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Kisarazu

(Encyclopedia)Kisarazu kēsäräˈzo͞o [key], city (1990 pop. 123,433), Chiba prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. It is a residential and industrial suburb of Tokyo noted for its Shojoji (Buddhist) ...

Karlskoga

(Encyclopedia)Karlskoga kärlˈsko͞oˌgä [key], city (1990 pop. 31,110), Örebro co., S Sweden; chartered 1940. An industrial center, it is the seat of the Bofors iron and armaments works and has other industries...

Natashkwan

(Encyclopedia)Natashkwan nătˌăshkwŏnˈ, nətăshˈkwən [key], river, 241 mi (388 km) long, rising in S Labrador, N.L., Canada, and flowing S across E Que. to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It is noted for trout and...

Funabashi

(Encyclopedia)Funabashi fo͞onäˈbäshē [key], city, Chiba prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. An ...

Huddersfield

(Encyclopedia)Huddersfield, city, Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England, on the Colne River. Its textile industry, including cotton, woolen, and rayon goo...

Inhulets

(Encyclopedia)Inhulets ēnho͞olyĕtsˈ [key], Rus. Ingulets, river, c.340 mi (550 km) long, in Ukraine. Rising in the Kirovohrad region, it flows through the Kryvyy Rih iron district and then south to join the Dni...

Alhambra, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Alhambra ălhămˈbrə [key], city (2020 pop. 82,868), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb E of Los Angeles; inc. 1903. It has iron and aluminum foundries and manufactures...

Ellesmere Port

(Encyclopedia)Ellesmere Port, town, Cheshire West and Chester, W central England. Ellesmere Port is located on the Manchester Ship Canal near its junction with the Sh...

Yangquan

(Encyclopedia)Yangquan yängˈchüänˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 402,300), E central Shanxi prov., China, on the highway and railroad linking Taiyuan with Hebei prov. The center of an important coal-producing ar...

Weald, the

(Encyclopedia)Weald, the wēld [key], area between the North Downs and the South Downs, SE England, forming part of the counties of East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, and Kent. Formerly forested and once noted for i...