Columbia Encyclopedia

(Encyclopedia) Pereira pārāˈrä [key], city (1993 pop. 348,023), capital of Risaralda dept., W central Colombia, in the upper Cauca valley. It is a major distribution center for coffee and cattle and has a small ...

(Encyclopedia) Shibin el Kom shĭbēnˈ ĕl ko͝om [key], city (1986 pop. 132,209), capital of Munufiyah governorate, N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. It is an agricultural market and a cotton-processing center. ...

(Encyclopedia) Shirbarghan shērbärˈgän [key], city (1981 est. pop. 19,500), capital of Jozjan (Jowzjan) prov., N Afghanistan. It is a market for agricultural produce and Karakul lamb skins and is the site of an ...

(Encyclopedia) Calvados kälvädôsˈ [key], department, in Normandy, N France, on the English Channel. ...

(Encyclopedia) Charente shäräNtˈ [key], department, W France. The capital is Angoulême. The brandy disti...

(Encyclopedia) Chitré chētrāˈ [key], city, S Panama, near the Gulf of Panama. It is capital of the Herre...

(Encyclopedia) City of David, in the Bible, epithet of Bethlehem, the birthplace of David, and of Jerusalem, his capital. ...

(Encyclopedia) Colima, city, capital of Colima state, SW Mexico. It is a marketing and processing center for the surrounding agricultural region. The city was founded ...

(Encyclopedia) Côte-d'Or kōt-dôr [key], department, E France, largely in Burgundy, partly in Champagne. ...

(Encyclopedia) Daejeon or Taejon dīˈjônˈ [key], city, capital of South Chungcheong (Chungchong) prov., central ...