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Chaco

(Encyclopedia)Chaco, Chaco Austral, Chaco Boreal, Chaco Central, and Chaco War: see Gran Chaco. ...

El Jadida

(Encyclopedia)El Jadida -jädēˈdə [key], city, W Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean. Agricultural products are ...

Nanded

(Encyclopedia)Nanded dār [key], city (1991 pop. 309,316), Maharashtra state, S central India, on the Godavari River. Nanded is a district administrative center and is known for its fine muslin. A commercial center...

Weihai

(Encyclopedia)Weihai wāˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 184,500), NE Shandong prov., China, a seaport on the Bohai. The harbor is protected by Liugong Island. The city was part of a territory (c.285 sq mi/740 sq km)...

Erbil

(Encyclopedia)Erbil bīlˌ –bĭlˌ [key], city and capital of Kurdistan Region, N Iraq. A commercial, agr...

Umm Qasr

(Encyclopedia)Umm Qasr käsˈə [key] town, Basra prov., S Iraq, S of Basra on the Kuwait border. Located on an arm of the Persian Gulf, it is Iraq's second largest port, with deepwater facilities. ...

Tafilalt

(Encyclopedia)Tafilalt –lĕt [key], oasis in the Sahara, SE Morocco, c.530 sq mi (1,370 sq km). It has date groves and small trading settlements. After c.760 it was an independent kingdom for nearly two centuries...

Cubango

(Encyclopedia)Cubango ōkəvängˈgō [key], river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, rising in the highlands of central Angola, W central Africa, and flowing southeast, across the Caprivi Strip, Namibia, to the Okavango...

Nashik

(Encyclopedia)Nashik sĭk [key], town (1991 pop. 725,341), Maharashtra state, W central India. It is a center of textile manufacturing and sugar- and oil-processing. The ancient town of Panchavati, it is holy as th...

Vishakhapatnam

(Encyclopedia)Vishakhapatnam kˌəpŭtˈnəm [key], city (1991 pop. 1,057,118), Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, a port on the Bay of Bengal. Established by the British in the 17th cent. and known as Waltair under B...