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Dawson

(Encyclopedia)Dawson or Dawson City, city, W Yukon, Canada, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers. It is the trade center of the Klondike mining region a...

Dimitrovgrad

(Encyclopedia)Dimitrovgrad dĭmēˈtrôvgrät [key], city, S Bulgaria, on the Maritsa River. Located on the ...

Beja

(Encyclopedia)Beja bāˈzhə [key], town, S Portugal, capital of Beja dist. and Baixo Alentejo. It is an im...

Omuta

(Encyclopedia)Omuta –dä [key], city (1990 pop. 150,453), Fukuoka prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan, a port on the Amakusa Sea. With conversion from coal to petroleum in the 1960s, Omuta's coal mining decreased, which ...

Paraná, state, Brazil

(Encyclopedia)Paraná pərənäˈ [key], state (1996 pop. 8,985,981), 77,048 sq mi (199,554 sq km), S Brazil, on the borders of Paraguay and Argentina and the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Curitiba. After coffee, ...

Fleurus

(Encyclopedia)Fleurus flörüsˈ [key], town, Hainaut prov., S Belgium. It is a coal-mining and manufacturi...

Iwaki

(Encyclopedia)Iwaki ēwäˈkē [key], city, Fukushima prefecture, NE Honshu, Japan, on the Pacific Ocean. O...

Hachinohe

(Encyclopedia)Hachinohe hächēˈnōhā [key], city, Aomori prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on the Oirase River and ...

Hefei

(Encyclopedia)Hefei or Hofei both: hô-fā [key], city (1994 est. pop. 866,800), capital of Anhui prov., China. A rapidly growing industrial city, it has textile mills, ironworks and steelworks, chemical and food p...

Kalgoorlie

(Encyclopedia)Kalgoorlie kălgo͝orˈlē [key], town, Western Australia, SW Australia. Since 1989 part of the extensive city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder (2016 pop. 30,059), 36,902 sq mi (95,575 sq km), it is the chief mi...