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La Porte (named by French explorers travelling up from the south, this area was the first clearing or "door" out of the heavy woods to the south.) [114] La Porte County [114] Lafayette (named for the French general, Marquis de Lafayette) [113] LaGrange County [113] Leroy [114] Ligonier; Marion County (named for Francis Marion) [112]: 98 ...
The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.. The city of Paris is about 15 km (9 mi) south of the 49th parallel and is the largest city between the 48th and 49th parallels.
Nanchang National Export Expressing Zone is located in Nanchang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, it was approved by the State Council on May 8, 2006, and passed the national acceptance inspection on Sep 7th, 2007. It has a planning area of 1 km 2 and now has built 0.31 km 2. It enjoys simple and convenient customs clearances, and special ...
This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
An edge city is a term coined by Joel Garreau's in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, for a place in a metropolitan area, outside cities' original downtowns (thus, in the suburbs or, if within the city limits of the central city, an area of suburban density), with a large concentration of jobs, office space, and retail space.
Nanchang County (Chinese: 南昌县; pinyin: Nánchāng Xiàn) is a county of Jiangxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nanchang, the provincial capital. The population in 1999 was 986,031. [1]
South America 2022 [194] Município: Heze China 1,293,767 Asia 2020 [1] Prefecture-level city (urban) Guarulhos Brazil 1,291,771 South America 2022 [195] Municipio: Dallas United States 1,288,457 North America 2021 [196] City: Rajkot India 1,286,995 Asia 2011 [2] Municipal corporation: Onitsha Nigeria 1,285,000 Africa 2018 [197] Urban area ...
France, [X] officially the French Republic, [XI] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.