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Bellefontaine Neighbors is an inner-ring suburb city in St. Louis County, Missouri. The population was 10,860 at the 2010 census. At 22 letters, it has the longest name of any incorporated place in the United States. |
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Just Room Enough Island, also known as Hub Island, is located in the Thousand Islands chain of the Saint Lawrence River in New York state. Just Room Enough Island has a land area of approximately 3,300 square feet. The island has a house, a tree shrub, and a small beach. It is the smallest inhabited island in the world. The island is owned by the Sizeland family, who purchased it in the 1950’s. |
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| Just Room Enough Island lies on the Saint Lawrence River between Heart Island and Imperial Isle, close to the U.S. border with Canada |
At 680 feet in length, the Gatlinburg Skybridge is the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in North America. |
HOT SPRING
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LOCATION
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COMMENTS
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| Frying
Pan Lake (Waimangu Cauldron) |
Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, North Island, New Zealand | The lake has a maximum width of 660 feet and an average depth of 20 feet. The lake maintains a temperature of about 122-140°. |
| Boiling Lake | Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica | The lake has a maximum length of 200 feet and a maximum width of 200 feet. In 1875 water temperature along the edges ranged from 180-197°. Depth has been recorded as greater than 195 feet. |
| Grand Prismatic Spring | Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Teton County, Wyoming | 370 feet in diameter and 160 feet deep. Water temperature is 160° |
Note: A hot spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth’s crust. While some of these springs contain water that is a safe temperature for bathing, others are so hot that immersion can result in injury or death. |
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LARGEST BUILT-UP
URBAN AREAS IN THE WORLD; 1950
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Rank
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Urban Area
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Population
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|
1
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New York |
12,914,000
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2
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London
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12,088,000
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3
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Tokyo-Yokohama |
8,400,000
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4
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Moscow
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7,000,000
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5
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Rhine-Ruhr-Wupper |
6,900,000
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6
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Paris
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6,650,000
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7
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Shanghai |
5,800,000
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|
8
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Chicago
|
5,587,000
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|
9
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Buenos Aires |
4,618,000
|
|
10
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Calcutta
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4,600,000
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LARGEST BUILT-UP
URBAN AREAS IN THE WORLD: 2019
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Rank
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Urban Area
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Population (Estimate)
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1
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Tokyo-Yokohama |
38,505,000
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2
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Jakarta
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34,365,000
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3
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Delhi-DL-UP-HR |
28,125,000
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4
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Manila
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25,065,000
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5
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Seoul-Incheon |
24,315,000
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6
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Mumbai, MH
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23,645,000
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7
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Shanghai, SHG-JS-ZJ |
22,125,000
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8
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New York, NY-NJ-CT
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21,045,000
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|
9
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Sao Paulo |
20,935,000
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|
10
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Mexico City
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20,395,000
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SubTropolis is a 55,000,000-square-foot artificial cave in the bluffs above the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri that is claimed to be the world's largest underground storage facility. Developed by late Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt via Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, Inc., it has trademarked the phrase World's Largest Underground Business Complex. Dug into the Bethany Falls limestone mine, SubTropolis is, in places, 160 feet beneath the surface. It has a grid of 16 feet high by 40 feet wide tunnels separated by 25 feet square limestone pillars created by the room and pillar method of hard rock mining. The complex contains almost 7 miles of illuminated, paved roads and several miles of railroad track. |
Wadi-us-Salaam (lit. ‘Valley of Peace’), an Islamic cemetery in the Shia holy city of Najaf, Iraq, is the largest cemetery in the world. The cemetery covers 1,485.5 acres (2.32 square miles) and contains tens of millions of bodies. Daily burials have been on going for over 1,400 years. Approximately 500,000 new bodies are interred in the cemetery annually, from across the globe. It is estimated that during the Iraq War about 200 to 250 corpses were buried there daily. |
The Qinghai-Tibet railway is a high-elevation railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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The
length of the railway is 1,215 miles
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Passenger
trains can carry between 800 and 1,000 passengers during peak season
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The line includes the Tanggula Pass, which at 16,640 feet (3.15
miles) above sea level, is the world’s highest point on a railway
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Tanggula railway station at 16,627 feet is the world’s highest
railway station
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The 4,390-foot long Fenghuoshan tunnel is the highest rail tunnel
in the world at 16,093 feet above sea level
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44
stations
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675
bridges totaling 99.34 miles
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The
operational speed is 75 miles per hour and 62 miles per hour over sections
laid on permafrost
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The
line has a capacity of 8 pairs of passenger trains
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The
passenger carriages used on Lhasa trains are specially built and have an
oxygen supply for each passenger.
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Every
passenger train has a doctor
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| Tanggula railway station is the highest railway station
in the world |
The Jinping-I Dam on the Jinping Bend on the Yalong River in Liangshan, Sichuan, China is 1,001 feet tall. It is the tallest dam in the world. |
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Lake Manicouagan
(aka Manicouagan Reservoir) is an annular lake located in central Quebec,
Canada. An annular lake is a circular lake caused by the impact of a meteor. The
lake island in its center is known as René-Levasseur Island and its highest
point is Mount Babel (3,123-feet).
The lake and
island are clearly seen from space and are sometimes called the “eye of
Quebec”.
Lake Manicouagan
has a diameter of 40 miles and a surface area of 750 square miles.
With an area of
780 square miles, René-Levasseur Island is larger in area than Lake Manicouagan,
in which it is situated. It is also the world’s second largest lake island
and the largest artificial island in the world*.
*René-Levasseur
Island became an artificial island when the Manicouagan reservoir was flooded
in 1970, merging two crescent-shaped lakes; Mouchalagane Lake on the western
side and Manicouagan Lake on the eastern side.
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Manicouagan Reservoir with Île René-Levasseur (from NASA) |
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Ontonagon is a village in Michigan. The population was 1,494 at the 2010 census. Ontonagon is the westernmost incorporated community in the United States in the legally designated Eastern Time Zone as determined by the United States Department of Transportation. In the summer the sun sets over Lake Superior at 10 p.m. local time with dusk lasting until almost 11 p.m. By contrast in the winter the sun does not rise until just before 9 a.m. and it is still pitch black at 8 a.m. Ontonagon is within one degree of longitude to the east of the 90th meridian west, which is actually the meridian for the Central Time Zone. Therefore, Ontonagon is geographically situated in the Central Time Zone, not the Eastern Time Zone. As a result of this idiosyncrasy, Ontonagon actually has its solar noon occur either at or near 1 p.m. during the winter when standard time (EST) is being observed and 2 p.m. when daylight saving time (EDT) is being observed. The same is true for solar midnight, which occurs at or near 1 a.m. while on standard time and 2 a.m. while on daylight saving time. |
Lansing is the only U.S. state capital (among the 47 located in counties) that is also not a county seat. The seat of government of Ingraham County is Mason. |
SELECTED DEMOGRAPHIC
PROFILE OF LANSING,
MICHIGAN
(SOURCE:
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates)
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POPULATION:
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115,222
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AGE:
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Median
Age:
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32.3
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EDUCATION:
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Educational
Attainment:
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Percent
high school graduate or higher:
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88%
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HOUSING:
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Total
Housing Units:
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55,199
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INCOME:
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Median
Household Income:
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38,642
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ORIGINS
AND LANGUAGE:
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Foreign
Born Population
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9,807
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POVERTY:
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Individuals
below poverty level:
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27.1%
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RACE AND
HISPANIC ORIGIN:
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White
alone, Not Hispanic or Latino:
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63,514
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Black or African American alone:
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25,341
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Asian:
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4,274
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Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
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14,012
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VETERANS:
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5,984
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| MICHIGAN STATE CAPITOL BUILDING |
