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Mount Gongga Northwest Ridge Orthographic projection centred over Gongga Shan. Mount Gongga (simplified Chinese: 贡嘎山; traditional Chinese: 貢嘎山; pinyin: Gònggá Shān), also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan: མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ་, Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo) and colloquially as "The King of Sichuan Mountains", is the ...
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or from sea level if there is no higher peak. The lowest point on that route is the col . For full definitions and explanations of topographic prominence , key col , and parent , see topographic prominence .
Mount Kosciuszko is considerably easier to climb, being a four-hour, grade 3 return walk from the nearest car park, [12] while Puncak Jaya is classed as a mountaineering expedition with technical climbing, an approach through dense jungle and the need to charter an aircraft.
City Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide. [2] City Island is located at the extreme western end of Long Island Sound , south of Pelham Bay Park , and east of Eastchester Bay .
Istanbul is known as the City on the Seven Hills (Turkish: Yedi tepeli şehir). The city has inherited this denomination from Byzantine Constantinople which – consciously following [citation needed] the model of Rome – was built on seven hills too.
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Merter is a rapid transit station on the M1 line of the Istanbul Metro located in southern Güngören. [2] It was opened on 31 January 1994 as part of the Otogar - Zeytinburnu extension and is one of the five stations of this extension.
Levent, one of the city's three main business districts together with Maslak and Ataşehir. Istanbul is one of the largest cities in Turkey, and is the country's economic and social center. As of October 2020, the city is home to 47 skyscrapers (buildings at least 150 m (490 ft) tall), which is the most in Europe, [1] as well as hundreds of ...