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Grand Junction

(Encyclopedia)Grand Junction, city (2020 pop. 65,560), seat of Mesa co., W Colo., at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers; inc. 1891. The shipping and pro...

Anaconda, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Anaconda ănəkŏnˈdə [key], city (2020 pop. 9,162), seat of Deer Lodge co., SW Mont.; inc. 1887. Marcus Daly chose this place (1883) for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's ...

Germiston

(Encyclopedia)Germiston jûrˈmĭstən [key], city, now part and seat of Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa, on the Witwatersrand. The chief industries are gold mining and processi...

Ilkeston

(Encyclopedia)Ilkeston ĭlˈkĕstən [key], town , Derbyshire, central England. Iron and coal mines lie to the ...

Jujuy

(Encyclopedia)Jujuy ho͞ohwēˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 182,663), capital of Jujuy prov., NW Argentina, on the Bermejo River. In the scenic foothill region of the E Andes, it is the center of an agricultural, mining...

Dibrugarh

(Encyclopedia)Dibrugarh dĭbˈro͝ogər [key], city, Assam state, NE India, at the confluence of the Brahmaputra ...

Dimona

(Encyclopedia)Dimona dīmōˈnə [key] [Heb.,=wasting], town, S Israel, in the Negev Desert. It is the seat...

Cripple Creek

(Encyclopedia)Cripple Creek, village (2020 pop. 1,155), alt. 9,375 ft (2,858 m), seat of Teller co., central Colo.; inc. 1892. Primarily a summer resort, it was once ...

Ems, town, Germany

(Encyclopedia)Ems or Bad Ems bät ĕms [key], town, Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany, on the Lahn River. Chartered ...

Prince Rupert

(Encyclopedia)Prince Rupert, city (1991 pop. 16,620), W British Columbia, Canada, on Kaien Island, in Chatham Sound near the mouth of the Skeena River, S of the Alaska border. A railroad and highway terminus and an...