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  2. Romania - Wikipedia

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    Romania is the largest country in Southeastern Europe and the twelfth-largest in Europe, having an area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi). [243] : 17 It lies between latitudes 43° and 49° N and longitudes 20° and 30° E. The terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountains, hills, and plains.

  3. Rhodesia - Wikipedia

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    Rhodesia ( / roʊˈdiːʒə / ⓘ roh-DEE-zhə, / roʊˈdiːʃə / roh-DEE-shə; [2] Shona: Rodizha ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, [3] was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979. During this fourteen year period Rhodesia served as the de facto successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, and ...

  4. Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Pin. Rasmussen designed the Google Maps pin while he was employed by Google. The pin is a simple pointer with a bubble top which tapers to a narrow point with a drop shadow. A Google spokesperson told the New York Times that Rasmussen avoided using a star or dot on the map, because they would obscure too much of the map. The Google ...

  5. Area 51 - Wikipedia

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    The CIA asked the AEC to acquire the land, designated "Area 51" on the map, and to add it to the Nevada Test Site.: 56–57 Johnson named the area "Paradise Ranch" to encourage workers to move to "the new facility in the middle of nowhere", as the CIA later described it, and the name became shortened to "the Ranch".

  6. Tiled web map - Wikipedia

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    A tiled web map, slippy map [1] (in OpenStreetMap terminology) or tile map is a map displayed in a web browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually requested image or vector data files. It is the most popular way to display and navigate maps, replacing other methods such as Web Map Service (WMS) which typically display a single large ...

  7. File:Google Maps Logo 2020.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Google Maps Logo 2020.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 512 × 461 pixels. Other resolutions: 267 × 240 pixels | 533 × 480 pixels | 853 × 768 pixels | 1,137 × 1,024 pixels | 2,275 × 2,048 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 512 × 461 pixels, file size: 4 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons ...

  8. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  9. Argleton - Wikipedia

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    Argleton was a phantom settlement that appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth but was later removed by Google. [1] The supposed location of Argleton was between the A59 road and Town Green railway station within the civil parish of Aughton in West Lancashire, England, in an area of empty fields. [2] [3] Data from Google is used by other ...