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2 days ago · This 48-acre amusement park in Lancaster, PA offers children and families over 35 amusement park rides and activities, an interactive water play area, and a variety of shows for kids. Dutch Wonderland is nestled in the heart of Lancaster County, along U.S. Route 30 (directly across from Tanger Outlets ), and was one of the original tourist ...
19 hours ago · North Dakota, constituent state of the U.S. It was admitted to the union as the 39th state in 1889. It is bounded by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west. North Dakota’s capital is Bismarck.
1 day ago · The home of several Native American peoples, such as the Guaymí, Kuna, and Chocó, Panama became the first Spanish colony on the Pacific. Celebrated as “the door to the seas and key to the universe,” it served in the 1530s as the staging point for the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire, and until the 19th century it was a transshipment ...
1 day ago · It extends for more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) to within 500 miles (800 km) of both the North Pole and the Equator and has an east-west extent of 5,000 miles. It covers an area of 9,355,000 square miles (24,230,000 square km). Uummannaq Fjord. Uummannaq Fjord and Uummannaq Rock, Greenland.
1 day ago · Argentina has long played an important role in the continent’s history. Following three centuries of Spanish colonization, Argentina declared independence in 1816, and Argentine nationalists were instrumental in revolutionary movements elsewhere, a fact that prompted 20th-century writer Jorge Luis Borges to observe, “South America’s ...
4 days ago · In addition, the state lies in the heart of the country’s old industrial belt, close to major resources of raw materials and labour and to the markets of the East, Midwest, and South. Area 44,826 square miles (116,098 square km). Population (2020) 11,799,448; (2023 est.) 11,785,935.
3 days ago · Guatemala, country of Central America that is distinguished from its Central American neighbors by the dominance of an Indigenous culture within its interior uplands. The country’s capital, Guatemala City, is a major metropolitan center. Quetzaltenango in the western highlands is the nucleus of the Indigenous population.
