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| 1 | 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 (...) | |
| 2 | Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 41.0292 / 28.9517 | The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; ; Vatican City State, 1978, p. 3 ,Ortaylı, İlber (2003). "Osmanlı Barışı", p. 14. .In Turkey it is also referred to unofficially as Fener Rum Patrikhanesi, "Roman Patriarchate of the Phanar" "Roman (...) | |
| 3 | Moldova ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 47.0 / 28.9167 | Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova , is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The capital city is Chișinău. Most of the Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until (...) | |
| 4 | 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 (...) | |
| 5 | Havana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 23.1388 / -82.3573 | Havana (; Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest (...) | |
| 6 | Hainan ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 373 Lat/Lng : 19.1067 / 109.5675 | Hainan is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , separated from Guangdong's Leizhou Peninsula by the Qiongzhou Strait, is the largest and fifth most populous island under PRC control (Taiwan, which is (...) | |
| 7 | Hungary ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 47.4981 / 19.04 | Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west (...) | |
| 8 | 2014 Hong Kong protests ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 22.2808 / 114.1656 | A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement , occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014. The protests began after the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) issued a (...) | |
| 9 | Expo 2010 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 31.1941 / 121.4864 | Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the (...) | |
| 10 | October 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 45.2 / 36.6 | It is the first day of the fourth quarter of the year. (...) | |
| 11 | TV5Monde ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 48.8836 / 2.3019 | TV5Monde (; formerly known as TV5) is a French pay television network, broadcasting several channels of French language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union. (...) | |
| 12 | 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 49.1822 / -0.3706 | The 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games were held in the region of Normandy, France. It was the seventh edition of the Games, which are held every four years and run by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) (...) | |
| 13 | US Open (tennis) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 40.7499 / -73.847 | The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament. The tournament is the modern version of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles was first played in 1881 (...) | |
| 14 | Roundabout ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 50.8924 / 6.9673 | A roundabout, (also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island), is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is given to traffic already on the junction (...) | |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 38.899 / -77.0442 | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of "189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, (...) | |
| 16 | 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 (...) | |
| 17 | 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 (...) | |
| 18 | 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 (...) | |
| 19 | 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 (...) | |
| 20 | Sichuan ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1199 Lat/Lng : 30.714 / 103.403 | Sichuan (; formerly romanised as Szechuan or Szechwan), is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south (...) | |
| 21 | World War II ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 48.7194 / 44.5018 | World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis (...) | |
| 22 | 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 (...) | |
| 23 | Enclave and exclave ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 45.0134 / -73.1933 | An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state. Territorial waters have the same sovereign attributes as land, and enclaves may therefore exist within territorial waters (...) | |
| 24 | 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 (...) | |
| 25 | International Ice Hockey Federation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 47.3684 / 8.5299 | The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; ;) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey and in-line hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 76 members. It manages international ice hockey tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking (...) | |
| 26 | 2018 WTA Tour ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 16.8636 / -99.8825 | The 2018 WTA Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF); the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier (...) | |
| 27 | Thailand national futsal team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 13.8 / 100.8 | The Thailand national futsal team represents Thailand in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Thailand. (...) | |
| 28 | International Handball Federation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 278 Lat/Lng : 47.5482 / 7.5962 | The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball's major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men's Handball Championship, which commenced in 1938, and the IHF World (...) | |
| 29 | FIDE ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 46.5166 / 6.6373 | The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess FederationThe Official Laws of Chess, 1989, FIDE, , p. 7 is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition (...) | |
| 30 | Swastika ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 32.6762 / -117.1577 | The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it is a symbol of divinity and spirituality in some Eastern religions. In the Western world it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s, when it became a (...) | |
| 31 | International University of Japan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 37.1483 / 138.9474 | The is a private university located in Minamiuonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. IUJ is the first graduate school in Japan, and one of the few Japanese universities which offers all courses in English. It was founded in 1982, primarily to train global leaders effective in the globalized world, (...) | |
| 32 | The Mole (TV series) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1009 Lat/Lng : -42.0 / 147.0 | The Mole is a reality television game show which was originally created in 1998 by Woestijnvis and broadcast on VRT in Belgium as De Mol. It was conceived by Michiel Devlieger, Bart de Pauw, Tom Lenaerts and Michel Vanhove, and won the famous Rose d'Or award in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2000 (...) | |
| 33 | 2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 56.3333 / 44.0 | The 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves included severe heat waves that impacted most of the United States, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, North Africa and the European continent as a whole, along with parts of Canada, Russia, Indochina, South Korea and Japan during May, June, July, (...) | |
| 34 | Open Knowledge International ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 52.2354 / 0.154 | Open Knowledge International (OKI) (known as the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) until April 2014, then Open Knowledge until May 2016) is a global non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data (...) | |
| 35 | The Oakridge School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 32.7237 / -97.1942 | The Oakridge School is a private school located in Arlington, Texas, USA. It educates about 800 students in age groups Preschool-12. (...) | |
| 36 | Dollar Academy ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 56.1652 / -3.6742 | Dollar Academy, founded in 1818 by benefaction of trader John McNabb, is an independent co-educational day and boarding school in Scotland. The open campus occupies a site in the centre of the town of Dollar in Central Scotland (...) | |
| 37 | World Archery Federation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 379 Lat/Lng : 46.5153 / 6.6093 | The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc) is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, and is (...) | |
| 38 | Korea Aerospace University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 37.5994 / 126.8651 | Korea Aerospace University is a private university in Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea. Established in 1952 as a national university, it was taken over by Jungseok Foundation established by Hanjin Group and transferred to a private university (...) | |
| 39 | Bangalore Central Business District ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 918 Lat/Lng : 12.975 / 77.61 | The Central Business District of Bangalore, is the area with a diameter of 20 kilometers from Vidhan Soudha. This is the main commercial area of Bangalore. It has many high rises, with UB Tower as the highest at . The Collection in UB City is India's first Luxury Shopping Mall (...) | |
| 40 | Gruma ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 613 Lat/Lng : 25.6547 / -100.3594 | Gruma, S.A.B. de C.V., known as Gruma, is a Mexican multinational corn flour (masa) and tortilla manufacturing company headquartered in San Pedro, near Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is the largest corn flour and tortilla manufacturer in the world (...) | |
| 41 | United World College in Mostar ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 43.343 / 17.8073 | The United World College in Mostar (UWC Mostar) is one of 17 schools and colleges around the world in the UWC (United World Colleges) movement. UWC is a global educational movement with the mission to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future (...) | |