is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the seventh-largest city of the country by population. The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares (138.4 km2; 53.44 sq miles), including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (from Brugge aan zee,[2] meaning “Bruges by the Sea”).[3] The…
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PEOR ES NADA CHILE
Peor es Nada is a locality located in the commune of Chimbarongo, in the Colchagua Province of the O’Higgins Region of Chile. Peor es Nada is an eminently rural locality and lives from fruit production (pears and apples), mostly concentrated in the San Ignacio estate. However, the construction of Convento Viejo Reservoir, threatens this source of beachs , since it would flood agricultural areas of the San…
BUYUKADA ISLAND TURKEY
The Prince Islands (Greek: Πριγκηπονήσια, Pringiponisia, Turkish: Prens Adaları; the word “princes” is plural, because the name means “Islands of the Princes”), officially just Adalar (English: Islands); alternatively the Prince Archipelago; are an archipelago off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. The islands constitute the Adalar district of Istanbul Province. They consist of four larger islands, Büyükada (“Big Island”) with an area of 5.46 km2 (2.11 sq mi), Heybeliada (“Saddlebag Island”) with an area of…
BAKO NATIONAL PARK KUCHING
Bako National Park is a national park in Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. Established in 1957, it is the oldest national park in Sarawak. It covers an area of 27.27 square kilometres (10.53 sq mi) at the tip of the Muara Tebas peninsula at the mouth of the Bako and Kuching Rivers. It is approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) by road from Kuching. Millions…
SKOWHEGAN MAINE USA
Skowhegan/skaʊˈhiːɡən/ is the county seat of Somerset County, Maine.[4] As of the 2010 census, the town population was 8,589. Every August, Skowhegan hosts the annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuously-held state fair in the United States. Skowhegan was originally inhabited by the indigenousAbenaki people who named the area Skowhegan, meaning “watching place [for fish],”[5] and were mostly dispersed by the end of the 4th Anglo-Abenaki War.[6]