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The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry). Streets are connected by intersection points to form a street grid. Both kinds of items may have textual descriptions and photos attached to them.
Karachi's city limits also include several islands, including Baba and Bhit Islands, Oyster Rocks, and Manora, a former island which is now connected to the mainland by a thin 12-kilometre long shoal known as Sandspit. Gulistan-e-Johar, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Federal B. Area, Malir, Landhi and Korangi areas were all developed after 1970. The city has ...
Karachi was known as Khurachee Scinde (i.e. Karachi, Sindh) during the early British colonial rule. An old image of Karachi from 1889 Karachi map, 1911 St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi An image from 1930 of Elphinstone Street, Karachi Karachi Municipal Corporation Building, inaugurated in 1932
Machar Colony ( Urdu: مچھر کالونی) (Bengali: মাছাব় কলোনি) or Machiara Colony ( Urdu: مچھیرا کالونی) (Bengali: মাছিয়াব়া কলোনি) is an unplanned settlement in Karachi, Pakistan, located near the Port of Karachi and Lyari. The settlement is spread over an area of almost 4 ...
Mecca (/ ˈ m ɛ k ə /; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam. It is 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley 277 m (909 ft) above sea level. Its last recorded population was ...
The Mecca Province ( Arabic: مِنْطَقَة مَكَّة, romanized : Minṭaqat Makka, [a] Arabic pronunciation: [ˈmin.tˤa.qat ˈmak.ka] ), officially Makkah Province, [2] is one of the 13 provinces of Saudi Arabia. It is the third-largest province by area at 153,128 km 2 (59,123 sq mi) and the most populous with a population of ...
Twin towns of Burhaniye Map of Turkey. This is a list of places in Turkey which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Hajj (/ h ɑː dʒ /; Arabic: حَجّ, romanized: Ḥajj; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and of supporting their ...