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Countries and famous places: geography, history, and cultural context. No marketing — reference material only.
Current hubs: 192 country guides, 2362 place pages, 35 buildings, 50 mountains, 49 islands, and 88 records across 11 specialist sections.
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These are the strongest routes for questions about coordinates, what country a place belongs to, and where notable landmarks are located.
US Ski Resorts
Compare 100 ski areas by documented transport, learning areas, and practical planning differences.
Countries
Location, borders, capitals, and geographic context for each country.
Places A–Z
Find landmarks, cities, and famous places by exact name.
Mountains
Elevation, coordinates, ranges, and mountain-country context.
Buildings
Height, floor area, construction span, and architect-focused facts for iconic buildings.
Islands
Island locations, country context, and map-friendly quick facts.
Waterfalls
Height, location, river setting, country context, and coordinates.
Airports
IATA codes, city served, coordinates, and aviation geography.
National Parks
Protected landscapes, area, country context, and map facts.
Formula 1 Circuits
Track length, Grand Prix context, country, and circuit coordinates.
Data
Downloadable geography datasets for mountains, islands, landmarks, and coordinates.
Rankings
Citeable comparison lists for mountains, islands, and geography clusters.
Popular Geography Questions
Fast answers for the location, geography, history, height, and size searches people use most often.
What is Aoraki?
The Māori name of Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain.
Lake Atitlán geography
A volcanic caldera lake in Guatemala's western highlands.
Cape Town location
Western Cape, South Africa, beside Table Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Ssese Islands location
A Lake Victoria archipelago in Uganda's Kalangala District.
Cliffs of Moher location
County Clare, Ireland, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
Horseshoe Bend, USA
A Colorado River bend near Page in northern Arizona.
Lake Tahoe geography
A Sierra Nevada alpine lake on the California-Nevada border.
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Browse places A–Z
Alphabetical index of places. Choose a letter to explore.
Featured places
A selection of notable places to explore.
101 Reykjavik
101 Reykjavik is the central postal district of Reykjavík, Iceland, and the commonly used name for the city’s downtown area. It corresponds to the postal code 101 and contains Reykjavík’s principal administrative, commercial, and cultural institutions. The district includes the national parliament precinct and the main pedestrian shopping street, and it functions as the municipality’s core civic quarter under the governance of the City of Reykjavík.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art is a public contemporary art museum in Japan. It is located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, and serves as a municipal cultural institution with a distinctive circular architectural plan that organizes galleries and public spaces around multiple inner courtyards. The building’s continuous glass perimeter and provision for site-specific installations form a formally defined relationship between the urban block and the museum’s interior exhibition spaces.
798 Art District
798 Art District is an urban contemporary art district in Beijing, China. It occupies a repurposed industrial complex in the Dashanzi area of Chaoyang District, and its location is commonly identified near coordinates 39.985°N, 116.502°E. The district is significant for its concentration of galleries, artist studios, and cultural organizations housed within former state-owned factory buildings, and for its role in Beijing’s post-industrial cultural transformation.
Aalborg Zoo
Aalborg Zoo is a zoological garden in Denmark located in the city of Aalborg. It sits within Aalborg Municipality in the North Jutland Region and functions as the city’s principal public zoological collection, presenting a curated assembly of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians across purpose-built enclosures and indoor houses managed under Danish regulatory frameworks.
Aalto University
Aalto University is a public university located in Finland that combines education and research across technology, business, and design. It was established in 2010 through the formal merger of three predecessor institutions and has since operated from a main campus in Otaniemi, Espoo. Aalto University is organised into multiple constituent schools and professional units, and its institutional mandate emphasises multidisciplinary research and education linking engineering, economics, and the arts. One measurable fact is that the university structure includes distinct schools for engineering, business, and arts and design.
Aarhus University
Aarhus University is a public research university in Denmark with a core campus and multiple city-based facilities serving teaching and research. The institution was founded in 1928 and is governed as a state-recognized university under Danish higher education law. Aarhus University comprises a range of faculties including arts, natural sciences, health, and business-related disciplines, and it operates an integrated library and research infrastructure that supports laboratory science, humanities collections, and clinical partnerships. The university is a major regional research and education centre with formal institutional status and a sustained presence in international rankings.
Abanotubani
Abanotubani is a historic district of Tbilisi, Georgia, centered on natural sulfur springs and a concentration of public bathhouses. It occupies a compact area beneath the Narikala fortress and forms part of Tbilisi's registered historic core. The district includes a compact ensemble of domed bathing structures that are recognized elements in the city's cultural-heritage inventory. The name Abanotubani literally means "bath district" in Georgian, reflecting its urban function.
ABBA The Museum
ABBA The Museum is a museum in Sweden dedicated to the material culture and public record of the Swedish pop group ABBA. It is located in central Stockholm and maintains a permanent collection of original stage costumes, musical instruments, and curated exhibition material documenting the group's career. The institution serves as a curated repository and exhibition venue with a documented accessioned collection held for long-term preservation within Stockholm's municipal cultural landscape.
Abel Tasman National Park
Abel Tasman National Park is a protected coastal national park at the northern end of New Zealand’s South Island. It conserves a concentrated sequence of beaches, granite headlands, and coastal forest. The park covers about 225 square kilometres, including mainland conservation land and offshore islets. Its significance derives from the compact juxtaposition of marine-influenced ecosystems, recorded archaeological sites, and long-term ecological research value.
Abidjan Zoo
Abidjan Zoo is a curated zoological collection in Ivory Coast that operates as a municipal zoological park. It is located within the Abidjan metropolitan area and serves as the country’s principal public zoo, a formally recognized civic facility managed for animal husbandry, display, and municipal education. The site is defined by its urban setting beside lagoon channels and by an institutional role combining species care, veterinary practice, and public scientific collection management.
Abu Dhabi International Airport
Abu Dhabi International Airport is an international airport serving the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The airport is located on the eastern outskirts of Abu Dhabi city and operates as the principal civil aviation hub for the emirate under the management of Abu Dhabi Airports. Abu Dhabi International Airport contains multiple passenger terminals, cargo precincts, and maintenance facilities, and it functions as the principal base for the national carrier, Etihad Airways.
Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel is a pair of monumental rock-cut temples in southern Egypt, notable for their colossal statuary and preserved reliefs. The complex comprises two temples carved into a sandstone cliff, the Great Temple with four seated colossi each about 20 metres high and a smaller temple honoring a royal consort. Its significance lies in New Kingdom monumental architecture, ritual symbolism, and an internationally coordinated relocation project that preserved the site from inundation. The site demonstrates large-scale pharaonic statecraft expressed in stone.