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  2. Lists of places - Wikipedia

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    List of current and former capital cities within U.S. states; List of metropolitan areas by population; List of the world's most populous cities; List of cities in India; List of planned cities; List of city nicknames in the United States; List of towns; List of places in London; List of Brooklyn, New York neighborhoods; List of Manhattan, New ...

  3. Address geocoding - Wikipedia

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    Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. [1]

  4. What3words - Wikipedia

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    For example, the front door of 10 Downing Street in London is identified by ///slurs.this.shark. [4] What3words differs from most location encoding systems in that it uses words rather than strings of numbers or letters, and the pattern of this mapping is not obvious; the algorithm mapping locations to words is copyrighted. [5]

  5. Third place - Wikipedia

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    This barber shop in Brazil is an example of a third place. In many societies, barber shops and beauty salons are traditional areas to congregate separate from work or home. In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second ...

  6. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Russian, the format "Ozero X-ozero" (i.e. "Lake X-lake") is used. In English, it is usual to do the same for foreign names, even if they already describe the feature, for example Lake Kemijärvi ( Lake Kemi-lake ), " Faroe Islands " ( Literally Sheep -Island Islands, as øy is Modern Faroese for " Island ") , or Saaremaa island ...

  7. List of archipelagos - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of archipelagos, organised by oceans then seas and finally arranged alphabetically. Geographically isolated islands are included as well. Geographically isolated islands are included as well.

  8. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) - Wikipedia

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    Specific national conventions may take precedence though. Rivers can also be disambiguated by the body of water into which they flow. Generic parenthetical disambiguating tags as used for most Wikipedia articles are used only occasionally for geographic names (as in Wolin (town) , where no regional tag would be sufficient to distinguish the ...

  9. Geotagging - Wikipedia

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    Users may also use a feature that allows them to find nearby Facebook friends by generating a list of people according to the location tracker in their mobile devices. [2] Instagram uses a map feature that allows users to geotag photos. The map layout pin points specific photos that the user has taken on a world map.