locations Flashcards

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mexico

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south of the US, north of Guatemala and Belize

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belize

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southeast of mexico, east of guatemala, northwest of honduras

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Guatemala

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in between and south of mexico and belize, northwest of el salvador and honduras

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El Salvador

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west of Honduras, northwest of Nicaragua

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Honduras

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East of el salvador, southeast of guatemala, north of nicuragua

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Costa rica

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South of nicuragua, north of panama

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Panama

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south of Costa Rica, north of columbia

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Columbia

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Northwestern south america, west of Venezuela, east of Ecuador and peru, north of brazil

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Venezuela

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Northern south america, in east of columbia, west of gyuana, north of brazil (needs photo)

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Guyana

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west of suriname, east of venezuela, northeast of brazil

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Suriname

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east of guyana, west of french guiana, north of brazil

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French Guiana

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east of suriname, north of brazil

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Ecuador

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northwest of peru, southwest of columbia

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Peru

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west of brazil, southwest of columbia, southeast of ecuador, northwest of bolivia, north of chile

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Brazil

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takes up most of eastern south america, is bordered by every country in south america except chile and ecuador

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Bolivia

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north of argentina, northwest of paraguay, northeast of chile, southwest of brazil, southeast of peru

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Paraguay

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southeast of bolivia, east of argentina, west of brazil

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argentina

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south of bolivia and paraguay, southwest of brazil and uraguay, east of chile

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uraguay

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southwest of brazil, southeast of argentina

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chile

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south of peru, southwest of bolivia, west of argentina

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cuba

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south of florida, east of central america, southwest of the bahamas, north of Jamaica, hati, and the dominican republic

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Haiti

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west of the dominican rebublic, southeast of cuba, east of jamaca, north of south america

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Jamaica

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south of cuba, west of hati, east of central america, north of south america

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Dominican republic

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east of hati, southeast of cuba, north of south america, west of central america

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Andes Mountains
mountian range that runs all the way through the west coast of south america beginning in argentina and ending in venezuela
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Sierra Madres
mountian range the runs northwest to southwest and northeast to southeast of mexico with central mexico mostly clear of mountains
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Atacama Desert
on the west coast of south america, mostly in northern chile, thoughparts run through peru, bolivia, and argentina.
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Puerto Rico
southeast of the dominican republic, north of south america, east of central america.
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Amazon River Basin
mid-northern south america, norther brazil, peru, columbia, ecuador, and bolivia. the river runs through northern brazil and peru.
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Pampas
a treeless plain running through eastern argentina, all of uraguay, and a small bit of southern brazil
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Llanos
a grassy plain running throu central columbia and venezuela
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Amazon Rainforest
mid-northern south america, norther brazil, peru, columbia, ecuador, and bolivia
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Mexico City
the capital of mexico, in south-central mexico between the Sierra Madres
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Rio de Janeiro
the second most populated city in brazil, in southeast brazil on the coast.
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Buenos Aires
the capital of argentina, in northeast argentina on the south coast of La Plata
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Santiago
the capital of chile, in central chile on the eastern side
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Switzerland
north of intaly, east of france, south of germany, west of lichtenstien and austria
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Luxembourg
southeast of belgium, west of germany, east of france
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Sweden
east of norway, west of finland, north of germany and poland, northeast of denmark
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Ukraine
west of russia, south of belarus, southeast of poland, east of slovakia, hungary, romania, and moldova
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France
west of luxembourg, belgium, and switzerland, south of the UK, northeast of spain
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Spain
southwest of france, east of portugal, north of Morocco and algeria
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Germany
west of poland and czech republic, northwest of austria, northeast of switzerland, east of france, luxembourg, belgium, and the netherlands, south of denmark
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United Kingdom
east of ireland, north of france, west of denmark
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Italy
south of switzerland and austria, southeast of france, northwest of greece
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Eurasia
modern day europe and asia as one continent, northeast of africa
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Iberian Peninsula
spain and portugal, southwest of france
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Scandinavian Peninsula
norway and sweden, west of finland
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Italian Peninsula
all of italy, south of switzerland, northwest of greece
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Jutland Peninsula
all of denmark, north of germany, south of norway and sweden
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Great Britain
the whales, england, and scotland part of the UK, east of Ireland and west of denmark
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Ireland
west of the uk, south of iceland, north of spain
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Sicily
southwest of italian mainland, west of greece
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Alps
mountian range that runs in an arc north of Italy, touching the southern parts of france, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, covering all of liechtenstien, and the western part of slovenia
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Pyrenees
mountian range that runs on the border between France and Spain, covering all of andorra
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Northern European Plain
a mostly flat plain that stretches across the western part of russia through most of Eastern Ukraine, then arches down through the border between bulgaria and romania, then arches up through most of the northern coast of Europe and ending in western France. it also covers all of finland and northwestern kazakhstan (central eurasia)
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Danube
a river that stretches from the northern east coast of romania through the border between romania and Bulgaria, northern serbia, then west at budepest in hungary and runs to southwestern germany (southeastern and central europe)
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Rhine
a river that begins in southern germany and arches in a backward c until basel, then arches northwest to southwestern coast in the netherlands
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Seine
a river that starts in paris and goes west in a squiggly shape to honfleur
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Volga
a river that runs frum the russian southcoast just east of Kazakhstan and goes north until the Valdai Hills northwest of moscow
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Adriatic Sea
a sea in east of the italian penninsula and west of croatia down to albania
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Aegean Sea
a sea tha sourounds the eastern side of greece and its eastern islands
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Mediterranean Sea
a sea south of europe and turkey and north of africa
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Baltic Sea
a sea east of sweden and west of Lithuania, latvia, estonia, etc
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Black Sea
a sea north of turkey and south of ukraine
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North Sea
a sea southwest of Norway, east of the Uk, and north of mainland europe
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Atlantic Ocean
the ocean east of the americas and west of Europe and africa
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Arctic Ocean
the ocean covering the northmost part of the world, north of every continent
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Strait of Gibraltar
the strip of water south of spain and north of morraco
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Black Forest
a forest in southwestern germany
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Ruhr Valley
a valley in northwestern germany east of the Netherlands, produces most of Germany's black coal
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Po Valley
a valley in the northernmost part of Italy, just south of Switzerland and Austria-creates hydroelectricity for switzerland
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Berlin
the capital of germany- a city in northeastern germany between oder river and Elbe river
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London
the capital of england, in the southeastern part of england, north of france
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Paris
the capital of france, in the northern part of the county, southwest of berlin
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Madrid
the capital of spain, right in the center of the country
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Rome
the capital of italy, in the central area of the eastern part of the country, just a small bit inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Athens
the capital of greece, in the central southern part of the country on the coast of the medditerrain sea
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Warsaw
the capital of poland in the eastern part of the country, just northwest of the border between balarus and ukraine
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United States
the central of north america, south of Canada and north a mexico
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Mississippi River
a river beginning in southeast louisiana and running along the borders between Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, louisiana, and illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, then curves into wisconson and goes north to central wisconson
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St. Lawrence River
a river starting a quebec city and going south through the great lakes to detroit
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Colorado River
a river starting in northern calarado and runing south through utah and arizona and exits through western Mexico into the pacific ocean
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Columbia River
a river that runs from eastern British Columbia south to create the border between Washington and Oregon, then discharges into the pacific ocean on the west oregon/washington coast
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Rio Grande
a river that starts in southern colorado and runs through new Mexico south to create the border between texas and Mexico. it discharges into the gulf of mexico
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Gulf of Mexico
the gulf in the middle of the eastern circle that Mexico, the us, and cuba creates
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Great Lakes
a series of freshwater lakes that lays in then interior eastern central part of north America. they surround michigan and wisconson in the US and Toronto in Canada
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Pacific Ocean
the ocean that is west of north America and east of asia and australia
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Alabama
west of georga, east of mississippi, north west of florida
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Alaska
a part of the us, though it is the northwesternmost peninsula attached to Canada
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Arizona
west of new mexico, north of mexico, south of utah
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Arkansas
west of mississippi and tennesee, north of Louisiana, east of oklahoma
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California
the westernmost part of the US, running south of Oregon down the rest of the western coast
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Colorado
west of utah, southwest of wyoming, north of arizona
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Connecticut
east of new york, west of Rohde island, south of massechussets
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Delaware
East of Maryland, southeast of Pennsylvania, west of New Jersey
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Florida
The southernmost state of the US, south of Alabama and georgia
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Georgia (US)
North of Florida, east of Alabama, southwest of south corolina
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Hawaii
Southwest of the coast of California in the pacific ocean
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Idaho
West of Montana and Wyoming, east of Washington and Oregon, south of canada
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Illinois
West of Indiana, east of iowa and misouri
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Indiana
West of Ohio, east of illinois
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Iowa
South of Minnesota, north of missouri
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Kansas
South of Nebraska, north of Oklahoma
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Kentucky
South of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, north of Tennessee
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Louisiana
South of Arkansas, north of the Gulf of Mexico, east of texas
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Maine
The northeastern most state of the us, northeast of New Hampshire, southwest of New Brunswick in canada
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Maryland
North of Virginia and West Virginia, south of Pennsylvania
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Massachusetts
South of Vermont and New Hampshire, north of Connecticut and Rhode Island
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Michigan
North of Indiana ohio and Wisconsin, mostly surrounded by the great lakes
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Minnesota
East of the dakotas, west of Wisconsin, and south of Ontario in Canada
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Mississippi
East of Arkansas, north east of Louisiana, west of Alabama
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Missouri
North of Arkansas, south of Iowa, east of Kansas
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Montana
North of Wyoming, south of Canada, east of idaho
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Nebraska
South of South Dakota, north of Kansas
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Nevada
East of California, west of Utah
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New Hampshire
East of Vermont, north of Massachusetts
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New Jersey
East of Pennsylvania, west of the Atlantic Ocean, south of New York
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New Mexico
South of Colorado, east of Arizona, north of mexico
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New York
Northeast of Pennsylvania, west of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
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North Carolina
North of South Carolina, south of Virginia
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North Dakota
south of Canada, north of South Dakota, east of Montana
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Ohio
Northwest of West Virginia, west of Pennsylvania, east of Indiana
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Oklahoma
South of Kansas and north of texas
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Oregon
West of Idaho, south of Washington
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Pennsylvania
North of Maryland and south of New York
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Rhode Island
East of Connecticut, south of Massachusetts
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South Carolina
Northeast of Georgia, south of north carolina
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South Dakota
South of North Dakota, north of Nebraska, west of Minnesota
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Tennessee
South of Kentucky, north of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
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Texas
Northeast of Mexico, south of Oklahoma
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Utah
North of Arizona, southeast of Idaho, southwest of Wyoming
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Vermont
West of New Hampshire, east of new york
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Virginia
South east of West Virginia, north of North Carolina
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Washington
North of Oregon, west of Idaho, south of Canada
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West Virginia
Northwest of virginia, southeast of Ohio
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Wisconsin
North of Illinois, east of Minnesota
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Wyoming
Northeast of Utah, north of Colorado, south of Montana
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Hudson Bay
The bay in Canada west of Quebec and southeast of nunavut
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Aleutian Islands
The string of islands that run off of western Alaska in a upwards arc towards eastern Russia (the border between the Pacific Ocean and Bering sea)
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Hawaiian Archipelago
Southwest of the coast of California in the pacific ocean
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Appalachian Mountains
The mountain range beginning in the northernmost part of Maine and running south to the northern part of Georgia
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Pacific Coastal Range
a moutian range that follows along the west coast of the US that begins in northernmost washington and ends in central california
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Basin and Range
a basin and range chain chain running from northwestern US to central mexico
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Rocky Mountains
a large mountian range running from northernmost alaska south to northern new mexico
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Great Plains
a flatland east of the southern rocky mountians beginning in central alberta in canada and ending in southern texas
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Interior Lowlands
a lowland running from the tip of northwest canada to the northernmost tip of mexico
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Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Plain
a area of land beginning in central texas and moving northeast until central new jersey
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Canadian Shield
an area of land beginning in northerneast most canada and curving down until it touches new york, michigan, minnisota and wisconson, then it curves back up to northcentral canada
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Grand Canyon
an extensive canyon that is cut through by the Colorado river in northwest Arizona
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Toronto
a city in south eastern ontario in canada
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Montreal
a city in southern quebec in Canada
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Ottawa
the capital of canada, located in south eastern ontario
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Quebec
a province in canada northeast of ontario and southwest of new foundland and labrador
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Vancouver
a city in southern british columbia, canada. just north of washington state in the US
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British Columbia
a province in canada east of the gulf of alaska, west of alberta, north of the US
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Washington D.C.
a district that is the captal of the USA, on the border between virginia and maryland
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Chicago
a major city in northern illinois
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New York City
a major city in southern New York, east of new jersey
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Los Angeles
a major city in southern calfornia
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Houston
a major city in eastern texas, just west of the gulf of mexico
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Kuwait
a country in west aisia southeast of iraq and north east of saudi arabia
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United Arab Emirates
a country in west aisa southeast of saudi arabia and northeast of oman
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Qatar
a pennensula jutting off of east suadi arabia and mostly surrounded by the persian gulf
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Israel
a smal country in western asia west of jordan and seria and northeast of egypt
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Algeria
a country in northern africa, west of morraco and east of tunisia and libya
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Saudi Arabia
a country in west asia south of jordan, kuwait, and iraq, and north of yemen and oman
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Libya
a country in north africa north of chad and niger and west of egypt
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Iran
a country in west asia south of the caspian sea, west of afganastan, and north of the arabian sea
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Turkey
a country in west asia north of Syria and west of armenia
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Egypt
a country in north africa north of sudan and east of libya
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Sahara
a major desert taking up most of northern africa, stopping at south niger
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Sahel
a region cutting through central sudan and chad and following straight west to the atlantic coast
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Atlas Mountains
a mountian range in north africa cutting through moracco, north algeria, and a small bit of west tunisia
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Taurus Mountains
a mountian range in south west turkey, directly north of cyprus
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Zagros Mountains
a mountian range beginning in southrn turkey and running southeast through a little bit of iraq and then iran
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Mediterranean Sea
the sea north of africa and south of europe
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Red Sea
the sea west of suadi arabia and asia and east of sudan and africa
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Black Sea
the sea north of turkey and south of ukraine
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Arabian Sea
the nsea south of pakistan and oman and west of india
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Persian/Arabian Gulf
the sea west of iran and east of saudi arabia
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Strait of Hormuz
the body of water north of the tip of the united arab emirates
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Tehran
the capital of iran located in northern iran
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Bosporus Strait
the body of water connecting the black sea to the sea marmara in northern turkey
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Dardanelles Strait
the body of water connecting the sea of marmara to the aegean sea in northern turkey
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Nile River
a large river beginning in lake victoria south of uganda and discharging in nothern egypt (flows north)
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Tigris River
a river starting in southern turkey and flowing west then south to discharge in the persian gulf (north of euphrates)
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Euphrates River
a river starting in southern turkey and flowing west then south to discharge in the persian gulf (south of tigris)
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Jordan River
a river beginning on the central part of the border between lebanon and syria, and flowwing south to discharge into the dead sea
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Baghdad
the capitaal of iraq loccated in the center of iraq
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Cairo
the capital of egypt, located in north eastern egypt
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Istanbul
a city in northern turkey, just north of the Bosporus Strait
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Jerusalem
the capital of isreal and also palestine, located somewhere in central isreal (including the west bank)
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Mecca
a city in saudi arabia, located in western saudi arabia just a little east of the red sea
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South Africa
the country in southernmost africa, west of the indian ocean and east of the atlantic ocean
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Gabon
a country in west africa west of the rebublic of the congo and east of the atlantic ocean
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Botswana
a country in southern africa north of south africa and south of zambia and angola
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
a counry in central africa north of zambia and south of central african republic
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Sudan
a counrty in northeastern africa north of south sudan and south of egypt
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Chad
a country in northern africa south of libya and north of central african republic
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Mozambique
a country in south east africa south of tanzania and east of zambia and south africa
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Madagascar
an island south east of africa surrounded by the indian ocean and east of mozambique
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Nigeria
a country in western africa south of niger and north of the atlantic ocean
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Ethiopia
a country in eastern africa west of somalia and east of sudan and south sudan
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Tanzania
a country in eastern africa southwest of kenya northeast of zambia
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Kenya
a country in eastern africa south of ethiopia and east of uganda
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Kalahari Desert
a desert taking up most of botswana and parts of eastern nambia and northern south africa
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Namib Desert
a desert taking up the west coast of nambia and a bit of the west coast of angola
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Zambezi River
a river starting on the border of southern central DRC and eastern angola and swervind south east to discharge off the coast of southern mozambique
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Niger River
a river that starts in the center of the border between sierra leone and guinea and curving in and upside down c to discharge off the coast of nigeria
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Congo River
a river beginning in southern democratic republic of the congo and curving in a large upside down c to discharge of the southern west coast of the DRC
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Indian Ocean
the ocean surrounded by asia, africa, and australia
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Lake Victoria
the lake north of tanzania and south of uganda and kenya
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Lake Tanganyika
a lake running through the border between tanzania and burundi and DRC and zambia
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Lagos
a city on the coast of the atlantic ocean in southwestern nigeria
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Dakar
the capital of senegal, located on the westernmost tip of senegal bordering the atlantic ocean
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Johannesburg
a city in northern central south africa just south of the city of Pretoria
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Kazakhstan
a country in central asia south of russia and north of uzbekistan and kyrgystan
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Russia
a country north of Kazakhstan and mongolia and east of europe
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Turkmenistan
a country south of uzbekistan and north of iran and afganastan
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Uzbekistan
a country south of kazakhstan and north of turkmenistan
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Caucasus
a region running through southern russia and northern georgia and azerbaijan
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Ural Mountains
a mountian range running north to south in western russia
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Siberia
a region in northern central just north of the nizhnyaya tunguska
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Volga River
a river in russia beginning east of latvia and curving in a backwards c to discharge in the caspian sea
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Ob River
a river on the edge of central russia just west of the western siberian plain flows south to the edge of kazakhstan and mongolia
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Amur River
a river starting in Mongolia and forming the border between north-east China and south-east Russia.
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Lake Baikal
a lake in south-east Siberia in russia
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Caspian Sea
a body of water south of russia and kazakhstan and north of iran
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Aral Sea
a body of water between kazakhstan and uzbekistan
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Bering Strait
the body of water west of alaska and east of russia
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Moscow
capital of russia in western russia
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St Petersburg
a city in western russia southeast of finland
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Novosibirsk
a city in southern russia northeast of kazakhstan
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Afghanistan
a country east of iran and north of pakistan
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Pakistan
a country southeast of Afghanistan and north west of india
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Nepal
a country south of russia and north of india
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Bhutan
a country north of western india and south of china
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Bangladesh
a country south of western india and north of the bay of bengal
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India
a country south west of china and nepal and south east of pakistan
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Sri Lanka
a country island off the coast of eastern india in the
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Philippines
a country chain of islands east of vietnam and north of indionesia
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Indonesia
a country chain of island south of Malaysia and north of australia
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Malaysia
a country (two islands) north of indonisia and south of thialand and vietnam
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Thailand
a country west of laos and cambodia and east of myanmar
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Cambodia
a country south of thiland and north of southern vietnam
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Burma (Myanmar)
a country west of thailand and east of india
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Laos
a country west of vietnam and east of thailand
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Vietnam
a country south of china and east of laos and cambodia
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Singapore
a country on the easternmost tip of west malaysia east of western indionisia
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Brunei
a country on the coast of eastern malaysia bordering the south china sea
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Mongolia
a country south of russia and north of china
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China
a country in eastern asia south of kazakhstan mongolia and russia
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Japan
a country island chain est of the koreas in the pacific ocean
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Taiwan
a country island off the southeastern coast of china
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North Korea
a country party of a penninsula south of northeastern china and north of south korea
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South Korea
a country part of a penninsula south of north korea and west of japan
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Himalayas
a mountian range running through northern india and pakastan, all of nepal and bhutan, and a little of southern china
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Western and Eastern Ghats
mountian ranges on the southeast and south west coast of india
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Mount Fuji
a stratovolcano in southeastern japan just a bit in from the pacific ocean
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Bay of Bengal
the body of water east of india and west of malaysia
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Ganges River
a river in northern india just south of napal that discharges in the bay of bengal
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Indus River
a river beginning in southwestern china and moving northwest then south to discharge in the pakisanian coast of the arabian sea
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Brahmaputra River
a rive that flows east through southern china then southwest to discharge in the bay of bengal of the coast off bangladesh
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Yangtze River (Chaing Jiang)
a river starting in central china and flowing south and then northeast to discharge in the phillipinian sea
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Mekong River
a river starting in southern china and flowing south to discharge in the south china sea off the tip of vietnam
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Yellow River (Huang He)
a river starting in central china and flowing north then south then east to discharge in the Philippine sea west of north korea
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Tokyo
the capital of japan just of the cental eastern coast of japan
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Beijing
the capital of china in northeastern china east of north korea
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New Deli
the capital of india in northwestern india west of the tip of nepal
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Australia
a continent country island in the pacific/indian ocean south of indionisia
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New Zealand
a country island southeast of australia in the pacific ocean
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Papua New Guinea
a country east of Indonesia and south of guam
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The Great Dividing Range
a system of mountain ranges running along the east coast of australia
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The Great Barrier Reef
a reef in the pacific ocean off the northeastern coast of australia
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Canberra A.C.T (Australian Capital Territory)
the capital of australia on the southeastern side of the country, just a bit west from the southeastern coast
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Sydney
a city on the southeastern coast of australia northeast of canberra
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Melbourne
a city on the southernmost tip of mainland australia