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Roxas City. / 11.5894°N 122.7511°E / 11.5894; 122.7511. Roxas, officially the City of Roxas ( Capiznon / Hiligaynon: Dakbanwa sang Roxas; Filipino: Lungsod ng Roxas ), is a 3rd class component city and capital of the province of Capiz, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 179,292 people.
RU. Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
Rosan Perkasa Roeslani (born 31 December 1968) is an Indonesian diplomat and businessman. He was Indonesian Ambassador to the United States. [1] and briefly appointed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as Vice Minister of State-owned Enterprise. He resigned from both positions in late 2023 to avoid potential conflict of interests as he was ...
Metamorphic. sedimentary. The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( / ˌhɪməˈleɪ.ə, hɪˈmɑːləjə / HIM-ə-LAY-ə, hih-MAH-lə-yə) [b] is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth 's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. When rediscovered in 1929, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The ...
Roxas Airport (IATA: RXS, ICAO: RPVR) is a domestic airport serving the general area of Roxas City and the province of Capiz, in the Philippines.The airport is classified as a Class 1 principal airport, by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of most minor and domestic airports serving various parts ...
The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [24] : 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. [25] [26] The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest ...
Ssu1 ch'ou1 chih1 lu4. The Silk Road ( Chinese: 丝绸之路) [a] was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.