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Mandu, due to its strategic position and natural defences, was an important place with a rich and varied history. It was an important military outpost and its military past can be gauged by the circuit of the battlemented wall, which is nearly 37 km (23 mi) and is punctuated by 12 gateways.
Mandav has an average literacy rate of 32%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 41%, and female literacy is 22%. In Mandav, 20% of the population is under 6 years of age. Mandva is situated in the Vindhyanchal Range at 2,000 feet above sea level.
Machchhu River (Gujarati: મચ્છુ નદી, romanized: Machchhu nadi) is a river in Gujarat, India, with its origin in the Madla hills. Its basin has a maximum length of 130 km (81 mi). The total catchment area of the basin is 2,515 km 2 (971 sq mi). [1]
United States: Denali [au] [av] [aw] 6190.0 m 20,308 ft Badwater Basin [ax] −85.5 m −281 ft: 6276 m 20,591 ft United States Minor Outlying Islands: Unnamed hill on Sand Island (Johnston Atoll) 10 m 33 ft Pacific Ocean: sea level 13 m 43 ft Uruguay: Cerro Catedral: 514 m 1,685 ft South Atlantic Ocean: sea level 514 m 1,685 ft Uzbekistan ...
Shortly before entering the roadstead of Brest, the river Aulne forms a bend around the Île de Térénez then the pointe de Pen Forn near Landévennec, where there is a 10 m (33 ft) depth of water regardless of the tide and with the high surrounding hills blocking the winds and thus keeping the water calm.
A topographic map of the Republic, excluding all the overseas departments and territories Simplified physical map. The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and the west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the country's highest points being in the Alps).
The Rance Tidal Power Station is a tidal power station located on the estuary of the Rance River in Brittany, France. [1]Opened in 1966 as the world's first tidal power station, [2] the 240-megawatt (MW) facility was the largest such power station in the world by installed capacity for 45 years until the 254-MW South Korean Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station surpassed it in 2011.
The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban (the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution), and is a large elegant 18th century mansion, built of pink bricks and white stone, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style combining northern and southern French styles of architecture.