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Champagne-Ardenne

**Champagne-Ardenne** () is ane o the 27 regions o Fraunce. It is locatit in the northeast o the kintra, mairchin Belgium, an is makkit up o fower depairtments: Aube, Ardennes, Haute-Marne, an Marne. The region is kenspeckle fur its sparklin white wine (champagne). Its rivers, maist o whilk flow wast, include the Seine, the Marne, an the Aisne. The Meuse flows north.

## Major communities
*Châlons-en-Champagne
*Charleville-Mézières
*Chaumont
*Épernay
*Reims
*Saint-Dizier
*Sedan
*Troyes

## References

## See an aw
*Ardennes
*Champagne Riots
*French wine

## Freemit airtins
*  Government of Champagne-Ardenne region 

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Alsace

**Alsace** ( ; Alsatian: *Elsàss* ; , pre-1996: *Elsaß*, ; ) is a cultural region (nou pairt o Grand Est) in land aurie (8,280&nbsp;km²), an the smawest in metropolitan Fraunce. It is the seivent-maist densely populatit region in Fraunce an third maist densely populate region in metropolitan Fraunce, wi ca. 220 indwellers per km² (tot population in 2006: 1,815,488; 1 Januar 2008 estimate: 1,836,000). Alsace is on Fraunce's eastren mairch an on the wast bank o the upper Rhine adjacent tae Germany an Swisserland. The poleetical, economic an cultural caipital as weel as lairgest ceety o Alsace is Strasbourg. Acause that ceety is the seat o dozens o internaitional organisations an bodies, Alsace is poleetically ane o the maist important regions in the European Union.

## Mulhouse
Mulhouse is the seicound biggest ceety efter Strasbourg. Mulhouse as aboot 100 000 fowk (4 times less then manchester) Mulhouse haes a wheen museum lik the museum o cars or the train museum.

## Major communities
German oreeginal names in brackets gif French names are different

* Bischheim
* Colmar
* Guebwiller (Gebweiler)
* Haguenau (Hagenau)
* Illkirch-Graffenstaden (Illkirch-Grafenstaden)
* Illzach
* Lingolsheim

* Mulhouse (Mülhausen)
* Saint-Louis (St. Ludwig)
* Saverne (Zabern)
* Schiltigheim
* Sélestat (Schlettstadt)
* Strasbourg (Straßburg)
* Wittenheim


## Sister provinces
Thare is an *accord de coopération internationale* atween Alsace an the follaein regions:
* Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic o Korea
* Lawer Silesie, Poland
* Upper Austrick, Austrick
* Quebec, Canadae
* Jiangsu, Cheenae
* Moscow, Roushie
* Vest, Romanie

## Footnotes
Limousin (region)

**Limousin** (; ) is ane o the 27 regions o France. It is composed o three départements: Corrèze, Creuse an the Haute-Vienne. 

Situated lairgely in the Massif Central, as o Januar 1st 2008, the Limousin comprised 740,743 inhabitants on nearly 17 000 km2, makkin it the seicont least populatit region o Fraunce efter Corsica. 

Formin pairt o the Sooth-Wast o Fraunce, Limousin is bordered bi the regions Centre tae the north, Poitou-Charentes an Aquitaine tae the wast, Midi-Pyrénées tae the sooth an Auvergne tae the east. Limousin an aw forms pairt o Occitania.

## Footnotes

## Freemit airtins
* Limousin regional council website, wi a presentation video in Inglis.
* Art in the Limousin region
* History and Geography (University of Limoges)
Châteldon

**Châteldon** is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme depairtment in Auvergne in central Fraunce.

## Aboot the toun
Châteldon is a medieval veelage in the northren pairt o Auvergne.  It dates frae the early Middle Ages, wi mony o its biggins datin back tae the 14t century.  The toun's fortifications are still in evidence.

The veelage lees on the wastren edge o the Montagne Bourbonnaise an the northren edge o the Livadois-Forez Park, the lairgest natur pairk in Europe.  Tae the wast lees the Limagne, whaur the Allier an Dore rivers converge.  Nineteen kilometres tae the north is the Ceety o Vichy.

Castle Châteldon wis ance awned bi Prime Meenister Pierre Laval. It remains the prime landmark o the veelage.

## Nearby touns
**In the Region o Châteldon* :Lachaux, Puy-Guillaume an Ris ;

## Admeenistration

## Demographics

## Mineral watter
Châteldon is kent for its naturally carbonatit mineral watter. It wis the first mineral watter exploitit in Fraunce an transportit bi bottles tae the Court o Louis XIV in Versailles. This water is uised for its diuretic and digestive properties. It is an aw rich in potassium, sodium an fluorine. In Fraunce, ane finds the watter o Châteldon in the lairge hotels an restaurants, an in delicatessens. In 1650, the first doctor o the keeng, Guy-Crescent Fagon, praised the virtues o Châteldon to Louis XIV.

## Fowk
Châteldon wis the birthplace o Pierre Laval (1883–1945), French politeecian.

## See an aw
*Communes o the Puy-de-Dôme depairtment

## References
* INSEE commune file

## Freemit airtins

*Offeecial steid o Châteldon
Rozdilna

**Rozdilna** ( is a sma ceety in the Odessa Oblast (province) o soothren Ukraine. It is the admeenistrative center o Rozdilna Raion (destrict), an wis foondit in 1863.

The population wis 17,913 in 2018.

## External links
* Steid o the o ceety o Rozdilna
Rozdilna Raion

The **Rozdilna Raion** () is locatit in the Odessa Oblast o Ukraine. Its admeenistrative center is the ceety o Rozdilna. The population o the destrict wis 57,894 in 2018. Accordin tae the 2001 Ukrainian census the population wis 78% Ukrainian, 14% Roushie, 5% Moldovan, 1% Bulgarie, an 1% Belaroushie.

The toun o Lymans'ke an the veelage of Kuchurhan are locatit at the wastren edge o the destrict alang the border wi Transnistrie in Moldovae.

## References

## External links
*  Rozdilnianskyi Raion 
*  Rozdilnianskyi Raion
Sint-Truiden

**Sint-Truiden** () is a ceety an municipality in Belgium in the Limburg in Flanders. Sint-Truiden's total population is 39,309 (1 Januar 2010) makin it the 26th lairgest municipality in Belgium in terms o its population. Its total aurie is 106.87 km2, makin it the lairgest municipality in Limburg, and givin a population density o 368 inhabitants per km². The nickname o inhabitants o Sint-Truiden is *Binken*.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — sister ceeties
The follaein places are twin touns an sister ceeties tae Sint-Truiden:

## References
Helmand Province

**Helmand** (Pashto/Dari: هلمند) is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the soothwast o the kintra. Its caipital is Lashkar Gah. The Helmand River flows throu the mainly desert region, providin watter for irrigation.

Helmand is the warld's lairgest opium-producin region, responsible for 75% o the warld's tot production. This is mair nor the whole o Burma, which is the seicont lairgest producin naition efter Afghanistan. Afghan opium accounts for mair nor 90% o the global supply.

The Helmand valley region is mentioned bi name in the Avesta (*Fargard* 1:13) as *Haetumant*, ane o the early centers o the Zoroastrian faith, in pre-Islamic Afghan history. Housomeivver, awin tae the preponderance o non-Zoroastrians (Hindus an Buddhists), the Helmand an Kabul regions wur kent as "White Indie" in those days an aw. Some Vedic scholars (eg. Kochhar 1999) believe the Helmand valley corresponds tae the Sarasvati aurie mentioned in the *[[Rig Veda]]* as the hameland for the Indo-Aryan migrations intae Indie, ca. 1500 BC an aw.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*USAID information 
*Provincial Govrenment steid 
*Op/Ed by Holly Barnes Higgins who spent a year in Helmand wi USAID
Nimruz Province

**Nimruz** (Balochi/Pashto/Persie: ** نیمروز ** ) is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan, in the sooth-wast o the kintra on the borders o Iran an Pakistan. The name *Nimruz* means "mid-day" or "hauf-day" in Persie. Nimruz covers 41,000&nbsp;km² an haes a population o 149,000 (2002 estimate). It is the maist spairsely populatit province in the kintra, locatit in the Sistan Basin. A substantial pairt o the province is the desert aurie o Dashti Margo.

## References
Farah Province

**Farah** (Pashto/Persie: **فراه**) is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the soothwast o the kintra. Its caipital is Farah. Farah is a spacious an spairsely populatit province that lees on the Iranian border. The population is predominantly Pashtun.

Geographically the province is approximately , makkin it (comparatively) mair nor twice the size o Maryland, or hauf the size o the Republic o Korea. It is the fowerth lairgest province in Afghanistan.

The province is hame tae a great mony ruined castles includin the "Castle o the Infidel" juist sooth o Farah Ceety.

## References
Herat Province

**Herat** (Persie/Pashto: هرات) is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan; thegither wi Badghis, Farah, an Ghor provinces, it maks up the sooth-wastren region o the kintra. Its primary ceety an admeenistrative caipital is an aw namit Herat.

The region o Herat wis historically pairt o Greater Khorasan an wis controlled bi the Tahirids follaed bi the Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Ilkhanates, Timurids, an Saffavids till the early-18t century when it became pairt o the Afghan Hotaki dynasty follaed bi the Durrani Empire.

## Freemit airtins
*Tribal Map of Herat on nps.edu
*Radio Free Afghanistan (Radio Azadi) report on the incidents
*HeratNet latest news from Herat
Orūzgān Province

**Orūzgān** or **Urōzgān** (), an aw spelled *Uruzgan* or **Rōzgān** (), is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the centre o the kintra, tho the aurie is culturally an tribally linked tae Kandahar in the sooth. Its caipital is Tarin Kowt. On 28 Mairch 2004, the new Daykundi province wis carvit oot o an aurie in the north leavin Oruzgan wi a majority Pashtun population an Daykundi wi a majority o Hazaras. The cairt at richt shows the provincial bundaries that resultit. But in Mey 2006, Gizab Destrict wis taken back frae Daykundi an re-annexed tae Oruzgan, becomin Oruzgan's saxt destrict.

## References
Zabul Province

**Zabul** () () is a historic province o Afghanistan.  Zabul became an independent province frae neighbourin Kandahar in 1963, wi Qalat being namit the provincial caipital. It should no be ramfeeselt wi the ceety Zabol, on the Iranian side o the border wi Afghanistan.
Ghor Province

**Ghōr** (Pashto غور) (), an aw spelled **Ghowr** or **Ghur**, is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is locatit in central Afghanistan, towards the north-wast. The caipital o Ghor is Chaghcharan. The name "Ghor" is a cognate tae Avestan *gairi-*, Sanskrit *giri-* an Middle Persie *gar*, in modren Persie *koh-*, Sogdian *gor-*/*gur-*, in later developit Bactrian leid as *g´wrao-* (an aw *paravata*), meanin "muntain", in modren Pashto as *ghar-*, in Pamir leids as *gar-* an *ghalcca-* ("muntain").

## References

## Freemit airtins
Badghis Province

**Bādghīs** (Persie/Pashto: **بادغیس**) is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is locatit in northwastren Afghanistan, atween the Murghab an Hari rivers, extendin as far northward as the edge o the desert o Sarakhs. It includes the Chul formations through which the Turkmen-Afghan bundary runs. The province wis carvit oot o portions o Herat Province an Meymaneh Province in 1964 an haes a total aurie o 20,591&nbsp;km2.

## References

* Afghanistan Information Management Service 

## Freemit airtins
* Map of Badghis Province (PDF)
Paktika Province

**Paktika** () is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan.  It is in the sooth-east o the kintra. Maist o the population are Pashtunn. Its caipital is Sharan.

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Tribal Map o Paktika on nps.edu
Ghazni Province

**Ghazni**  () () is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. Babur records in his Babur-Nama that Ghazni is kent as Zabulistan an aw. It is in the east o the kintra. Its caipital is Ghazni Ceety. The province lees on the important Kabul tae Kandahar road, an haes historically functioned as an important trade center atween those twa major ceeties.

## References

## Airchaeology
*The Buddhist Cave complex at Homay Qala , South Asian archaeology 1975: papers from the third International Conference ...Page 119 By Johanna Engelberta Lohuizen-De Leeuw
Faryab Province

**Fāryāb** () is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the north o the kintra. Its caipital is Maymana. The majority o the population is Uzbek.

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Faryab Province  at the Geographical Database
Jowzjan Province

**Jowzjān** or **Jōzjān** or **Jawzjan** (Persie: جوزجان) is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the north o the kintra. Its caipital is Sheberghan.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Solace International's Girls' School Projects 
*Faizabad Landscape pictures
Sar-e Pol Province

**Sar-e Pol**, an aw spelled **Sari Pul** (), is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the north o the kintra. Sar-e-Pul Province is situatit atween the central heichlands an the northren Turkmen plains. Sar-e-Pul borders Ghor an Baniyan provinces tae the sooth, Faryab, Jawzjan an Balkh tae the wast an north, an Samangan tae the east. Its caipital is the ceety o Sar-e Pol. Dari (Persie) is the dominant leid in the province an in the region. The province wis creatit in 1988, wi the support o northren Afghan politeecian Sayed Nasim Mihanparast.

## References
Daykundi Province

**Day Kundi** *([[Persie leid|Persie]]: دایکندی)* an aw spelled *Daikondi*, *Dāykondī* or *Daikundi* or "Daykundi, is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. Day Kundi's caipital is Nili. It is locatit aboot 310 kilometres frae Kabul, an faws intae the traditionally ethnic Hazara region kent as the Hazarajat.

## References
Bamyan Province

**Bamyan Province** () is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the centre o the kintra. Its caipital is an aw cried Bamyan. The majority o the population are Hazaras, wi 16% Sadat, 15% Tajiks, an Pashtuns an Tatars in smawer numbers. Bamyan is the lairgest province in the Hazarajat region o Afghanistan, an is the cultural caipital o the Hazara ethnic group that predominates in the aurie.

In antiquity, central Afghanistan wis strategically placit tae thrive frae the Silk Road caravans which criss-crossed the region tradin atween the Roman Empire, Cheenae, Central an Sooth Asie. Bamyan wis a stoppin aff point for mony travellers. It wis here whaur elements o Greek, Persie an Buddhist airt wur combined intae a unique classical style, kent as Greco-Buddhist airt.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Afghanistan Information Management Services - Bamyan Province
Parwan Province

**Parwān** (Persie: پروان), an aw spelled **Parvān**, ance an aw the name o an auncient toun in the Hindu Kush muntains, is the day an admeenistrative province in northren Afghanistan, directly north o Kabul Province. Its caipital is Charikar.

## References
Kabul Province

**Kābul** (, ), situatit in the east o the kintra, is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. The caipital o the province is Kabul Ceety, which is an aw Afghanistan's caipital. The population o Kabul province is 3.5 million fowk as o 2009, o which amaist 80 percent live in the urban auries.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*What's On In Kabul (pdf format) 
*Historical Photos of Kabul 
*Historical Guide to Afghanistan (Kabul)
*Kabul Caravan
Wardak Province

**Wardak Province** (an aw spelled **Wardag**, or **Vardak**,  , ) is ane o thirty fower provinces o Afghanistan locatit in the central east region o Afghanistan. It haes a population o approximately 540,100. The caipital o the province is Maidan Shar. The majority o the population is Pashtun.

## Freemit airtins
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Logar Province

**Logar** (, ) is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan.
The wird o Logar is biggit frae twa Pashto wirds: *Loy* (لوى "great") an *Ghar* (غر "mountain"). It is locatit in the eastren zone, sootheast fae Kabul, an the geography o the province centers on the muckle Logar River that enters the province through the wast an leaves tae the north. Its caipital is Pul-i-Alam.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Tribal Map of Logar province on nps.edu
*Afghan Sweden Online
Paktia Province

**Paktia** ( - *Paktyā*) , is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan, in the east o the kintra.  Its caipital is Gardez. The population is predominantly Pashtun.

## References

## Freemit airtins
Khost Province

**Khost** () is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the east o the kintra. Khost province uised tae be pairt o Paktia Province in the past. Its caipital is Khost, which wis the first Afghan ceety tae be liberatit frae communist rule follaein the Soviet invasion o Afghanistan.

## Freemit airtins

*Khost Tribal Map on nps.edu
Balkh Province

**Balkh** (Persian / Pashto: **بلخ**) is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the north o the kintra an its name derives frae the auncient ceety o Balkh, near the modren toun. Its caipital is Mazar-i-Sharif.

## References
Kunduz Province

**Kunduz** (Pashto/Persie: كندز) is ane o the provinces o Afghanistan, centered on the ceety o Kunduz, in northren Afghanistan, wi an aurie o 8,040&nbsp;km square, an a population o aboot 820,000.

The Kunduz River valley dominates the Kunduz Province.  The river flows frae sooth tae north intae the Amu Darya or Oxus river which forms the mairch atween Kunduz province an Tajikistan.  A newly constructit brig crosses the Amu Darya at Sher Khan Bandar.  The river, its tributaries an derivative canals provide irrigation tae the irrigatit fields that dominate land uisage in the province.  Thare are an aw rain-fed fields an open rangeland.

Pashtuns an Tajiks are the major ethnic groups in Kunduz follaed bi a minority o Uzbeks, Hazara, Turkmen, an ither.

## References
Samangan Province

**Samangan** () is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. The province covers  an haes a population o approximately 313,211, as o 2006.

Its caipital, Samangan, is kent for its auncient ruins includin, notably, the Takht e Rostam. Airchaeologists are desperate tae wirk in this province as wars an the Taliban hae destroyed mony o these airtifacts.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Dupree, Nancy Hatch (1977): *An Historical Guide to Afghanistan*. 1st Edition: 1970. 2nd Edition. Revised and Enlarged. Afghan Tourist Organization. http://www.zharov.com/dupree/index.html
Baghlan Province

**Baghlan** (Persie/Pashto: بغلان *Baġlān*) is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the north o the country. Its caipital is Puli Khumri, but its name comes frae the ither major toun in the province, Baghlan. The ruins o a Zoroastrian fire temple, the Surkh Kotal, are locatit in Baghlan. 

## References
Kapisa Province

**Kapisa** (Persie/Pashto: کاپيسا) is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan. It is in the north-east o the kintra. Its caipital is Mahmud-i-Raqi, an ither destricts include Kohistan, Nijrab an Tagab. The population o Kapisa is estimatit tae be 364,900, although there haes niver been an offeecial estimate. The aurie o the province is 1,842&nbsp;km².

## Footnotes
Panjshir Province

**Panjshir** (, literally "Five Lions", forby spelt as **Panjsher**) is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan. Containin the Panjshir Valley, in Aprile 2004 it wis creaute frae pairts o Parwan Province, whilk nou lees alang its soothwastren bund.

Panjshir province is renoont for haein niver been fangt bi the Soviets durin their occupaution in the 1980s, due tae its difficult terrain an the actions o mujahideen unner Ahmad Shah Massoud. In racent years Panjshir wis ane o Afghanistan's maist secure provinces an hesnae been subjeck tae the same leevel o violence an insurgency foond elsewhaur in the kintra.

In spring 2010, the lang-serrin govrenor Haji Bahlol Bahij wis remuivit bi Preses Karzai an replacit wi Kiramuddin Keram. 

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Naval Postgraduate School - Panjshir Province
Takhar Province

**Takhār** () is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It wis established in 1964 when Qataghan Province wis dividit intae three provinces: Baghlan, Kunduz an Takhar. It is in the north-east o the kintra. Its caipital is Taloqan. Its salt mines are ane o Afghanistan's major mineral resources.
Nuristan Province

**Nuristān** (Persie:**نورستان**), an aw spelled **Nurestān** or **Nooristan**, is a region in Afghanistan embeddit in the sooth o the Hindu Kush valleys. Its admeenistrative center is Parun. It wis umwhile kent as Kafiristan ("land o the unbelievers") till the inhabitants wur converted tae Islam in 1896, an thence the region haes become kent as Nuristan ("Land o Licht").

The day it is ane o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan, formit in 1989 an offeecially established in 2001 frae the northren pairts o Laghman Province an Kunar Province. Its admeenistrative center, Parun, is locatit in the Parun valley. Afore 2001 its caipital wis situatit in Laghman province due tae Mujahideen control ower Nuristan province. 

## References
Laghman Province

**Laghman** (Persian/) is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan.  Locatit in the eastren portion o Afghanistan, its caipital is Mehtar Lam.

## References

## External links
* Offeecial wabsteid
Nangarhar Province

**Nangarhar** ( **) is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan in the east o the kintra. Its caipital is the ceety o Jalalabad. The population o the province is 1,334,000, which consists mainly o ethnic Pashtuns wi a sizable community o Arabs an Pashais.

## References
Kunar Province

**Kunar** () is ane o the 34 provinces o Afghanistan, locatit in the northeastren pairt o the kintra. Its caipital is Asadabad.  It is ane o the fower "N2KL" provinces (Nangarhar Province, Nuristan Province, Kunar Province an Laghman Province).  N2KL is the designation uised bi US an Coalition Forces in Afghanistan for the ruggit an vera violent region alang the Afghanistan-Pakistan mairch opposite Pakistan's Federally Admeenistered Tribal Auries an North-Wast Frontier Province.  Kunar is the centre o the N2KL region.

## References
Federally Admeenistered Tribal Areas

The **Federally Admeenistered Tribal Areas** (**FATA**) () are a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwast o Pakistan, lyin atween the province o Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, an the neighboring kintra o Afghanistan. The FATA comprise seiven Agencies (tribal destricts) an sax FRs(Frontier regions). The territory is amaist exclusively inhabitit bi Pashtun tribes which are predominantly Sunni Muslims bi faith.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Constitutional Provisions on the Tribal Areas – Chapter 3, Part XII of the Constitution of Pakistan
*FATA Secretariat Official Website 
*FATA Development Authority Official Website 
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Balochistan, Pakistan

**Balochistan** (Balochi, , Brahui: *Balocistán*) is ane o the fower provinces or federatin units o Pakistan. Wi an aurie o 134,051&nbsp;mi2 or (347,190&nbsp;km2), it is the lairgest province o Pakistan, constitutin approximately 44% o the total land mass o Pakistan. Accordin tae the 1998 population census, Balochistan haed a population o roughly 6.6 million. The lairgest ceety, Quetta is the simmer caipital while Gwadar, the port ceety locatit in the sooth-wast, serves as the winter caipital.

## References

## Freemit airtins

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Sindh

**Sindh** (pronounced : , ) historically referred tae as **Ba'ab-ul-Islam** (lit. *The gateway o Islam*), is ane o the fower provinces o Pakistan an historically is hame tae the Sindhi fowk. It is an aw locally kent as the "Mehran". The name o Sindh is derivit frae the Indus River that separates it frae Balochistan an the greater Iranian Plateau. This river wis kent tae the  auncient Iranians in Avestan as Harauhuti, in Sanskrit as Sarasvati, tae Assiries (as early as the seivent century BC) as *Sinda*, tae the Greeks as *Indos*, tae the Romans as *Indus*, tae the Persies as *Ab-e-sind*, tae the Pashtuns as "Abasind", tae the Arabs as *Al-Sind*, tae the Cheenese as *Sintow*, an tae the Javanese as the Santri.

Sindh is bundit tae the wast bi the Indus River an Balochistan, tae the north bi Punjab, the east bi the Indie states o Gujarat an Rajasthan an tae the sooth bi the Arabie Sea. The caipital o the province is Karachi, Pakistan's lairgest ceety an financial hub. Maist o the population in the province is Muslim, wi sizeable Christian, Zoroastrian an Hindu minorities.  The main leid spoken is Sindhi bi aboot 40 million fowk, while there exists a significant Urdu-speakin minority.

## References

## Further reading
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## External links

*Sindh Transport Department official website
*Government of Sindh 
*Maps of Sindh 
*Map of the districts of Sindh 
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Uttar Pradesh

**Uttar Pradesh** abbreviation **U.P.** (, , pronounced , "Northren Province"), (umwhile Unitit Provinces; , ) is a state locatit in the northren pairt o Indie. Wi a population o ower 200 million fowk, it is Indie's maist populous state, as well as the warld's maist populous sub-naitional entity. Gin it wis a naition in its awn richt, Uttar Pradesh wad be the warld's fift muckle maist kintra aheid o Brazil, a kintra thirty-five times lairger in territorial aurie than Uttar Pradesh.

## Admeenistrative diveesions an destricts (as in 2010)

The state o Uttar Pradesh consists o seiventy five destricts, whilk are groupit intae aichteen diveesions:-
Agra diveesion, Aligarh diveesion, Allahabad diveesion, Azamgarh diveesion, Bareilly diveesion, Basti diveesion, Chitrakoot diveesion, Devipatan diveesion, Faizabad diveesion, Gorakhpur diveesion, Jhansi diveesion, Kanpur diveesion, Lucknow diveesion, Meerut diveesion, Mirzapur diveesion, Moradabad diveesion, Saharanpur diveesion an Varanasi diveesion.

;Municipal corporations
Follaein are Municipal Corporations (''Nagar Nigam'') in UP:
#Agra
#Aligarh
#Allahabad
#Bareilly
#Ghaziabad
#Gorakhpur
#Jhansi
#Kanpur
#Lucknow
#Meerut
#Moradabad
#Saharanpur
#Varanasi

;Special status
#Noida

;Lairgest urban aurie - 2011 census
#Kanpur (4,901,474)
#Lucknow (4,320,067)
Figures based on the census 2011 (http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/india2/Million_Plus_UAs_Cities_2011.pdf)

;Ceeties unner JNNURM
#Kanpur
#Lucknow
#Allahabad
#Varanasi
#Agra
#Meerut
#Mathura

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Uttar Pradesh an Its Destricts Maps 
* 
* Offeecial wabsteid o the Govrenment o Uttar Pradesh 
* Offeecial Wabsteid o Uttar Pradesh Tourism 
* Uttar Pradesh Live 
* PIN Code Search o Aw Destricts/Post Offices o Uttar Pradesh 
* PIN Code Search o Aw Destricts/Post Offices o Uttar Pradesh 
* Resources on Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow diveesion

**Lucknow diveesion** is an admeenistrative geographical unit o Uttar Pradesh state o Indie. Lucknow is the admeenistrative heidquarters o the division. It consists o the follaein destricts:
Lucknow, Hardoi, Lakhimpur Kheri, Raebareli, Sitapur, an Unnao.
Lucknow destrict

**Lucknow destrict** (, ) is a destrict locatit in Uttar Pradesh state in northren Indie. The city o Lucknow is the destrict heidquarters an the destrict is pairt o Lucknow division an is the caipital o Uttar Pradesh an aa. The city wis established in 1775 as the nawab o Awadh muivit his caipital frae Faizabad tae Lucknow an made it ane o the maist prosperous cities in aw o Indie.

## Historical Backgrund
Locatit in whit wis historically kent as the Awadh region, Lucknow haes aye been a multicultural place. Courtly mannerism, lofty gardens, poetry, muisic, an fine traditional cuisine patronised bi the Persie-lovin Shia Nawabs are weel kent amangst Indies an students o Sooth Asie cultur an history.

## Climate
The climate o Lucknow destrict is maistly subtropical in natur. Hot atmosphere durin the months o Mey an Juin an hivy rainfaws durin the months o Juin, Julie an August are the typical characteristics o Lucknow.

## Demography
Accordin tae the 2011 census Lucknow destrict haes a population o 4,588,455, roughly equal tae the naition o Georgie or the US state o Louisiana. This gies it a rankin o 31st in Indie (oot o a total o 640). The district has a population density of  . Its population growth rate ower the decade 2001-2011 wis 25.79 %.	Lucknow	haes a sex ratio o 906 females fur ivery 1000 males, an a literacy rate o 79.33%.

## Leids
Leids spoken here include Awadhi, a vernacular in the Hindi-Urdu continuum spoken bi ower 38 million fowk, mainly in the Awadh region. Urdu an Hindi are the twa mainstream leids o the destrict.

## References

## Freemit airtins
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Lorraine (region)

**Lorraine** (; Lorrain: *Louréne*; Lorraine Franconian: *Lottringe*; ) is ane o the 27 *[[Regions o Fraunce|régions]]* o Fraunce. The admeenistrative region haes twa ceeties o equal importance, Metz an Nancy. Metz is considered tae be the offeecial caipital syne that is whaur the regional parliament is situatit. The region's name is derivit frae the medieval Lotharingie.

The region consists o fower depairtments: Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle an Vosges an contains 2,337 communes.

## References

## Further readin
* Putnam, Ruth. *Alsace and Lorraine: From Cæsar to Kaiser, 58 B.C.-1871 A.D.* New York: 1915.

## Freemit airtins
* Steid o the Regional Cooncil 
* A short guide to the Lorraine region and its main attractions
* MyLorraine.fr - Share your Lorraine
* Business in Lorraine
Vaucluse

The **Vaucluse** (;  in classical norm or *Vau-Cluso* in Mistralian norm) is a depairtment in the sootheast o Fraunce, namit efter the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.

## History
Vaucluse wis creatit on 12 August 1793 oot o pairts o the depairtments o Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes (later renamed Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). The then rural depairtment wis, like the nearbi ceety o Lyon, a hotbed o the French Resistance in Warld War II.

## Geography
Vaucluse is bordered bi the Rhône tae the wast an the River Durance tae the sooth. Muntains occupy a significant proportion o the eastren hauf o the depairtment, wi Mont Ventoux (1,912 m), kent as "the Giant of Provence" an aw, dominatin the landscape. Ither important muntain ranges include the Dentelles de Montmirail, the Monts de Vaucluse, an the Luberon. Fruit an vegetables are cultivatit in great quantities in the lawer-lyin pairts o the depairtment, on ane o the maist fertile plains in soothren Fraunce. The Vaucluse département haes a rather muckle exclave athin the Drôme depairtment, the canton o Valréas (Enclave des Papes).

Important urban centres include Avignon, Orange, Carpentras, Cavaillon, an Apt.

## Demographics
* Urban population: 416,301 (83%)
* Rural population: 83,384 (17%)

## See also
*Canton o Valréas/(Enclave des Papes)
*Cantons o the Vaucluse depairtment
*Communes o the Vaucluse depairtment
*Arrondissements o the Vaucluse depairtment

## Freemit airtins

* 
*  Official Vaucluse tourism website
*  Website of the General Council 
*  Prefecture website
Kanpur diveesion

**Kanpur diveesion** is an admeenistrative geographical unit o Uttar Pradesh state o Indie. Kanpur is the administrative headquarters o the division. Currently (2005), the diveesion consists o destricts o Kanpur 
Akbarpur (Kanpur Dehat)
Etawah 
Farukhabad 
Kannauj
Auraiya destrict.

### History o admeenistrative destricts in Kanpur diveesion
Kanpur diveesion wis earlier pairt o the Allahabad diveesion. In the year, 2000, the Mayawati govrenment did a major reshuffle o the Allahabad diveesion, an a separate Kanpur diveesion wis creatit. 

The Kanpur destrict itsel wis bifurcatit intae Kanpur an Kanpur dehat, which is nou renamit as RamaBai Nagar, on the name o the wife o Kanshi Ram, the BSP leader.
Lucknow

**Lucknow** (; , , *,* ) is the caipital ceety o Uttar Pradesh in Indie. Lucknow is the admeenistrative heidquarters o Lucknow destrict an Lucknow diveesion. Straddlin the river Gomti, modren Lucknow is a bustlin an fast growin metropolis wi a population o amaist 3 million (2011), rapidly emergin as a manufacturin, commercial an retailin hub.

Located in what was oreeginally kent as the Awadh (Oudh) region, Lucknow haes aaways been kent as a multicultural ceety, an flourished as a cultural an airtistic caipital o North Indie in the 18t an 19t centuries. Courtly manners, bonnie gardens, poetry, muisic, an fine cuisine patronised bi the Shia Nawabs o Iranian oreegin, are weel kent amangst Indies an students o Sooth Asie cultur an history. Lucknow is popularly kent as *The Ceety o Nawabs*. It is kent as the *Gowden Ceety o the East*, *[[Shiraz]]-i-Hind* an *The [[Constantinople]] o Indie* an aw.

## Sister Ceeties
* Brisbane, Australie
* Montreal, Canadae

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Offeecial Steid o Lucknow
Avignon

**Avignon** (; Occitan: *Avinhon* in classical norm or *Avignoun* in Mistralian norm) is a French commune in sootheastren Fraunce in the depairtment o the Vaucluse bordered bi the left bank o the Rhône river. O the 94,787 inhabitants o the ceety on 1 Januar 2010, 12,000 live in the auncient toun centre surroondit bi its medieval  ramparts.

Aften referred tae as the "Ceety o Papes" acause o the presence o papes an antipapes frae 1309 tae 1423 durin the Catholic schism, it is currently the lairgest ceety an caipital o the département o Vaucluse. This is ane o the few French ceeties tae hae preservit its ramparts, its historic centre, the palace o the popes, Rocher des Doms, an the brig o Avignon. It wis classifeed a Warld Heritage Steid bi UNESCO unner the criteria I, II an IV.

As a showcase o airts an cultur, the fame o its annual theatre festival, kent as the Festival o Avignon, haes far exceedit the French borders.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns – Sister ceeties
Avignon is twinned wi:

## References
;Notes
*INSEE

## Freemit airtins

* Tourist office wabsteid 
* Ceety council wabsteid 
* Avignon theater festival wabsteid
Hautes-Alpes

**Hautes-Alpes** (; ) is a depairtment in sootheastren Fraunce namit efter the Alps muntain range.

## History
Hautes-Alpes is ane o the oreeginal 83 depairtments creatit durin the French Revolution on 4 Mairch 1790. It consists o the sootheast o the umwhile province o Dauphiné an the north o Provence.

At the time when the depairtment wis creatit, the twa muntain communes o La Grave an Villar-d'Arêne successfully campaigned tae be includit in Hautes-Alpes an no in the neighbourin depairtment o Isère tae which thay haed oreeginally been assigned. This wis acause thay hoped tae benefit frae the relative autonomy an certain fiscal privileges enjoyed bi the region syne the fowerteent century unner the terms o the Statute o the Briançon Escartons.

Napoleon passed throu Gap when he returned tae reclaim Fraunce efter his exile on Elba.

## Geography
The department is surroondit bi the follaein French depairtments: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, :Drôme, Isère, an Savoie. Italy borders it on the east.

Hautes-Alpes is locatit in the Alps muntain range. The average elevations is ower 1000 m, an the heichest elevation is ower 4000 m. The anerlie three sizable touns are Gap, Briançon, an Embrun, which wis the subprefectur till 1926.

The third heichest commune in aw o Europe is the veelage o Saint-Véran. Gap an Briançon are the heichest prefectur an subprefectur in Fraunce.

The follaeing rivers flow throu the depairtment:
* Durance
* Guisane
* Buëch
* Drac
* Clarée
* Séveraisse

The Durance haes been dammed tae create the mucklest airtificial lake in Europe: the Lac de Serre-Ponçon.

The Queyras valley is locatit in the eastren pairt o the depairtment an is notit bi mony as bein an aurie o ootstaundin beauty.

## Demographics
The indwallers o the depairtment are cried *Haut-Alpins*.

The extremely muntainous terrain explains the spairse population, which wis oreeginally aboot 120,000. It chyngit little durin the 19t century, but fell tae aboot 85,000 efter Warld War I. Thanks in muckle pairt tae tourism, the population haes risen frae 87,436 in 1962 tae 121,419 in 1999, principally in the toun o Gap.

## Politics

The Preses o the General Cooncil is Jean-Yves Dusserre o the Union for a Popular Muivement.

## Tourism
The tourist industry is mucklely dependent on skiin in winter. In simmer the Alpine scenery an mony ootdoor activities attract visitors frae athort Europe (sailin, hikin, climbin an aerial sports such as glidin). The Tour de France passes throu the depairtment regularly. This draws mony cyclin fanatics tae cycle the cols an watch the race.

## See an aw
*Cantons o the Hautes-Alpes depairtment
*Communes o the Hautes-Alpes depairtment
*Arrondissements o the Hautes-Alpes depairtment

## Freemit airtins

*  Offeecial Wabsteid 
*  Prefectur wabsteid 
*  General Cooncil wabsteid  
*  A veelage in the French Alps built bi Vauban
Mitte

**Mitte** is the first an maist central burgh o Berlin. It wis creatit in Berlin's 2001 admeenistrative reform bi the merger o the umwhile destricts o Mitte proper, Tiergarten an Wedding; the resultin burgh retained the name Mitte. It is ane o the twa burghs (beside Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) which comprises umwhile Wast an East Berlin destricts. Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core an includes some o the maist important tourist steids o Berlin like Museum Island, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden, Potsdamer Platz, the Reichstag an Berlin Hauptbahnhof, maist o which wur in umwhile East Berlin. 

Note that when Berliners speak o *Mitte*, they usually refer tae the smawer locality an no tae the lairger borough.

## Geography
Mitte (German for "middle", "centre") is locatit in the centre o Berlin alang the Spree River. It borders on Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in the wast, Reinickendorf in the north, Pankow in the east, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in the sootheast, an Tempelhof-Schöneberg in the soothwast. 

In the middle o the Spree lees Museum Island (*Museumsinsel*) wi its museums an Berlin Cathedral (*Berliner Dom*). The central square in Mitte is Alexanderplatz wi the prominent Fernsehturm (TV tower), Germany's heichest biggin, an the lairge railway station wi connections tae mony subway (U-Bahn), tramway (Straßenbahn), ceety trains (S-Bahn) an buses. There are some important streets which connect Mitte wi the ither boroughs, e.g. the boulevard Unter den Linden which connects Alexanderplatz tae the wast wi Brandenburg Gate an runs further as Straße des 17. Juni tae the Victory Column an the centre o umwhile Wast Berlin in Charlottenburg, or Karl-Marx-Allee frae Alexanderplatz tae Friedrichshain an the eastren suburbs.

## Subdiveesion

The present-day burgh o Mitte consists o sax localities: 

## Twin touns
* Higashiōsaka, Japan syne 1959
* Holon, Israel syne 1970
* Bottrop, Germany syne 1983
* Schwalm-Eder-Kreis syne 1992
* Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan syne 1994
* Tsuwano, Japan syne 1995
* Tourcoing, Fraunce syne 1995
* VI. kerület (Terézváros), Budapest, Hungary syne 2005
* Central Admeenistrative Okrug, Moscow, Roushie syne 2006

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Offeecial hamepage 
*Offeecial hamepage o Berlin
Blackburn

**Blackburn** () is a lairge toun in Lancashire, Ingland. It lees tae the north o the Wast Pennine Muirs on the soothren edge o the Ribble Valley,  east o the ceety o Preston,  north-northwast o the ceety o Manchester, an  north o the border wi Greater Manchester.  Blackburn is bundit tae the sooth bi Darwen, wi whilk it forms the unitary authority aurie o Blackburn wi Darwen, Blackburn bein the admeenistrative centre. At the time o the UK Govrenment's 2001 census, Blackburn haed a population o 105,085, whilst the wider burgh o Blackburn wi Darwen haed a population o 140,700.

## Twin touns
*  Péronne, Somme, Fraunce
*  Altena, Germany

## References
### Notes

## Freemit airtins

* Blackburn with Darwen Council , the wabsteid o Blackburn wi Darwen Borough Cooncil.
* www.cottontown.org, a wabsteid documentin the history o Blackburn wi Darwen as influencit bi the development o the cotton tred.
* ''Lancashire Telegraph'', the daily wittins blad based in Blackburn.
Lancashire

**Lancashire** ( or, less commonly, ) is a non-metropolitan coonty o historic oreegin in the North Wast o Ingland. It takes its name frae the ceety o Lancaster, an is whiles kent as the **Coonty o Lancaster**. Awtho Lancaster is still considered tae be the coonty toun, Lancashire Coonty Cooncil is based in Preston. Lancashire is whiles referred tae bi the abbreviation **Lancs**, as oreeginally uised bi the Royal Mail. The population o the coonty is 1,449,700. Fowk frae the coonty are kent as **Lancastrians**.

## Notes an references

## Freemit airtins
Hertfordshire

**Hertfordshire** ( or ; abbreviatit **Herts**) is a ceremonial an non-metropolitan coonty in the East region o England. The coonty toun is Hertford.

Hertfordshire is ane o the hame coonties an lees inland, bordered bi Greater Lunnon (tae the sooth), Buckinghamshire (tae the wast), Bedfordshire (includin the unitary authorities o Luton an Central Bedfordshire tae the north), Cambridgeshire (tae the north east) an Essex (tae the east).

## References
Alpes-Maritimes

**Alpes-Maritimes** (; ) is a depairtment in the extreme sootheast corner o Fraunce.

## Geography
### Owerview

The depairtment is surroondit bi the French depairtments o Var, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Italy an the principality o Monaco tae the east, an the Mediterranean tae the sooth.

Alpes-Maritimes includes the famous French Riviera coastline on the Mediterranean Sea wi the important touns an ceeties o Cannes, Nice, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, an Antibes.

The aurie is muntainous richt doun tae the coast. This soothren aurie o the Alps is termit the Maritime Alps.

### Subdiveesion

Alpes-Maritimes is dividit intae 2 arrondissements (Grasse an Nice), 52 cantons an 163 municipalities (*communes*). 

In 2002 they wur creatit 14 intercommunalities (*Intercommunalité*). 4 o them are metropolitan: 3 agglomeration communities (Pôle Azur Provence, Riviera Française an Sophia Antipolis) an 1 urban community (Nice-Côte d'Azur). The ither 10 are *[[Communauté de communes]]*: Vallée de l'Estéron, Monts d'Azur, Pays des Paillons, Coteaux d'Azur, Vallées d'Azur, Tinée, Cians Var, Stations du Mercantour, Terres de Siagne and Vésubie Mercantour.

Below it is shown a leet o maist populatit places o the depairtment:
*Nice (348,721)
*Antibes (76,778)
*Cannes (71,790)
*Grasse (51,294)
*Cagnes-sur-Mer (49,551)
*Le Cannet (42,596)
*Vallauris (30,839)
*Saint-Laurent-du-Var (30,605)
*Menton (29,129)
*Mandelieu-la-Napoule (20,889)
*Mougins (20,250)
*Vence (19,659)

## See also
* Communes o the Alpes-Maritimes depairtment
* Cantons o the Alpes-Maritimes depairtment
* Arrondissements o the Alpes-Maritimes depairtment

## References

## Freemit airtins

*
*  Prefectur wabsteid 
*  General cooncil wabsteid
*  French Riviera directory 
*  Musical traditions in the Alpes-Maritimes department
*  About.com
Herefordshire

**Herefordshire** () is a historic an ceremonial county in the Wast Midlands region o Ingland. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG11) an is ane o three coonties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire an Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It an aw forms a unitary destrict kent as the **Coonty o Herefordshire**. It borders the Inglis ceremonial coonties o Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire tae the east, Gloucestershire tae the sooth-east, an the Welsh preservit coonties o Gwent tae the sooth-wast an Powys tae the wast. Hereford is a cathedral ceety an is the coonty toun; wi a population o approximately 55,800 inhabitants it is an aw the lairgest settlement.

The coonty is ane o the maist rural an spairsely populatit in Ingland, wi a population density of 82/km² (212/sq mi). The land uise is predominantly agricultural an the coonty is weel kent for its fruit an cider production, an the Hereford cattle breed.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*
* Herefordshire County Portal Local events, jobs, photos an news
* Herefordshire Libraries  10 Libraries athort Herefordshire
* Herefordshire & Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust Records an protects the coonty's Earth Heritage
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

**Alpes-de-Haute-Provence** (; Occitan: *Aups d'Auta Provença*) is a French depairtment in the sooth o Fraunce, it wis umwhile pairt o the province o Provence.

## Arrondissements an cantons

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is subdividit intae 4 arrondissements, 30 cantons an 200 communes. 

See an aw: Communes o the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence depairtment

## Freemit airtins

* 
*  Conseil général wabsteid 
* Abbeys in the Alps  (fr. wi translator)
*  Prefectur wabsteid 
*  Préfecture web-site in Inglis 
*  Detailed information in French
* Sisteron guide
London Borough of Lambeth

The **London Borough of Lambeth** () is a Lunnon burgh in sooth Lunnon, Ingland an forms pairt o Inner Lunnon. The local authority is Lambeth London Borough Council.

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Lambeth.gov.uk London Borough of Lambeth Offeecial Wabsteid
* Mayor o Lambeth  Mayor o Lambeth Offeecial Wabsteid
London Borough of Brent

The **London Borough of Brent** () is a Lunnon burgh in Northwast Lunnon, Ingland an forms pairt o Ooter Lunnon. The major aurie is Wembley.

It borders Harrow tae the north-wast, Barnet tae the north-east, Camden tae the east an Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, an Kensington and Chelsea tae the sooth, an Wastmeenster tae the sooth-east. Maist o the eastren border is formit bi the Roman road Watling Street, nou the modren A5.

Brent haes a mixtur o residential, industrial an commercial land. Wembley is the major toun o Brent, which is hame tae Wembley Stadium an Wembley Arena.

Brent is in the HA an NW postcode auries. Brent postcodes include: HA0, HA1, HA3, HA9, NW2, NW6, NW9 an NW10.

The Brent Cross shoppin centre is no locatit in Brent, but in the London Borough of Barnet. It takes its name frae the River Brent which runs throu the steid.

## Auries
*Alperton
*Brent Park
*Brondesbury
*Brondesbury Park
*Church End
*Cricklewood (note: pairt o Cricklewood is in Camden an Barnet)
*Dollis Hill
*Harlesden
*Kensal Green
*Kenton (note: pairt o Kenton is in Harrow)
*Kilburn (note: pairt o Kilburn is in Camden)
*Kingsbury
*Neasden
*North Wembley
*Park Royal (note: pairt o Park Royal is in Ealing)
*Preston
*Queen's Park
*Queensbury (an aw pairtly in Harrow)
*Stonebridge
*Sudbury (an aw pairtly in Harrow)
*Tokyngton
*Wembley
*Wembley Park
*Willesden

## References
London Borough of Wandsworth

The **London Borough of Wandsworth**  is a Lunnon burgh in soothwast Lunnon, Ingland, an forms pairt o Inner Lunnon.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Lunnon Borough o Wandsworth
*The Wandsworth Society 
*Freecycle Wandsworth 
*Wandsworth Art Studios
London Borough of Islington

The **London Borough of Islington** () is a Lunnon burgh in Inner Lunnon. It wis formit in 1965 bi mergin the umwhile metropolitan burghs o Islington an Finsbury. The burgh conteens twa Wastmeenster pairlamentar constituencies, Islington North an Islington South & Finsbury. The local authority is Islington Council.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Islington Links 
* Islington Council
* Weather forecast for Islington
* Islington Museum an Local History Centre
London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The **London Borough of Tower Hamlets** () is a Lunnon burgh tae the east o the Ceety o Lunnon an north o the River Thames. It is in the eastren pairt o Lunnon an covers hintle o the traditional East End. It an aw includes hintle o the redeveloped Docklands region o Lunnon, includin West India Docks and Canary Wharf.  Mony o the tawest biggins in Lunnon are locatit on the Isle o Dogs in the sooth o the borough. The borough haes a population o 220,000, which includes ane o the heichest ethnic minority populations in the caipital, consistin mainly o Bangladeshis. The local authority is Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.

## Internaitional relations
### Twin Touns - Sister Ceeties
*  Sylhet, Bangladesh

## References
London Borough of Lewisham

The **Lunnon Burgh o Lewisham** () is a Lunnon burgh in sooth-east Lunnon, Ingland an forms pairt o Inner Lunnon. The principal dounset o the borough is Lewisham. The local authority is Lewisham London Borough Council an it is based in Catford.

The Prime Meridian passes throu Lewisham.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Lewisham London Borough Council
Gloucestershire

**Gloucestershire** ( ) is a coonty in Sooth Wast Ingland. The coonty comprises pairt o the Cotswold Hills, pairt o the flat fertile valley o the River Severn, an the entire Forest o Dean.

The coonty toun is the ceety o Gloucester, an ither principal touns include Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, an Tewkesbury.

When considered as a ceremonial coonty, Gloucestershire borders the preservit coonty o Gwent in Wales (nou Monmouthshire), an in Ingland the ceremonial coonties o Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire an Somerset. Ceremonially, it includes the aurie covered bi the Sooth Gloucestershire unitary authority.

Accordin tae a 2002 campaign bi the charity Plantlife, the coonty flouer o Gloucestershire is the Wild Daffodil.

## Notes

## Freemit airtins

*Gloucestershire Coonty Cooncil  Local govrenment wab steid