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| x Portsmouth |
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50.81 | -1.09 |
Portsmouth (pronounced /ˈpɔərtsməθ/ ( listen)) is a city located in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is the United Kingdom's only island city and is located on Portsea Island. The City of Portsmouth and...
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| x Lleida |
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42 | 1.1667 |
Lleida (Spanish: Lérida) is a province of north-eastern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, Zaragoza and Huesca and the countries of France and Andorra...
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| x Ireland |
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53 | -7 |
Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɪrlənd/ ( listen), locally [ˈaɾlənd]; Irish: Éire, pronounced [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann, Latin: Hibernia) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the...
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| x Toulon |
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43.12583 | 5.93139 |
Toulon (Provençal Occitan: Tolon in classical norm or Touloun in Mistralian norm, Italian: Tolone) is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes...
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Pigtail Steps are a set of winding, precipitous steps leading to the harbour at Port Mahon, in Minorca. They are so named because they were commonly used by sailors, who wore pigtails.
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| x Cagliari |
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39.2464 | 9.0575 |
Cagliari (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkaʎʎari], Sardinian: Casteddu) is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means the castle. It has about 160,000 inhabitants, or about 400,000...
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| x Malta |
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35.89972 | 14.5172 |
Malta /ˈmɔːltə/ (help·info), officially the Republic of Malta (Maltese: Repubblika ta' Malta), is a densely populated developed European country in the European Union. The Southern European island nation is an archipelago that includes the...
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| x London |
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51.51712 | -0.1062 |
London (pronounced /ˈlʌndən/) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core,...
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| x City of Halifax |
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44.6479 | -63.57445 |
The City of Halifax (est. 1841) was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County, and was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996. It is no longer an...
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| x Boston |
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42.3583 | -71.0603 |
Boston (pronounced /ˈbɒstən/ (help·info)) is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural...
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| x Galápagos Islands |
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-0.66667 | -90.55 |
The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón; other Spanish names: Islas de Colón or Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of continental Ecuador. It...
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| x Kerguelen Islands |
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-49.25 | 69.58333 |
The Kerguelen Islands (pronounced /ˈkɜrɡələn, kərˈɡeɪlən/; in French commonly Îles Kerguelen or Archipel de Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen or Archipel Kerguelen, pronounced: [kɛʁɡelɛn]), also known as Desolation Island, are a group...
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| x Port Jackson |
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-33.8583 | 151.2333 |
Port Jackson, containing Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. It is known for its beauty, and in particular, as the location of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The location of the first European settlement...
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| x Réunion Island |
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-21.1144 | 55.5325 |
Réunion (French: Réunion or formally La Réunion French pronunciation (help·info); previously Île Bourbon Tamil: இறியூனியன்) is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south west of Mauritius, the...
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| x Río de la Plata |
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-34.5 | -58.1667 |
The Río de la Plata (Spanish: "River of Silver")—always rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth, and occasionally rendered [La] Plata River in other English-speaking countries— is the river (not estuary, as named in many other...
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| x Mahon |
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39.8892 | 4.2637 |
Mahón (the Catalan name Maó is the official form, and often known as Port Mahon in English), is a municipality and the capital city of the Balearic Island of Minorca (the Balearic Islands form an autonomous Spanish community), located in the eastern...
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| x Merrion Square |
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53.33972 | -6.24917 |
Merrion Square (Irish: Cearnóg Mhuirfean) is situated on the south side of Dublin city centre and is considered one of the city's finest Georgian squares. The square was laid out after 1762 and was largely complete by the beginning of the 19th...
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| x Cape St. Vincent |
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37.025 | -8.9944 |
Cape St. Vincent (Portuguese: Cabo de São Vicente, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkabu dɨ sɐ̃ũ viˈsẽtɨ]), next to the Sagres Point, on the so-called Costa Vicentina (Vincentine Coast), is a headland in the municipality of Sagres, in the Algarve,...
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| x Barcelona |
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41.38567 | 2.16994 |
Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [bəɾsəˈlonə], Spanish: [barθeˈlona]) is the capital and the most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th...
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| x Lisbon |
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38.7 | -9.1833 |
Lisbon (Lisboa, Portuguese pronunciation: [liʒˈboɐ]) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is considered an alpha global city and it's also the seat of the district of Lisbon and the main city of the Lisbon region. Its municipality, which...
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| x Bengal |
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23.42 | 90.22 |
Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গ Bôngo, বাংলা Bangla, বঙ্গদেশ Bôngodesh or বাংলাদেশ Bangladesh), is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent. Today it is mainly divided between the sovereign state of the People's...
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| x Genoa |
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44.41667 | 8.92389 |
Genoa (Italian: Genova, pronounced [ˈdʒɛːnova]; Zena pronounced [ˈzeːna] in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and, archaically, in English) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the...
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| x Long Island |
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40.8 | -73.3 |
Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs (Queens and Brooklyn) of New York City, and...
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| x Porto |
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41.16667 | -8.58333 |
Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu]), also known as Oporto in English, is Portugal's second city and the capital of Norte region. It is, along with Lisbon, one of Portugal's two global cities. The city is located in the estuary of the Douro...
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| x County Fermanagh |
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County Fermanagh (pronounced fur-man-ah) – from the Irish: Fear Manach meaning "men of Manach") is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. As Fermanagh is situated...
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| x Deal |
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51.22129 | 1.4035 |
Deal is a town in Kent, England. It lies on the English Channel eight miles north-east of Dover. It is a small fishing community situated between Dover and Ramsgate. Closely associated with Deal are the villages of Kingsdown, Sholden and Walmer, the...
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| x Simon's Town |
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-34.1889 | 18.4386 |
Simon's Town (also widely but incorrectly referred to as Simonstown; Afrikaans: Simonstad) is a village and a naval base in South Africa, near Cape Town. It is located on the shores of False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more...
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| x Philadelphia |
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39.9522 | -75.1642 |
Philadelphia (pronounced /ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə/) is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most-populous city in the United States.
In 2008, the population of the city proper was estimated to be over 1.4 million, while the Greater Philadelphia...
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| x New York City |
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40.7142 | -74.0064 |
New York ( /nuːˈjɔrk/ (help·info)) is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful...
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| x Washington |
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38.89 | -77.03 |
Washington, D.C. (pronounced /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/, WOSH-ing-tən DEE-SEE), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City...
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| x Cape Fear |
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33.8439 | -77.96213 |
Cape Fear is a prominent headland jutting into the Atlantic Ocean from Bald Head Island on the coast of North Carolina in the southeastern United States. It is largely formed of barrier beaches and the silty outwash of the Cape Fear River as it...
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| x Dublin |
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53.3428 | -6.2661 |
Dublin (pronounced /ˈdʌblɨn/, /ˈdʊblɨn/ or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/) is the largest city (being a primate city ) and capital of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath [bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh] or Áth Cliath [aːh cliə(ɸ)]; the English name comes...
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| x Whitehall |
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51.5042 | -0.1264 |
Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, England. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, towards traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often...
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| x Liberties of the Savoy |
The Liberties of the Savoy were one of several areas in London known as liberties in which the rule of law was different from the rest of London.
In the case of the Liberties of the Savoy, the area was where the Savoy Hotel and Savoy Theatre now...
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| x Spice Islands |
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Spice Islands most commonly refer to the Maluku Islands (formerly the Moluccas), which lie on the equator, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea in what is now Indonesia, and often specifically to the small volcanic Banda Islands, once the only...
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| x Demerara |
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6.76666 | -58.16667 |
Demerara is a region in South America that began as a Dutch colony, then was captured by the British in 1796. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown.
Demerara (sugar) is so named because...
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| x New Orleans |
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29.9728 | -90.059 |
New Orleans (pronounced N'awlins or New Orlens by locals, the only time that a hard E is correct is while singing "Way Down Yonder In New Orleens") is the birthplace of Jazz, a major US port city, ...
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| x Bay of Biscay |
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45.0908 | -3.9075 |
The Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Golfo de Vizcaya and Mar Cantábrico; French: Golfe de Gascogne; Basque: Bizkaiko Golkoa; Gascon: Golf de Gascougne) or the Cantabrian Sea is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies...
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| x Gibraltar |
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36.143 | -5.353 |
Gibraltar (pronounced /dʒɨˈbrɔːltər/) is a self-governing British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula and Europe at the entrance of the Mediterranean overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory covers 6.843...
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| x Lesbos Island |
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39.1667 | 26.3333 |
Lesbos (Greek: Λέσβος, also transliterated Lesvos) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1632 km² (630 square miles) with 320 kilometres (almost 200 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island...
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| x Newfoundland |
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49 | -56 |
Newfoundland (pronounced /ˈn(j)uːfən(d)lænd/ ( listen); French: Terre-Neuve, Irish: Talamh an Éisc) — is a large Canadian island 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) off the east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of...
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Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις, Kōnstantinoúpolis, or ἡ Πόλις hē Pólis, Latin: Constantinopolis, in formal Ottoman Turkish: قسطنطينيه Kostantiniyye) was the imperial capital (Gr: Βασιλεύουσα, Basileúousa) of the Roman Empire (330–395), the...
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| x Valletta |
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35.89972 | 14.51472 |
Valletta is the capital city of Malta, colloquially known as Il-Belt (English: The City) in Maltese. It is located in the central-eastern portion of the island of Malta and the city proper has a population of 6,315.
Valletta contains buildings from...
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| x Ioannina |
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39.66941 | 20.85308 | 480 m |
Ioannina (Greek: Ιωάννινα, IPA: [joˈanina], often Γιάννενα, [ˈʝanena]) is a city of Epirus, north-western Greece, with a metropolitan population of approximately 100,000, and lies at an elevation of 600 metres above sea level. It is the capital of...
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| x Paxi |
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39.2 | 20.1667 |
Paxi (Greek: Παξοί, pronounced Paksi in English ) is the name given to the smallest group of the Ionian Islands (the Heptanese). In Greek it is a plural form and it refers to a complex of islands, the largest of which are Paxos and Antipaxos (a...
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| x Corfu |
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Corfu (Greek: Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, IPA: [ˈkʲe̞ɾkʲiɾa]; Ancient Greek: Κέρκυρα or Κόρκυρα; Latin: Corcyra; Italian: Corfù) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and its northern part lies off the coast of...
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| x Kefalonia |
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38.2 | 20.5 |
The island of Kefalonia, also known as Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia (Ancient Greek: Κεφαλληνία; Modern Greek: Κεφαλλονιά or Κεφαλονιά; Italian: Cefalonia), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area...
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| x Medina |
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24.469 | 39.61 |
Medina (pronounced /mɛˈdiːnə/; Arabic: المدينة المنورة, pronounced [ælmæˈdiːnæ lmuˈnɑw.wɑrɑ], or المدينة [ælmæˈdiːnæ]; also transliterated as Madinah; officially al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah) is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and...
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| x Le Havre |
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49.49972 | 0.12 |
Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in...
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| x Paris |
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48.8742 | 2.34695 |
Paris (pronounced /ˈpærɪs/ in English, [paʁi] ( listen) in French) is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region (also known as the ...
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| x Verdun |
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49.15944 | 5.38833 |
Verdun (medieval German: Wirten, official name before 1970 Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital...
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| x Brest |
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48.3908 | -4.4856 |
Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst]; Breton: [brest]) is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in north-western France.
Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, Brest is an important seaport and...
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| x Ushant |
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48.4667 | -5.0833 |
Ushant (Breton: Enez Eusa, French: Ouessant) is an island in the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of European France. It belongs to Brittany and is in the traditional region of Bro-Leon. Administratively, Ushant is a commune...
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| x Elsinore |
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56.03472 | 12.61111 |
Helsingør (Danish pronunciation: [hɛlseˈŋøɐ̯ˀ]; in English also known as Elsinore) is a city and the municipal seat of Helsingør municipality on the northeast coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. Helsingør has a population...
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| x Catalonia |
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Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya; Spanish: Cataluña; Aranese; Catalonha) is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. The capital city is Barcelona.
Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,364,078. It borders France...
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Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness is also the name given to a "village" situated along the...
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| x Beachy Head |
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50.7374 | 0.2477 |
Beachy Head is a chalk headland on the south coast of England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex, immediately east of the Seven Sisters. The cliff there is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, rising to 162 m (530 ft)...
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| x South Foreland Lighthouse |
South Foreland Lighthouse is a Victorian lighthouse on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, England, used to warn ships approaching the nearby Goodwin Sands. It went out of service in 1988 and is currently owned by the National...
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