1. archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek arkhi- ("chief") and – pelagos ("sea") through the Italian arcipelago.
2. Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls has got the indigenous Tonga name, Mosi-oa-Tunya—"The Smoke That Thunders".
3. Mammoth Cave
The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System for the ridge under which the cave has formed. Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. national park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave
4. Missouri River
Running between the state of Missouri and its source in Montana, the longest river in North America is the Missouri River. It is the third largest river system in the world
5. D
Budapest is Hungary's capital. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia.
6. Karachi
Karachi was selected as the first capital of Pakistan and served as such until the capital was shifted to Rawalpindi in 1958. Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country's independence.
7. Indonesia
Indonesia is called Zamrud Khatulistiwa ("Emerald of the Equator"), which refers to Indonesian green and lush tropical rainforest as the emeralds, as well as the geographic position of Indonesia, along the equator.
8. Java
Java is an island of Indonesia and is the highest populated island with a population of over 141 million (the island itself) or 145 million (the administrative region) as of 2015 Census released in December 2015.
9. Philippines
Philippines is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean.The term originated from the idea of Spanish Jesuit missionary Fr. Juan J. Delgado in 1751. In his last poem Mi รบltimo adiรณs, Dr. Josรฉ Rizal referred the country with this name
10. Iran
Persia was historically the common name for Iran. In 1935, Reza Shah asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran. In 1959, the government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Reza Shah Pahlavi's son, announced that both "Persia" and "Iran" could officially be used interchangeably
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