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18 hours ago · Chandigarh (/ ˌ tʃ ʌ n d ɪ ˈ ɡ ɑːr /) is a union territory and planned city in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the surrounding states, namely Punjab to the north, west and the south, and Haryana to the east.
- 114 km² (44 sq mi)
- CH
- 321 m (1,053 ft)
- India
18 hours ago · Toponymy Timbuktu looking west, René Caillié (1830) View of Timbuktu, Heinrich Barth (1858) Over the centuries, the spelling of Timbuktu has varied a great deal: from Tenbuch on the Catalan Atlas (1375), to traveller Antonio Malfante's Thambet, used in a letter he wrote in 1447 and also adopted by Alvise Cadamosto in his Voyages of Cadamosto, to Heinrich Barth's Timbúktu and Timbu'ktu ...
18 hours ago · Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
- 2,219,791 acres (8,983.18 km²)
- 3,290,242 (in 2022)
- March 1, 1872; 151 years ago
- U.S. National Park Service
18 hours ago · History and status See also: Linguistic boundary of Brittany Breton is spoken in Lower Brittany, roughly to the west of a line linking Plouha (west of Saint-Brieuc) and La Roche-Bernard (east of Vannes). It comes from a Brittonic language community that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica (present-day Brittany) and had even established a toehold in Galicia (in present-day Spain). Old ...
- France
- Latin script (Breton alphabet)
18 hours ago · The size of Africa compared to the other continents. Africa is the world's second largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area.
- 46.1/km² (119.4/sq mi) (2021)
- 54+2*+5** (*disputed) (**territories)
18 hours ago · This high level of endemism can be attributed to the continent's long geographic isolation, tectonic stability, and the effects of an unusual pattern of climate change on the soil and flora over geological time. Australia and its territories are home to around 800 species of bird; 45% of these are endemic to Australia.
18 hours ago · The undersea fiberoptic system, which would have originated in Guam, was "designed to improve the communications in the island nations of Nauru, Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)." [154] [155] In January 2023, ministers from the three Pacific island nations signed a joint communiqué for moving forward with the stalled project.
