Flags of the World | United Arab Emirates

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The flag of the United Arab Emirates contains the Pan-Arab colors red, green, white, and black. the flag was adopted on December 2, 1971.

Flags of the World | Anguilla

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Being a British overseas territory, the national flag of Anguilla shows a small British flag. Together with the coat of arms of Anguilla.

The coat of arms consists of three dolphins in a circular formation, which were featured on the earlier Anguillan flag, and which stand for friendship, wisdom and strength.

The Guggenheim | USA

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is located in Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The property consists of eight buildings in the United States designed by the architect during the first half of the 20th century. These include Fallingwater (Mill Run, Pennsylvania), the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House (Madison, Wisconsin) and the Guggenheim Museum (New York).

Pacific island country of Vanuatu

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Vanuatu is a Pacific island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is located in the middle of northern Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji.

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Baeza and Úbeda | Spain

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Baeza is an Andalusian town in the province of Jaén in southern Spain. Together with neighbouring Úbeda, both cities are fine examples of all the grandeur of the Renaissance in Andalusia in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Chan Chan Archaeological Zone | Peru

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The Chimu Kingdom, with Chan Chan as its capital, reached its apogee in the 15th century, not long before falling to the Incas. The Chimú civilization was considered to be one of the most prosperous cultures and largest empires in the history of the Andes.

The ruins of Chan Chan, which cover nearly 14 square miles, are in fairly good condition because the area is usually rainless. The building material used was adobe brick, and the buildings were finished with mud frequently adorned with patterned relief arabesques.

Chan Chan Archaeological Zone is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Asunción, capital of Paraguay

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Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay. The city is located on the left bank of the Paraguay River. Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America, its origins dating back to 1537.

Sambor Prei Kuk | Cambodia

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The archaeological site of Sambor Prei Kuk comprises more than a hundred temples. Sambor (many) Prei (forest) Kuk (temples) means, ‘many temples inside the forest’.

Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Flags of the World | Niger

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The flag of Niger was adopted 23 November 1959, a year pior to its formal independance from France.

Rialto Bridge - Venice | Italy

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The arched Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice. It has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in the 12th century, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.

Venice and its Lagoon is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Struve Geodetic Arc | Lithuania

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The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km. This helped to calculate the exact size and shape of the planet and marked an important step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping.

Struve Geodetic Arc is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Historic Cairo | Egypt

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The Citadel of Salah ad-Din is a medieval Islamic-era fortification in Cairo, Egypt. It was the seat of government in Egypt and the residence of its rulers for nearly 700 years from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

The Mosque of Ibn Tulun is located in Cairo, Egypt. Completed in 879, it is the oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area.

Historic Cairo is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Both the citadel area and the Mosque of Ibn Tulun are part of this site.

Holy Island Northumberland | United Kingdom

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The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England. It is located in the part of England called Northumbria, once a medieval Anglian kingdom.

The island is home to a population of less than 200 and is connected to the mainland by a causeway that is cut off twice a day by the tides. Lindisfarne Castle is a 16th-century castle located on Holy Island, sited atop the volcanic mound known as Beblowe Craig.

Tambo island | Spain

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Pontevedra is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.

Tambo island is an uninhabited island located in the middle of the Pontevedra estuary. With a size of only 0,28 square kilometers it is very small island. Its highest peak is 80 meters. 

Querétaro Aqueduct | Mexico

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The 75-arched stone aqueduct of Santiago de Querétaro, which crosses over the Pan-American Highway at one point, supplied the city with drinking water well into the 20th century. To this day it still supplies water to the fountains scattered about Querétaro's old city.

Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 

Island of Saint-Louis | Senegal

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Founded as a French colonial settlement in the 17th century, Saint-Louis was urbanised in the mid-19th century. It was the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957 and played an important cultural and economic role in the whole of West Africa.

At the bottom of the card you see Faidherbe Bridge over the Sénégal River, connecting the island of Saint-Louis to the African mainland.

Island of Saint-Louis is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Stevns Klint | Denmark

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Stevns Klint is a white chalk cliff located on the Danish island of Zealand. This geological site comprises a 15 km-long fossil-rich coastal cliff, offering exceptional evidence of the impact of the Chicxulub meteorite that crashed into the planet at the end of the Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago.

Researchers think that this caused the most remarkable mass extinction ever, responsible for the disappearance of over 50 per cent of all life on Earth. The site harbours a record of the cloud of ash formed by the impact of the meteorite.

Stevns Klint is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Baikonur Cosmodrome | Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan isn't known for its space program. So why does the country have a large space facility known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome?

For most of its existence, the Kazakh cosmodrome was a secret site whose location was unknown in the West. It was built at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, when Russia was part of the Soviet Union and the Space Age was just starting.

But with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, everything changed. Today, the Russians lease the Baikonur Cosmodrome from Kazakhstan. To support Russia while benefiting from its space station, NASA agreed to a shuttle-Mir program, which paid Russia to host American astronauts on the Mir space station.

District of Albayzin in Granada | Spain

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The Albaicín or Albayzín as it was known under Muslim rule, is a district of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

It retains the narrow winding streets of its Medieval Moorish past dating back to the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.

Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Pitsunda Cathedral | Abkhazia

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The Pitsunda Cathedral is a Georgian Orthodox Cathedral located in the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia. Pitsunda Cathedral was built at the end of the 10th century by King Bagrat III of Georgia.

Abkhazia is a de facto sovereign state in the South Caucasus on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Its population is around 250,000 and the capital is Sukhumi.

Abkhazia declared independence in 1999 but is not recognized internationally except by a few countries. Abkhazia together with Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia are post-Soviet "frozen conflict" zones.

Palio di Siena | Italy

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The Palio di Siena, known locally simply as Il Palio, is a horse race that is held twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August, in Siena, Italy. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen contrade, or city wards.

The race itself, in which the jockeys ride bareback, circles the Piazza del Campo, on which a thick layer of earth has been laid. The race is run for three laps of the piazza and usually lasts no more than 90 seconds.

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Cascata delle Marmore | Italy

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Marmore Falls is a man-made waterfall created by the ancient Romans. Its total height is 165 m (541 feet), making it the tallest man-made waterfall in the world.

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Old Man of Storr - Isle of Skye | United Kingdom

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The Island of Skye, located off the west coast of Scotland is 50 miles long and the largest of the Inner Hebrides.

The Inner Hebrides comprise 35 inhabited islands as well as 44 uninhabited islands with an area greater than 30 hectares (74 acres). Skye, Islay and Mull are the three largest islands, and also have the highest populations.

The ‘Old Man’ is a large pinnacle of rock that stands high and can be seen for miles around.

The archaeological zone of Paquimé | Mexico

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The archaeological zone of Paquimé is located in the Municipality of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Madre. It is estimated to contain the remains of some 2,000 rooms in clusters of living rooms, workshops and stores, with patios. The predominant building material is unfired clay (adobe).

It is the largest archaeological zone that represents the peoples and cultures of the Chihuahua Desert. Its development took place in the years 700-1475 and it reached its apogee in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage | Indonesia

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The Nurul Islam Great Mosque or also known as Sawahlunto Great Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Indonesia. The mosque was built in 1894, during the Dutch colonial period and it was originally a steam power plant for the Ombilin Coal Mine. Its chimney was later used as a minaret.

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto is a UNESCO World Heritage site.