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A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest ... The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection ...

Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...

Cataratas del Iguazú) is a majestic area of cataracts on the Iguazu River ... The area consists of a network of 275 waterfalls spanning an area ...

The Serengeti Plain, located in north-central Tanzania, (Africa) is ... A significant portion of the Serengeti Plain is protected and preserved ...

tenth century, Timbuktu is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...

Robben Island (Afrikaans Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, ... Initially a stopping point for passing ships in the sixteenth and ...

Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof (the most widely spoken ... north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially ...

The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country ... In 1989 UNESCO listed the Bandiagara Escarpment as a World Heritage ...

Wat Phou (Vat Phu) is a Khmer ruined temple complex in southern Laos ... from the Mekong river in Champassak province. Previously named Shrestapura ...

Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site ... Cannons were first mounted on Brimstone Hill in 1690, when the British ...

Mountain") mountains are the tallest in Southern Africa, rising at ... The mountains contain a diversity of habitats which protect a large ...

Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...

and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south ... architecture, most notably the Great Mosque of Djenné, considered by many ...

Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to ... Evidence hints that Christians have been in India almost for as long as ...

Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces ... theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while ...

) sits in Southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast ... , Lake Baikal constitutes the deepest lake in the world, and the largest ...

) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...

), denotes an archeological site located in Nong Han district, Udon ... Radiocarbon tests in the 1970s revised that date to 2100 B.C.E. to ...

Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...

Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages ... crime-free environment, and for being one of the cleanest cities of Africa ...

The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... Located in the open ocean between the South American and African continents ...

) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...

Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia, 56 miles (90 km) southwest ... Potosí is a city deeply reflective of the pain of colonialism. From ...

Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... it was built by Cronus as the first city in Phoenicia. Today it is believed ...

known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, in Rajasthan, India, has become ... has been endemic to wildlife environments in nations rapidly developing ...

metal and jade-inlaid pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China ... archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...

[[Image:Stećak.jpg|thumb|250px|Radimlja necropolis of stećak in ... place. Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries ...

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...

Madeira is an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is one ... is considered to be the first discovery of the exploratory period initiated ...

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...

megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire ... The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list ...

) is a large seaport city on the northern coast of Colombia. Founded ... slave market. It saw expansive development in the eighteenth century as the ...

[[Image:Louvre at night centered.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Louvre ... later made public. There are different types of museums all over the world ...

Kaziranga National Park, a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon ... Kaziranga hosts a vast expanse of tall elephant grass, marshland and ...

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...

) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost ... Over the course of its existence, Lisbon has both flourished and suffered ...

The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...

A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...

, also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...

) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova ... the poet Dante lived, where Saint Anthony of Padua is buried, and as the ...

The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... famous dye Tyrian purple. The dye was used in ancient textile trade, and ...

Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...

city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. human habitation more than 7,000 years ago. In the modern era, Spanish settlement ...

as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the ... Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ...

is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...

The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island ... Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world ...

[[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia.jpg|thumb|250px ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...

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; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... Since its establishment in 723 B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital ...

#039;ing) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...

Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...

Parrot is the common name for any of the tropical and subtropical ... There are roughly 350 species in 85 genera making up the order. These ...

Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...

London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...

Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... The decision to undertake a cross-channel invasion in 1944 was taken ...

), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...

Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... liberties; the press is among the freest in the region. The native Qatari ...

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean. Its people, culture ...

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...

Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...

and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España ), is a country located in Southern Europe, with two small exclaves ...

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... by Greeks and Romans. It is a successor of the powerful European Bulgarian ...