Chambers World Gazetteer


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"Chambers World Gazetteer is the standard international directory of places in the world. It contains 20, 000 entries and is replete with detailed statistical information - on location, population, topography, history, economic activity, key dates in the calendar. The content is arranged alphabetically and includes 150 line maps plus a 120 page full-colour atlas. There is even a guide to pronunciation of place names."--Page 2 of cover.






















Chambers's Concise Gazetteer of the World


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Excerpt from Chambers's Concise Gazetteer of the World: Topographical, Statistical Historical, Pronouncing Aar (ahr), next to the Rhine and Rhone the largest river in Switzerland, rises in the Bernese Oberland, flows through Lakes Brienz and Thun, and passing Interlaken, Thun, Berne, Soleure, and Aarau, joins the Rhine above Waldshut after a course of nearly 200 miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.