Nouns denoting spatial position
- Plataea
- a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC
- disaster area
- a region whose population is affected by a general disaster
- free state
- any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War
- Taurus the Bull
- the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
- State of Israel
- Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine
- equator
- an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles
- Kyrgyz Republic
- a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991
- Bridgeport
- a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound
- orbit
- the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another
- Highlands of Scotland
- a mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse)
- Abydos
- an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander
- Fort Lauderdale
- a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations
- El-Aksur
- a city in central Egypt on the east bank of the Nile that is a center for visitors to the ruins of and around Thebes
- Park Avenue
- a fashionable residential street in New York City
- Leon
- a city in central Mexico
- South Pole
- the southernmost point of the Earth's axis
- Perak
- sultanate and one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia
- Kingdom of Bhutan
- a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of India
- Brandenburg
- the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701
- Mauritius
- an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
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