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Places & the shape of the world

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Geography Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of the world's places, from continents, regions, and cities to rivers, borders, and beyond. Search any place and follow its threads through everything that happened there.

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Cities

Palenque

Palenque is a Maya city-state in the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the Usumacinta River and about 150 metres above sea level, next to the modern town

Landforms

Upper Peninsula of Michigan

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, also called Upper Michigan or the U.P., is the northern and higher of the two landmasses making up the U.S. state of

Bodies of Water

Strait of Magellan

A navigable sea passage at the southern tip of South America separating mainland Chile from Tierra del Fuego, discovered by Ferdinand Magellan's exped

Protected Areas

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota, alo

Physical Processes

Eluviation

Eluviation is the downward washing-out of fine clay particles, organic matter and soluble minerals from an upper soil horizon as water percolates thro

Continents

South America

A continent joined to North America by the isthmus of Panama and otherwise bounded by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, dominated along its western edg

Regions

Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered across the central and southern Pacific Ocean. It is conventionally b

Countries

Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, bordering Norway to the west and north a

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