A - Z of Geographical Place Names

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D - (Lake) District -- located in the English county of Cumbria

Pictured: the town of Keswick, at least 700 years old



Note: I had Cumbria, but was beat to the 'C's and so this magically became a 'D' with some effort.

^^ You done, GOOD!!

Edinburgh, Scotland - capital city of Scotland, situated on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. It is home to a cathedral, a castle, the royal Palace of Holyroodhouse, three universities, and the headquarters of the Scottish Parliament.

Fårö.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A5r%C3%B6

Glyder Fawr, a mountain in Snowdonia, Wales.

Hubbard Glacier - a glacier on the side of Mount Hubbard. Like Mount Hubbard, it is partly in Alaska and partly in the Yukon Territory of Canada. In 1986, it blocked the outlet of Russell Fjord and created a glacial lake. When it broke later that year, it was the second largest such glacial lake outburst in recorded history and had a flow estimated to be equal to 35 times that of Niagra Falls.

Iijoki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iijoki

Jamuna River, one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh.

King Country - region in the west of the North Island, New Zealand, lying south of the Waikato region between the western coast and Lake Taupo.

Loving County, Texas - Covers 677 square miles. In the 2010 census, it had a population of 82 making it the least populous county in the United States.

Manchester - city in England, New Hampshire, and CT

Nordfjord - A region of Norway that includes the sixth longest fjord in Norway, the Nordfjorden, as well as Europe's deepest lake, Hornindalsvatnet, and Europe's largest mainland glacier, Jostedalsbreen.

oNgoye Forest, also known as Ngoye or Ngoya Forest, is an ancient coastal scarp forest, protected by the oNgoye Forest Reserve in South Africa's Kwa-Zulu-Natal province.

Port Blair - port on South Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal, and capital of the Indian Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Quttinirpaaq - A Canadian National Park. Quttinirpaaq means "top of the world." It gets very little precipitation and is considered to be a desert.

It's located at the center of the very top of this map of Canada:

Rabat - capital city of Morocco, situated in the northwest of the country, at the mouth of the Bou Regreg River, on the Atlantic coast.

Martensville - Saskatchewan's newest city