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Ladysmith, originally Oyster Harbour, [3] is a town located on the 49th parallel north on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The local economy is based on forestry, tourism, and agriculture.
At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.
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.
Rank Subnational flag [note 6] Coat of arms/seal [note 7] Common name [note 8] Capital Largest city Sovereign state Area Population Rank within sovereign state Population density
The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a salient roughly 200 miles (320 km) long, bordered by Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Its eastern boundary is arbitrarily defined.
56 provinces (provincias) 346 communes (comunas) neighborhood units (unidades vecinales) [15] China, People's Republic of Regional 23 provinces (shěng) (including Taiwan Province, which is claimed but not administered) 5 autonomous regions (zìzhìqū) 4 municipalities (zhíxiáshì) 2 Special administrative regions (tè bié xíng zhèng qū)
Ladysmith Island, Queensland, Australia, an island in Smith Islands National Park; Other. Ladysmith, a 1999 novel by Giles Foden; ...
The Digital Chart of the World (DCW), which uses the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid, reports the border on average at latitude 48° 59′ 51″ north, roughly 270 metres (886 ft) south of the modern 49th parallel. It ranges between 48° 59′ 25″ and 49° 0′ 10″ north, 810 metres (2,657 ft) and 590 metres (1,936 ft) on either side of the average.