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    The word placer derives from the Spanish placer, meaning shoal or alluvial/sand deposit, from plassa (place) from Medieval Latin placea (place) the origin...
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  • up placer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Placer may refer to one of the following: Placer deposit Placer sheep Placer mining Placer (geography), a...
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    Location (redirect from Place (geography))
    In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term location generally implies a higher degree...
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    Placer County (/ˈplæsər/ PLASS-ər; Placer, Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county located in the U.S. state of California...
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    Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία geōgraphía; combining gê 'Earth' and gráphō 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena...
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    tourism. Tourism geography is that branch of human geography that deals with the study of travel and its impact on places. Geography is fundamental to...
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  • under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not...
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  • Fluid parcel, a concept in fluid dynamics Land lot, a piece of land Placer (geography), parcel in Portuguese, a type of submerged bank or reef an object...
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  • toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and...
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    The term "United States," when used in the geographical sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including...
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    Subgroup of Lakshadweep, India Oceanic plateau Carbonate platform Placer (geography) Morelock, J. (2005). Morphology. Geological Oceanography Program...
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  • Carayaca Bank (Spanish: Placer de Carayaca), another structure that rises between 50 and 100 m from the surface. Placer (geography) Battle of La Guaira (1812)...
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  • Rosalind Bank, also called Rosalinda or Rosa Linda Bank (Spanish: Placer de Rosalinda), is a large, completely submerged bank or atoll in the western Caribbean...
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    Cay Sal Bank (Spanish: Placer de los Roques) is the third largest (after Great Bahama Bank and Little Bahama Bank) and the westernmost of the Bahama Banks...
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    Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and...
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    In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of...
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  • The Placer Valley is a region spanning the western slope of Placer County in Northern California and refers to the valley of Placer County. Placer Valley...
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    Population geography relates to variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations. Population geography involves demography...
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  • Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment...
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    Avestan geography refers to the investigation of place names in the Avesta and the attempt to connect them to real-world geographical sites. It is connected...
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    Economic geography is the subfield of human geography that studies economic activity and factors affecting it. It can also be considered a subfield or...
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  • Region (redirect from Region (geography))
    geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic...
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    (MISIS). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geography of Singapore. Library resources about Geography of Singapore Resources in your library Resources...
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  • The Misteriosa Bank (Spanish: Placer de la Misteriosa) is a submerged bank or atoll in the Caribbean Sea, located at 18°48′N 83°54′W / 18.800°N 83.900°W...
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    27°S 144°E / 27°S 144°E / -27; 144 The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent...
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    688 of those in Anatolia, and 23,764 in European Thrace). The physical geography of the Black Sea Region landscapes is characterized by the mountain range...
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  • The geography of Middle-earth encompasses the physical, political, and moral geography of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, strictly...
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    The geography of the European Netherlands is unusual in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level, protected by dikes...
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    Placer, officially the Municipality of Placer, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Masbate, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has...
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     1. ISBN 81-87498-49-8. Kenneth Pletcher (2010). The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 28. ISBN 978-16-1530-142-3...
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