Rikunarita-ORG/Wikinium huggingface dataset:
# Solomon Islands

| Solomon Islands  |
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| **Motto:**"To Lead is to Serve" |
| **Anthem:God Save Our Solomon Islands*

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**Ryal anthem:God Save the Queen* |
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| Caipital and largest city | Honiara ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Offeecial leids | Inglis |
| Ethnic groups (1999) | * 94.5% Melanesian
* 3.0% Polynesian
* 1.2% Micronesie
* 1.1% ithers
* 0.2% unspecified
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| Demonym(s) | Solomon Islander |
| Govrenment | Unitary pairliamentary constitutional monarchy |
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| • Monarch  | Charles III |
| • Govrenor-General  | David Tiva Kapu |
| • Prime Meenister  | Jeremiah Manele |
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| Legislatur | Naitional Pairliament |
| Unthirldom |
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| • frae the Unitit Kinrick  | 7 Julie 1978 |
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| Aurie |
| • Total | 28,400 km2 (11,000 sq mi) (142nt) |
| • Water (%) | 3.2% |
| Population |
| • 2009 estimate | 523,000 (170th) |
| • Density | 18.1/km2 (46.9/sq mi) (189t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2011 estimate |
| • Total | $1.725 billion |
| • Per capita | $3,191 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2011 estimate |
| • Tot | $840 million |
| • Per capita | $1,553 |
| HDI (2013) |  0.530 law · 143rd |
| Currency | Solomon Islands dollar (SBD) |
| Time zone | UTC+11 |
| Drivin side | left |
| Cawin code | +677 |
| ISO 3166 code | SB |
| Internet TLD | .sb |

**Solomon Islands** is a kintra in the Paceefic Ocean. It haes a population o 480,000, an its caipital city is Honiara.

Charles III is the King an heid o state o Solomon Islands. Gordon Darcy Lilo is the Prime Meenister the noo.
# Tonga

| Kinrick o Tonga *Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga* |
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| **Motto:**"Ko e ʻOtua mo Tonga ko hoku tofiʻa" "God an Tonga are ma Inheritance" |
| **Anthem:Ko e fasi ʻo e tuʻi ʻo e ʻOtu Tonga* *The Sang o the Keeng o the Tongan Islands* |
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| Caipital and largest city | Nukuʻalofa ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Offeecial leids | * Tongan
* Inglis
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| Ethnic groups (2016) | * 96.6% Tongan
* 1.7% Euronesies
* 1.0% European
* 1.0% East Asie
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| Demonym(s) | Tongan |
| Govrenment | Unitary pairlamentary constitutional monarchy |
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| • Monarch  | Keeng Tupou VI |
| • Prime Meenister  | Siaosi Sovaleni |
| • Assembly Speaker  | Fatafehi Fakafanua |
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| Legislatur | Legislative Assembly |
| Unthirldom |
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| • frae Breetish pertection | 4 Juin 1970 |
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| Aurie |
| • Total | 748 km2 (289 sq mi) (186th) |
| • Water (%) | 4.0 |
| Population |
| • 2021 census | 100,209 (199th) |
| • Density | 139/km2 (360.0/sq mi) (76tha) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2019 estimate |
| • Total | $655 million |
| • Per capita | $6,496 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
| • Tot | $493 million |
| • Per capita | $4,888 |
| Gini (2015) |  37.6 medium |
| HDI (2019) |  0.725 heich · 104t |
| Currency | Paʻanga (TOP) |
| Time zone | UTC+13 |
|  | DST nae observed |
| Drivin side | left |
| Cawin code | +676 |
| ISO 3166 code | TO |
| Internet TLD | .to |
| 1. Based on 2005 figures.
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Territorial Organization
**Tonga**, bein the **Kinrick o Tonga** in the Scots, is a Polynesie kintra an airchipelagae comprisin 169 islands, o that 36 are inhabitit. The tot surface area is aboot 750 square kilometre (290 sq mi) ower 700,000 square kilometre (270,000 sq mi) o the soothren Paceefic Ocean. The sovereign state has a population o 100,209 fowk,{{UN Population|re100o that 70% reside on the main island o Tongatapu.

Tonga stretches athort approximately 800 kilometre (500 mi) in a north-sooth line. It is surroondit bi Fiji an Wallis an Futuna (Fraunce) tae the northwast, Samoa tae the northeast, Niue tae the east, Kermadec (pairt o New Zealand) tae the soothwast, an New Caledon (Fraunce) an Vanuatu tae the forder wast.

Tonga becam kent in the Wast as the "Freendly Islands" acause o the congenial reception accordit tae Caiptain James Cook on his first vesit in 1773. He arrived at the time o the *ʻinasi* festival, the yearly donation o the First Fruits tae the Tuʻi Tonga (the islands' paramoont chief) an sae received an invitation tae the festivities. Accordin tae the writer William Mariner, the chiefs wantit tae kill Cook in the gaitherin but coudnae gree on a plan.

Frae 1900 til 1970, Tonga haed Breetish pertectit state status, wi the Unitit Kinrick leukin efter its furrin affairs unner a Treaty o Freendship. The kintra niver relinquished its sovereignty tae ony furrin pouer. In 2010, Tonga teuk a decisive path thewarts becomin a constitutional monarchy raither nor a traditional absolute kinrick, efter legislative reforms passed a coorse for the first pairtial representative elections.
# Seattle

| Seattle, Washington |
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| Ceety |
| Downtown Seattle frae Queen Anne Hill |
| Etymology: Chief Si'ahl |
| Eik-name(s): The Emerald City / The Jet City / Rain City |
| Motto(s): The City of Flowers / The City of Goodwill |
| Location o Seattle in King Coonty an Washington |
| SeattleLocation in the Unitit States |
| Coordinates: ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Kintra | Unitit States |
| State | Washington |
| Coonty | King |
| Incorporatit | 2 Dizember 2, 1869 |
| Govrenment |
|  • Teep | Mayor–Cooncil |
|  • Bodi | Seattle City Council |
|  • Mayor | Ed Murray |
|  • Deputy mayor | Hyeok Kim an Kate Joncas |
| Area |
|  • Ceety | 369.2 km2 (142.5 sq mi) |
|  • Laund | 217.2 km2 (83.87 sq mi) |
|  • Water | 152.0 km2 (58.67 sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 21,202 km2 (8,186 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 158 m (520 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2010) |
|  • Ceety | 608,660 |
|  • Estimate (2015) | 662,400 |
|  • Rank | US: 20t |
|  • Density | 3,077/km2 (7,969/sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 3,059,393 (US: 14t) |
|  • Metro | 3,733,580 (US: 15t) |
|  • CSA | 4459677 (US: 13t) |
| Demonym(s) | Seattleite |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
|  • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP codes |
ZIP codes
* 98101–98119, 98121–98122, 98124–98127, 98129, 98131, 98133–98134, 98136, 98138–98139, 98141, 98144–98146, 98148, 98154–98155, 98158, 98160–98161, 98164–98166, 98168, 98170, 98174–98175, 98177–98178, 98181, 98185, 98188, 98190–98191, 98194–98195, 98198–98199
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| Aurie codes | 206 |
| FIPS code | 53-63000 |
| GNIS featur ID | 1512650 |
| Website | www.seattle.gov |

**Seattle** (pronounced /siːˈætəl/*(deprecatit template)* *see-**AT**-əl*) is the northrenmaist major ceety in the contiguous Unitit States, an the lairgest ceety in the Paceefic Northwast an in the state o Washington. A seaport situatit on a narrae isthmus atween Puget Sound (an airm o the Paceefic Ocean) an Lake Washington, aboot 100 mile (160 km) sooth o the Canadae – Unitit States border, it is named efter Chief Sealth "Seattle", o the Duwamish an Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the centre o the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical aurie, the 15t lairgest in the Unitit States, an the lairgest in the northwastren Unitit States. Seattle is the coonty seat o Keeng Coonty an is the major economic, cultural an educational centre in the region. The 2010 census foond that Seattle is hame tae 630,320 residents athin a metropolitan aurie o some 3.4 million indwallers. The Port o Seattle an Seattle–Tacoma Internaitional Airport are major gateways tae Asie, Alaska, an the rest o the warld.

Seattle is the wastren terminus o I-90 an resides on the I-5 corridor, aboot 170 mile (270 km) north o Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington an 140 mile (230 km) sooth o Vancouver in Breetish Columbie, Canada. The ceety o Victoria, Breetish Columbie's caipital, is aboot 110 mile (180 km) tae the northwast (aboot 90 mile (140 km) bi passenger ferry) while the eastren Washington hub ceety o Spokane lies 280 mile (450 km) tae the east.
# Chukchi leid

| Chukchi |
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| ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн йиԓыйиԓ lyg'oravetl'en jilyjil |
| Pronunciation | [ɬǝɣˀorawetɬˀɛn jiɬǝjiɬ] |
| Native tae | Roushie |
| Region | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug |
| Ethnicity | 15,900 Chukchi (2010 census) |
| Native speakers | 5,100 (2010 census) |
| Leid faimily | Chukotko-Kamchatkan
* Chukotkan
	+ **Chukchi**
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| Leid codes |
| ISO 639-3 | `ckt` |
| Glottolog | `chuk1273` |
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**Chukchi** /ˈtʃʊktʃiː/ (Chukchee) is a Palaeosiberian leid spoken bi Chukchi fowk in the eastrenmaist extremity o Siberie, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
# Central Pouers

| Central Pouers *Mittelmächte Központi hatalmak İttifak Devletleri* Централни сили |
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| 1914–1918 |
| * Allied Pouers (an thair colonies)
* **Central Pouers** (an thair colonies)
* Neutral Pouers
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| Status | Militar alliance |
| Caipital | * none *(*de jure*)*
* *Berlin (*de facto*)*
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| Historical era | Warld War I |
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| • Dual Alliance (Germany / Austrick-Hungary) | 7 October 1879 |
| • Established  | 28 Juin 1914 |
| • Ottoman–German Alliance | 2 August 1914 |
| • Bulgarie–Germany treaty  | * 6 September 1915 (secret)
* 14 October 1915 (public)
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| • Dissolved  | 11 November 1918 |
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The **Central Pouers** (German: *Mittelmächte*; Hungarian: *Központi hatalmak*‍; [İttifak Devletleri *or* Bağlaşma Devletleri] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help); [Централни сили *Tsentralni sili] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), conseestin o Germany, Austrick-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire an Bulgarie – hyne kent forby as the **Quadruple Alliance** (German: *Vierbund*) – wis ane o the twa main factions during Warld War I (1914–18).*
# UNESCO

The **Unitit Naitions Eddicational, Scienteefic an Cultural Organisation** (French: **Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture**; **UNESCO**; /juːˈnɛskoʊ/) is a specialised agency o the Unitit Naitions (UN).
# Baltic states

| Baltic states * *Balti riigid, Baltimaad*  (Estonie)
* *Baltijas valstis*  (Latvie)
* *Baltijos valstybės*  (Lithuanie)
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| Location o the  Baltic states  (dark green)on the European continent  (dark grey)  —  [Legend] |
| Caipitals | * Tallinn
* Riga
* Vilnius
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| Offeecial leids | * Estonie
* Latvie
* Lithuanie
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| Membership | * Estonie
* Latvie
* Lithuanie
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| Aurie |
| • Total | 175,015 km2 (67,574 sq mi) (91st) |
| • Water (%) | 2.23% (3,909 km²) |
| Population |
| • 2015 estimate | 6,271,000 (100t) |
| • Density | 35.5/km2 (91.9/sq mi) (176t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2015 estimate |
| • Total | $170 billion (61st) |
| • Per capita | $27,095 (47t) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2015 estimate |
| • Tot | $92 billion (60t) |
| • Per capita | $14,755 (45t) |
| Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |

The **Baltic states**, cried the **Baltics**, **Baltic naitions** or **Baltic kintras** (Estonie: *Balti riigid, Baltimaad*, Latvie: *Baltijas valstis*, Lithuanie: *Baltijos valstybės*) an aa, are the three kintras in northren Europe on the eastren coast o the Baltic Sea: Estonie, Latvie an Lithuanie.
# Hicht

A cuboid demonstratin the dimensions lenth, weenth, an hicht
**Heicht** is the measurement o vertical distance, but haes twa meanins in common uise. It can aither indicate hou "taw" something is, or hou "heich up" it is. For ensaumple "The hicht o the building is 50 m" or "The hicht o the airplane is 10,000 m". When uised tae describe hou heich something lik an airplane or muntain peak is frae sea level, hicht is mair eften cried altitude. Heicht is measurt alang the vertical (y) axis atween a specified pynt an anither pynt.
# Bill Clinton

| Bill Clinton |
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| 42nt Preses o the Unitit States |
| **In office** Januar 20, 1993 – Januar 20, 2001 |
| Vice Preses | Al Gore |
| Precedit bi | George H. W. Bush |
| Succeedit bi | George W. Bush |
| 40t an 42nt Govrenor o Arkansas |
| **In office** Januar 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992 |
| Lieutenant | * Winston Bryant
* Jim Guy Tucker
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| Precedit bi | Frank D. White |
| Succeedit bi | Jim Guy Tucker |
| **In office** Januar 9, 1979 – Januar 19, 1981 |
| Lieutenant | Joe Purcell |
| Precedit bi | Joe Purcell (Actin) |
| Succeedit bi | Frank D. White |
| 50t Attorney General o Arkansas |
| **In office** Januar 3, 1977 – Januar 9, 1979 |
| Govrenor | * David Pryor
* Joe Purcell (Actin)
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| Precedit bi | Jim Guy Tucker |
| Succeedit bi | Steve Clark |
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| Personal details |
| Born | William Jefferson Blythe III  (1946-08-19) 19 August 1946 Hope, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Poleetical pairty | Democratic |
| Spoose(s) | Hillary Rodham (m. 1975) |
| Bairns | Chelsea Clinton |
| Parents | * William Jefferson Blythe Jr.
* Virginia Cassidy
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| Residence | Chappaqua, New York |
| Eddication | Georgetown Varsity Bachelor o Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) University College, Oxford Yale Varsity (JD) |
| Signatur |  |

**William Jefferson Clinton** (born **William Jefferson Blythe III** on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas) wis the 42nt Preses o the Unitit States, frae 1993 tae 2001 wi Al Gore as Vice Preses, efter defeatin George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election; he defeatit Bob Dole in the 1996 election. George W. Bush succeedit him in 2001. He representit the Democratic Pairty, an wis previously Govrenor o Arkansas.

He is marriet tae Hillary Clinton, Unitit States Senator frae New York (2001 tae 2009) an Unitit States Secretar o State unner Barack Obama (2009 tae 2013). She is the Democrats' candidate in the Unitit States presidential election, 2016, runnin against Donald Trump. Thay hae a dochter, Chelsea Clinton (born 1980).
# Geometry

In mathematics, **geometrie** is uised ti descreive shapes. Squares, circles and triangles is a puckil o the semplest shapes in geometrie. is also used tae descreebe ae compooters raydeeus

Geometrie is uised ti meisur a flet shape's aurie an pereimeter. Geometrie is uised tae meisur a solit shape's vollum an surface aurie.
# Cornwall

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| Coonty |
|  Banner |
| Motto: Onen hag oll (Cornish) Ane an aw |
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| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
| Constituent kintra | Ingland |
| Region | Sooth Wast Ingland |
| Oreegin | Historic |
| Ceremonial coonty |  |
| Area |  |
|  • Rankit |  o 48 |
|  • Rankit |  o 48 |
| Density |  |
| Ethnicity | 98.0% White Breetish, 2% Ither |
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| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) |
|  • Simmer (DST) | Breetish Simmer Time (UTC+1) |

**Cornwall** (/ˈkɔːrnwɔːl/ or /ˈkɔːrnwəl/; Cornish: **Kernow** [ˈkɛɹnɔʊ]) ligs at the verra sooth-wast dowp o Great Breetain an is ane o the sax Celtic Naitions. It haes its ain Celtic leid, Cornish. Monie Cornish naitionalists conseiders it no ti be a pairt o Ingland. It is a Duchy an the Duke o Cornwall is the Prince o Wales an pairt o the Breetish Monarchie. The admeinistrative heidtoun an anerlie ceitie o Cornwall is Truro.

Cornwall

Bodmin Muir
Land's End
# Vatlant Streit

A NASA airtist's eimage o whit the Vatlant Streit wad leuk lik gin seen aff-aixis.
The **Vatlant Streit** (forbye cawed **Watling Strete** or **The Milky Wey**), whilies referred tae juist as "the Galaxie", is a baured spiral galaxy whilk furms pairt o the Local Group. Altho the Vatlant Streit is but ane o millions o galaxies in the universe, the Galaxie haes speicial significance tae humanity acause hit is oor hame in the solar seestem, whilk is locatit naur the Orion Airm. Democritus (460 BC – 370 BC) wis the first chiel kent tae hae threapit that Vatlant Streit conseests o hyne awa starns.

Vatlant Streit
# River Thames

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| Thames |
| Laitin: Tamesis |
| River |
| The Thames in Lunnon |
| Kintra | Ingland |
| Coonties | Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Essex, Kent |
| Metropolitan Coonty | Greater Lunnon |
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| Touns/Ceeties | Cricklade, Lechlade, Oxford, Abingdon, Wallingford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Marlow, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines-upon-Thames, Walton-on-Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Teddington, London, Dartford, Gravesend, Southend |
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| Soorce |  |
|  - location | Thames Head, Gloucestershire, UK |
|  - elevation | 110 m (361 ft) |
|  - coordinates | ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Mooth | Thames Estuary, North Sea |
|  - location | Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK |
|  - elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
|  - coordinates | ﻿ / ﻿ |
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| Lenth | 346 km (215 mi) |
| Basin | 12,935 km2 (4,994 sq mi) |
| Discharge | for Lunnon |
|  - average | 65.8 m3/s (2,324 cu ft/s) |
| **Dischairge ensewhaur (average)** |
|  - enterin Oxford | 17.6 m3/s (622 cu ft/s) |
|  - leavin Oxford | 24.8 m3/s (876 cu ft/s) |
|  - Reading | 39.7 m3/s (1,402 cu ft/s) |
|  - Windsor | 59.3 m3/s (2,094 cu ft/s) |
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The **River Thames** (Laitin: *Tamesis*) is a river that flows throu soothren Ingland. It is the langest river in Ingland an the seicont langest in the Unitit Kinrick efter the Severn.

It rises in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswold Hills. It then flows throu Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire an Surrey, wi the coonty touns o Oxford an Reading on its banks, an then throu the muckle ceety of Lunnon. Frae Lunnon the river widens intae a muckle estuary, atween Essex tae the north an Kent tae the sooth, afore drainin intae the North Sea.

River Thames
River Thames
# Canary Wharf

| Canary Wharf |
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| Canary WharfLocation within Greater Lunnon |
| Population | 73,390 (Millwall, Blackwall an Cubitt Town, East India an Lansbury an Limehouse wairds 2011 Census) |
| OS grid reference | TQ375802 |
| Lunnon burgh | * Tower Hamlets
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| Ceremonial coonty | Greater Lunnon |
| Region | * Lunnon
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| Kintra | Ingland |
| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
| Post toun | LONDON |
| Postcode destrict | E14 |
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| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | Lunnon |
| Ambulance | Lunnon |
|  |
| EU Pairlament | Lunnon |
| UK Pairlament | * Poplar an Limehouse
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| Lunnon Assemmly | * City an East
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**Canary Wharf** is the seicontar central business destrict (CBD) o Lunnon, an is a wider electoral waird o the Lunnon Burgh o Tower Hamlets, encompassin pairt o the neebourin Isle of Dogs. It is ane o the main financial centres o the Unitit Kingdom, alang wi the City of London, an conteens mony o Europe's tawest biggins, includin the seicont-tawest in the UK, One Canada Square.

Canary Wharf is 97 acre (39 hectare) an conteens aroond 16,000,000 square feet (1,500,000 m2) o office an retail space. It comprises mony appen auries, includin Canada Square, Cabot Square an Westferry Circus. Thegether wi Heron Quays an Wood Wharf, it forms the *Canary Wharf Estate*.
# Anglicanism

**Anglicanism** is a tradeetion athin Christianity comprisin the Kirk o Ingland an kirks historically connectit tae it or haud seemilar beliefs, worship practices an kirk structures.
# Newcastle upon Tyne

| Newcastle upon Tyne |
| --- |
| Ceety & metropolitan borough |
|   Frae tap-left: Newcastle Quayside an River Tyne, St James' Park stadium, Theatre Royal, Georgian airchitectur aroond Grey's Monument, the Castle |
| Coat airms |
| Eik-name(s): Newcastle, The Toon, Paris of the North |
| Motto(s): "Fortiter Defendit Triumphans" (Latin: "Triumphing bi brave defence") |
| Location o Newcastle upon Tyne in Ingland |
| Coordinates: ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
| Constituent kintra | England |
| Region | North East |
| Coonty | Tyne an Wear |
| Foondit | 2nt century |
| Toun charter | Henry II |
| Coonty Corporate | 1400 |
| Ceety status | 1882 |
| Status | Ceety & metropolitan borough |
| Govrenment |
|  • Govrenin body | Newcastle Ceety Cooncil |
|  • Lord Mayor | Cooncillor Jackie Slesenger |
|  • Admeenistrative HQ | Newcastle Civic Centre |
| Area |
|  • City | 225 km2 (139 sq mi) |
| Population (2011 est.) |
|  • City | 300,125 (Ranked 39t) |
|  • Urban | 879,996 (Tyneside) (Ranked 7t) |
|  • Metro | 1,650,000 (Tyne an Wear Ceety Region) (Ranked 6t) |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC) |
|  • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| Postcode | NE |
| Area code(s) | 0191 |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-NET |
| ONS code | 00CJ (ONS) E08000021 (GSS) |
| OS grid reference | NZ249645 |
| NUTS 3 | UKC22 |
| Demonym | Geordie, Novocastrian |
| Website | www.newcastle.gov.uk |

**Newcastle upon Tyne** (for ordinar cried juist **Newcastle**) is a ceety in the north-east o Ingland. It is locatit alang the north baunk o the River Tyne an the umwhile coonty toun o Northumberland. Mair nor 190,000 fowk bide in the ceety, but e'en mair bides in the surroondin aurie.

## Byleid

The byleid o Newcastle is kent as Geordie, an haes a muckle amoont o vocabulary an distinctive wird pronunciations no uised in ither pairts o Ingland, bit that are sib tae Scots. The Geordie byleid, lik Scots an Staundart Inglis, haes its oreegins in the leid spoken bi the Anglo-Saxon that settlet in Breetian efter the Romans left in the 4t century. But whiles the byleids o ither Inglis regions hae been muckle chyngit bi the influences o ither furrin leids — Norman an Norman–French in parteecular — the Geordie byleid, lik Scots, hauds ontae mony chairicteristics o the auld leid. Some wirds uised in the Geordie byleid is uised in Scots an aw, sic lik *bonny*, *stot*, *canny*, *strang* an *coo*. Mony wirds, houaniver, appear tae be uised alanery in Newcastle an the surroondin aurie, sic lik *bait* ("fuid") an *hacky* ("clarty").
# The Championships, Wimbledon

| The Championships, Wimbledon |
| --- |
| Offeecial wabsteid |
| Foondit | 1877 |
| Location | Wimbledon, Lunnon Unitit Kinrick |
| Venue | The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club |
| Surface | Grass / Ootduir  |
| Prize money | £28,100,000 (2016) |
| Men's |
| Draw | 128S (128Q) / 64D (16Q) |
| Current champions | Andy Murray *(singles)* Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut *(doobles)* |
| Maist singles titles | William Renshaw (7) Pete Sampras (7) Roger Federer (7) |
| Maist doubles titles | Todd Woodbridge (9) |
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| Weemen's |
| Draw | 128S (96Q) / 64D (16Q) |
| Current champions | Serena Williams *(singles)* Serena Williams / Venus Williams *(doobles)* |
| Maist singles titles | Martina Navratilova (9) |
| Maist doubles titles | Elizabeth Ryan (12) |
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| Mixed Doubles |
| Draw | 48 |
| Current champions | Heather Watson / Henri Kontinen |
| Maist titles (male) | Ken Fletcher (4) Vic Seixas (4) Owen Davidson (4) Leander Paes (4) |
| Maist titles (female) | Elizabeth Ryan (7) |
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| Grand Slam |
| * Australian Open
* French Open
* Wimbledon
* US Open
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**The Championships, Wimbledon**, **The Wimbledon Championships** or simply **Wimbledon** is the auldest tennis toornament in the warld, an widely considered the maist prestigious. It haes been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, Lunnon, syne 1877. It is ane o the fower Grand Slam tennis toornaments (Majors), the ithers bein the Australian Open, the French Open (Roland Garros) an the US Open. Syne the Australian Open shiftit tae haird coort in 1988, Wimbledon is the anerly Major still played on grass, the gemme's oreeginal surface, whilk gae the gemme its oreeginal name o "lawn tennis".

The toornament taks place ower twa weeks in late Juin an early Julie, culminatin wi the Ladies' an Gentlemen's Singles Final, scheduled for the seicont Setturday an Sunday respectively. Ilka year five major, junior, an invitational events is held.

The haird coort (Plexicushion) Australian Open an clay coort French Open precede Wimbledon in the year, an the haird coort (DecoTurf) US Open follaes. For men, the grass coort Queen's Club Championships, an aa in Lunnon, an the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, serve as warm-up events; for weemen, the Aegon Classic in Birmingham an twa jynt events, the Topshelf Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands an the Eastbourne Internaitional.

Wimbledon tradeetions include a strict dress code for competitors, the eatin o strawberries an cream bi the spectators, an Ryal patronage. The toornament is forbye notable for the absence o sponsor advertisin aroond the courts. In 2009, Wimbledon's Centre Coort wis fittit wi a retractable roof tae lessen the loss o playin time due tae rain.