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Eure-et-Loir

(Encyclopedia)Eure-et-Loir ör-ā-lwär [key], department, N France. Chartres is the capital. ...

Urawa

(Encyclopedia)Urawa o͞oräˈwä [key], city (1990 pop. 418,271), capital of Saitama prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. A suburb of the Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area, it is a commercial and industrial center. ...

Heredia

(Encyclopedia)Heredia, city (1995 est. pop. 29,200), capital of Heredia prov., central Costa Rica. On the central plateau, it is a center of the coffee and cattle industries and, with its colonial architecture, a t...

Isparta

(Encyclopedia)Isparta ĭspärˈtä [key], city, capital of Isparta prov., W central Turkey. It is a manufac...

Guadalajara, town, Spain

(Encyclopedia)Guadalajara, town, capital of Guadalajara prov., central Spain, in Castile–La Mancha, on the Henares River. Its economy is mainly agricultural. It flo...

Kangar

(Encyclopedia)Kangar kängˌärˈ [key], town (1991 pop. 48,948), capital of Perlis state, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula, on the Perlis River. It is a port and the center of a rice-growing region. ...

Kateríni

(Encyclopedia)Kateríni kätərēˈnē [key], city (1991 pop. 45,281), capital of Piería prefecture, N Greece, in Macedonia. It is the commercial center for a productive tobacco-growing region. Salt and flour are ...

Xánthi

(Encyclopedia)Xánthi or Xanthe both: ksänˈthē [key], city (1991 pop. 37,463), capital of Xánthi prefecture, NE Greece, in Thrace. Tobacco and wheat are grown. The city has a sizable Muslim minority. ...

Yonne

(Encyclopedia)Yonne yôn [key], department (1990 pop. 324,600), N central France. Auxerre is the capital. ...

Cantal

(Encyclopedia)Cantal käNtälˈ [key], department, S central France, in Auvergne. Aurillac is the capital. ...