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After flowing 256 kilometers through its narrow Himalayan valley, the Ganges emerges from the mountains at Rishikesh, then debouches onto the Gangetic Plain at the pilgrimage town of Haridwar.
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The Ganges river follows an 900 kilometers arching course passing through the cities of Kannauj, Farukhabad, and Kanpur.
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The Ganges Delta, formed mainly by the large, sediment-laden flows of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, is the world's largest delta, at about 64000 sqkm .
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It stretches 400 kilometers along the Bay of Bengal.
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In other cases the length is said to be about 2304 kilometers , from the source of the Bhagirathi to the Bangladesh border, where its name changes to Padma.
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Firuz Shah Tughlaq had many canals built, the longest of which, 240 kilometers , was built in 1356 on the Yamuna River.
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This barrage, which feeds the Hooghly branch of the river by a 26 miles long feeder canal, and its water flow management has been a long-lingering source of dispute with Bangladesh.
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There are over forty protected areas in the ecoregion, but over half of these are less than 100 sqkm .
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The Whitlams were visiting China at the time of the Tangshan earthquake in July 1976, though they were staying in Tianjin, 90 miles away from the epicentre. ''
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At 62 kilometers in length, it is one of the longest alpine glaciers on earth.
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Ice caps have an area less than 50000 sqkm by definition.
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Glacial bodies larger than 50000 sqkm are called ice sheets or continental glaciers.
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They contain vast quantities of fresh water, enough that if both melted, global sea levels would rise by over 70 meters .
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The top 50 meters of a glacier are rigid because they are under low pressure.
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Mean glacial speed varies greatly but is typically around 1.0 meters per day.
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Meier & Post (1969) Temporary rates up to 300 feet per day have occurred when increased temperature or overlying pressure caused bottom ice to melt and water to accumulate beneath a glacier.
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Glaciers can be found in all latitudes except from 20° to 27° north and south of the equator where the presence of the descending limb of the Hadley circulation lowers precipitation so much that with high insolation snow lines reach above 6500 meters .
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Between 19˚N and 19˚S, however, precipitation is higher, and the mountains above 5000 meters usually have permanent snow.
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Upon the initiative of his childhood friend, Naumburg bishop Julius von Pflug, four days later Agricola's body was carried off to Zeitz, more than 50 kilometers away and interred by von Pflug in the Zeitz cathedral.
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The average annual meat consumption is 59 kilograms per person.
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Asparagus is a popular seasonal side or main dish with a yearly per-capita consumption of 1 kilograms .
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Tomatoes, lettuce, broad beans, onions, and cucumbers are grown in the eastern portion of the region near Jena under glass centers on about 12 acres of land.
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The lands were forfeited, resulting in the return of approximately 81000000 acres .
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The part of the lake that is attached to Geneva has an area of 38 sqkm and is sometimes referred to as petit lac (small lake).
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The canton has only a 4 kilometers border with the rest of Switzerland.
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Of 107 kilometers of border, 103 are shared with France, the Département de l'Ain to the north and west and the Département de la Haute-Savoie to the south and east.
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The altitude of Geneva is 373 meters and corresponds to the altitude of the largest of the Pierres du Niton, two large rocks emerging from the lake which date from the last ice age.
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Mont Salève ( 1379 meters ), just across the border in France, dominates the southerly view from the city centre, and Mont Blanc, the highest of the Alpine range, is visible from most of the city, towering high above Chamonix, which, along with Morzine, Le Grand Bornand, La Clusaz, and resorts of the Grand Massif such ...
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The highest temperature recorded in Genève–Cointrin was 39 Coulomb in July 2015, and the lowest temperature recorded was −20.0 °C (−4.0 °F) in February 1956.
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In June 2011, the average price of an apartment in and around Geneva was 13,681 CHF per square metre ( 1.0 meters square ).
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The average can be as high as 17,589 Swiss francs (CHF) per square metre ( 1.0 meters square ) for a luxury apartment and as low as 9,847 Swiss francs (CHF) for an older or basic apartment.
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Mont Salève (in France) dominates the foreground, with the white summit of Mont Blanc just visible behind it and 70 kilometers away to the southeast.
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Ten caches and two "radioseeds" went up to 30 kilometers into the stratosphere on a gondola called Dropion module carried by a high-altitude balloon.
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The American Practical Navigator 2017 defines the geographical mile as 6087 feet .
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The geographical mile is slightly larger than the nautical mile (which was historically linked to the circumference measured through both poles); one geographic mile is equivalent to approximately 1855 meters .
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A partition wall with four gates divided the northern "old town" from the southern "new town" closer to the river; the suburb of Xiguan ("West Gate") stretched beyond and the boats of fishers, traders, and Tanka ("boat people") almost entirely concealed the riverbank for about 4 miles .
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The city was part of a network of signal towers so effective that messages could be relayed to Beijing—about 1200 miles away—in less than 24 hours.
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The present city spans 7434 sqkm on both sides of the river from 112° 57′ to 114° 03′ E longitude and 22° 26′ to 23° 56′ N latitude in south-central Guangdong.
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Tiantang Peak ( , "Heavenly Peak") is the highest point of elevation at 1210 meters above sea level.
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The relative humidity is approximately 68 percent, whereas annual rainfall in the metropolitan area is over 1700 mm .
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Its total planned area is 1 sqkm .
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It is situated 54 kilometers (70 minutes drive) south of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and close to Nansha Port.
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The built-up area of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone covers around 17573 sqkm and has been estimated to house 22 million people, including Guangzhou's nine urban districts, Shenzhen (5.36m), Dongguan (3.22m), Zhongshan (3.12m), most of Foshan (2.2m), Jiangmen (1.82m), Zhuhai (890k), and Huizhou's Huiyang District (...
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Currently the metro network is made up of thirteen lines, covering a total length of 476 kilometers .
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A long-term plan is to make the city's metro system expand to over 500 kilometers by 2020 with 15 lines in operation.
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The system averages one bus every 10 seconds or 350 per hour in a single direction and contains the world's longest BRT stations—around 260 meters including bridges.
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The route is approximately 182 kilometers in length and the ride takes less than two hours.
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It occupies the entirety of Xiaoguwei Island in Panyu District, covering an area of about 18 sqkm .
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Males in captivity can be overweight and reach weights up to 310 kilograms .
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Western gorillas live in both lowland swamp forests and montane forests, and elevations ranging from sea level to 1600 meters .
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Their home ranges vary from 3 to 15 km 2 (1.16 to 5.79 mi 2 ), and their movements range around 500 meters or less on an average day.
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They travel even farther than the other gorilla subspecies, at 1105 meters per day on average, and have larger home ranges of 7–14 km 2 (2.70–5.41 mi 2 ).
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By 12 months old, infants move up to 5 meters from their mothers.
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In the vaulting events, gymnasts sprint down a 25 meters runway, jump onto a springboard (or perform a roundoff or handspring entry onto a springboard), land momentarily inverted on the hands on the vaulting horse or vaulting table (pre-flight segment), then propel themselves forward or backward off that platform to a ...
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The wings were only 15 cms long, rendering the bird flightless.
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The bill was large at 11 cms long and curved downward at the top; the bill also had deep white grooves in both the upper and lower mandibles, up to seven on the upper mandible and twelve on the lower mandible in summer, although there were fewer in winter.
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This alcid typically fed in shoaling waters that were shallower than those frequented by other alcids, subscription required although after the breeding season, they had been sighted as far as 500 kilometers from land.
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These colonies were extremely crowded and dense, with some estimates stating that there was a nesting great auk for every 1.0 meters square of land.
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A single egg was laid on bare ground up to 100 meters from shore.
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In 1854, Napp authorized Mendel to carry out a study in the monastery's 2 hectares experimental garden, which was originally planted by Napp in 1830.
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The City of Fairfax purchased and donated 150 acres of land just south of the city limits to the University of Virginia for the college's new site, which is now referred to as the Fairfax Campus.
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The Fairfax campus construction planning that began in early 1960 showed visible results when the development of the first 40 acres of Fairfax Campus began in 1962.
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During that same year, the local jurisdictions of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church agreed to appropriate $3 million to purchase land adjacent to Mason to provide for a 600 acres Fairfax Campus with the intention that the institution would expand into a regional university ...
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The university's Fairfax Campus is situated on 677 acres of landscaped land with a large pond in a suburban environment in George Mason, Virginia, just south of the City of Fairfax in central Fairfax County.
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Off-campus amenities are within walking distance and Washington, D.C. is approximately 20 miles from campus.
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The smallest building on the campus is the 33 sqft information booth.
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The Science and Technology campus opened on August 25, 1997 as the Prince William campus in Manassas, Virginia, on 134 acres of land, some still currently undeveloped.
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Opened in March 2014, the Songdo campus is in South Korea's Incheon Free Economic Zone, a 42000 acres site designed for 850,000 people.
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It's 25 miles from Seoul and a two-hour flight from China and Japan, and is connected to the Seoul Metropolitan Subway.
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At the Science and Technology (SciTech) campus near Manassas, Virginia, 21 miles west of Fairfax, Beacon Hall was designed for graduate student housing.
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6961 miles west of Fairfax, Student's Hall and Guest House are on the Songdo campus.
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Grus first appeared on a 35 cms celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603.
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His chosen rail gauge, sometimes called 'Stephenson gauge', was the basis for the 4 feet standard gauge used by most of the world's railways.
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'Stephenson gauge' was initially of 4 feet in the North East of England.
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For the higher speeds of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, this was expanded slightly to 4 feet between the rails whilst keeping the same spacing between the wheels, making it more free-running.
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The locomotive could haul 30 tons of coal up a hill at 4 mph , and was the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive: its traction depended on contact between its flanged wheels and the rail.
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The 25 miles railway connected collieries near Bishop Auckland to the River Tees at Stockton, passing through Darlington on the way.
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The gauge Stephenson chose for the line was 4 feet which subsequently was adopted as the standard gauge for railways, not only in Britain, but throughout the world.
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Entries could weigh no more than six tons and had to travel along the track for a total distance of 60 miles .
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It required the structure to be constructed as two flat planes (overlapping in this case by 6 feet ) between which the stonework forms a parallelogram shape when viewed from above.
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She started handing out pieces of wire that were just under one foot long ( 11 inches )—the distance that light travels in one nanosecond.
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At many of her talks and visits, she handed out "nanoseconds" to everyone in the audience, contrasting them with a coil of wire 984 feet long, representing a microsecond.
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The table includes all islands of over 37 sqmi .
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Designed as a massive spiraling gilded bronze canopy over the tomb of St Peter, Bernini's four-pillared creation reached nearly 30 meters from the ground and cost around 200,000 Roman scudi (about $8m in currency of the early 21st century).
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Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, 25 miles from downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Gary is about 30 miles from the Chicago Loop.
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The population density was 1610 population density per sqmi .
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There were 39,531 housing units at an average density of 792 per sqmi .
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By 1923 a 550-metre pier, 175 meters of a wooden tide breaker, and a small harbour had been constructed.
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Within a few years houses were built along some 10 miles of road leading northward from the Free City of Danzig to Gdynia and beyond.
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135 sqkm (after GUS – Central Statistical Office in Warsaw)
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A 1 kilometers -long promenade leads from the marina in the city center, to the beach in Redłowo.
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Most of Gdynia can be seen from Kamienna Góra ( 54 meters asl) or the viewing point near Chwaszczyno.
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The conurbation's main airport, Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport, lays approximately 25 kilometers south-west of central Gdynia, and has connections to approximately 55 destinations.
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In 2011-2015 the Warsaw-Gdańsk-Gdynia route is undergoing a major upgrading costing $3 billion, partly funded by the European Investment Bank, including track replacement, realignment of curves and relocation of sections of track to allow speeds up to 200 kmph , modernization of stations, and installation of the most m...
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Under Wilhelm II, with the financial backing of the Deutsche Bank, the Baghdad Railway was begun in 1900, although by 1914 it was still 500 kilometers short of its destination in Baghdad.
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lowest point = Amu Darya at Khamyab, 258 meters
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The northern frontier extends approximately 1689 kilometers southwestward, from the Pamir Mountains in the northeast to a region of hills and deserts in the west, at the border with Iran.
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At its narrowest point it is only 11 kilometers wide.
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For seven months of the year (from May to November) this range exceeds 17 °C daily.
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