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| Saskatchewan is a prairie province of Canada. Population is about 1 million. Capital city is Regina. Largest city is Saskatoon. The official language is English. It is the worlds most important supplier of uranium. Named for the river of the same name which is Cree (Native American) for "swift flowing river". | Amarillo is the 14th largest city in the state of Texas with about 185,000 people. It is the home of Pantex, the only nuclear weapon assembly & disassembly site in the U.S.A. Named for Amarillo Lake & Amarillo Creek which had yellow soil along their banks. Amarillo is the Spanish word for yellow. (pronounced Ah-mah-REE-yoh in Spanish) |
| Mexico City or Mexico D.F. is the capital of Mexico. (D.F. stands for distrito federal or federal district) The language is Spanish. The metropolitan area (a megalopolis) has a population nearing 20 million - only Tokyo and New York are larger. It was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan , the capital of the Aztec Empire. Southeast of the city is Popocatepetl (Aztec for smoking mountain), the second highest volcano in North America.(5400 meters high) | Lompoc, California (pronounced "Lom-Poke") is located on the famous Pacific Coast Highway, 155 miles NW of Los Angeles, 9 miles from the Pacific Ocean. City population is about 45K but the county is near 1/2 million. Nearby is Vandenburg Air Force Base, home of the Air Force Space Command. For many years Lompoc was known as the flower seed capital of the world and recently has become home for many wineries. |
| Tijuana is a Mexico - U.S.A. border city; south of San Diego metropolitan area (U.S.A.) it is near the San Ysidro border crossing which is the busiest international border crossing in the world and it is sometimes called the corner of Mexico. It is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California. Tijuana is a favorite place for foreign companies to build factories and it is a popular beach, shopping and medical tourism destination. It's population is over 1.5 million. One story of where it's name came from (myth?) is that the land once belonged to someone's aunt Jane (tia Juana in Spanish). | Seattle is in the USA state of Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canadian border. The city has a population less than 1 million but the metropolitan area has almost 4 million. Often called the "Rainy City", Seattle actually has an average annual rainfall less than most cities on the USA eastern seaboard. But it has an average of 226 cloudy days a year. It is known as the founding city for several famous coffee companies. Seattle is less than 200 miles from Mt Rainier, a 14,000 foot active volcano in the Cascade mountains. |
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