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Mount Lu or Lushan [1] (simplified Chinese: 庐山; traditional Chinese: 廬山; pinyin: Lúshān, Gan: Lu-san) is a mountain situated in Jiujiang, China.It was also known as Kuanglu in ancient times.
National Highway 28 links the industrial town of Barauni in Bihar with the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, via Gorakhpur.It spans across the districts of Begusarai, Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, East Champaran and Gopalganj in Bihar and Kushinagar, Deoria, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Basti, Ayodhya, Barabanki and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and touches some major cities and towns on the way.
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
Zhangye National Geopark (simplified Chinese: 张掖国家地质公园; traditional Chinese: 張掖國家地質公園; pinyin: Zhāngyè Guójiā Dìzhìgōngyuán) is located in Sunan and Linze counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China.
The map shows 500 settlements and a dozen rivers in China, and includes large parts of Korea and Vietnam. On the reverse side of Huayi tu is the gridded Yu Ji Tu (Map of the Tracks of Yu the Great). [7] This map is the earliest surviving example of lattice cartographic grid found in Chinese map, a system first introduced in China a millennium ...
The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps , but the interruptions are chosen to lie in the ocean.
Bhutan, [a] officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, [b] [14] (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ; Wylie: 'Druk gyal khab) is a landlocked country in South Asia, situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south, with the Indian state of Sikkim separating it from neighbouring Nepal.
An Lushan (Chinese: 安祿山; pinyin: Ān Lùshān; 20th day of the 1st month [4] (19 February) 703 [2] – 29 January 757 [3]) was a Chinese military general and rebel leader during the Tang dynasty and is primarily known for instigating the An Lushan Rebellion which devastated China and killed millions of people.