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0118, 1227 CROATIA - The map and the flag of the country
Posted on 07.02.2012 and 17.09.2014When Croatia has separated from Yugoslavia and it has declared independence, I thought that its territory's shape (as the jaws of a crocodile - isn't at all a...
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0409, 1228 CHINA (Beijing) - Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties...
Posted on 10.12.2012 and 17.09.2014Built between 1406 and 1420 by a million of workers, Zijin Cheng (literally Purple Forbidden City), served for almost 500 years as the home of emperors - 14 of the...
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1229 AUSTRALIA - Koala
According to biologist Stephen Jackson: "If you were to take a straw poll of the animal most closely associated with Australia, it's a fair bet that the koala would come out marginally in front of the...
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1229 CAYMAN ISLANDS - Here are Cayman Islands
Located in the western Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica, the Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory which comprises three islands: Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little...
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1230 JORDAN (Amman) - King Abdullah I Mosque
Completed in 1989 as a memorial by the late King Hussein (r. 1952-1999) to his grandfather, Abdullah I bin al-Hussein, Emir of Transjordan between 1921 and 1946, and king of Jordan since 1946 until...
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1152-1154, 1234-1235 ARUBA - The map of the country
Posted on 20.07.2014 and 20.09.2014Located about 1,600km west of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea and 27km north of the coast of Venezuela, Aruba forms, together with Bonaire and...
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1236 VIETNAM (Northwest) - The pig market in Sa Pa
Located in Lào Cai Province in northwest Vietnam, close to the border with China, at 380 km north-west of Hanoi, Sa Pa is a quiet mountain town and home to a great diversity of ethnic minority peoples....
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1237 POLAND (Mazovia) - The Presidential Palace in Warsaw
Located on the Krakowskie Przedmieście, one of the best known and most prestigious streets of Poland's capital, not far from Historic Centre of Warsaw (an UNESCO WHS since 1980) the Presidential Palace...
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1238 MALDIVES - Vivanta by Taj Coral Reef resort on North Male Atoll
Located in the Indian Ocean–Arabian Sea area, Maldives consists of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago. Maldives is the...
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1239 UNITED STATES (New Mexico) - White Sands National Monument (UNESCO WHS -...
Located in the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin, at about 25 km southwest of Alamogordo, at an elevation of 1,291m, White Sands National Monument comprises the southern part of a 710-km² field of white...
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1240 TUNISIA (Kairouan) - Kairouan (UNESCO WHS)
Located in the centre of Tunisia, in a plain at an almost equal distance from the sea and the mountain, Kairouan (Al Qairawān) was founded around 670, as an Arab military post for the conquest of the...
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0636-0644, 1241-1242 ROMANIA (Suceava) - Churches of Moldavia (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 11.05.2013 and 23.09.2014This series of postcards, named Patrimonio and depicting Churches of Moldavia (listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1993 and 2010), has for me and my...
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1243 PORTUGAL (Lisbon) - A shoeshiner in Lisbon in 1987
In Western civilization, the occupation of shoeshiner was probably one of the most ephemeral, appearing in the early 20th century and disappearing in most European countries before its conclusion....
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1244 BRUNEI - Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque
Built on an artificial lagoon on the banks of the river Brunei, Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque dominates not only so-called village in the water, Kampong Ayer, but even the skyline of Bandar Seri...
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1245 ROMANIA (Sălaj) - Baking moşoroane at House-Museum of Ligia Bodea
Although in nowadys it has a population only slightly more than 800 inhabitants, the village Iaz in the commune Plopiş (Sălaj County) is known throughout the country due to the House-Museum of Ligia...
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1246 AFGHANISTAN - Paghman Valley
Located very near for the capital Kabul, west of the city, the fertile Paghman Valley is one of the most visited places, mostly for the Paghman Gardens, arranged by King Amanullah after his 1927-1928...
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1247 UNITED STATES (North Carolina) - The map and the flag of State of North...
Located on the Atlantic coast, between South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia, and known as the Tar Heel State and the Old North State, North Carolina has a wide range of elevations, from sea...
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1248 GUERNSEY - Saint Peter Port Harbour at down
Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey, one of the two british bailiwick located in the English Channel, possession of the Crown and part of the Channel Islands. It is a small town, with a...
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1249 PHILIPPINES (Luzon) - Kumintang
The kumintang is the name given to several distinct styles, techniques and forms in music and dance, probably originating in the areas used by early Spanish chronicles to denote a province centering...
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1250 MEXICO (Querétaro) - Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro (UNESCO WHS)
Santiago de Querétaro, the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico, at 213km northwest of Mexico City, was founded on 25 July 1531, when during a battle between...
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