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Kwik Fit, Bermondsey (2010) The Kwik Fit Financial Services arm of the business, was sold by PAI to Fortis Insurance UK, now Ageas (UK) Limited, for a figure of £215m in July 2010. [5] The tyre retailing and service centre business was bought by Itochu Corporation in March 2011. [6] [7]
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Geography of Europe; Several of the oldest cities of Northwestern Europe are highlighted in this astronaut's photograph from 00:25 GMT on 10 August 2011: Area: 10,180,000 km 2 (3,930,000 sq mi) (6th) Population: 742,452,000 (2013; 3rd) Population density: 72.9/km 2 (188/sq mi) (2nd) Demonym: European: Countries: 50 sovereign states 5 with ...
Lowest points of countries (75 P) Maps by country (40 C) Micronations by country (14 C) ... Geography of the Republic of Ireland (17 C, 3 P)
This is one of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]
Ireland is an island in Northern Europe in the north Atlantic Ocean.The island, of up to around 480 km (300 mi) north-south, and 275 km (171 mi) east-west, lies near the western edge of the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate.
[6] [7] After building the chain to become the world's largest independent tyre and automotive repair specialists with over 2,000 centres operating in 18 different countries, Farmer sold the firm to Ford in 1999 for more than £1 billion.