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With an area of 238397 sqkm , Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe.
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The Olt River 615 kilometers is the longest river that is fully within Romania's national borders.
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Lake Razelm 511 sqkm is the largest.
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Some mountainous areas receive more than 1010 mm of precipitation each year.
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At 26338 sqkm , Rwanda is the world's 149th-largest country, and the fourth smallest on the African mainland after Gambia, Eswatini, and Djibouti.
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The entire country is at a high altitude: the lowest point is the Rusizi River at 950 meters above sea level.
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This lake occupies the floor of the Albertine Rift along most of the length of Rwanda's western border, and with a maximum depth of 480 meters , it is one of the twenty deepest lakes in the world.
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The highest peaks are found in the Virunga volcano chain in the northwest; this includes Mount Karisimbi, Rwanda's highest point, at 4507 meters .
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In 2011, a 2300 kilometers fibre-optic telecommunications network was completed, intended to provide broadband services and facilitate electronic commerce.
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Despite rainfall exceeding 750 mm annually in most of the country, little use is made of rainwater harvesting, and residents are forced to use water very sparingly, relative to usage in other African countries.
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The country's main air gateway is Kigali International Airport, which is located at Kanombe, a suburb approximately 10 kilometers from Kigali city centre.
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There are plans being discussed to build a new airport at Nyamata in Bugesera district, approximately 40 kilometers from Kigali which would be much bigger and could act as a hub for the entire region.
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The nearest permanently inhabited place is North Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, 370 kilometers to the east.date=March 2020
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However, such features are entitled to a territorial sea extending 12 nautical miles .
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Since the late 16th century, the 17 meters rock has been noted in written records.
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The nearest point on land from Rockall is 301 kilometers , east at the uninhabited Scottish island of Soay in the St Kilda archipelago.
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The nearest inhabited area lies 303 kilometers east at Hirta date=February 2019, the largest island in the St. Kilda group, which is populated intermittently at a single military base.
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The nearest permanently inhabited settlement is 366 kilometers west of the headland of Aird an Rùnair, near the crofting township of Hogha Gearraidh on the island of North Uist at (Coord).
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Volutopsius scotiae Frussen, McKay & Drewery, 2013 – a sea snail about 10 cms long
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The UK claims Rockall along with a 12 nautical miles territorial sea around the islet inside the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
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A navigational beacon was installed on the island in 1982 and the UK declared that no ship would be allowed within a 50 miles radius of the rock.
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The Irish Naval Service vessel Róisín at Rockall conducting routine maritime security patrols 230 nautical miles off the north-west coast of Ireland
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Rockall ETRS89 57°35'46.695"N 13°41'14.308"W to Gob a' Ghaill, Soay, St Kilda at approximately WGS84 57°49'40.8"N 8°38'59.4"W is approximately 301 kilometers .
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Rockall ETRS89 57°35'46.695"N 13°41'14.308"W to Tory Island at approximately WGS84 55°16'29.73"N 8°15'00.92"W is approximately 423 kilometers .
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Rockall ETRS89 57°35'46.695"N 13°41'14.308"W to An Campar, Hirta, St Kilda at approximately WGS84 57°49'30.4"N 8°37'03.6"W is approximately 303195 kilometers .
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Rockall ETRS89 57°35'46.695"N 13°41'14.308"W to Aird an Runair, North Uist at approximately WGS84 57°36'11.4"N 7°32'59.3"W is approximately 366843 kilometers .
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Commentators in the 21st century have regarded Scott more positively after assessing the temperature drop below -40.0 Coulomb in March 1912, and after re-discovering Scott's written orders of October 1911, in which he had instructed the dog teams to meet and assist him on the return trip.
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Deteriorating weather conditions and weak, unacclimatised ponies affected the initial depot-laying journey, so that the expedition's main supply point, One Ton Depot, was laid 35 miles north of its planned location at 80°S. Lawrence Oates, in charge of the ponies, advised Scott to kill ponies for food and advance the d...
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He has a shorter distance to the Pole by 60 miles – I never thought he could have got so many dogs safely to the ice.
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By 10 March the temperature had dropped unexpectedly to below -40.0 Coulomb .
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After walking 20 miles farther despite Scott's toes now becoming frostbitten, "My right foot has gone, nearly all the toes – two days ago I was proud possessor of best feet.
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Next to their bodies lay 35 pounds of Glossopteris tree fossils which they had dragged on hand sledges.
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This distance spans about 6800 kilometers , to Nome, Alaska.
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From north to south, the country ranges from the northern tip of the Russian Arctic islands at Franz Josef Land to the southern tip of the Republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, spanning about 4500 kilometers of extremely varied, often inhospitable terrain.
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Extending for 57792 kilometers , the Russian border is the world's longest.
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The Russian Arctic stretches for close to 7000 kilometers west to east, from Karelia and the Kola Peninsula to Nenetsia, the Gulf of Ob, the Taymyr Peninsula and the Chukchi Peninsula (Kolyma, Anadyr River, Cape Dezhnev).
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The Ural Mountains form the natural boundary between Europe and Asia; the range extends about 2100 kilometers from the Arctic Ocean to the northern border of Kazakhstan.
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peak, Mount Narodnaya, is 1894 meters .
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Russia is the coldest country of the world (average annual temperature is -5.5 °C ).
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The national web of roads, railways and airways stretches almost 7700 kilometers from Kaliningrad in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east, and major cities such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg are served by extensive rapid transit systems.
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Russia has the world's third-largest railway network, behind only the United States and China, with a total track length of 87157 kilometers as of 2011.
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Electrified track accounts for around half of the Russian railway network — totalling 40300 kilometers — but carries the majority of railway traffic.
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It carries oil some 4000 kilometers from the eastern part of the European Russia to points in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany.
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Russian military command posts, according to globalsecurity.org, include Chekhov/Sharapovo about 80 kilometers south of Moscow, for the General Staff and President, Chaadayevka near Penza, Voronovo in Moscow, and a facility at Lipetsk all for the national leadership, Yamantau in the Urals, and command posts for the Str...
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In 1890, 5,800 postal railway clerks provided service over 154800 miles of railroad.
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By 1907, over 14,000 clerks were providing service over 203000 miles of railroad.
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Each 30-tonne locomotive had two 110 kilowatts motors run by three-phase 750 V 40 Hz fed from double overhead lines.
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In 1894, a 20 horsepower two axle machine built by Priestman Brothers was used on the Hull Docks.
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The speed record is 574 kmph , set by a modified French TGV.
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As an example, a typical modern wagon can hold up to 113 tonnes of freight on two four-wheel bogies.
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The intention was to explode a 300 pounds car bomb, but this was thwarted when the bomb was defused by security forces.
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The RIRA also carried out attacks in Newtownhamilton and Newry, and a second attack in Banbridge on 1 August injured 35 people and caused £3.5 million of damage when a 500 pounds car bomb exploded.
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321 382–383 The defection of senior Provisional IRA members also gave the RIRA the ability to manufacture home-made explosives and improvised mortars, including the Mark 15 mortar capable of firing a 200 pounds shell.
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The island of Taiwan has an area of 35808 sqkm , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated.
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There are several peaks over 3,500 m, the highest being Yu Shan at 3952 meters , making Taiwan the world's fourth-highest island.
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The average rainfall is 2600 mm per year for the island proper; the rainy season is concurrent with the onset of the summer East Asian Monsoon in May and June.
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Taiwan High Speed Rail, with trains running at speeds near 300 kmph , links Taipei and the southern port city of Kaohsiung in 96 minutes
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Both highways and railways are concentrated near the coasts where the majority of the population resides, with 1619 kilometers of motorway.
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The largest gathering sees over 7000 rowers mainly rowing the 60 kilometers course at Sulkava near the eastern border over a long weekend in mid July.
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The weekend features the World Masters church boat event which also includes a 2 kilometers dash.
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Two traditional non-standard distance shell races are the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge and the Harvard-Yale Boat Race which cover courses of approximately 4 miles .
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Among his projects was the mapping of the Des Moines Rapids on the Mississippi above Keokuk, Iowa, where the Mississippi's mean depth of 2 feet was the upper limit of steamboat traffic on the river.
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Confederate casualties were heavy, but McClellan was unnerved, retreated 25 miles to the lower James River, and abandoned the Peninsula Campaign.
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From its installation in 1884 until its removal in 2017, the most prominent monument in New Orleans was a 60 feet -tall monument to General Lee.
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A 16 feet statue of Lee stood tall upon a towering column of white marble in the middle of Lee Circle.
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The statue of Lee, which weighs more than 7000 pounds faced the north.
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In early March, the Provisional Government placed Nicholas and his family under house arrest in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, 24 kilometers south of Petrograd.
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The nucleoside cytosine has a half-life in isolation of 19 days at 100 °C and 17,000 years in freezing water, which some argue is too short on the geologic time scale for accumulation.
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The heat that is used for geothermal energy can be from deep within the Earth, all the way down to Earth's core – 4000 miles down.
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This magma then heats rock and water in the crust, sometimes up to 700 Farad .
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The 280 MW Solana Generating Station is a solar power plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, completed in 2013.
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The Americans, meanwhile, built Keflavík Airport, situated 50 kilometers west of Reykjavík, which became Iceland's primary international airport.
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The former sea level is indicated by sediments (with clams) reaching (at Öskjuhlíð, for example) as far as 43 meters above the current sea level.
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Mount Esja, at 914 meters , is the highest mountain in the vicinity of Reykjavík.
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Despite its northern latitude, temperatures very rarely drop below -15.0 Coulomb in the winter.
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The highest temperature recorded in Reykjavík was 25 Coulomb , reported on 30 July 2008, "Reykjavik sees record summer temperature". ''
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while the lowest-ever recorded temperature was -19.7 Coulomb , recorded on 30 January 1971.
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The coldest month on record is January 1918, with a mean temperature of -7.2 Coulomb .
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The warmest is July 1917, with a mean temperature of 13 Coulomb .
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Rice's campus is a heavily wooded 285 acres tract of land in the museum district of Houston, located close to the city of West University Place.
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Situated on nearly 300 acres in the center of Houston's Museum District and across the street from the city's Hermann Park, Rice is a green and leafy refuge; an oasis of learning convenient to the amenities of the nation's fourth-largest city.
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The first line maniple were the hastati, leather-armoured infantry soldiers who wore a bronze breastplate and a bronze helmet adorned with 3 feathers approximately 30 cms in height and carried an iron-clad wooden shield.
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It is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about 1230 kilometers , The Rhine only has an official length scale (Rheinkilometer) downstream of Constance.
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The "total length of the Rhine", to the inclusion of Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine is more difficult to measure objectively; it was cited as 1232 kilometers by the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat in 2010.
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One source is Lai da Tuma ( 2345 meters ) with the Rein da Tuma, which is usually indicated as source of the Rhine, flowing through it.
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The culminating point of the Anterior Rhine's drainage basin is the Piz Russein of the Tödi massif of the Glarus Alps at 3613 meters above sea level.
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The Aare also contains the waters from the 4274 meters summit of Finsteraarhorn, the highest point of the Rhine basin.
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Between Emmerich and Cleves the Emmerich Rhine Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in Germany, crosses the 400 meters river.
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The Rhine turns west and enters the Netherlands, where, together with the rivers Meuse and Scheldt, it forms the extensive Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta, with 25347 sqkm the largest river delta in Europe.
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Berendsen and Stouthamer (2001) In the Miocene period, the watershed of the Rhine reached south, only to the Eifel and Westerwald hills, about 450 kilometers north of the Alps.
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Since approximately 600,000 years ago, six major Ice Ages have occurred, in which sea level dropped 120 meters and much of the continental margins became exposed.
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The English Channel, the Irish Channel and most of the North Sea were dry land, mainly because sea level was approximately 120 meters lower than today.
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The error was discovered in 2010, and the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat confirms the length at 1232 kilometers .
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There is a zone of the atmosphere in which ozone absorbs some 98% of non-ionizing but dangerous UV-C and UV-B. This so-called ozone layer starts at about 20 miles and extends upward.
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Even air is capable of absorbing gamma rays, halving the energy of such waves by passing through, on the average, 500 feet .
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He left the Imperial treasury with 23,000,000 solidi, which is 320,000 pounds of gold or 420 long tons .
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The United States has the largest network of roads of any country with 4050717 miles as of 2009.
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The People's Republic of China is third with 3583715 kilometers of road (2007).
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The Federative Republic of Brazil has the fourth largest road system in the world with 1751868 kilometers (2002).
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A very long example is the 113 miles Overseas Highway connecting many of the Florida Keys with the continental United States.
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