Annapurna expedition, led by Maurice Herzog, successfully reached the summit of Annapurna I at , the highest peak in the Annapurna Massif. The mountain is located in Nepal and the government had given permission for the expedition, the first time it had permitted mountaineering in (...) | |
| 152 | Bids for the 2012 Summer Olympics FeatureType : null Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 48.8495 / 2.2499 | Nine cities submitting bids to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics were recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Committee shortlisted five of them—London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City, and Paris—from which London eventually prevailed; thus becoming the (...) | |
| 153 | International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 41.8863 / 12.4765 | The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage worldwide through training, information, research, cooperation and advocacy programmes (...) | |
| 154 | Changa Manga FeatureType : city Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : 31.0833 / 73.9667 | The Changa Manga (Urdu,Punjabi):) is a planted forest which includes a wildlife preserve, in the Kasur and Lahore districts of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located approximately 80 kilometers south-west of Lahore. It was once the largest man-made forest in the world but has undergone illegal (...) | |
| 155 | August 1962 FeatureType : null Elevation : 2986 Lat/Lng : 42.0333 / 75.75 | The following events occurred in August 1962: (...) | |
| 156 | 1955 Le Mans disaster FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 47.9499 / 0.2072 | The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France on 11 June 1955. A major crash caused large fragments of debris to fly into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Bouillin (who raced under the name Pierre (...) | |
| 157 | Vincigliata FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 259 Lat/Lng : 43.7944 / 11.3151 | Vincigliata Castle (Italian: Castello di Vincigliata) is a medieval castle which stands on a rocky hill to the east of Fiesole in the Italian region of Tuscany. In the mid-nineteenth century the building, which had fallen into a ruinous state, was acquired by the Englishman John Temple-Leader and (...) | |
| 158 | Center for Justice and Peacebuilding FeatureType : null Elevation : 441 Lat/Lng : 38.471 / -78.8795 | Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) is an accredited graduate-level program founded in 1994. It also offers non-credit training. The program specializes in conflict transformation, restorative justice, trauma healing, equitable development, and addressing organizational conflict (...) | |
| 159 | Pakistan Naval Air Arm Atlantique shootdown FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 23.9 / 68.2667 | On 10 August 1999, a Breguet Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft of the Pakistan Naval Air Arm was shot down by a MiG 21 fighter of the Indian Air Force over the Rann of Kutch, on the border between India and Pakistan. All 16 people on board the Atlantic were killed (...) | |
| 160 | Metro FeatureType : null Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : -8.1831 / 112.5342 | Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to: (...) | |
| 161 | IMI Kolkata FeatureType : edu Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 22.5261 / 88.3264 | International Management Institute (IMI) Kolkata laid its foundation in 2010. The Institute started functioning in the year 2011 with its flagship Post Graduate Diploma in Management Programme currently accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for a period of two years effective from (...) | |
| 162 | Dr. Oetker FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 127 Lat/Lng : 52.015 / 8.5209 | Dr. Oetker is a German multinational company that produces baking powder, cake mixes, yoghurts, frozen pizza, pudding, cake decoration, cornflakes, and various other products. The company is a wholly owned branch of the Oetker Group, headquartered in Bielefeld. (...) | |
| 163 | Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School FeatureType : null Elevation : 168 Lat/Lng : 43.7413 / -79.4112 | Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School (sporadically known as Loretto Abbey CSS, LACSS, Loretto Abbey, LAT, Loretto Abbey Toronto or Abbey) is an all-girls Catholic secondary school in Hogg's Hollow neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (...) | |
| 164 | Kodaikanal International School FeatureType : null Elevation : 2117 Lat/Lng : 10.2353 / 77.4892 | Kodaikanal International School (KIS) is a co-educational independent residential school offering education for grades P-12. It is located on , retrieved 2010-4-21 in Kodaikanal, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India. Kodaikanal is a hill station at in the Palani Hills, northwest of Madurai (...) | |
| 165 | St Michael's Grammar School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : -37.8594 / 144.9911 | St Michael's Grammar School is an Australian co-educational independent day school located in St Kilda, Victoria. The school was founded in 1895 by the Community of the Sisters of the Church and remains in its original location on a single campus (...) | |
| 166 | RTI International FeatureType : null Elevation : 103 Lat/Lng : 35.9028 / -78.8662 | RTI International (formerly Research Triangle Institute) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina that provides research and technical services. It was founded in 1958 with $500,000 in funding by local businesses and the three North Carolina (...) | |
| 167 | The Yoga Institute FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 19.0851 / 72.8432 | The Yoga Institute (abbreviated as TYI) is a government recognized non-profit organisation, known as the oldest organized yoga center in the world.The Times of India, 2001 It was founded by Shri Yogendra (1897-1989), who was one of the important figures in the modern revival of Hatha Yoga (...) | |
| 168 | St. Anselm's North City School, Jaipur FeatureType : null Elevation : 549 Lat/Lng : 22.5534 / 75.4925 | St. Anselm's North City School is a convent educational institution located in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. The school was founded by Rev. Fr. Raymond Coelho. It is co-educational and provides liberal education through English medium (...) | |
| 169 | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 35.6923 / 139.7582 | , often referred to as TUFS, is a specialist research university in Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan. TUFS is primarily devoted to foreign language, international affairs and foreign studies. It also features an Asia-African institution. (...) | |
| 170 | Akshardham (Gandhinagar) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 23.2292 / 72.6742 | Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar, Gujarat is a large Hindu temple complex inspired by Yogiji maharaj the fourth spiritual successor of Lord Swaminarayan according to the denomination of Swaminarayan Hinduism, and created by Pramukh Swami, the fifth spiritual successor of Lord Swaminarayan (...) | |
| 171 | Kasteli Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 343 Lat/Lng : 35.192 / 25.327 | Kasteli Airport is a mixed-use public/military airport located south-east of Heraklion, in Kasteli on the Greek island of Crete. It started operating in 1940 and it now has a single runway with a length of 2,450m (...) | |
| 172 | Arch of Remembrance FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 52.6231 / -1.1219 | The Arch of Remembrance is a war memorial in Victoria Park, Leicester, designed by Edwin Lutyens, comprising a monumental tetrapylon quadrifrons triumphal arch in a railed enclosure. It is one of 58 war memorials designed by Lutyens in the UK and elsewhere; the 44 in England are all listed buildings (...) | |
| 173 | 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 (...) | |
| 174 | Ambadevi rock shelters FeatureType : null Elevation : 507 Lat/Lng : 21.4071 / 77.9481 | The Ambadevi rock shelters is an archaeological site exhibiting the earliest traces of human life in the central province of the Indian subcontinent. The site is located near the Dharul village in the Betul District of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, on the border of the Amravati district of (...) | |
| 175 | Atharva College of Engineering (ACE), Malad FeatureType : edu Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 19.1979 / 72.8265 | Atharva College of Engineering, established in 1999, is an engineering college in Mumbai. ACE is affiliated to the University of Mumbai and recognised by the Government of Maharashtra and the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).Recently it is Accredited by NAAC with grade A+ (...) | |
| 176 | Ghurni FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 23.25 / 88.34 | Ghurni is a neighbourhood of Krishnanagar in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the centre for the production of clay dolls, often referred to as Krishnanagar clay dolls. (...) | |
| 177 | B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology FeatureType : edu Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 28.3688 / 75.5892 | B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology (BKBIET) is an engineering college affiliated to Rajasthan Technical University and located in Pilani, Rajasthan, India. It was founded in 2007 by Krishnarpan Charity Trust, with Basant Kumar Birla as chairman. (...) | |
| 178 | Delhi Public School Rohini FeatureType : edu Elevation : 215 Lat/Lng : 28.7284 / 77.0881 | Delhi Public School Rohini (DPS Rohini) is a school located in Rohini, New Delhi, Delhi, India. The school was established on 3 July 1995 under the aegis of the Delhi Public School Society. The school began with 250 students in borrowed premises off DPS Mathura Road, with eight teachers and Rita Sen (...) | |
| 179 | St. Anselm's Pink City Sr. Sec. School, Jaipur FeatureType : null Elevation : 549 Lat/Lng : 22.5534 / 75.4925 | St. Anselm's Pink City Sr. Sec. School is a convent educational institution located in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. It is run by the Gyan Deep Education Society. The school was founded by Rev. Fr. Raymond Coelho. It is co-educational, providing a liberal education through English medium (...) | |
| 180 | Balassi Institute FeatureType : null Elevation : 153 Lat/Lng : 47.4842 / 19.0384 | The Balassi Institute is a worldwide non-profit cultural organization funded by the ministry of education and culture of Hungary. The institute spreads and promotes Hungarian language and culture abroad. The Institute plays a key role in developing and attaining Hungary’s objectives in the area of (...) | |
| 181 | Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center FeatureType : null Elevation : 624 Lat/Lng : 18.761 / 73.415 | The Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center (abbreviated Kdham) is a spiritual, therapeutic, and research center with a specific aim to coordinate ancient yogic arts and tradition with modern science., The Times Of India, Mumbai, 25 October 2004. Retrieved on 12 November 2012 (...) | |
| 182 | Wolters Kluwer FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 52.1269 / 4.6541 | Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a global information services company. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a merger between Kluwer Publishers and Wolters Samsom (...) | |
| 183 | Lita Albuquerque FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 34.0583 / 118.2458 | Lita Albuquerque is an American installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She is on the core faculty of the Fine Art Graduate Program at Art Center College of Design. (...) | |
| 184 | Larsen & Toubro FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 18.935 / 72.8417 | Larsen & Toubro Limited, commonly known as L&T, is one of the largest Indian multi-national firms and leading construction company in India headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by two Danish engineers taking refuge in India (...) | |
| 185 | Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 14.6835 / -17.4678 | IFAN (I.F.A.N., Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire or African Institute of Basic research) is a cultural and scientific institute in the nations of the former French West Africa. Founded in Dakar, Senegal in 1938 as the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire (the name was changed only in 1966), it was (...) | |
| 186 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Oman) FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 23.6164 / 58.4688 | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government body in the Sultanate of Oman responsible for Oman's relations with the rest of the world. The current Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs is Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah. The legal representatives of Oman are dr. Zsolt Zalan Roth and dr (...) | |
| 187 | International Council for Film Television and Audiovisual Communication FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 48.8462 / 2.3053 | The International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT) is the UNESCO advisory body on all matters concerned with film, television and new media. Located at UNESCO HQ's in Paris, France, was founded in UNESCO's 10th session of General Conference in 1958. (...) | |
| 188 | Amaravati Stupa FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 16.5753 / 80.358 | The Amarāvatī Stupa, popularly known as the great stūpa at Amarāvathī, is a ruined Buddhist monument, probably built in phases between the third century BCE and about 250 CE, at Amaravathi village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India (...) | |
| 189 | United Nations Global Compact FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 40.7517 / -73.9735 | The United Nations Global Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. The UN Global Compact is a principle-based framework for businesses, stating ten principles in the (...) | |
| 190 | Loreto Convent School, Delhi FeatureType : null Elevation : 236 Lat/Lng : 28.5831 / 77.1375 | Loreto Convent School is a girls' school in Delhi, India. Situated in Delhi Cantt, the school is an English medium school affiliated to CBSE boards of Delhi, and run by Loreto Educational Society (Loreto Nuns), associated with Sisters of Loreto, a Roman Catholic dominion founded in 1609 (...) | |
| 191 | Lady Irwin School FeatureType : null Elevation : 213 Lat/Lng : 28.6202 / 77.2238 | Lady Irwin School for Girls is an educational institution in New Delhi, India, established in 1927. It is a composite English medium school from class I to class XII affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. It has a nursery section (...) | |
| 192 | Pannur FeatureType : city Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 13.4333 / 80.0167 | Pannur is a village in Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu. The village is close to the Tamil Nadu - Andhra Pradesh border and a majority of the populace are Roman Catholics and Kamma Naidus with Telugu-speakers. Pannur village has contributed one bishop, and many number of priests and nuns to serve to (...) | |
| 193 | Glatt group FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 270 Lat/Lng : 47.6264 / 7.6141 | The Glatt group is active internationally as an equipment manufacturer, system supplier and engineering service provider in the field of processing and refinement of solid compounds for the food / feed, pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry. (...) | |
| 194 | International University in Geneva FeatureType : edu}} Elevation : 422 Lat/Lng : 46.224 / 6.101 | The International University in Geneva (IUG), founded in 1997, is a private business school , UNESCO registered as a not-for-profit Swiss foundation of higher education and located in Geneva, Switzerland. (...) | |
| 195 | Airbus Training Centre Europe FeatureType : airport Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 43.6258 / -1.3867 | Airbus Training Centre Europe is one of the eight centres of the European aerospace company Airbus dedicated to airline pilot and engineer training. Located at Blagnac, close to Toulouse (France), the centre is approved by civil aviation authority to deliver courses on Airbus A300, A310, A320 (...) | |
| 196 | 1930 Meuse Valley fog FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 50.5833 / 5.4167 | The 1930 Meuse Valley fog killed 60 people in Belgium due to a combination of industrial air pollution and climatic conditions in December that year. The Meuse river flows from France, through Belgium and the Netherlands before entering the North Sea (...) | |
| 197 | Olof Palme Street FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 36.7538 / 3.0423 | The name Olof Palme Street may refer to the following streets named after Olof Palme, the assassinated Swedish prime minister. The first street was renamed on April 23, 1986 in Stockholm. It was the former street Tunnelgatan that crossed Sveavägen that was renamed (...) | |
| 198 | 29th Division War Memorial FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 52.3559 / -1.3923 | The 29th Division War Memorial is a war memorial beside the junction of the A45 and the B4455 near Stretton-on-Dunsmore, near Rugby, Warwickshire. It commemorates the service of the British 29th Division during the First World War (...) | |
| 199 | Rukmini Devi Public School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 220 Lat/Lng : 28.7087 / 77.1029 | Rukmini Devi Public School (or RDPS) is a school located in north-west Delhi, India. The building was constructed over a plot area of 3.4 acres allotted by the Delhi Development Authority, New Delhi. The school is recognized by the Directorate of Education, government of NCT, Delhi and is affiliated (...) | |
| 200 | St Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal FeatureType : null Elevation : 551 Lat/Lng : 23.2668 / 77.3857 | St Joseph's Convent School is an English medium girls school located at Idgah Hills Bhopal, India. Founded in 1956 by the Indian Province of the Sisters of St Joseph of Chambery, an order founded at Chambéry, France in 1812, it is administered by the Sisters of St Joseph's Convent, Idgah Hills, (...) | |
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