open-index/open-wikipedia-markdown huggingface dataset:
Mumbai

**Mumbai** (kent as **Bombay**, its umwhile offeecial name till 1995, an aw) is a naitural herbour on the wast coast o Indie, an is the caipital ceety o Maharashtra state. It's Indie's maist muckle ceety, an the 4t maist populous ceety proper in the warld. It's cawed the commercial caipital o Indie.
It haes the Bombay Stock Exchynge an aw major financial trokin is duin thare.

## Geography an History

Locate on the Wast Coast o Indie, the group o islands that haes developit intae the ceety o Bombay, wis likely first recordit as the name o fish-carles whaur a group o Buddhist monks estaiblisht an ootpost durin the later Magadhan empire. The islands wis passed fae ae king tae anither for twa millenia, till the Breetish tred empire decidit tae forder the naitural herbour intil a ceety. In the fower hunder year syne, the ceety haes growen bi a series o laund reclamations that jynes the oreeginal islands intil ae mass the nou.

## Etymology

The ceety wis cried Bombay for maist o the last fower hunder years. The oreegin o the name is kittlie, but is aft thocht tae come fae the Portuguese phrase *bom bahia* meanin "guid bay". The name Mumbai haes been uised in the main local leids for as lang, an is ascribed tae the local goddess, Mumba (*ai* means "mither" in Marathi, the leid o the state o Maharashtra). The name o the ceety wis chynged tae Mumbai bi an act o the pairlament in 1995.

## Demografics

Jaloused tae hae aboot 15 meellion fowk, the ceety haes growen swith in the bygane fifty year. The main aurie cawed the "Island Ceety" haes the maist dear real estate in the hale o Indie. Acause o this, the ceety haes growen a lang wey intil the mainlaund baith tae the north an the east. It is no unuisual for fowk tae commute mair nor an oor tae wark ilka day. Gettin watter, pouer an fuid intil the ceety is a muckle job that's owerseen bi ceevic agencies, plannin bodies an fowk gaun aboot thair business.

## Sister ceeties
Mumbai haes sister ceety agreements wi the follaein ceeties:
*  **[[Berlin]]**, **[[Germany]]**
*  **[[Lunnon]]**, **[[Unitit Kinrick]]**
*  **[[Los Angeles]]**, **[[Unitit States]]**
*  **[[Saunt Petersburg]]**, **[[Roushie]]**
*  **[[Stuttgart]]**, **[[Germany]]**
*  **[[Yokohama]]**, **[[Japan]]**

## References
William McGonagall

**William Topaz McGonagall** (1825−1902) wis a poet frae Dundee.  He is aften thocht on as the warst poet in the Inglis leid. His baist-kent poem wis aboot the Tay Brig disaster:

:*Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
:*Alas! I am very sorry to say
:*That ninety lives have been taken away
:*On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
:''Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
Jeddah

**Jeddah** (whiles spelled *Jiddah* or *Jedda&#x202f;*; ;  **' or **', ) is a Saudi Arabie ceety locatit on the coast o the Reid Sea an is the major urban centre o wastren Saudi Arabie. It is the lairgest ceety in Makkah Province, the lairgest sea port on the Reid Sea, an the seicont lairgest ceety in Saudi Arabie efter the caipital ceety, Riyadh. The population o the ceety currently stands at ower 3.4 million. It is an important commercial hub in Saudi Arabie.

Jeddah is the principal gatewey tae Mecca, Islam's holiest ceety, which able-bodied Muslims are required tae veesit at least ance in thair lifetime. It is an aa a gateway tae Medina, the seicont holiest place in Islam.

Jeddah is the maist cosmopolitan an tolerant o aw Saudi Arabie ceeties, hostin expatriates frae aw ower the warld who hae made Jeddah thair hame. Economically, Jeddah is focussin on further developin caipital investment in scienteefic an ingineerin leadership athin Saudi Arabie, an the Middle East. Jeddah wis independently ranked 4t in the Africae / Mid-East region in terms o innovation in 2009 in the Innovation Ceeties Index.

Regionally, Jeddah is a primar resort ceety o the kintra. Jeddah wis namit a seicont-tier beta warld ceety, accordin tae Globalization an Warld Cities Study Group an Network (GaWC).

## Sister ceeties
Jeddah haes 23 sister ceeties (kent as "twin touns" forby):

## Gallery

|Jeddah Corniche

Image:King Saud Mosque2 (5).jpg|King Saud Mosque


## References
Saudi Arabie

**Saudi Arabie**, kent offeecially as the **Kinrick o Saudi Arabie** (Arabic: **المملكة العربية السعودية**,*al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya*) is a Muslim kintra in the Middle East. It is a kinrick led bi the Saudi ryal faimily, cried the Hoose o Saud an aw. A lot o the warld's ile supply comes frae Saudi Arabie. Acause o this, the Saudi ryal faimily is gey wealthy.

Saudi Arabie haes ceeties that are important tae the Muslim releegion. Mony Muslims frae aroond the warld gang tae Mecca in Saudi Arabie tae mak a pilgrimage. The pilgrimage is ane o the requirements o thair releegion. Ither muckle ceeties is Riyadh, Jeddah an Dammam. The pilgrimage is cried hajj in the Arabic. A body wha maks a pilgrimage tae Mecca is cried a *hajj* in the Arabic leid. Fowk wha arenae Muslim are no allowed tae enter Mecca.

Saudi Arabie is hame tae the larigest mass o saund on earth, kent as the empty quarter desert. The temperatur is gey het.

Maist fowk spik the Arabic leid. Mony fowk frae ither kintras wark in Saudi Arabie. Thay are cried expatriates or expats.

The kintras o Yemen an Oman are sooth o Saudi Arabie. Saudi Arabie is wast o Qatar, the Unitit Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, an Jordan. Aa o thir kintras cept Jordan an Iraq mak the Arabian Peninsula.

The siller, or currency is cried the Saudi Riyal.

## Notes

## References
Monica Green

**Monica Green**, born 1959, is a Swaddish politeecian, an a member o the kintra's pairlament in Stockholm.  She represents the Social Democratic pairty (*Socialdemokratiska Arbetarpartiet*) in the Riksdag.
Beatrice Ask

**Beatrice Ask** is a Swadish politeecian, an a member o the kintra's pairlament in Stockholm.  She represents the Moderate Pairty (*Moderata samlingspartiet*) in the Riksdag.
Peter Eriksson

**Peter Eriksson** (born 3 August 1958, in Tranås, Småland) is a Swaddish politeecian, an a member o the kintra's pairlament in Stockholm.  He represents the Green Pairty (*Miljöpartiet de Gröna*) in the Riksdag.  He was ane o the twa chiefs o the pairty, alang wi Maria Wetterstrand.
Maria Wetterstrand

**Ingrid Maria Wetterstrand** (born 2 October 1973 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland) is a Swadish politeecian, an a member o the Riksdag in Stockholm.  She represents the Green Pairty (*Miljöpartiet de Gröna*) in the Riksdag.  She is ane o the twa chiefs o the pairty, alang wi Peter Eriksson. She haes been a member o the Riksdag syne 2001 an a pairty spokesperson syne 2002. 

Wetterstrand haes a maister's degree in biology frae the University o Gothenburg.

Wetterstrand is marrit tae Ville Niinistö, a Finnish politeecian representin the Green League. Their son Elias wis born in November 2004 an dochter Linnea in 2007.
Ulla Hoffmann

**Ulla Hoffmann** (born 31 Mairch 1942) is a Swaddish politeecian, an a member o the kintra's pairlament fur the Stockholm municipality.  She representit the Left Pairty (*Vänsterpartiet*) in the Riksdag til 2006. In 2003, she becam the pairty's temporar leader follaein the demittin o Gudrun Schyman.

Hoffman haes been ae columnist fur the paper *Flamman* an scrievit the beuk *Som en skänk från ovan – Politiken bakom pensionssveket* (**).

## References
Inger Segelström

**Inger Segelström** is a Swaddish politeecian, an umwhile member o the European Pairlament, that sits in baith Strasbourg an Brussels.  She representit the Social Democratic pairty (*Socialdemokratiska Arbetarpartiet*), pairt o the Socialist group in the pairlament.
Painch

The **painch**, **kyte**, **pechan** or **stamack** is pairt o the digeestive seestem. The painch is a big seck atween the thrapple an the smaw thairms. The stamack keeps fuid efter we eat it. Fuid we eat is mixed in the painch. Then the painch gies the fuid tae the smaw thraim whaur maist o the nutreetion frae the fuid is taen up. Ae raison the painch is a big seck is tae haud aw the fuid we eat at a meal. Than it can slawly gie the fuidtae the smaw thraim.
Wast Germanic leids

The **Wast Germanic leids** is the lairgest brainch o the Germanic faimly o leids spack oreeginally juist atween the Rhine, Alps, Elbe an the German Ocean, but acause o Breetish, Dutch an tae a lesser stent German colonialism, nou ower the hail warld. The faimlie includes the Scots, Inglis, Dutch, German, Afrikaans an Frisie leids amang ithers. It is sib tae the North Germanic leids sic as Dens, Norwegian, Swadish, Icelandic and Faroese an ithers an the deid East Germanic leids sic as Gothic an aw.
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann

**Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann** (17 September, 1826 – 20 Julie, 1866) wis a German mathematician, an forby thon ane o the maist weel-kent mathematicians o aw time. His wark on Analytic Nummer Theory led tae the famous unsolved problem, the Riemann Hypothesis, cried efter the man himsel. Riemann contributit muckle advances in the field o Differential Geometry an aw, includin a hale new theory o geometry, cried Riemannian Geometry. The fact that modren Mathematics is littert wi theorems, hypotheses an ither mathematical objects cried efter Riemann shaws hou influential he wis, an conteenas tae be.
Steamers

Syne 1815, **steamers** wis a wey o gaun aboot doun the River Clyde an aw aboot the Firth o Clyde an aroond the coasts an islands o Scotland. Hunders o fowks gaed doun the watter furri Glesga fair in steamers. In the 1960s, mair fowks wantit tae be uisin caurs, an nou it's aw caur ferries, forby in the simmer the paidle steamer *Waverley* is aye gaun aboot.
Companies Act 2006

The **Companies Act 2006** (c.46) is a statute o the Unitit Kinrick, for tae regulate companies athin that kintra.

The Act is the maist muckle in the historie o the Wastmeinster Pairlament, and belike the langest in the hale warld, wi 1,300 sections and 16 schedules, and kiverin naur 700 pages.  The Act bydraws the Companies Act 1985. The Act chynges a hantle provisions o company law, Scots and Inglis forbye, and the lave is screived ower mair modren and clair.

Amang the maist wechty provisions o the Act:

* It codifies the common law anent whit directors o a company maun dae.
* It obtempers the Takeover and Transparency Obligations Directives o the European Union.
* It creates a statutory richt for fowk that haud shares tae pursue claims agin skaithful directors for the company's benefit. The richt is foondit on the *derivative action* in the common law o Ingland and Wales, an a siclike richt is introducit tae Scotland forbye.
* It keeps bairns frae the buird o directors or thay reak 16 year.
* But nae mair will a director hae tae leave the buird whan thay reak 70 year.
* It will be mair eith for a company tae communicate electronically wi the fowk that haud shares.

## Fremmit Airtins
*Companies Act 2006
*Companies Act 2006 PDF 
*DTI proclamation
Tony O'Callaghan

**Tony O'Callaghan** (born 16 Juin 1956) in Lunnon) is a Breetish actor aiblins best kent for his chairacter sairgint Matt Boyden on *[[The Bill]]* frae 1991 tae 2003.  He haes appeart in *[[The Magnificent Evans]]*, *[[Family Affairs]]*, *[[Holby City]]*, an *[[Doctors (BBC soap opera)|Doctors]]* an aw.  It haes been annunced that he will be *guest starring* in *[[Shameless]]* in 2007.  At the meenit he is *starring* in the new Kleenex adverteesement on UK telly.
Het chocolate

**Het chocolate**, is a drink made o milk, chocolate an succar. It is a weel likit drink in Europe efter it cam frae North an Sooth Americae.
Icelandic leid

**Icelandic** (*íslenska*) is a Germanic leid that's spak in the island kintra o Iceland. It's the offeecial leid o Iceland an is sib tae the Faroese leid. Icelandic haes juist 32 letters o the Laitin alphabet. It is the offeecial leid o Iceland. This leid is relatit tae the Faroese leid an some Norse byleids.

## Alphabet
Thae letters o the Icelandic alphabet is 

a	á	b	d	ð	e	é	f	g	h	i	í	j	k	l	m	n	o	ó	p	r	s	t	u	ú	v	x	y	ý	þ	æ	ö
The Legend of Zelda

***The Legend of Zelda*** ("The Leegend o Zelda") is a weel likit group o video gemmes. It haes a laddie named Link that whiles haes tae sauf Princess Zelda frae a gadgie cried Ganon. The gemmes wis made bi Shigeru Miyamoto, a Japanese body frae Nintendo. The gemmes is a mellin o action, adventur, riddles, an whiles lowpin an racin pairts.

Aw the *Legend of Zelda* gemmes thegither haes selt 50,000,000 gemmes, an is the 6t best-sellin video gemmes e'er. Thare's 14 *Legend of Zelda* gemmes.

## Fremmit airtins
*Zelda Wiki
Everton F.C.

**Everton Fitbaw Club** is a Inglis fitbaw team. Thay wur foondit in 1878. Thay pley thir gemmes at The Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpuil. The Hill Dickinson Stadium haes 52,769 seats.

## History
Everton won thir first League Championship durin the 1890–91 season. Efter winnin fower mair League championships an twa FA Cups, the club haed a post-Secont Warld War lull till a revival in the 1960s. A period o sustained success cam in the mid-1980s, whan Everton won twa mair league championships, wan FA Cup, an the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup. The club's maist recent muckle trophy wis the 1995 FA Cup.

Everton is the club wi the secont-langest continuous presence in Inglis tap-flicht fitbaw, an ranks third in the aw-time pynts rankings.As o August 2025, the club hae competit in the tap division fur a record 123 seasons, haein missed anely fower tap-flicht seasons (1930–31, 1951–52, 1952–53, an 1953–54).

The club's traditional kit are ryal blue sarks wi white shorts an socks. Everton pley at Hill Dickinson Stadium as o the 2025–26 season. Everton haed pleyed at thir previous hame grund Goodison Pairk sin 1892, haein flittit fae thir original hame at Anfield follaein a disagreement wi the laund ainer John Houlding ower thir rent. The club's supporters are colloquially kent as "Evertonians", "Toffees" or "Blues". Everton hae a lang-staundin rivalry wi Liverpuil, wi wha thay contest the Merseyside derby. The club wis ained bi Farhad Moshiri, efter he bocht 49.9% of the club's shares in 2016. In December 2024, American billionaire Dan Friedkin bocht the club.

## Crest an colors
The crest o Everton haes the Everton Lock-Up, a symbol o the Everton district. Everton is eften shortent til "EFC", lettres that the auld crest haed.

## Honours

* **[[Premier League|First Division]] Titles: 9** 
** 1890–91, 1914–15, 1927–28, 1931–32, 1938–39, 1962–63, 1969–70, 1984–85, 1986–87 (9)
* **[[FA Cup]]s: 5**
** 1905–06, 1932–33, 1965–66, 1983–84, 1994–95
* **Chairity Shields: 9**
** 1928, 1932, 1963, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1986 (shared), 1987, 1995
* **[[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|European Cup Winners' Cup]]: 1**
** 1985
* **(Auld) Seicont Diveesion title: 1**
** 1930-31

## Aw time scorers
Tap 10 aw time goal-scorers:

# Dixie Dean - 383
# Graeme Sharp - 159
# Bob Latchford - 138 
# Sandy Young - 125
# Joe Royle - 119
# Dave Hickson - 111
# Roy Vernon - 111
# Edgar Chadwick - 110
# Tony Cottee - 99
# Jimmy Settle - 97

## References

## Ither airtins
* Official club website
* NSNO
* ToffeeBlue
Frisie leids

The **Frisie leids** (Frisie: *Frysk*, Dutch: *Fries*, German: *Friesisch*) are a faimily o leids spak by the Frisie fowk o the province o Friesland in the Netherlands an in northren Germany an aw. The leid is spak by aboot hauf a million fowk. It is a Wast Germanic leid an is sib tae Scots an Inglis. Thare are three kynds o the Frisie leid; Wast-Frisie, Saterland Frisie an Nor' Frisie.

## Kynds o the Frisie leid
### Wast-Frisie

Wast-Frisie is maistly sprak in the province o Friesland (*Fryslân* in Wast-Frisie), in the Netherlands. It is estimatit tae hae 350,000 tae 500,000 fowk speakin it.

### Saterland Frisie
Saterland Frisie is sprak in the state o Lawer Saxony in Germany. It is estimatit tae hae aboot 2,000 fowk speakin it.

### North Frisie
North Frisie is sprak in the state o Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, an haes aboot 10,000 fowk speakin it.

## Preeins
### Compairative sentences
**Saterland Frisie**
*Die Wänt strookede dät Wucht uum ju Keeuwe un oapede hier ap do Sooken.*

**Nor' Frisie**
*Di dreng aide dåt foomen am dåt kan än mäket har aw da siike.*

**Wast Frisie**
*De jonge streake it famke om it kin en tute har op 'e wangen.*

**Dutch**
*De jongen streek het meisje langs haar kin en kuste haar op de wangen.*

**Scots**
*The laddie straikit the lassie aboot the chin an kisst her on the chowk.*

**Inglis**
*The boy stroked the girl around the chin and kissed her on the cheeks.*
Bloc Party

**Bloc Party** is an Inglis indie rock baund frae Essex an East Lunnon. The baund's debut album, *Silent Alarm* wis setten furth in 2005. Their seicont studio album, *A Weekend in the City*, wis released on the 5t o Februar 2007 in the Unitit Kinrick an on the 6t o Februar in the Unitit States.
Great Breetain

**Great Breetain** (spelt **Gret Breetain** or **Gryte Breitaen**; Inglis: *Great Britain*, Scots Gaelic: *Breatainn Mhòr*, Welsh: *Prydain Fawr*, Cornish: *Breten Veur*) is the mukkilest iland o the Breetish Isles, the mukkilest iland in Europe an the echt-mukkilest iland in the warld. It ligs til the nor'wast o Continental Europe, wi Ireland til the wast, an maks up the lairgest pairt o the territorie o the state kent as the Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland. It is surroond'd bi ower ae thousan wee-er ilands.

## Historie

The auldest evidence for archaic humans in Britain are the Happisburgh footprints an’ the stone tools found in Norfolk, datin’ tae aroond 950–850,000 years ago. Before 450,000 years ago, Britain wis part o’ the mainland o’ Europe until catastrophic floodin’ atween then an’ 130,000 years ago created the English Channel an’ turned Britain intae an island durin’ warm interglacial periods like the Last Interglacial/Eemian (130–115,000 years ago), though it still wis connected tae mainland Europe durin’ the glacial periods when sea levels were low. Archaic humans repeatedly occupied Britain before leavin’ the area durin’ cooler periods. Modern humans arrived in Britain aroond 40,000 years ago, as shown by remains found in Kents Cavern in Devon, followin’ the disappearance o’ Neanderthals. Before 9,000 years ago, Britain still had a land link tae the continent, with a stretch o’ mostly low marshland (Doggerland) connectin’ it tae what are noo Denmark an’ the Netherlands. Durin’ the Mesolithic period, Britain wis inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Neolithic farmers, comin’ fae Anatolia, arrived in Britain aroond 4000 BC, replacin’ the pre-existing hunter-gatherers. Aboot 2000 BC, the Bronze Age Bell Beaker Culture arrived in Britain, which genetic evidence suggests wis linked tae anither near complete population replacement. Later, a significant migration tae sooth Britain aroond 1000 BC might have brought the Celtic languages tae the island. Durin’ the Iron Age, Britain wis inhabited by various different Celtic tribes.

The historic kintras o Ingland, Scotland an the principalitie o Wales ar maistlins seetuate on the iland, alang wi thair caipital ceities: Lunnon, Edinburgh an Cairdiff respekivlie.

The iland wis brocht thegither unner ae croun in 1603 bi the Union o the Crouns, an unner ae pairlament in 1707 bi the Treatie o Union. See Kinrick o Great Breetain forby.

## See forby
* Ireland

## References
Video gemme

A **video gemme** is an electronic gemme that involves interaction wi a uiser interface tae generate veesual feedback on a video device sic as a TV screen or computer monitor. The wird *video* in *video gemme* tradeetionally referred tae a raster display device, but as o the 2000s, it implies ony kynd o display device that can produce twa- or three-dimensional eemages. Some theorists categorise video gemmes as an airt form, but this designation is controversial.

The electronic systems uised tae play video gemms are kent as platforms; exemples o these are personal computers an video gemme consoles. Thir platforms range frae muckle mainframe computers tae smaw haundheld computin devices. Specialised video gemmes sic as arcade gemmes, in that the video gemme components are hoosed in a muckle, teepically cunyie-operatit chassis, while common in the 1980s in video arcades, hae gradually declined due tae the widespread availability o affordable hame video gemme consoles (e.g., PlayStation 4, Xbox One an Nintendo Wii U) an video gemmes on desktop an laptap computers an smairtphones.

The input device used for gemmes, the gemme controller, varies across platforms. Common controllers include gemmepads, joysticks, moose devices, keybuirds, the titchscreens o mobile devices, an buttons, or even, wi the Kinect sensor, a person's haunds an bouk. Players teepically view the gemme on a video screen or telly or computer monitor, or whiles on virtual reality heid-moontit display goggles. Thare are eften game soond effects, muisic an, in the 2010s, vyce actor lines that come frae loudspeakers or heidphones. Some gemmes in the 2000s include haptic, vibration-creautin effects, force feedback peripherals an virtual reality heidsets. In the 2010s, the video gemme industry is o increasin commercial importance, wi growthe driven pairteecularly bi the emergin Asie mercats an mobile gemmes, that are played on smairtphones. As o 2015, video gemmes generatit sales o USD 74 billion annually warldwide, an war the third-mucklest segment in the U.S. entertainment mercat, behind broadcast an cable TV.
Stuart Christie

**Stuart Christie** (10 Julie, 1946, Partick, Glesca, Scotland; deed 15 August 2020) wis an anarchist writer. Christie is maist weel-kent for ettlin tae assassinate the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
Ramsey Kanaan

**Ramsey Kanaan** is an anarchist frae Scotland, kent maistly as foonder o the publisher and distreebutor AK Press. He wis involved in actions agin the powe tax as weel as bein a foondin member o the Peter Kropotkin Lonely Hearts Club.
Jacques Chirac

**Jacques René Chirac** (; ; born 29 November 1932; dee'd 26 September 2019) wis a French politeecian that serrt as Preses o Fraunce frae 1995 til 2007. He serrt as Mayor o Paris an as Prime meenister o Fraunce aforehaun as weel.

## Adolescence-schooldays an efter

Born the 29t November 1932 in the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire clinic service (in Paris), Jacques René Chirac (as full name) son o Abel François Chirac (1898 - 1968), bank-employee an administrator in the Aeronautic societie SNCAN an o Marie-Louise Valette (1902 - 1973). Baith come frae Correzian families whilka hae affore probably participatit tae the French Revolution.

Young Jacques Chirac begins studyin in the Primary School o Sainte-Féréole in Correze frae 1940 tae 1943 affore gaun tae Paris, in the lycée (hie-schuil) Carnot an tae the prestidgious hie-schuil Louis-le-Grand. Efter his final exam, obtainit in 1950 in « elementary mathematics » wi mention « guid eneuch », he warks thrie months in a boat, the *Capitaine Saint-Martin*, altho his fither disagreed. In Fraunce again he maks a year o "Scientific Studies".
* He integrates in September 1951, the Poleetical Sciences Institute in Paris. He warks as diffusor o the French Communist Party wi Jean Bourgeois the editor. He sells "l'Humanité" (*Humanity*, French Communist Newspaper). He signs in 1950 the *[[Stockholm]] Ca*', agains nuclear airmin, o communist an humanist inspiration. Efter that he gangs study in the Unitit States he is diplomit o the "Summer school" (Simmer Schuil) o Harvard in 1952, an taks a year o chamage tae diskiver Americae.
Abkhazie

**Abkhazia** IPA: /æbˈkeɪʒə/ or /æbˈkɑziə/ (Abkhaz: *Аҧсны Apsny*, Georgie: *აფხაზეთი Apkhazeti*, or *Abkhazeti*, Roushie: *Абха́зия Abhazia*) is a "de facto" independent republic situate on the east coast o the Black Sea.
Kintra

A **kintra** is a muckle area o laund associatit wi the notions o a poleetical government. It is cried a nation an aw.

## See forby
*Leet o kintras
Brechin City F.C.

**Brechin City F.C.** are a fitbaw team that plays in the Bell's seicont diveesion. Thay play thair hame gemmes at Glebe Pairk in Brechin.

## References
Alaska

**Alaska** (IPA: [əˈlæskə], Roushie: Аляска) or **Alaskie** is a state in the Unitit States o Americae, that is in the northwastern maist pairt o North Americae. It is the mucklest U.S. state an wis bocht frae Roushie. The laund in Alaska is kiverd wi muntains an can git fell cauld. The mucklest ceety in Alaska is Anchorage. The name "Alaska" comes frae the Aleut wird Alyeska, meanin "Laund that isna an island." Alaska haes mair coast nor aw o the tither U.S. states thegither. It is muckler nor aw o the kintras in the warld cep the 18 mucklest anes. The state is neist tae Canadae an the Artic Ocean.

## References
Sky Odyssey

**Sky Odyssey** is a action/adventur flicht video gemme for the Sony PlayStation 2. It wis made by the video gemme makker Cross an wis selt in in the year 2000 an wis ane o the first Playstation gemmes.The gemme's story is a Indiana Jones-like adventur whaur the body playin the game flees a airieplane ettlin tae gaither bits o a cairt. The gemme's muisic made by Kō Ōtani that made the muisic for *[[Shadow of the Colossus]]*.
It is ane o the few video gemmes that ye can flee the Japanese Shinden and Shinden Kai, the airieplane shawn on the game's kistie.
Wii

The **Wii** ( ) is a hame video gemme console released bi Nintendo on 19 November 2006. As a seivent-generation console, the Wii competit wi Microsoft's Xbox 360 an Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that o the twa ithers.  , the Wii leads its generation ower PlayStation 3 an Xbox 360 in warldwide sales, wi mair nor 101&nbsp;million units sauld; in Dizember 2009, the console breuk the sales record for a single month in the Unitit States.

## References
Castle

A **castle** is a muckle biggin that wis biggit tae fend the king or laird an his faimlie that bides thare. Thay war biggit maistly durin the Middle Ages. Thay are fell stark an is aw places the day.

## References
Alexander the Great

**Alexander the Great** (Greek leid: Μέγας Αλέξανδρος) (Julie 20 or 26, 356 BC - Juin 10 323 BC) wis a Auncient Greek king. He wis learnt maist o his skeels in Athens durin his bairnheid. He is kent for his meelitary skeels. He invadit a muckle empire cried Persie, an gaed on tae invade pairts o Central Asie an Indie. He is aft said tae be ane o the greatest military commanders in heestory, alang wi Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Subutai, Napoleon I o Fraunce, an ithers. Bi the time o his daith he had owerhailt maist o the Middle Eastern yird kent tae Europeans, alang wi a muckle pairt o Central Asie that includit Persia, Egypt, an Asie Minor. He dee'd in Babylon in 323 BC.
Gloamin

**Gloamin** is the tid o day whan it is nae fell daurk thareoot, but the sun is nae up. This stairts whan the Yird fare frae day tae nicht. The sky leuks the lit oranger while in Gloamin. 

## References
Liverpool F.C.

**Liverpool Football Club** is a professional fitbaw club based in Liverpuil, Ingland. The club pleys in the Premier League, the tap tier o Inglis fitbaw. Foondit in 1892, the club jyned the Football League the follaein yeir an haes pleyed its hame gemmes at Anfield iver sin. Liverpool is wan o the maist widely supportit clubs athort the warld.

## Honours

### Domestic

;League
**[[Premier League|First Division/Premier League]]:** 20 
* 1900-01, 1905-06, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1946-47, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1989-90, 2019-20, 2024-25

**Lancashire League** 
* 1892-93
 
**Division Twa** (Level 2) 
* 1893-94, 1895-96, 1904-05, 1961-62

;Cups
**[[FA Cup|FA Cups]]**: 8 
* 1964–65, 1973–74, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2021–22
**League Cups**: 8 
* 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1994–95, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2011–12, 2021–22, 2023–24
**Community Shields**: 16 
* 1964*, 1965*, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977*, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986*, 1988, 1989, 1990*, 2001, 2006, 2022 
### Europe
**[[UEFA Champions League|European Cups/Champions Leagues]]**: 6
* 1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1983–84, 2004–05, 2018–19
**[[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cups]]**: 3 
* 1972–73, 1975–76, 2000–01
**[[UEFA Super Cup|UEFA Super Cups]]**: 4 
* 1977, 2001, 2005, 2019
FIFA Club Warld Cup: 1
* 2019

## References
Premier League

The **Premier League** is a fitbaa league in Ingland an is the heichmaist league in the Inglis fitbaa league seestem. It is made up o twinty teams, three o which are exchanged wi the English Football League (EFL) at the end o each saison in a seestem o promotion an relegation.

## Clubs
Twinty clubs are competin in the 2025–26 season – tap seventeen fae the previous saison an three promoted fae the Championship.

*Leicester City, Ipswich Town anSouthampton were relegatit tae the EFL Championship for the 2025–26 season, whilst Leeds United, Burnley, an Sunderland, as winners, runners-up an pley-aff final winners, respectively, were promotit fae the 2024–25 season.
*Ainly twa clubs hae remained in the Premier League syne thair first promotion: Brentford and Brighton & Hove Albion, wha hiv been in 5 an 9 saison(s) (oot o 34), respectively.
Nick Griffin

**Nicholas John Griffin** (born 1 Mairch 1959) is the umwhile leader o the Breetish Naitional Pairty, a faur-richt naitionalist pairty in the Unitit Kinrick.
Cat

The **domestic cat** (***Felis catus*** or ***Felis silvestris catus***), elsewyes cried a ket or bawdrin, is a smaw, typically furry, domesticatit, an carnivorous mammal. Thay are aft cried **hoose cats** whan keppit as indoor pets or semply **cats** whan thare is nae need tae distinguish thaim frae ither felids an felines. Cats is aft valued bi humans fur companionship an thair huntin skills on vermin.

Cats are seemilar in anatomy tae the ither felids, wi strang, flexible bodies, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws, an teeth adaptit tae killin smaw prey. Cat senses fit a crepuscular an predatory ecological niche. Cats can hear soonds owerly faint or owerly heich in frequency for human lugs, sic as thon makit bi mice an ither smaw ainimals. Thay can see in near daurkness. Lik maist ither mammals, cats hae puirer colour veesion an a better sense o smell nor humans.

Despite bein solitar hunters, cats are a social species an cat communication includes the uise o a variety o vocalisations (mewin, purrin, trillin, hissin, growlin, an gruntin), as well as cat pheromones an teeps o cat-speceefic body leid.

Cats hae a heich breedin rate. Unner controlled breedin, thay can be bred an shawn as registered pedigree pets, a hobby kent as cat fancy. Failyie tae control the breedin o pet cats bi neuterin an the abandonment o umwhile hoosehauld pets haes resultit in lairge nummers o feral cats warldwide, requirin population control. This haes contreibutit, alang wi habitat destruction an ither factors, tae extinction o mony bird species. Cats hae been kent tae extirpate a bird species within a speceefic region an mey hae contreibutit tae extinction o isolatit island populations. Cats are thocht tae be primarily, thou nae solely, responsible for the extinction o 33 species o birds, an the presence o feral an free rangin cats maks some locations unsuitable for attemptit species reestablishment in itherwise suitable locations.

Syne cats war veneratit in auncient Egyp, thay war commonly believed tae hae been domesticatit thare, but thare mey hae been instances o domestication as early as the Neolithic frae aroond 9,500 year ago (7,500 BC). A genetic study in 2007 concludit that domestic cats are descendit frae African wildcats (*Felis silvestris lybica*), havin diverged aroond 8,000 BC in Wast Asie. Cats are the maist popular pet in the warld, an are nou foond in awmaist every place whaur humans live.

Thare are mair nor 70 cat breeds aroond the warld. Different associations proclaim different nummers accordin tae thair staundarts. The Internaitional Progressive Cat Breeders Alliance (IPCBA) recognises 73 cat breeds while TICA (The Internaitional Cat Association) recognises 58, CFA (The Cat Fanciers' Association) recognises 44 an  Federation Internaitional Feline (FIFE) recognises 43 cat breeds.

## References

## See an aa
* Wildcat
Kelpie

The **kelpie** is a supernaitural shape-shiftin watter horse frae Celtic fowklair that's thocht tae haunt the rivers an lochs o Scotland an Ireland. In Orkney, a sib beastie wis cried the *Nuggle*, an in Shetland a sib beastie wis cried the *Shoopiltee*. Ye'll find it in Scandinavie fowklair an aw. In Swaden it's kent bi the name **[[Nix#Bäckahästen|Bäckahästen]]**, the *burnie horse*. In Norrowey it's cried nøkken, whaur it aft uises the horse shape, but is no it's true shape.

## Historie an Mythologie

In Scots fowklair, a kelpie wad wyle fowk ontil its rig an then douk intil a deep loch tae cantriplie saunt.  A kelpie's helter cuid wark cantrips gin it wis stealt. On the ither haund, a human helter on a kelpie cuid garr it tae wark fir a body.

In Scandinavie, the *burnie horse* wis a transformation o the Nix, a watter speerit in the shape o a man. It wis aft descrievit as a muckle white horse that wad kythe near watter, parteecular in roukie wather. Onybody wha climmit ontil its rig widnae be able to get aff agin.  The horse wad lowp intil the river, drounin the rider. The burnie horse cuid be harnisht an gart tae pleuch an aw, aither acause it wis ettlin tae geg a bodie or acause the body had geggit the horse tae dae it.
Whiles, the kelpie had the shape o a rochle hairie man wha wid champ an smush traivelers, bit it maistlies teuk the shape o a bonnie tame horse staunin bi a burn. Gin onybody muntit it, it wad chairge intil the deepest pairt o the watter, doukin an takkin the rider wi it. They wad whiles interbreed wi normal horse, an the bairns were thocht ta be guid fast horse. The kelpie wis aye thocht tae spae o  storms bi wailin an yowlin. Whiles, kelpies cuid be freenly. The folktale *The Kelpie's Wife* descrieve ane in Loch Garve, Ross-shire, wha hud a human wife. The Jethro Tull sang *Kelpie*, frae the 1988 album *20 Years Of Jethro Tull*, descrieves a youthie wifie temptit awa bi a kelpie. http://www.cupofwonder.com/twenty4.html#Kelpie 

Bi the wey o the Swadish natralist an writer Bengt Sjögren (1980), the modren thocht in loch monsters in, say, Loch Ness, is tae dae wi the auld leegends o kelpies. Sjögren claims that the stories o loch-monsters hae chynged throu historie. Aulder stories aft talk aboot horse-like monsters, bit mair modren stories aft have mair man-keeper, lizard or dinosaur-like-shapes, an Bengt Sjögren thinks that the leegends o kelpies chynged intil the modren leegends o loch-monsters whaur the monsters "chynged the appearance" tae a mair "real" an "modren" form syne the findin o dinosaurs an muckle watter-reptiles frae the horse-like watter-kelpie tae a dinosaur-like reptile, aft a plesiosaur.

## References

* Sjögren, Bengt, *Berömda vidunder*, Settern, 1980, ISBN 91-7586-023-6

## Fremmit Airtins
*Kelpie 
*Portal of Transformation: Kelpie 
*Kelpie (Mysteriousbritain.co.uk)
Stockholm

**Stockholm** is the caipital o Swaden an constitutes the maist populatit urban area in Scandinavie.  Stockholm is the maist muckle ceety in Swaden, wi a population o 851,155 in the municipality (2010), 1.37 million in the urban area (2010), an aroond 2.1 million in the 6,519 km2 (2,517.00 sq mi)  metropolitan area (2010). As o 2010, the Stockholm metropolitan area is hame tae approximately 22% o Swaden's population.

Foondit no later than circa 1250, possibly as early as 1187, Stockholm haes lang been ane o Swaden's cultural, media, poleetical, an economic centres. Its strategic location on 14 islands on the sooth-central east coast o Swaden at the mooth o Lake Mälaren, bi the Stockholm airchipelago, haes been historically important. Stockholm haes been nominatit bi GaWC as a global ceety, wi a rankin o Alpha-. In The 2008 Global Cities Index, Stockholm rankt 24t in the warld, 10t in Europe, an first in Scandinavie. Stockholm is kent for its beauty, its biggins an airchitectur, its abundant clean an open watter, an its mony pairks. It is whiles referred tae as *Venice o the North*.

Stockholm is the steid o the naitional Swadish govrenment, the Riksdag (parliament), an the offeecial residence o the Swadish monarch as well as the prime meenister. Syne 1980, the monarch haes residit at Drottningholm Palace ootside o Stockholm an uises the Ryal Palace o Stockholm as his wirkplace an offeecial residence.

## References
Budapest

**Budapest** (, an aa , ; ; names in ither leids) is the caipital o Hungary.  As the lairgest ceety o Hungary, it serves as the kintra's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, an transportation centre. In 2010, Budapest haed 1,721,556 indwallers, doun frae its 1980 peak of 2.06 million. The Budapest Commuter Aurie is hame tae 3,271,110 fowk. The ceety covers an aurie o 525 square kilometres (202.7 sq mi) athin the ceety limits. Budapest became a single ceety occupyin baith banks of the river Danube wi a unification on 17 November 1873 o richt (wast)-bank Buda an Óbuda wi left (east)-bank Pest.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Budapest is twinned wi:

Some o the ceety's destricts are an aa twinned tae smaw ceeties or destricts o ither big ceeties, for details see the airticle
Leet o deestricts an touns in Budapest.

### Pairtnerships

*  **[[Kraków]]**, Poland 

## References
Chelsea F.C.

**Chelsea Fitbaa Club** () is a Inglis profeesional fitbaw club based in wast Lunnon. Foondit in 1905, they play in the Premier League an hae spent maist o their history in the top tier o Inglis fitbaw. Chelsea hae been Inglis champions fower times, FA Cup winners sax times an League Cup winners fower times. They hae an aa been successful in Europe, winnin the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup twice.

The club haed their first major success in 1955, whan they wan the league championship. Chelsea wan several cup competitions during the 1960s an 1970s but, efter that, didnae win anither major title till 1997. The past decade haes been the maist successful period in Chelsea’s history, cappit bi winnin Premier League titles in 2005, 2006 an 2010, an reakin their first UEFA Champions League final in 2008.

In maugre o their name, the club arnae based in Chelsea, but in neibourin Fulham. The club's hame is the 41,841 capacity Stamford Bridge fitbaw stadium in Fulham, whaur they hae played syne their establishment. In 2003, they wur bovht bi Roushie ile magnate Roman Abramovich. I 2022 Abramovich selt the club tae American businessmans Todd Boehly, Mark Walter an Swiss buisnessman Hansjörg Wyss.

Chelsea's regular kit colours is ryal blae sarks an shorts wi white socks, the combination uised syne the 1960s. The club crest haes been chynged several times in a mynt tae modernise or rebrand; the crest thay hae thir days, featurin a ceremonial lion haudin a staff, is a modified version o ane first adoptit in the 1950s. The club haes sustained the fift heichmaist average aw-time attendance in Inglis fitbaw. Their average hame gate for the 2009-10 season wis 41,423, the fift heichmaist in the Premier League.

## Honours

### Domestic

#### Leagues
* **[[Fitbaa League First Division|First Division]]/[[Premier League]]**
: **Winners (4):**  1954–55, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2009–10
* **Second Division**
: **Winners (2):**  1983–84, 1988–89

#### Cups
* **[[FA Cup]]**
: **Winners (7):**  1969–70, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12
* **[[Football League Cup]]**
: **Winners (4):**  1964–65, 1997–98, 2004–05, 2006–07
* **[[FA Community Shield]]**
: **Winners (4):**  1955, 2000, 2005, 2009
* **[[Full Members Cup]]**
: **Winners (2):**  1985–86, 1989–90

### European
* **[[UEFA Champions League]]**
: **Winners (1):**  2011–12
* **[[UEFA Europa League]]**
: **Winners (1):**  2012–13
* **[[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]]**
: **Winners (2):**  1970–71, 1997–98
* **[[UEFA Super Cup]]**
: **Winners (1):**  1998

### Doubles
*1997–98: League Cup an European Cup Winners Cup
*2004-05: League an League Cup 
*2006–07: FA Cup an League Cup
*2009-10: League an FA Cup 
*2011-12: FA Cup an UEFA Champions League

## Players

### First team squad

 

 

## Notes


## References
Kyiv

**Kyiv** () or **Kiev**, is the caipital an the lairgest ceety o Ukraine, locatit in the north central pairt o the kintra on the Dnieper River.

Kyiv is an important industrial, scienteefic, educational an cultural centre o Eastren Europe. It is hame tae mony hie-tech industries, heichher education institutions an warld-famous historical laundmerks. The ceety haes an extensive infrastructure an heichlie developed seestem o public transport, includin the Kiev Metro. Kyiv wis clessifee'd as a Beta global ceety as o 2004.

The name Kyiv is said tae derive frae the name o Kyi, ane o fower legendary foonders o the ceety (brithers Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv, an sister Lybid). Durin its history, Kyiv, ane o the auldest ceeties in Eastren Europe, passed throu several stages o great prominence an relative obscurity. The ceety mey hae been foondit in the 5t century as a tradin post, aiblins pairt o the land o the early Slavs. It gradually acquired eminence as the centre o the East Slavic civilization, becomin in the tent tae twalt centuries a poleetical an cultural caipital o Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Completely destroyed durin the Mongol invasion in 1240, the ceety lost maist o its influence for the centuries tae come. It wis a provincial caipital o marginal importance in the ootskirts o the territories controlled bi its pouerful neighbours; first the Grand Duchy o Lithuanie, follaed bi Poland an Roushie.

The ceety prospered again durin the Roushie Empire's industrial revolution in the late 19t century. Efter the turbulent period follaein the Roushie Revolution o 1917, frae 1921 onwards Kyiv wis an important ceety o the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, an, frae 1934, its caipital. Durin Warld War II, the ceety again suffered significant damage, but quickly recovered in the post-war years remainin the third lairgest ceety o the Soviet Union. Follaein the collapse o the Soviet Union an the Ukrainian unthirldom o 1991, Kyiv remained the caipital o Ukraine.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Kyiv is twinned wi:

## Honour

Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica is named efter the ceety o Kiev.

## Gallery

Image:Ukraine Kiev StMichael.jpg|St. Michael's Kirk
Image:Kiev Golden Gate.jpg|Gowden Yett
Image:Kiew Hoehlenkloster Turm.jpg|Pechersk Lavra
Image:Kiew Höhlenkloster Eingang.jpg|Pechersk Lavra


## References
Warsaw

**Warsaw** (Pols: *Warszawa*) haes been the caipital ceity o Poland syne 1596 an is its biggest ceity. 
It is in the central pairt o Poland, an is the hame o the Polish Pairlament. Aboot 1,700,000 fowk bides in Warsaw.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns - Sister ceeties
Warsaw is twinned wi:

References - ceety's offeecial site

## References
Prague

**Prague** is the caipital an the muckle maist ceity o Czechie.

## Internaitional relations
### Twin towns and sister cities
The ceety haes a friendship agreement an is twinned wi:

## Galery

Prag-4010-Altstadt-Karlsbruecke-vom Petřín-Aussichtsturm-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-6370-Kleinseiter Brueckenturm-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-6430-Kleinseitner Ring-Bogengang-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-3200-Strassenbahn 8038-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-3270-Veitsdom-Westfassade-Portal-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-3350-Veitsdom-Johannes von Nepomuk-Grab-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-3500-Toscana-Palast-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-4660-Altstaedter Ring vom Rathausturm-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-4460-Altstaedter Ring-Rathaus-2008-gje.jpg
Prag-7530-Nacht-Teynkirche-2008-gje.jpg


## References
Madrid

**Madrid** (pronoonced: “mah-DRID” or /məˈdrɪd/) is the caipital an mucklest ceety o Spain. The caipital uised tae be Valladolid till 1561.

Madrid is in the middle o Spain, in the Commonty o Madrid. This commonty is a muckle area whilk includes the ceety as weel as smaw touns an veelages ootwi the ceety. 7 million fowk stay in the commonty. Mair nor 3 million stay in the ceety itself. At 655 m (2,100&nbsp;ft) abuin sea level, it is the heichest caipital o ony European kintra. It haes twa fitbaa teams cried Real Madrid an Atlético Madrid.

Madrid wis ruled bi the Romans frae the 2nt hunderyear. Efter 711AD, it wis ringit bi the Moors. Fae 1083, Catholic keengs ruled the aurie again. Bi the mid-16t hunderyear it haed acome the caipital o a vera muckle empire. Spain wis ruled bi monarchs frae the Hoose o Habsburg, then the Hoose o Bourbon. Efter the Spaingie Ceevil War, it wis ruled bi a dictator (Francisco Franco) til the mid-1970s whan it became a democracy.

As it is the caipital ceety, Madrid is whaur the monarch lives an whaur the govrenment meets an aw.

Madrid is the financial centre o Spain. Mony muckle businesses hae thair main offices thare.

Tho it is a modren ceety, a fair wheen o its history can be seen an felt as a bodie walks alang the streets an in the muckle squares o the ceety. Thare bonnie pairks, famous biggins, airt galleries an concert haws. The simmer months is vera het an the winter months is vera cauld.

## Internaitional relations

### Pairtner ceeties
*  Paris, Fraunce
*  Roum, Italy
*  Copenhagen, Denmark,
*  Bangkok, Thailand
*  Beijing, Cheenae *(since 1985)*
*  Berlin, Germany
*  Brussels, Belgium
*  Islamabad, Pakistan
*  Bordeaux, Fraunce
*  Buenos Aires, Argentinae
*  Lisbon, Portugal
*  Rabat, Morocco
*  Moscow, Roushie
*  New York Ceety, US
*  Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick
*  Manila, Philippines
*  Nouakchott, Mauritanie
*  Prague, Czech Republic
*  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*  Sarajevo, Bosnie an Herzegovinae
*  Sofia, Bulgarie
*  Tripoli, Libie
*  Warsaw, Poland

## References
Washington, D.C.

**Washington, D.C.** (), formally the **Destrict o Columbie** an commonly referrt tae as **Washington**, or **The Destrict**, or simply **D.C.**, is the caipital o the Unitit States o Americae, foondit on Julie 16, 1790. Article Ane o the Unitit States Constitution provides for a federal destrict, clear frae the states, tae serve as the permanent naitional caipital. The Ceety o Washington wis oreeginally a separate municipality wi'in the federal territory till an act o Congress in 1871 establisht a single, unifeed municipal govrenment for the hale Destrict. It is for this raison that the ceety, while legally namit the Destrict o Columbie, is kent as Washington, D.C. Namit in honour o George Washington, the ceety skares its name wi the American state o Washington locatit on the kintra's Paceefic coast.

The Destrict is locatit on the north bank o the Potomac River an is surroondit bi the states o Virginia tae the soothwast an Maryland tae the ither sides. The ceety haes a resident population o 599,657; acause o commuters frae the surroondin suburbs, its population rises tae ower ane&nbsp;million durin the wirkweek. The Washington Metropolitan Aurie, o whilk the Destrict is a pairt, haes a population o 5.4&nbsp;million, the aicht-lairgest metropolitan aurie in the kintra.

The centres o aw three brainches o the federal govrenment o the Unitit States are locatit in the Destrict, as are mony o the naition's moniments an museums. Washington, D.C. is hame tae 174 foreign embassies as weel as the heidquarters o the Warld Bank, the Internaitional Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation o American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank, an the Pan American Healt Organisation (PAHO). The heidquarters o ither institutions sic as tred unions, lobbyin groups, an perfaisional associes are locatit in the Destrict forby.

Washington, D.C., is govrenit bi a mayor an a 13-memmer ceety cooncil. Housomiver, the Unitit States Congress haes supreme authority ower the ceety an mey owerturn local laws. Residents o the Destrict tharefore hae less sel-govrenance than residents o the states. The Destrict haes a nane-votin, at-muckle Congressional delegate, but nae senators. D.C. residents coud no vote in presidential elections till the ratification o the Twintie-third Amendment tae the Unitit States Constitution in 1961.

## Sister ceeties
Washington, D.C. haes ten offeecial sister ceety greements. Paris is a "Pairtner Ceety" due tae the ane Sister Ceety policy o that commune.



## Notes

## Freemit airtins

* 
* Guide tae Washington, D.C., materials frae the Library of Congress
*  frae Wikivoyage
*