‘Countries and Cities’ Archives
Jhansi
Jhansi A city of India and the capital of a district and a division of the same name in the southwestern part of Uttar Pradesh, in north central India. The City The city of Jhansi is situated in a southern extension, or corridor, of Uttar Pradesh, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Agra. It lies at the northern edge of the plateau of the [...]
Italy
Italy An independent republic in southern Europe, on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It occupies all of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula, except for the 23 square miles (60 sq km) of the republic of San Marino (near Rimini) and the 108 acres (44 hectares) of the Vati¬can City State. Italy also includes two large Mediterranean [...]
Johannesburg
Johannesburg The largest city of the Republic of South Africa, in the province of the Trans¬vaal, situated in the center of the Witwatersrand goldfields and of the greatest industrial complex in the republic. It lies at an elevation of 5,750 feet (1,756 meters) about 300 miles (483 km) from the Indian Ocean ports of Maputo and Durban and about [...]
Japan
Japan (in Japanese Nihon or Nippon) An island nation in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean, off the coast of East Asia. It occupies four main islands—Hokkaido, Hon¬shu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and many smaller ones, extend¬ing in an arc from Hokkaido in the northeast to the Ryukyu Islands in the southwest; Honshu, with three fifths [...]
China
China China, (People's Republic of China), is situated in eastern Asia, bounded by the Pacific in the east. The third largest country in the world, next to Canada and Russia, it has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, or one-fifteenth of the world's land mass. It begins from the confluence of the Heilong and Wusuli rivers (135 degrees and [...]
Israel
Israel Israel is a small country in southwestern Asia. It occupies a narrow strip of land on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Israel was founded in 1948 as a homeland for Jews from all parts of the world, and more than 4 out of 5 of its people are Jews. Even Jews who live elsewhere consider Israel their spiritual home. Almost all the [...]
Greece
Greece Greece is a small country where Western civilization started about 2,500 years ago. In those days, Greece controlled much of the land bordering the Mediterranean and Black seas. Athens is the capital and the largest city of Greece. In Athens and other parts of Greece, magnificent ruins stand as monuments to the nation's glorious [...]
