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( sh m´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 66,000), W Siberian Russia, on the Ishim River and the Trans-Siberian RR. An agricultural center, it produces farm m...
relatively small body of land surrounded entirely by water. (As the oceans form a continuous mass of water on the earth’s surface, all continents ar...
( s ´-l -m l n ´) (KEY) , suburb SW of Paris (1990 pop. 46,734), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France. It is an industrial center where metals, ae...
member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Italy a...
( shkä´r ) (KEY) , second largest river of Japan, c.225 mi (360 km) long, rising in the mountainous interior of Hokkaido and flowing generally south...
( s´´fyôr´d n) (KEY) [Ice Fjord], inlet of the Greenland Sea and largest fjord of Spitsbergen island, Svalbard, Norway, 65 mi (105 km) long and f...