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chamber of commerce

(Encyclopedia)chamber of commerce, local association of business people organized to promote the welfare of their community, especially its commercial interests. Each chamber of commerce usually has an elected boar...

European Space Agency

(Encyclopedia)European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. Member states in...

Barry

(Encyclopedia)Barry, Welsh Barri, town and port, Vale of Glamorgan, S Wales, on the Bristol Channel. Once a major coal-exporting port, its more diversified export pro...

Gisborne

(Encyclopedia)Gisborne gĭzˈbôrn [key], city, East Coast North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay. It is a ...

Irvine, town, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Irvine ûrˈvĭn [key], town, North Ayrshire, SW Scotland, on the Irvine River estuary. Indus...

Puerto de Santa María

(Encyclopedia)Puerto de Santa María ᵺā sänˈtä märēˈä [key], town (1990 pop. 64,849), Cádiz prov., S Spain, in Andalusia, on the Bay of Cádiz at the mouth of the Guadalete River. It is a commercial cent...

Kenitra

(Encyclopedia)Kenitra kənēˈtrə [key], city (1994 pop. 292,627), NW Morocco, on the Sebou River. It is a port exporting agricultural products. The city was built by the French and called by them Port Lyautey. Am...

Demerara

(Encyclopedia)Demerara dĕmərârˈə [key], river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Guiana Highlands, E Guyana, and flowing N to the Atlantic Ocean. Georgetown, Guyana's chief port, is at the river's mouth. T...

Sept-Îles

(Encyclopedia)Sept-Îles sĕtēlˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 24,848), E Que., Canada, on the St. Lawrence River near its mouth. It is a major port exporting iron ore. The harbor was visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535,...

Gulf Cooperation Council

(Encyclopedia)Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), officially Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, organization (est. 1981) promoting stability and economic cooperation among Persian Gulf nations. Its me...