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Great Grimsby
(Encyclopedia)Great Grimsby or Grimsby, city, North East Lincolnshire, E central England, at the mouth of the Humber River. It is one of the largest fishing ports...Gusau
(Encyclopedia)Gusau go͞ozouˈ [key], town (1991 est. pop. 139,000), NW Nigeria, on the Sokoto River. It is a regional trade center for peanuts, cotton, and tobacco. Industry has expanded with the development of te...Aydin
(Encyclopedia)Aydin īdŭnˈ [key], city, capital of Aydin prov., W Turkey, on the Büyük Menderes River. It is the trade center for a farm region where olives, figs, cotton, and tobac...Lugo
(Encyclopedia)Lugo lo͞oˈgō [key], city (1990 pop. 81,493), capital of Lugo prov., NW Spain, in Galicia, on the Miño River. The city is the processing and trade center for a fertile agricultural area. It has wel...Kastoría
(Encyclopedia)Kastoría kästôrēˈə [key], city (1991 pop. 15,710), capital of Kastoría prefecture, N Greece, in Macedonia, on a peninsula extending into Lake Kastoría. It is a market for farm produce, and it ...Sulphur, city, United States
(Encyclopedia)Sulphur, city (1990 pop. 20,125), Calcasieu parish, SW La.; inc. 1914. It is a trade center for an area producing natural gas, oil, and timber as well as sorghum, soybeans, cattle, and crawfish. Indus...Bellefontaine
(Encyclopedia)Bellefontaine bĕlfounˈtĭn, –fŏnˈtĭn [key], city (2020 pop. 13,433), seat of L...Big Spring
(Encyclopedia)Big Spring, city (2020 pop. 26,144), seat of Howard co., W central Tex.; inc. 1907. The spring for which it was named once fed a branch of the Colorado ...Secunderabad
(Encyclopedia)Secunderabad sĭkŭnˈdərəbädˌ [key], former city, Telangana state, S central India. Known as the twin city of Hyderabad, it has been a part of Hyderabad since 1960. Secunderabad is a railway junc...Saint Petersburg, city, Russia
(Encyclopedia)Saint Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, Rus. Sankt-Peterburg, city (1990 est. pop. 5,036,000), capital of the Leningrad region (although not administratively part of it) and the administrative center of...Browse by Subject
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