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(Encyclopedia) Florence.
1 City (2020 pop. 40,184), seat of Lauderdale co., NW Ala., on
the Tennessee River near Muscle Shoals and adjacent to Wilson
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(Encyclopedia) Manhattan, city (1990 pop. 37,712), seat of Riley co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Big Blue and Kansas rivers; inc. 1857. It is the trade and processing center of a farm area. Much of the econo...
(Encyclopedia) Kensico Reservoir kĕnˈzĭkō [key], c.4 sq mi (10 sq km), SE N.Y., N of White Plains, formed by Kensico Dam (completed 1915) on the Bronx River. A principal unit in the New York City water supply sy...
(Encyclopedia) Conemaugh kŏnˈəmôˌ [key], river c.70 mi (110 km) long, rising in the Allegheny Mts. and flowing NW to the Allegheny River, SW Pa. Federal flood-control works on the river and its tributaries incl...
(Encyclopedia) Zaysan, Lake zīsänˈ [key], freshwater lake, c.700 sq mi (1,810 sq km), SE Kazakhstan, in the Altai Mts. It is crossed by the Irtysh River. It abounds in fish. The lake has risen 20 ft (6 m) above i...
(Encyclopedia) Sun, river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., NW Mont., and flowing generally E to the Missouri River at Great Falls. The Sun River project of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation utilizes t...
(Encyclopedia) Poplar Bluff, city (1990 pop. 16,996), seat of Butler co., SE Mo., in the Ozark foothills, on the low bluffs of the Black River near the Ark. line; inc. 1870. It is a trade, shipping, and medical cent...
(Encyclopedia) Andong
änˈdŭngˈ
[key], city, North Gyeongsang (Kyongsang) prov., E South Korea. It is a railroad junction,
terminus of the navigable portion of the Nakdong River, and ...
(Encyclopedia) Little Missouri. 1 River, c.145 mi (230 km) long, rising in the Ouachita Mts., SW Ark., and flowing generally SE to join the Ouachita River N of Camden. North of Murfreesboro is Narrows Dam (1950), wh...
(Encyclopedia) Dunajec do͞onäˈyĕts [key], river, 156 mi (250 km) long, rising in the Carpathians, S Poland, and flowing NE past Nowy Sącz into the Vistula River. There are hydroelectric stations at Rożnów (th...