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Cockburn Town

(Encyclopedia) Cockburn Town, town (2021 pop. 4,831), capital of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands, located on…

Front Royal

(Encyclopedia) Front Royal, city (2020 pop. 15,382), seat of Warren co., N Va., at the junction of South and North forks of Shenandoah River, inc. 1788…

Great Sandy Desert

(Encyclopedia) Great Sandy Desert, Australia's second-largest desert, c.110,000 sq mi (284,900 sq km), Western Australia and Northern Territory. Lying between the Tanami Desert (NE) and the Gibson…

Ventura

(Encyclopedia) VenturaVenturavĕnt&oomacr;ˈrə [key], city (1990 pop. 92,575), seat of Ventura co., SW Calif., on the Pacific coast in a farm and oil region; inc. 1866. Fruit and vegetable packing…

Sylt

(Encyclopedia) SyltSyltzĭlt, Ger. zült [key], island (1994 pop. 5,543), 36 sq mi (93 sq km), Schleswig-Holstein, N Germany, in the North Sea. It is the largest of the North Frisian Islands and is…

Travel Statistics

The World's Top Tourism Destinations Tourism by World Region International Destinations of American Tourists, 2004 World's Top Ten Tourism Earners, 2004 Season of U.S. Travel in…

Moreno, Lenín

(Encyclopedia) Moreno, Lenín (Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés), 1953–, Ecuadorian political leader, president of Ecuador (2017–). Moreno was a manager in the private sector for several years before…

Malmédy

(Encyclopedia) MalmédyMalmédymälmādēˈ [key], commune (1991 pop. 10,291), Liège prov., E Belgium, near the German border. Economic mainstays are tourism and the manufacture of beer, paper, and tanning…

Ise

(Encyclopedia) Ise Ise ēˈsā [key], city, Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the…

Kittery

(Encyclopedia) KitteryKitterykĭtˈərē [key], town (1990 pop. 9,372), York co., extreme SW Maine, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River opposite Portsmouth, N.H.; inc. 1647. Its economy centers around…