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  2. Taiping Island - Wikipedia

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    Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba, and various other names, is the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The island is elliptical in shape being 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) in length and 0.4 kilometres (0.25 mi) in width, with an area of 46 hectares (110 acres).

  3. Google - Wikipedia

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    Google LLC The Google logo used since 2015 Google's headquarters, the Googleplex Formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017) Company type Subsidiary Traded as NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG Industry Internet Cloud computing Computer software Computer hardware Artificial intelligence Advertising Founded September 4, 1998 ; 25 years ago (1998-09-04) [a] in Menlo Park, California, United States Founders Larry Page ...

  4. Project NOAH (Philippines) - Wikipedia

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    Project NOAH (Philippines) Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazard) is the Philippines ' primary disaster risk reduction and management program. Managed by the University of the Philippines, it was initially administered by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) from 2012 to 2017.

  5. Satellite imagery - Wikipedia

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    Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world. Satellite imaging companies sell images by licensing them to governments and businesses such as Apple Maps and Google Maps .

  6. Google Maps Navigation - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Navigation. Google Maps Navigation is a mobile application developed by Google for the Android and iOS operating systems that later integrated into the Google Maps mobile app. The application uses an Internet connection to a GPS navigation system to provide turn-by-turn voice-guided instructions on how to arrive at a given ...

  7. Typhoon Rita (1978) - Wikipedia

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    Typhoon Rita (Kading) Typhoon Rita, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Kading, was the most powerful tropical cyclone during the 1978 Pacific typhoon season and one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record. A long-lived and destructive tropical cyclone, Rita began its journey east of the Marshall Islands and rapidly moved westwards ...

  8. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  9. Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant ( FFEP) is an Iranian underground uranium enrichment facility located 20 miles (32 km) northeast of the Iranian city of Qom, near Fordow village, [1] at a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base. [2] [3] The site is under the control of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). [4]