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Linxia

(Encyclopedia)Linxia or Linsia both: lĭn-shēä [key], city (1994 est. pop. 88,200), SE Gansu prov., China. The city is a gateway to the Tibetan areas near the Qinghai and Sichuan borders. It trades in hides and w...

Lake Worth

(Encyclopedia)Lake Worth, city (1990 pop. 28,564), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on Lake Worth (a lagoon); inc. 1913. It is a residential suburb and resort center popular for its bathing and fishing facilities. Sports e...

Moreton Bay Region

(Encyclopedia)Moreton Bay Region, local government area (2016 pop. 425,302), SE Queensland, Australia, on Moreton Bay N of Brisbane. Encompasing 787 sq mi (2,037 sq km), the region was formed in 2008 by the amalgam...

Livonia, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Livonia lĭvōnˈyə [key], city (1990 pop. 100,850), Wayne co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit; founded 1835, inc. 1950. Among its manufactures are transportation equipment, plastic and steel products...

Maisons-Alfort

(Encyclopedia)Maisons-Alfort māzôNz-älfôrˈ [key], suburb SE of Paris (1990 pop. 54,065), Val-de-Marne dept., N central France. There is some agriculture, but it is mainly an industrial town producing chemicals...

Majdanek

(Encyclopedia)Majdanek or Maidanek mīdäˈnĕk [key], village, Lubelskie prov., SE Poland, a suburb of Lublin. The Germans established and operated a concentration camp there in World War II. An estimated 170,000 ...

Lynbrook

(Encyclopedia)Lynbrook, village (1990 pop. 19,208), Nassau co., SE N.Y.; inc. 1911. It is a suburb of New York City on the south shore of Long Island. There is sheet-metal and furniture manufacture. Old Church date...

Medicine Bow Mountains

(Encyclopedia)Medicine Bow Mountains, outlying eastern range of the Rocky Mts., SE Wyo. and N Colo. It extends from Medicine Bow town, Wyo., NW of Laramie, southward c.100 mi (160 km) to Cameron Pass, Colo. Peaks i...

Mehunim

(Encyclopedia)Mehunim mĕyo͞oˈ– [key], in the Bible, Canaanite tribe, located SE of Petra, near the modern Maan (Jordan). ...

Kongsberg

(Encyclopedia)Kongsberg kôngsˈbĕr [key], city (1995 pop. 21,534), Buskerud co., SE Norway, on the Lågen River. It is a commercial, industrial, and winter sports center and has a hydroelectric power plant. Forme...