Governmental Jurisdiction
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A governmental jurisdiction is any location that a governmental body or office has jurisdiction over. This includes cities, countries, and various types of administrative divisions such as counties, states, provinces, departments, oblasts, etc....
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| San Francisco |
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Topic | Gavin Newsom | Mayor of San Francisco |
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 14th most populous city in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 764,976. One of the most densely populated major American cities, San Francisco is part of the much larger San Francisco Bay Area, which is home to approximately 7.2 million people. The city is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, with the Pacific Ocean to the west, San Francisco Bay to the east, and the...
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| Location | Dianne Feinstein | Mayor of San Francisco | |||
| Filming location | Adolph Sutro | Mayor of San Francisco | |||
| US County | Edwin M. Lee | San Francisco City Administrator | |||
| Transit Service Area | Michela Alioto-Pier | San Francisco Supervisor | |||
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| Bhutan |
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Topic | Ugyen Wangchuck | King of Bhutan |
The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked nation in South Asia. It is located amidst the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by China. Bhutan is separated from Nepal by the Indian state of Sikkim. The Bhutanese call their country Druk Yul (land of the thunder dragon).
Bhutan is one of the most isolated and least developed nations in the world. Foreign influences and tourism are regulated by the government to preserve the...
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| Ontario |
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Topic | Ted Arnott | Member of Provincial Parliament |
Ontario is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area. (Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are larger but are not provinces.) Ontario is bordered by the provinces of Manitoba to the west, Quebec to the east, and the (U.S.) states of Michigan, New York, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania (at Lake Erie). Most of Ontario's borders with the United States are natural, starting at the Lake of the Woods and continuing...
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| Canadian Province | Dalton McGuinty | Member of Provincial Parliament | |||
| Location | Dalton McGuinty | Premier of Ontario | |||
| Administrative Division | Elie Martel | Member of Provincial Parliament | |||
| Governmental Jurisdiction | Norm Jamison | Member of Provincial Parliament | |||
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| China |
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Topic | Wen Jiabao | Premier of the People's Republic of China |
"China Now" is the largest festival of Chinese culture ever in the UK. It launched in February 2008, with a series of high-profile events to mark the beginning of the Chinese New Year.
Throughout the first half of 2008, until the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, CHINA NOW coordinates about 800 events, performances and activities.CHINA NOW is a showcase of art, design, cuisine and culture, science, business and technology, education and sport – an inspirational celebration of vibrant,...
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| Location | Zhu Rongji | Premier of the People's Republic of China | |||
| Country | Wu Yi | Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | |||
| Aircraft Owner | Zeng Peiyan | Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | |||
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| City of Vancouver | Architectural structure owner |
The City of Vancouver is the formal name of the governing entity whose geographical location is Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The City of Vancouver was established by a provincial statute on April 6, 1886. The city is governed by a City Council and a Mayor.
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| Australia |
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Topic | John Howard | Prime Minister of Australia |
The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and a number of other islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. The neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
The Australian mainland has...
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| Country | John Howard | Leader of the Opposition | |||
| Location | Peter Garrett | Member of the Australian Parliament | |||
| Military Combatant | Peter Garrett | Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment & Heritage, Arts | |||
| Aircraft Owner | Julie Bishop | Member of the Australian Parliament | |||
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| Cuauhtémoc, D.F. |
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Cuauhtémoc is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) of the Mexican Federal District.
The borough is named after Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.
Cuauhtemoc has the warmest and among the driest of Valley of Mexico microclimates thanks to its low altitude and the densest urban development of the metropolitan area. It is the regional downtown, historic, economic, and cultural center.
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| Mexico |
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Topic | Felipe Calderón Hinojosa | President of Mexico |
The United Mexican States , or commonly Mexico ( ), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. The United Mexican States is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a federal district, the capital Mexico City, whose metropolitan area is one of the world's most populous.
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| United States |
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Topic | Hillary Rodham Clinton | United States Senator |
The United States of America is a constitutional federal republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait, and the...
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| Country | Jefferson Sessions | United States Senator | |||
| Location | Richard Shelby | United States Senator | |||
| Market Area | Lisa Murkowski | United States Senator | |||
| Military Combatant | Theodore Stevens | United States Senator | |||
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| Israel |
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Topic | Yossi Sarid | Member of the Knesset |
Israel (, ; , ) officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , ; , ), is a country in Western Asia located on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are also adjacent. With a population of about 7.28 million, the majority of whom are Jew of many backgrounds, Israel is the world's only...
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| Location | Ehud Olmert | Prime Minister of Israel | |||
| Country | Yitzhak Rabin | Prime minister | |||
| Aircraft Owner | Yitzhak Rabin | Prime minister | |||
| Statistical region | Golda Meir | Prime minister | |||
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| Manchester |
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Manchester (; ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted city status in 1853. It has a population of 452,000, and lies at the centre of the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area, which has a population of 2,240,230, the United Kingdom's third largest conurbation. Manchester has the second largest urban zone in the UK and the fourteenth most populated in Europe.
Forming part of the English Core Cities Group, often described as the second city of...
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| Philippines |
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Topic | Francis Bowes Sayers | High Commissioner to the Philippines |
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (; RP), is an archipelagic nation located in Southeast Asia, with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, bordering countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau and the Republic of China, although it is the only Southeast Asian country to share no land borders with its neighbors. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population...
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| Country | Frank Murphy | High Commissioner to the Philippines | |||
| Location | Paul V. McNutt | High Commissioner to the Philippines | |||
| Aircraft Owner | Paul V. McNutt | High Commissioner to the Philippines | |||
| Governmental Jurisdiction | William Howard Taft | Governor-General of the Philippines | |||
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| Washington |
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Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named after George Washington, it is the only U.S. state named after a president.
Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory and admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. In 2006, the Census Bureau estimated the state's population at 6,395,798. Residents are called "Washingtonians" (emphasis on the third syllable, pronounced as tone). Washington is sometimes called Washington state or...
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Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. Nebraska gets its name from a Chiwere word meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state. Once considered part of the Great American Desert, it is now a leading farming and ranching state. Nebraskans are sometimes colloquially referred to as "Cornhuskers" (which is derived from the state nickname).
Nebraska is split into two time zones. The Central Time zone comprises the eastern half...
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| New Zealand |
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New Zealand is a country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two large islands (the North Island and the South Island) and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, which is usually translated into English as The Land of the Long White Cloud. The Realm of New Zealand also includes the Cook Islands and Niue, which are self-governing but in free association; Tokelau; and the Ross Dependency ...
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| Pennsylvania |
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Topic | Catherine Baker Knoll | Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania |
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation) by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States of America.
Pennsylvania has been known as the ''Keystone'' State since 1802, based in part upon its central location among the original Thirteen Colonies forming the United States. It was also a keystone state economically, having both the industry common to the North, making such...
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| Location | Ed Rendell | Governor of Pennsylvania | |||
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