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North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic...

Bonaire (/bɒˈnɛər/ bon-AIR, Dutch: [boːˈnɛːr(ə)] ; Papiamento: [bʊˈne̝i̯ru]) is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles, and is a special municipality...

The Bay of Biscay (/ˈbɪskeɪ, -ki/ BIS-kay, kee) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast...

Loyalty Islands Province (French: Province des îles Loyauté) is one of the three top-level administrative subdivisions of New Caledonia. It encompasses...

Nordland (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈnûːrlɑn] ; Lule Sami: Nordlánnda, Southern Sami: Nordlaante, Northern Sami: Nordlánda, English: Northland) is one...

The Moselle (/moʊˈzɛl/ moh-ZEL, French: [mɔzɛl] ; German: Mosel [ˈmoːzl̩] ; Luxembourgish: Musel [ˈmuzəl] ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains...

A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnín ("little ridge"), first recorded in 1833, in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted...

The City of Louisville (/ˈluːɪsvɪl/ ) is a home rule municipality located in southeastern Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The city population...

The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE /ænˈɑːri/ ann-AR-ee) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) administered...

Londonderry is a town in western Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. It sits between Manchester and Derry, the largest and fourth-largest...

Recreational dive sites are specific places that recreational scuba divers go to enjoy the underwater environment or for training purposes. They include...

Red Wing is a city and the county seat of Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the upper Mississippi River. The population was 16,547 at the...

Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the...

The IJsselmeer (Dutch: [ɛisəlˈmeːr]; West Frisian: Iselmar, Dutch Low Saxon: Iesselmeer), also known as Lake IJssel in English, is a closed-off inland...

Pétion-Ville (Haitian Creole: Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the...

Lake Oroville is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California. The lake is situated...

Rapid Bay is a locality that includes a small seaside town and bay on the west coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. It lies within the District...

The Aitcho Islands (‘Aitcho’ standing for ‘H.O.’ i.e. ‘Hydrographic Office’) are a group of minor islands on the west side of the north entrance to English...

Lebanon is a small country in the Eastern Mediterranean, located at approximately 34˚N, 35˚E. It stretches along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean...

The Ordos Desert (simplified Chinese: 鄂尔多斯沙漠; traditional Chinese: 鄂爾多斯沙漠; pinyin: È'ěrduōsī Shāmò) is a desert/steppe region in Northwest China, administered...

Unguja (also referred to as "Zanzibar Island" or simply "Zanzibar", in Ancient Greek: Μενουθιάς, romanized: Menuthias – as mentioned in The Periplus of...

Grafton is a city in the State of North Dakota and the county seat of Walsh County. As of the 2020 Census, the city of Grafton had a population of 4,170...

Lake Tuz (Turkish: Tuz Gölü meaning 'Salt Lake'; anciently Tatta — Ancient Greek: Τάττα, Latin: Tatta Lacus) was the second largest lake in Turkey with...

Ruisui Township is a rural township located in southern Hualien County, Taiwan, and has a population of 10,944 inhabitants in 11 villages. The population...

Bishkek Batken Jalal-Abad Naryn Osh Talas Karakol Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked nation in Central Asia, west of the People's Republic of China. Less than...

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, located on Utsteinen Nunatak in Queen Maud Land, is a Belgian scientific polar research station, which went into service...

Røst is a small island municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality...

Geotourism is tourism associated with geological attractions and destinations. Geotourism (tourism with a geological base) deals with the abiotic natural...

Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care. Medical geography...

Clear Lake (Pomo: Lypoyomi) is a natural freshwater lake in Lake County in the U.S. state of California, north of Napa County and San Francisco. It is...

Annenkov Island is an island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, to the west of the main island of South Georgia. The Pickersgill Islands...

Sea Cliff is a village located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States...

Beinn Dearg (one of a number of Scottish hills of that name) is a mountain in the Inverlael area of the Highlands of Scotland. It is most frequently climbed...

The River Wylye (/ˈwaɪli/ WY-lee) is a chalk stream in the south of England, with clear water flowing over gravel. It is popular with anglers for fly fishing...

Ferdows County (Persian: شهرستان فردوس) is in South Khorasan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Ferdows. At the 2006 census, the county's population...

Iklin (Maltese: L-Iklin) is a village in the Central Region of Malta, with a population of 3,247 as at 2021. Iklin was established in the mid-20th century;...

Ashampstead is a small village and civil parish in the rural area between Reading, Newbury and Streatley in Berkshire, England. The parish population is...

Hwange National Park (formerly Wankie Game Reserve) is the largest natural reserve in Zimbabwe. It is around 14,600 sq km in area. It lies in the northwest...

Arunachal Pradesh is primarily a hilly tract nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas in northeast India. It is spread over an area of 83,743 km2 (32...

A recursive island or lake, also known as a nested island or lake, is an island or a lake that lies within a lake or an island. For the purposes of defining...

Endwell is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in the town of Union in Broome County, New York, United States. Its population was 11,446 at...

Mount Baume (54°39′S 36°13′W / 54.650°S 36.217°W / -54.650; -36.217) is a mountain, 1,910 metres (6,270 ft) high, rising midway along the north flank...

Honey Creek (also Honeycreek) is an unincorporated community located in the town of Spring Prairie, Walworth County, and Rochester, Racine County, both...

Wādī al-Ḥītān (Arabic: وادي الحيتان, lit. 'Wadi of the Whales' Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈwa.diː elˈħit.æːn] ) is a paleontological site in the Faiyum...

Knockoura (Irish: Cnoc Cumhra) is a mountain on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. At an elevation of 490 metres Knockoura is one of the Irish...

Lake Zrewar , also known as Zrewar or Zrewar (Kurdish: Zrêbar or Zrêwar, زرێبار), (Persian: زریوار Zarivār), is a lake in the Zagros Mountains, within...

Mount Stanley Baldwin is a mountain located in the Premier Range of the Cariboo Mountains in the east-central interior of British Columbia, Canada. The...

8km 5miles Ernst Thälmann island    The Ernst Thälmann Island (Spanish: Cayo Ernesto Thaelmann or Cayo Blanco del Sur; German: Ernst-Thälmann-Insel or...

The Tyuleniy Archipelago (Kazakh: Түлен аралдары Tülen araldary, Russian: Тюленьи острова), is an island group in the north-eastern Caspian Sea off the...

The Gaspereau River is a river in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a length of approximately 24 km from its source at Gaspereau Lake on the South...

Cleft Island, also known as Skull Rock, is a small, rugged, granite island in the Anser group of islands to the south-west of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria...

Hoyvík is a town in the Faroe Islands. It is part of the Tórshavn Municipality, and de facto is merged as a northern suburb of Tórshavn, the Faroese capital...

Walchensee or Lake Walchen is one of the deepest and largest alpine lakes in Germany, with a maximum depth of 192.3 metres (631 ft) and an area of 16.4...

Pinehill or Pine Hill is a census-designated place in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is located on the Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation. The...

Ramgram is a town and municipality that is the capital of the Nawalparasi (West of Bardaghat Susta) District in Lumbini Province of Nepal. At the time...

Carpenter is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 87 at the 2020 census. Carpenter is located at 43°24′56″N 93°1′2″W / 43...

The Oostvaardersplassen (Dutch pronunciation: [oːstˈfaːrdərsˌplɑsə(n)]) is a nature reserve in the Netherlands, managed by the Staatsbosbeheer (state forestry...

Yushan National Park (Chinese: 玉山國家公園; pinyin: Yù Shān Gúojiā Gōngyuán) is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan and was named after the summit Yushan...

Spatial epidemiology is a subfield of epidemiology focused on the study of the spatial distribution of health outcomes; it is closely related to health...

Lough Hyne (/lɒx ˈhaɪn/; Irish: Loch Oighinn, meaning 'lake of the cauldron') is a fully marine sea lough in West Cork, Ireland, about 5 km southwest of...

Dashli ada (Azerbaijani: Daşlı ada), Ignat Dash or Kamen Ignatiya (Russian: Камень Игнатия, lit. 'Ignatius Rock') is an island in the Caspian Sea. It is...

El Totumo Mud Volcano (Spanish: Volcán de Lodo El Totumo) is an active mud volcano located near sea level in northern Colombia in the municipality of Santa...

Minkébé National Park (French: Parc National de Minkébé) is a national park in the extreme northeast of Gabon. It covers an area of 7,570 km2. The WWF...

Ensdorf (German pronunciation: [ˈɛnsˌdɔʁf]) is a municipality in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria in Germany. Apart from Ensdorf the municipality...

Samhah or Samha (Arabic: سمحة) is an inhabited island in the Guardafui Channel. A part of the Socotra archipelago, it is located between the island of...

Climate change is evident in Kyrgyzstan. Among the countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is the third most vulnerable to the effects...

Gold Point, Nevada is a well-preserved historic mining town in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The community was named after the local gold-mining industry....

Navizon, Inc. is a provider of location-based services and products. Navizon was an early developer of technology that makes it possible to determine the...

Because of its unique history, many of the boundaries of the political divisions of the United States were artificially constructed (rather than permitted...

ANDRILL (ANtarctic DRILLing Project) is a scientific drilling project in Antarctica gathering information about past periods of global warming and cooling...

The Otter Tail River (Ojibwe: Nigigwaanowe-ziibi) is a 192-mile-long (309 km) river in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Minnesota. It begins...

Shilla is a mountain peak close to Spiti Valley, part of the Himalaya mountains. Its peak is 6,132 metres (20,118 ft) above sea level. It is in Himachal...

Estuarine water circulation is controlled by the inflow of rivers, the tides, rainfall and evaporation, the wind, and other oceanic events such as an upwelling...

Oat Mountain is a peak of the Santa Susana Mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley (near Los Angeles, California) to the south and southeast. Oat...

The Sandsvatn is the largest lake on the island of Sandoy and the third largest in the Faroe Islands, measuring 0.8 km2 with a depth of 5 metres. It is...

Bungonia Caves are a series of caves near the city of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. The caves are sited within the Bungonia State Conservation...

Motupe River (Río Motupe) is a river of Lambayeque Region in northwestern Peru. The Motupe River Basin, which includes its major tributary the La Leche...

Fatges or Fatxes is a ghost town located in the Baix Camp comarca, Catalonia, Spain. It is located 4,5 km to the northeast of Vandellòs town, surrounded...

Hartala (or Haratale) is a village in Muktainagar taluka of Jalgaon district in Maharashtra, India. It is located near National Highway 53. This village...

Murphy's Pond (sometimes referred to as Murphy Pond) is a wetlands complex located in Hickman County, Kentucky. While only about 175 acres (71 hectares)...

St Andrew's Church is the Church of England parish church in Glaston, Rutland. It is a Grade II* listed building. The earliest parts of the church date...

Nekpur Sabitnagar is a village in the Ghaziabad District of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is a major flower cultivation area. It is the tenth most populated...

Okeho is a town located in Kajola Oyo State South West Nigeria. It is the headquarters of Kajola Local Government. It is a valley town and, a developing...

Stratification in water is the formation in a body of water of relatively distinct and stable layers by density. It occurs in all water bodies where there...