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Yining

(Encyclopedia)Yining go͝olˈjäˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 197,500), W Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, on the Ili River in the Dzungarian basin. An old commercial center trading in tea and cattle, it i...

New Taipei City

(Encyclopedia)New Taipei City tībāˈ [key], special municipality (2010 pop. 4,054,467), c.790 sq mi (2,050 sq km), N Taiwan, the most populous municipality in Taiwan. Formerly Taipei co., it was established as a ...

Kozhikode

(Encyclopedia)Kozhikode kăˈlĭkət [key], city (1991 pop. 419,531), Kerala state, SW India, on the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Once the leading port of S India, it declined in the 19th cent. but remains the...

Guwahati

(Encyclopedia)Guwahati gouhäˈtē [key], city, Assam state, NE India, on the Brahmaputra River. It is a ra...

agrimony

(Encyclopedia)agrimony ăgˈrĭmōˌnē [key], any plant of the genus Agrimonia, perennials of the family Rosaceae (rose family) native to north temperate zones, to Brazil, and to Africa. They are found wild in the...

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

(Encyclopedia)Mackintosh, Charles Rennie măkˈəntŏshˌ [key], 1868–1928, Scottish architect, artist, and furniture designer. Probably the greatest architect and designer Scotland has produced, he attempted to ...

Say, Allen

(Encyclopedia)Say, Allen, 1937–, Japanese-American writer and illustrator of children's books, b. Yokohama, Japan, as James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii. After an apprentceship with a well-known cartoonist, the bas...

Coimbatore

(Encyclopedia)Coimbatore kwĭmbətôrˈ [key], city, Tamil Nadu state, SE India. Commanding the eastern approach ...

Darjeeling

(Encyclopedia)Darjeeling or Darjiling both: därjēlˈĭng [key], town, West Bengal state, NE India, ne...

Ulan-Ude

(Encyclopedia)Ulan-Ude o͞olänˌ-o͞odĕˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 353,000), capital of the Buryat Republic, SE Siberian Russia, on the Selenga River near its confluence with the Uda. A major transportation hub, it...