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  2. Chesapeake Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake Bay ( / ˈtʃɛsəpiːk / CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula, including parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and the state of Delaware.

  3. Hudson's Bay Company - Wikipedia

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    The Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, and now owns and operates retail stores across the country. [2] [3] The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay ...

  4. Capital One - Wikipedia

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    Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in Tysons, Virginia with operations primarily in the United States. [2] It is the 12th largest bank in the United States by total assets as of 2022, the third largest issuer of Visa and ...

  5. Hudson Bay Capital Management - Wikipedia

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    US$31 billion (March 2024) Number of employees. 241 (2024) Website. hudsonbaycapital .com. Footnotes / references. [1] Hudson Bay Capital Management (HBC) is an American multi-strategy investment management firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut . The firm has no relation to Canada's more well-known Hudson's Bay Company .

  6. Montego Bay - Wikipedia

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    Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James in Jamaica. The city is the fourth-largest urban area in the country by population, after Kingston, Spanish Town, and Portmore, all of which form the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, home to over half a million people. [1] As a result, Montego Bay is the second-largest anglophone city in ...

  7. Capitol Corridor - Wikipedia

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    The Capitol Corridor is a 168-mile (270 km) passenger train route in Northern California operated by Amtrak between San Jose, in the Bay Area, and Auburn, in the Sacramento Valley. The route is named after the two points most trains operate between, San Jose (which was the first state capital of California) and Sacramento (the current capital ...

  8. San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco.

  9. Churchill, Manitoba - Wikipedia

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    Churchill is an Arctic port town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly 140 km (87 mi) from the Manitoba–Nunavut border. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the World" and to the benefit of its burgeoning tourism industry.