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In October 2010, plans were announced for a 530 kilometers standard gauge Laos-China railways ready to roll, 2012-11-16 railway linking Vientiane to Xishuangbanna, in Yunnan province in China.
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It spans from Yuxi, south of Kunming, capital of China's Yunnan province, to Mengzi on the route to the Vietnamese border, and is mainly intended for freight transport with a maximum speed of 120 kmph .
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The railway will stretch 427 kilometers , from the Laos-China borderline in Phongsaly Province to Vientiane.
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About 4587 kilometers of navigable water routes exist in Laos, primarily the Mekong and its tributaries.
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Laos has 136 kilometers of pipelines for the transport of petroleum products.
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Of the airports with paved runways, Wattay International Airport in Vientiane has a runway length of 3000 meters .
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About 98% of the country lies under 200 meters elevation.
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Latvia holds over 12,000 rivers, only 17 of which are longer than 100 kilometers , and over 3,000 small lakes, most of which are eutrophic.
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Latvia has 531 kilometers of sandy coastline, and the ports of Liepāja and Ventspils provide important warm-water harbors for the Baltic coast.
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Latvia is a small country with a land size of 64559 sqkm .
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With a total length of 1,020 kilometers, the Daugava (or Zapadnaya Dvina in its upper reaches) originates in the Valday Hills in Russia's Tver' Oblast, meanders through northern Belarus, and then winds through Latvia for 352 kilometers before emptying into the Gulf of Riga.
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Latvia's proximity to the sea brings high levels of humidity and precipitation, with average annual precipitation of 633 mm in Riga.
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Latvia has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 28452 sqkm .
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200 meters depth or to the depth of exploitation
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note: land in Latvia is often too wet and in need of drainage not irrigation; approximately 16000 sqkm or 85% of agricultural land has been approved by drainage (2007)
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The two states share 588 kilometers of common border.
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Israeli forces withdrew later in 1978, but retained control of the southern region by managing a 12 miles wide security zone along the border.
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The Anti-Lebanon range runs parallel to the Lebanon mountains, its highest peak is in Mount Hermon at 2814 meters .
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The mountains of Lebanon are drained by seasonal torrents and rivers foremost of which is the 145 kilometers long Leontes that rises in the Beqaa Valley to the west of Baalbek and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of Tyre.
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Ksar Akil, 10 km northwest of Beirut, is a large rock shelter below a steep limestone cliff where excavations have shown occupational deposits reaching down to a depth of 23 meters with one of the longest sequences of Paleolithic flint archaeological industry is a very well tained Upper Levalloiso-Mousterian remains wi...
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A fragment of a Neanderthal maxilla was also discovered in material from level XXVI or XXV, at around 15 meters .
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In late December 1991 a car bomb (estimated to carry 100 kilograms of TNT) exploded in the Muslim neighborhood of Basta.
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highest point = Qurnat as Sawda' 3088 meters
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The area of Lebanon is 10452 sqkm .
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Hemmed in between sea and mountain, the sahil, as it is called in Lebanon, is widest in the north near Tripoli, where it is only 6 kilometers wide.
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Qurnat as Sawda' ("the black nook") reaches 3088 meters and is the highest mountain of Lebanon.
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Of the other peaks that rise east of Beirut, Mount Sannine ( 2695 meters ) is the highest.
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the 210 kilometers long shoreline, rocky in the north and sandy in the south, including several bays and islands
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the narrow coastal plain, approximately 3 kilometers wide
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Despite the relatively low altitude of the Biqa Valley (the highest point of which, near Baalbek, is only 1100 meters ) more snow falls there than at comparable altitudes west of the Lebanon Mountains.
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There is one seasonal lake, fed by springs, on the eastern slopes of the Lebanon Mountains near Yammunah, about 40 kilometers southeast of Tripoli.
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Highest point: Qurnat as Sawda' 3088 meters
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Lesotho is just over 30000 sqkm and has a population of around million.
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It is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1000 meters in elevation.
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Its lowest point of 1400 meters is thus the highest lowest point of any country in the world.
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Over 80 percent of the country lies above 1800 meters .
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Maseru and surrounding lowlands often reach 30 °C in summer.
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lowest point= Junction of the Orange and Makhaleng Rivers 1400 meters
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The total length of the country's borders is 909 kilometers .
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Lesotho covers an area of around 30355 sqkm , of which a negligible percentage is covered with water.
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The most popular geographic fact about Lesotho, apart from its status as an enclave, is that it is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1000 meters in elevation.
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Its lowest point is at 1400 meters , the highest lowest point of any country .
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It is the 141st largest country in the world, with a total land area of 30355 sqkm , of which a negligible percentage is covered with water.
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The total length of the South African border is 909 kilometers .
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The lowest elevation in the country is at the junction of the Makhaleng and Orange (Senqu) rivers (at the South African border), which at 1400 meters is the highest lowest point of any country.
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Lesotho is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1000 meters in elevation.
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The highest point is the peak of the Thabana Ntlenyana mountain, which reaches an elevation of 3482 meters .
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Over 80% of Lesotho lies above 1800 meters .
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Maseru and its surrounding lowlands often reach 30 Coulomb in the summer.
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The final 1 kilometers of this line, which opened on 18 December 1905, lies within the borders of Lesotho, running from the border bridge on the Mohokare River through the northern industrial district of Maseru to that city's station, the only railway station in the country.
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It covers an area of 111369 sqkm and has a population of around 4,900,000.
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The Cavalla is the longest river in the nation at 515 kilometers .
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The highest point wholly within Liberia is Mount Wuteve at 1440 meters above sea level in the northwestern Liberia range of the West Africa Mountains and the Guinea Highlands.
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However, Mount Nimba near Yekepa, is higher at 1752 meters above sea level but is not wholly within Liberia as Nimba shares a border with Guinea and Ivory Coast and is their tallest mountain as well.
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In December 1821, they acquired Cape Mesurado, a 36 miles strip of land near present-day Monrovia, from the indigenous ruler King Peter (perhaps with some threat of force).
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Liberia is a Sub-Saharan nation in West Africa located at 6 °N, 9 °W. It borders the north Atlantic Ocean to the southwest ( 360 miles of coastline) and three other African nations on the other three sides, Sierra Leone to the northwest, Guinea to the northeast and Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) to the east.
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The coastline is about 680 kilometers , including river mouths ad inlets up to one kilometre wide.
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The 13 acres luxury resort was built in the Paynesville section of Monrovia.
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In October 1997, a consortium led by British company Lasmo, along with Eni and a group of five South Korean companies, announced that it had discovered large recoverable crude reserves about 800 kilometers south of Tripoli.
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Libya has in the past claimed a strip along their border of about 19400 sqkm in northern Niger and part of southeastern Algeria.
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It is Europe's fourth-smallest country, with an area of just over 160 sqkm and a population of 38,557. [
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The expropriations (subject to modern legal dispute at the International Court of Justice) included over 1600 sqkm of agricultural and forest land (most notably the UNESCO listed Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape), and several family castles and palaces.
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Measured south to north the country is about 24 kilometers long.
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Its highest point, the Grauspitz, is 2599 meters .
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Liechtenstein's borders are 1 kilometers longer than previously thought. [
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A 9 kilometers railway connects Austria and Switzerland through Liechtenstein.
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Within 24 hours he drove 1723 kilometers under standard conditions, with a single driver.
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In March 2007, a 170-man Swiss infantry unit got lost during a training exercise and inadvertently crossed 1 kilometers into Liechtenstein.
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The most populous of the Baltic states, Lithuania has 262 kilometers of coastline consisting of the continental coast and the "Curonian Spit" coast.
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Limestone, clay, sand, and gravel are Lithuania's primary natural resources, but the coastal shelf offers perhaps 1600000 meters cube of oil deposits, and the southeast could provide high yields of iron ore and granite.
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Currently, Lithuania covers an area of about 65300 sqkm .
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The A roads (Magistraliniai keliai) total 1748 kilometers .
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There are 600 kilometers that are perennially navigable.
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At its highest point, it reaches a height of 559 meters .
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Commonly known as the Oesling, the Ardennes region covers 325 sqmi , about 32% of the entire country.
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The terrain gently rises and falls with an average height of 200 meters .
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Rich in iron ore, the district has been a mining and heavy industrial region since Roman if not earlier times and stretches for over 12 miles .
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The Moselle actually rises in northeast France and flows north through Luxembourg for 19 miles to join the mighty Rhine at Koblenz, Germany.
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Rising in Belgium, the Sûre River flows for 107 miles in an easterly direction through Luxembourg and into the Moselle.
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Immediately above it, the river has been dammed to form a hydroelectric reservoir extending some 6 miles up the valley.
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Rainfall reaches 1200 mm a year in some areas.
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In the south, although the rainfall is not significantly low, at around 800 mm , and the winters no milder, the principal difference is in the higher summer temperatures, especially in the Moselle Valley.
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With a mean annual temperature of 10 °C , the sunniest months are May to August.
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Willow trees can reach a height of 20 meters , and are valued for ornamental purposes.
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The battalion was organised into three batteries, each with six 105 mm field howitzers (British 25 pounder guns converted to 105 mm caliber) from the former GTR artillery battalion, an HQ battery, and a service battery.
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The system has 270 stations and 250 miles of track.
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Both railways expanded, the District building five branches to the west reaching Ealing, Hounslow, Uxbridge, Richmond and Wimbledon and the Metropolitan eventually extended as far as Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire, more than 50 miles from Baker Street and the centre of London.
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For the first deep-level tube line, the City and South London Railway, two 10 feet diameter circular tunnels were dug between King William Street (close to today's Monument station) and Stockwell, under the roads to avoid the need for agreement with owners of property on the surface.
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London Underground's eleven lines total 402 kilometers in length, making it the fifth longest metro system in the world.
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The Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines are deep-level tubes, with smaller trains that run in two circular tunnels (tubes) with a diameter about 11 feet .
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The average speed on the Underground is 20 mph .
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Outside the tunnels of central London, many lines' trains tend to travel at over 40 mph in the suburban and countryside areas.
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The Metropolitan line can reach speeds of 62 mph .
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When the Bakerloo line opened in 1906 it was advertised with a maximum temperature of 60 Farad , but over time the tube tunnels have warmed up.
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Temperatures of 47 °C were reported in the 2006 European heat wave.
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There are 426 escalators on the London Underground system and the longest, at 60 meters , is at Angel.
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The shortest, at Stratford, gives a vertical rise of 4 meters .
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There can also be a step from platform to train as large as 12 inches and a gap between the train and curved platforms, and these distances are marked on the map.
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Standing on the River Thames in the south-east of England, at the head of its 50 miles estuary leading to the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. ''
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The City of London, London's ancient core − an area of just 1 sqmi and colloquially known as the Square Mile − retains boundaries that closely follow its medieval limits.
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