Nouns denoting spatial position

British West Africa

the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast

 

Groznyy

the capital of Chechnya in southwestern Russia; center of extensive oil fields

 

Sevastopol

a city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea

 

market cross

a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted

 

Gates of the Arctic National Park

a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier

 

Kaunas

a city in central Lithuania

 

Sault Sainte Marie

a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan

 

Old World

the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas

 

Main Street

any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis)

 

San Pablo

a town in western California to the north of Oakland on an arm of San Francisco Bay

 

school district

a district whose public schools are administered together

 

Cape Cod Canal

a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay

 

Kingdom of Belgium

a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 

Solingen

a city in west central Germany noted for cutlery

 

Republic of Zimbabwe

a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980

 

Rangoon

the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta

 

Pittsfield

a town in western Massachusetts

 

Visayan Islands

group of islands in the central Philippines

 

breadbasket

a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain

 

Joppa

a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950