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24-62675. GNIS feature ID. 586631. Pomfret is a census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 514. [4] There are five properties in the area that are on the National Register of Historic Places. The origins of the settlement go back to at least 1666.
From the Dutch Novus Atlas (1635). Cartographer: Willem Janszoon Blaeu. The Kola Peninsula ( Russian: Ко́льский полуо́стров, romanized : Kólʹskij poluóstrov, Kolsky poluostrov; Kildin Sami: Куэлнэгк нёа̄ррк) is a peninsula located in northwest Russia. It is one of the largest peninsulas of Europe.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
FIPS code. 24-45750. GNIS feature ID. 0585340. Website. www .townoflaplata .org. La Plata ( / ləˈpleɪtə / lə-PLAY-tə) [ 3] is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,159 at the 2020 census. [ 4] It is the county seat of Charles County.
Extreme points of Europe and two of its geographic centres: the Saaremaa island in western Estonia, and Babruysk in Belarus. The picture above shows the extreme points of Europe, northern or southern. The northern, which are Ostrov Rudolfa or Rudolf Island, a Russian island, Kinnarodden, a tourist attraction in Norway, and Mys Zhelaniya or Cape ...
The Fra Mauro Map of the world. The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe. The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian ( Venetian) cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography ." [1] It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame that measures ...
Description. Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500". [1]
Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The terms are compound words of the names of its constituent parts. Afro-Eurasia has also been called the "Old World", in contrast to the "New World" referring to the Americas. Afro-Eurasia encompasses 84,980,532 km 2 (32,811,167 ...