Nouns denoting spatial position

Republic of the Marshall Islands

a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands

 

Albion

archaic name for England or Great Britain; used poetically

 

Ellis Island

an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States

 

capital of Missouri

capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river

 

Lothian Region

a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh

 

Vancouver Island

an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America

 

breadbasket

a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain

 

tenement district

a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses

 

Swiss canton

one of the cantons of Switzerland

 

Rheims

a city in northeastern France to the east of Paris; scene of the coronation of most French kings; site of the unconditional German surrender in 1945 at the end of World War II

 

Louisiana Purchase

territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

 

La Spezia

a port city in Liguria on an arm of the Ligurian Sea; a major seaport and year-round resort

 

Ontario

a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada

 

Fukuoka

a city in southern Japan on Kyushu

 

Waikiki

a well-known beach and resort area on Oahu Island to the southeast of Honolulu

 

Innsbruck

city in southwestern Austria; known as a summer and winter resort

 

Boulder

a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town

 

corncob

the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn

 

duchy

the domain controlled by a duke or duchess

 

capital of the Bahamas

the capital of the Bahamas