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At 3500000 sqft , it was the largest assembly line in the world at the time.
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In 1913, Ford attempted to enter a reworked Model T in the Indianapolis 500 but was told rules required the addition of another 1000 pounds to the car before it could qualify.
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Haiti is 27750 sqkm in size and has an estimated population of million,ref making it the most populous country in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Cuba.
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At 27,750 sq km Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean behind Cuba and the Dominican Republic, the latter sharing a 360 kilometers border with Haiti.
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The country has a roughly horseshoe shape and because of this it has a disproportionately long coastline, second in length ( 1771 kilometers ) behind Cuba in the Greater Antilles.
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The highest point is Pic la Selle, at 2680 meters .
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La Navasse (Navassa Island), located 40 nautical miles west of Jérémie on the south west peninsula of Haiti, is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute with the United States, who currently administer the island via the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Port-au-Prince receives an average annual rainfall of 1370 mm .
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The northern boundary of the fault is where the Caribbean tectonic plate shifts eastwards by about 20 mm per year in relation to the North American plate.
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On 21 October 2012, Haitian President Michel Martelly, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Ben Stiller and Sean Penn inaugurated the 600 acres Caracol industrial park, the largest in the Caribbean.
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Toussaint Louverture International Airport, located 10 kilometers North/North East of Port-au-Prince proper in the commune of Tabarre, is the primary transportation hub regarding entry and exit into the country.
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In 1915, Haiti had 3 miles of road usable by automobile, outside the towns.
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By 1918, more than 470 miles of road had been built or repaired through the corvée system, including a road linking Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien.
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The Borno-Russel dictatorship oversaw the expansion of the economy, building over 1000 miles of road, establishing an automatic telephone exchange, modernizing the nation's port facilities, and establishing a public health service.
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In 1971, Papa Doc entered into a 99-year contract with Don Pierson representing Dupont Caribbean Inc. of Texas for a free port project on the old buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga island located some 10 miles off the north coast of the main Haitian island of Hispaniola.
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Port-au-Prince receives an average annual rainfall of 1370 mm .
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Haiti's terrain varies, with more than three fourths of the territory above 700 feet .
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Haiti (and Hispaniola) are separated from Cuba by way of the Windward Passage, a 45 nautical miles wide strait that passes between the two countries.
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Haiti's lowest elevation is reported by one source to be sea level (the Caribbean Sea CIA factbook ), by another source to be below sea level (Gheskio clinic, Port-au-Prince Wall Street Journal, Feb 20–21, 2010 or in Gonaïves, Several sources, such as http://www.france24.com/en/20080911-disaster-aftermath-hurrican-ike-...
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In 2012, it was reported that confidential agreements and negotiations had been entered into by the Haitian government granting licenses for exploration or mining of gold and associated metals such as copper for over 1000 sqmi in the mineralized zone stretching from east to west across northern Haiti.
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Heard Island, by far the largest of the group, is a 368 sqkm mountainous island covered by 41 glaciers (the island is 80% covered with ice ) and dominated by the Big Ben massif.
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It has a maximum elevation of 2745 meters at Mawson Peak, the historically active volcanic summit of Big Ben.
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A July 2000 satellite image from the University of Hawaii's Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) Thermal Alert Team showed an active 2 kilometers and 50- to 90-metre-wide (164–295 ft) lava flow trending south-west from the summit of Big Ben. [
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The much smaller and rocky McDonald Islands are located 44 kilometers to the west of Heard Island.
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There is a small group of islets and rocks about 10 kilometers north of Heard Island, consisting of Shag Islet, Sail Rock, Morgan Island and Black Rock.
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They total about 1 sqkm in area.
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Gusts in excess of 180 kmph have been recorded.
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The islands are contained within a 65000 sqkm marine reserve and are primarily visited for research, meaning that there is no permanent human habitation.
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Honduras spans about 112492 sqkm and has a population exceeding million.
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Honduras has rain forests, cloud forests (which can rise up to nearly 3000 meters above sea level), mangroves, savannas and mountain ranges with pine and oak trees, and the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.
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In 1905, Zemurray started buying his own plantations and in 1910, after purchasing 5000 acres of plantation land in Honduras, http://www.unitedfruit.org/zemurray.htm formed his own company, the Cuyamel Fruit Company.
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Honduras is the second largest Central American republic, with a total area of 112890 sqkm .
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Honduras has a 700 kilometers Caribbean coastline extending from the mouth of the Río Motagua in the west to the mouth of the Río Coco in the east, at Cape Gracias a Dios.
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The 922 kilometers southeastern side of the triangle is a land border with Nicaragua.
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The southern apex of the triangle is a 153 kilometers coastline on the Gulf Fonseca, which opens onto the Pacific Ocean.
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The Honduran border with El Salvador crosses the peak of Cerro El Pital, the highest point in El Salvador at over 2700 meters .
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Miguel Facussé, owned some 22000 acres in the lower Aguán, which he planted in African palms for his palm oil venture.
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The smallest geographic region of Honduras, the Pacific lowlands, is a strip of land averaging 25 kilometers on the north shore of the Gulf of Fonseca.
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Both islands have volcanic cones more than 700 meters in elevation that serve as landmarks for vessels entering Honduras's Pacific.
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Above 2000 meters , temperatures can fall to near freezing at night, and frost sometimes occurs.
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Amounts are copious along the north coast, especially in the Mosquitia, where the average rainfall is 2400 mm .
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Total yearly amounts depend on surrounding topography; Tegucigalpa, in a sheltered valley, averages only 1000 mm of precipitation.
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The most important river in Honduras is the Ulúa, which flows 400 kilometers to the Caribbean through the economically important Valle de Sula.
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continental shelf: natural extension of territory or to 200 nautical miles
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With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1104 sqkm territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
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Hong Kong is on China's southern coast, 60 kilometers east of Macau, on the east side of the mouth of the Pearl River estuary.
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The territory's 2755 sqkm area consists of Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories, Lantau Island, and over 200 other islands.
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The territory's highest point is Tai Mo Shan, 957 meters above sea level.
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Much of this is built on reclaimed land, due to the lack of developable flat land; 70 sqkm (six per cent of the total land or about 25 per cent of developed space in the territory) is reclaimed from the sea.
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The highest and lowest recorded temperatures in all of Hong Kong are 39 °C at Wetland Park on 22 August 2017, .
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and -6.0 °C at Tai Mo Shan on 24 January 2016.
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Hong Kong has the world's largest number of skyscrapers, with 317 towers taller than 150 meters , and the third-largest number of high-rise buildings in the world.
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Hong Kong has a total area of 1108 sqkm , of which 3.16% is water.
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Hong Kong is 60 kilometers east of Macau, on the opposite side of the Pearl River estuary.
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As of 2006, its annual average rainfall is 2214 mm , though about 80% of the rain falls between May and September.
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It is not uncommon for temperatures to drop below 10 °C in urban areas.
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Territorial sea: 3 nautical miles ''Figures published by the United States Central Intelligence Agency
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Hong Kong has 263 islands over 500 meters square ,
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The lowest elevation in Hong Kong is in South China Sea (0 m) while the highest elevation is at Tai Mo Shan ( 957 meters ) in Tsuen Wan, the New Territories.
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Lantau Peak (Fung Wong Shan) - 934 meters on Lantau Island
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Sunset Peak (Tai Tung Shan) - 869 meters , on Lantau Island
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Lin Fa Shan - 766 meters , on Lantau Island
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Nei Lak Shan - 751 meters , on Lantau Island
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Yi Tung Shan - 747 meters , on Lantau Island
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Ma On Shan - 702 meters
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The Hunch Backs (Ngau Ngak Shan) - 674 meters
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Victoria Peak, the highest point on Hong Kong Island, at 552 meters is the 24th highest peak in Hong Kong.
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The rail system is 13 kilometers long,
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with a total track length of 30 kilometers , and it runs together with other vehicles on the street.
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The trams provide service to only parts of Hong Kong Island: they run on a double track along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island from Kennedy Town to Shau Kei Wan, with a single clockwise-running track of about 3 kilometers around Happy Valley Racecourse.
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The Ngong Ping Cable Car is a 5 kilometers public cableway on Lantau Island.
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The Ocean Park theme park also possesses a 1 kilometers cable car system between Nam Long Shan Headland and Wong Chuk Hang.
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Howland Island ( ) is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 1700 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu.
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Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of the entire island and the surrounding 32074 acres of submerged land.
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On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within 12 nautical miles of the island.
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Average yearly rainfall is about 600 mm .
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Autópálya (motorway): 2+2 travel lanes and 1+1 emergency lane, central reservation, no at-grade intersections, speed limit 130 kmph
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Gyorsút (high-speed highway): 2+2 travel lanes, central reservation, few at-grade intersections, speed limit 110 kmph
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Autóút (expressway): 2+2, 2+1 or 1+1 travel lanes, central reservation, some at-grade intersections, speed limit 110 kmph
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As of October 2016, there are 1481 kilometers of controlled-access highways.
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By this time, the Soviets had advanced to the Potsdamer Platz, only 300 meters from the Reich Chancellery, and were preparing to storm the Chancellery.
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The Galata Tower sits 61 meters above sea level Kurtoğlu, Akın. ''
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Doğancılar square is about 45 meters above sea level.
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The elevation change between the tower (takeoff) and the square (landing) is 76 meters .
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The distance between the tower and the town square is approximately 3 kilometers .
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The islands of Neuwerk, Scharhörn, and Nigehörn, 100 kilometers away in the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park, are also part of the city of Hamburg.
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Neugraben-Fischbek has Hamburg's highest elevation, the Hasselbrack at 116 meters AMSL.
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At least 42,900 people are thought to have perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp (about 25 kilometers outside the city in the marshlands), mostly from epidemics and in the bombing of Kriegsmarine evacuation vessels by the RAF at the end of the war.
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The Inner German border – only 50 kilometers east of Hamburg – separated the city from most of its hinterland and reduced Hamburg's global trade.
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On 31 December 2016, there were 1,860,759 people registered as living in Hamburg in an area of 755 sqkm .
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The tower is 112 meters high.
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Its façade, 111 meters long, depicts the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, since Hamburg was, as a Free Imperial City, only under the sovereignty of the emperor.
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The 110 meters Elbphilharmonie concert hall
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The world's largest model railway museum Miniatur Wunderland with 15 kilometers total railway length is also situated near Landungsbrücken in a former warehouse.
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Although situated 68 miles up the Elbe, it is considered a sea port due to its ability to handle large ocean-going vessels.
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The international airport serving Hamburg, Hamburg Airport Helmut Schmidt (IATA: HAM, ICAO: EDDH) is the fifth biggest and oldest airport in Germany, having been established in 1912 and located about 5 miles from the city centre.
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It is about 10 kilometers from the city centre and is a nonpublic airport for the Airbus plant.
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However, ice melt caused world sea levels to rise about 35 meters in the early part of the Holocene.
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In addition, many areas above about 40 degrees north latitude had been depressed by the weight of the Pleistocene glaciers and rose as much as 180 meters due to post-glacial rebound over the late Pleistocene and Holocene, and are still rising today.
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In the wild, a horse may travel up to 50 miles per day to obtain adequate forage.
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