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(Encyclopedia) Agadez ägädĕsˈ [key], town, W central Niger, in the Aïr Massif. Agadez is a trade center visited by Tuareg pastoral nomads. Leather and silver handicrafts are ...

(Encyclopedia) Bilbao bēlbäˈō [key], city (2021 est. metro area pop. 349,000), capital of Bizkaia (Vizca...

(Encyclopedia) Birmingham bûrˈmĭnghămˌ [key] 1 City (2020 pop. 200,733), seat of Jefferson co., N centr...

(Encyclopedia) Duisburg düsˈbo͝ork [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, at the confluence of...

(Encyclopedia) Hubballi-Dharwad, formerly Hubli-Dharwad ho͝oˈblē-därˈvär [key], city, Karnataka (forme...

(Encyclopedia) Hudson. 1 Industrial town (2020 pop. 20,092), Middlesex co., E central Mass., on the Assabet River, in an apple-growing region; settled c.1699, ...

(Encyclopedia) Cremona krĭmōˈnə, Ital. krāmôˈnä [key], city, capital of Cremona prov., Lomba...

(Encyclopedia) Jenin jĕˈnēn [key], town (2003 est. pop. 34,000), West Bank, at the southern entrance to the Esdraelon Valley and on the northern edge of the Samarian Highlands. It is an important crossroads, urba...

(Encyclopedia) Wrocław vrôtsˈläf [key], Ger. Breslau, city (1993 est. pop. 644,000), capital of Dolnośląskie prov., SW Poland, on the Oder (Odra) River. A railway center and river port, the city is also an ind...

(Encyclopedia) Ürümqi or Urumchi both: o͞oro͞omˈchē [key], city (1994 est. pop. 1,130,300), capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China, in the Dzungarian basin. Ürümqi is an administrative and com...