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Encarnación
(Encyclopedia)Encarnación ĕngkärnäsyōnˈ [key], city, capital of Itapúa dept., SE Paraguay, a port on the ...Enfield, borough, Greater London, England
(Encyclopedia)Enfield, outer borough of Greater London, SE England. It is residential, with important concentrations of industry. Rifles, electrical products, boilers...Semnan
(Encyclopedia)Semnan sĕmnänˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 75,131), capital of Semnan prov., N Iran. It is the trade and transportation center of a fertile agricultural region. Manufactures of the city include textiles...Prilep
(Encyclopedia)Prilep prēˈlĕp [key], city (1994 pop. 71,899), North Macedonia. It is the trade center of an agricultural region and a manufacturing city where tobacco, textiles, wine, and fruit are produced. Pril...Banská Bystrica
(Encyclopedia)Banská Bystrica bänˈskä bĭsˈtrĭtsäˌ [key], city, central Slovakia, at the ju...Baoji
(Encyclopedia)Baoji or Paoki both: bou-jē [key], city (1994 est. pop. 379,400), SW Shaanxi prov., China, on the Wei River. On the Longhai RR, it is an important junction point for the line to Chengdu, in Sichuan p...Sarpsborg
(Encyclopedia)Sarpsborg särpsˈbôr [key], city (1995 pop. 46,474), Ostfold co., SE Norway, a port on the Glåma River near its mouth in the Oslofjord. Manufactures include forest products, chemicals, textiles, an...Sankt Pölten
(Encyclopedia)Sankt Pölten zängkt pölˈtən [key], city (1991 pop. 50,026), Lower Austria prov., N central Austria. It is an industrial center and rail junction. Manufactures include chemicals, office furniture,...Salzgitter
(Encyclopedia)Salzgitter zältsˈgĭtˈər [key], city (1994 pop. 117,684), Lower Saxony, N central Germany. Situated in one of the richest iron-ore producing regions in W Germany, it has blast furnaces, steel plan...San Cristóbal, city, Venezuela
(Encyclopedia)San Cristóbal sän krēstōˈbäl [key], city (1990 pop. 220,675), capital of Táchira state, W Venezuela, in a mountainous region near the Colombian border. It is a commercial, transportation, and i...Browse by Subject
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