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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿wɛ̃ syʁ sɛn] ⓘ; literally "Saint-Ouen on Seine ") is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France, located 6.6 kilometres (4.1 miles) from the centre of Paris.
1 day ago · Andorra is a parliamentary co-principality with the bishop of Urgell and the president of France as co-princes. This peculiarity makes the president of France, in his capacity as prince of Andorra, an elected monarch, although he is not elected by a popular vote of the Andorran people.
1 day ago · Malta and its demonym Maltese are attested in English from the late 16th century. [48] The Greek name appears in the Book of Acts in the Bible 's New Testament . [ 49 ] English translations including the 1611 King James Version long used the Vulgate Latin form Melita , although William Tyndale 's 1525 translation from Greek sources used the transliteration Melite instead.
1 day ago · Denmark has flat, arable land, sandy coasts, low elevations, and a temperate climate. Denmark exercises hegemonic influence in the Danish Realm, devolving powers to handle internal affairs. Home rule was established in the Faroe Islands in 1948 and in Greenland in 1979; the latter obtained further autonomy in 2009.
1 day ago · Essex (/ ˈɛsɪks / ESS-iks) is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west. The largest settlement is Southend-on-Sea ...
1 day ago · The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission.
5 hours ago · The Holocaustwas the genocideof European Jewsduring World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germanyand its collaboratorssystematically murdered some six million Jewsacross German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootingsand poison gas in extermination camps ...
