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Important note: Since this list is full, it is important that you discuss any changes (adds or deletes) on the discussion for this list first. If you add an entry at this point, it will be necessary to justify deleting something else.

There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active and others quite stagnant. This list is intended as a guideline for those projects so that they will contain a minimum amount of basic, useful information. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth. The articles should contain at least basic information on the topics they describe, thus providing a starting point for growth besides being a useful reference for the readers.

In addition to simply listing the articles, this project hopes to eventually create easily translatable versions of these articles, possibly containing core information at simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have. Until then, links to the largest Wikipedia, the English language version, are provided as a translatable resource.

Top-priority entries, which are deemed especially necessary for any Wikipedia to have, are marked in bold; like the list itself, these selections should not be viewed as dictating how important certain topics are, but only as a utility for smaller Wikipedias to start from.

This list is also used to obtain the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles. Articles which are absent from one wikipedia are shown in List of Wikipedias by sample of articles/Absent Articles.

Section Version 1.1 Current Number Target Number
Biography 216 216 TBD
History 40 41 TBD
Geography 148 147 TBD
Society 77 77 TBD
Culture 150 150 TBD
Science 245 245 TBD
Technology 71 71 TBD
Foodstuffs 31 31 TBD
Mathematics 22 22 TBD
Total 1000 1000 1000

Count checked: 18:35, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] How to use this list

There are several different ways to use this list. The first is to translate it into the language of your Wikipedia and see whether you have articles on all of these topics. The topics will eventually all be linked to articles in the Simple English Wikipedia. If you are missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles. You can also check the language links in the English articles for more comprehensive coverage of the topics in many other languages.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Actors, dancers and models

  1. Bernhardt, Sarah
  2. Chaplin, Charlie
  3. Dietrich, Marlene
  4. Monroe, Marilyn

[edit] Artists and architects

  1. Corbusier, Le
  2. Dalí, Salvador
  3. Dürer, Albrecht
  4. Gogh, Vincent van
  5. Goya, Francisco
  6. Hokusai, Katsushika
  7. Kahlo, Frida
  8. Leonardo da Vinci
  9. Matisse, Henri
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Picasso, Pablo
  12. Raphael
  13. Rembrandt
  14. Rubens, Peter Paul
  15. Sinan
  16. Velázquez, Diego
  17. Warhol, Andy
  18. Wright, Frank Lloyd

[edit] Authors, playwrights and poets

  1. Abu Nuwas
  2. Bashō
  3. Borges, Jorge Luis
  4. Byron, George
  5. Cervantes, Miguel de
  6. Chaucer, Geoffrey
  7. Chekhov, Anton
  8. Dante Alighieri
  9. Dickens, Charles
  10. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  11. García Márquez, Gabriel
  12. von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
  13. Hafez
  14. Homer
  15. Hugo, Victor
  16. Joyce, James
  17. Kafka, Franz
  18. Kālidāsa
  19. Li Bai
  20. Mahfouz, Naguib
  21. Molière
  22. Nabokov, Vladimir
  23. Ovid
  24. Proust, Marcel
  25. Pushkin, Alexander
  26. Shakespeare, William
  27. Sophocles
  28. Tagore, Rabindranath
  29. Tolstoy, Leo
  30. Twain, Mark
  31. Virgil

[edit] Composers and musicians

  1. Armstrong, Louis
  2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
  3. Beatles, The
  4. Beethoven, Ludwig van
  5. Brahms, Johannes
  6. Chopin, Frédéric
  7. Dvořák, Antonín
  8. Handel, Georg Frideric
  9. Mahler, Gustav
  10. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  11. Piaf, Edith
  12. Puccini, Giacomo
  13. Presley, Elvis
  14. Schubert, Franz
  15. Stravinsky, Igor
  16. Tchaikovsky, Petr
  17. Umm Kulthum
  18. Verdi, Giuseppe
  19. Vivaldi, Antonio
  20. Vysotsky, Vladimir
  21. Wagner, Richard

[edit] Explorers and Travelers

  1. Amundsen, Roald
  2. Armstrong, Neil
  3. Cartier, Jacques
  4. Columbus, Christopher
  5. Cook, James
  6. Cortés, Hernán
  7. Gagarin, Yuri
  8. da Gama, Vasco
  9. Ibn Battuta
  10. Magellan, Ferdinand
  11. Polo, Marco
  12. Zheng He

[edit] Film directors and screenwriters

  1. Bergman, Ingmar
  2. Disney, Walt
  3. Eisenstein, Sergei
  4. Fellini, Federico
  5. Hitchcock, Alfred
  6. Kubrick, Stanley
  7. Kurosawa, Akira
  8. Ray, Satyajit
  9. Spielberg, Steven

[edit] Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

  1. Archimedes
  2. Avicenna
  3. Berners-Lee, Tim
  4. Copernicus, Nicolaus
  5. Curie, Marie
  6. Darwin, Charles
  7. Edison, Thomas
  8. Einstein, Albert
  9. Euclid
  10. Euler, Leonhard
  11. Faraday, Michael
  12. Fermi, Enrico
  13. Fibonacci
  14. Ford, Henry
  15. Fourier, Joseph
  16. Galen
  17. Galileo Galilei
  18. Gauss, Carl Friedrich
  19. Gutenberg, Johannes
  20. Joule, James Prescott
  21. Kepler, Johannes
  22. al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa
  23. Leibniz, Gottfried
  24. Linnaeus, Carl
  25. Maxwell, James Clerk
  26. Mendeleev, Dmitri
  27. Newton, Sir Isaac
  28. Pasteur, Louis
  29. Planck, Max
  30. Rutherford, Ernest
  31. Schrödinger, Erwin
  32. Tesla, Nikola
  33. Turing, Alan
  34. Watt, James

[edit] Philosophers and social scientists

  1. Aristotle
  2. Confucius
  3. Beauvoir, Simone de
  4. Chanakya
  5. Chomsky, Noam
  6. Descartes, René
  7. Freud, Sigmund
  8. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
  9. Ibn Khaldun
  10. Kant, Immanuel
  11. Keynes, John Maynard
  12. Laozi
  13. Locke, John
  14. Machiavelli, Niccolò
  15. Marx, Karl
  16. Nietzsche, Friedrich
  17. Plato
  18. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  19. Sartre, Jean-Paul
  20. Sima Qian
  21. Smith, Adam
  22. Socrates
  23. Voltaire
  24. Weber, Max
  25. Wittgenstein, Ludwig
  26. Zhu Xi

[edit] Political leaders

  1. Akbar the Great
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Ashoka the Great
  4. Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
  5. Augustus
  6. Ben-Gurion, David
  7. von Bismarck, Otto
  8. Bolívar, Simón
  9. Bonaparte, Napoleon
  10. Caesar, Julius
  11. Charlemagne
  12. Churchill, Winston
  13. Constantine the Great
  14. Cyrus the Great
  15. de Gaulle, Charles
  16. Elizabeth I of England
  17. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
  18. Genghis Khan
  19. Guevara, Che
  20. Hitler, Adolf
  21. Joan of Arc
  22. King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  23. Lenin, Vladimir
  24. Lincoln, Abraham
  25. Louis XIV
  26. Luxemburg, Rosa
  27. Mandela, Nelson
  28. Mao Zedong
  29. Nehru, Jawaharlal
  30. Nkrumah, Kwame
  31. Peter I of Russia
  32. Qin Shi Huang
  33. Roosevelt, Franklin D.
  34. Saladin
  35. Stalin, Joseph
  36. Suleiman the Magnificent
  37. Sun Yat-Sen
  38. Tamerlane
  39. Umar
  40. Washington, George

[edit] Religious figures and theologians

  1. Abraham
  2. Aquinas, Thomas
  3. Augustine of Hippo
  4. Buddha
  5. al-Ghazali
  6. Jesus
  7. Luther, Martin
  8. Moses
  9. Muhammad
  10. Saint Paul

[edit] Philosophy and psychology

[edit] Philosophy

  1. Beauty
  2. Dialectic
  3. Ethics
  4. Epistemology
  5. Feminism
  6. Free will
  7. Knowledge
  8. Logic
  9. Mind
  10. Philosophy
  11. Reality
  12. Truth

[edit] Psychology

  1. Behavior
  2. Emotion
  3. Love
  4. Psychology
  5. Thought

[edit] Religion

[edit] World view and religion

  1. God
  2. Mythology
  3. Worldview philosophies
    1. Atheism
    2. Fundamentalism
    3. Materialism
    4. Monotheism
    5. Polytheism
  4. Soul
  5. Religion
  6. Specific religions
    1. Buddhism
    2. Christianity
      1. Catholicism
    3. Confucianism
    4. Hinduism
      1. Shiva
    5. Islam
      1. Shia Islam
    6. Jainism
    7. Judaism
    8. Sikhism
    9. Taoism
    10. Zoroastrianism
  7. Spiritual practices
    1. Sufism
    2. Yoga
    3. Zen

[edit] Social sciences

  1. Society
  2. Civilization
  3. Education

[edit] Family and relationships

  1. Family
  2. Child
  3. Man
  4. Marriage
  5. Woman

[edit] Politics

  1. Politics
  2. Anarchism
  3. Colonialism
  4. Communism
  5. Conservatism
  6. Democracy
  7. Dictatorship
  8. Diplomacy
  9. Fascism
  10. Globalization
  11. Government
  12. Ideology
  13. Imperialism
  14. Liberalism
  15. Marxism
  16. Monarchy
  17. Nationalism
  18. Republic
  19. Socialism
  20. Sovereign state
  21. Political party
  22. Propaganda
  23. Terrorism

[edit] Business and economics

  1. Economics
  2. Capital
  3. Capitalism
  4. Currency
    1. Euro
    2. Japanese yen
    3. United States dollar
  5. Industry
  6. Money
  7. Tax

[edit] Law

  1. Law
  2. Constitution

[edit] International organizations

  1. African Union
  2. Arab League
  3. ASEAN
  4. Commonwealth of Independent States
  5. Commonwealth of Nations
  6. European Union
  7. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  8. NATO
  9. Nobel Prize
  10. OPEC
  11. United Nations
    1. International Court of Justice
    2. International Monetary Fund
    3. UNESCO
    4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    5. World Health Organization
  12. World Bank
  13. World Trade Organization

[edit] War and military

  1. Civil war
  2. Military
  3. Peace
  4. War

[edit] Social issues

  1. Abortion
  2. Capital punishment
  3. Human rights
  4. Racism
  5. Slavery

[edit] Language and literature

  1. Language
  2. Specific languages
    1. Arabic
    2. Bengali
    3. Chinese
    4. English
    5. Esperanto
    6. French
    7. German
    8. Greek
    9. Hebrew
    10. Hindi
    11. Japanese
    12. Latin
    13. Persian
    14. Russian
    15. Sanskrit
    16. Spanish
    17. Tamil
    18. Turkish
  3. Linguistics
  4. Grammar
  5. Word
    1. Noun
    2. Verb
  6. Alphabet
    1. Arabic alphabet
    2. Chinese character
    3. Cyrillic alphabet
    4. Greek alphabet
    5. Hangul
    6. Latin alphabet
    7. Letter
  7. Literacy
  8. Writing
  9. Literature
    1. Prose
    2. Fiction
      1. One Thousand and One Nights
    3. Novel
      1. Dream of the Red Chamber
      2. The Tale of Genji
    4. Poetry
      1. Epic of Gilgamesh
      2. Iliad
      3. Mahābhārata
      4. Shāhnāma

[edit] Science

  1. Science
  2. Nature

[edit] Astronomy

  1. Astronomy
  2. Asteroid
  3. Big Bang
  4. Black hole
  5. Comet
  6. Galaxy
    1. Milky Way
  7. Light year
  8. Moon
  9. Planet
    1. Earth
    2. Jupiter
    3. Mars
    4. Mercury
    5. Neptune
    6. Saturn
    7. Uranus
    8. Venus
  10. Solar System
  11. Star
    1. Sun
  12. Universe

[edit] Biology

  1. Biology
  2. Biological materials
    1. DNA
    2. Enzyme
    3. Protein
  3. Botany
  4. Death
    1. Suicide
  5. Ecology
    1. Endangered species
  6. Domestication
  7. Life
  8. Biological classification
    1. Species

[edit] Biological processes

  1. Metabolism
    1. Digestion
    2. Photosynthesis
    3. Respiration (physiology)
  2. Evolution
  3. Reproduction
    1. Pregnancy
    2. Sex

[edit] Anatomy

  1. Anatomy
  2. Cell
  3. Circulatory system
    1. Blood
    2. Heart
  4. Endocrine system
  5. Gastrointestinal tract
    1. Large intestine
    2. Small intestine
    3. Liver
  6. Integumentary system
    1. Breast
    2. Skin
  7. Muscle
  8. Nervous system
    1. Brain
    2. Sensory system
      1. Ear
      2. Nose
      3. Eye
  9. Reproductive system
  10. Respiratory system
    1. Lung
  11. Skeleton

[edit] Health and medicine

  1. Medicine
  2. Addiction
  3. Alzheimer's disease
  4. Cancer
  5. Cholera
  6. Common cold
  7. Dentistry
  8. Disability
    1. Blindness
    2. Hearing impairment
    3. Mental disorder
  9. Disease
  10. Pharmaceutical drug
  11. Ethanol
  12. Nicotine
    1. Tobacco
  13. Health
  14. Headache
  15. Heart attack
  16. Malaria
  17. Malnutrition
  18. Obesity
  19. Pandemic
  20. Antibiotic
    1. Penicillin
  21. Pneumonia
  22. Poliomyelitis
  23. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
  24. Stroke
  25. Tuberculosis
  26. Diabetes mellitus
  27. Virus
    1. Influenza
    2. Smallpox

[edit] Organisms

  1. Organism
  2. Animal
    1. Arthropod
      1. Insect
        1. Ant
        2. Bee
        3. Mosquito
      2. Spider
    2. Chordate
      1. Amphibian
        1. Frog
      2. Bird
        1. Chicken
        2. Pigeons and doves
      3. Fish
        1. Shark
      4. Mammal
        1. Camel
        2. Cat
        3. Cattle
        4. Dog
        5. Elephant
        6. Horse
        7. Domestic sheep
        8. Lion
        9. Domestic pig
        10. Primate
          1. Human
        11. Whales, dolphins and porpoises
      5. Reptile
        1. Dinosaur
        2. Snake
  3. Archaea
  4. Bacteria
  5. Fungus
  6. Plant
    1. Flower
    2. Tree
  7. Protist

[edit] Chemistry

  1. Chemistry
  2. Biochemistry
  3. Chemical compound
    1. Acid
    2. Base (chemistry)
    3. Salt
  4. Chemical element
    1. Periodic table
    2. Aluminium
    3. Carbon
    4. Copper
    5. Gold
    6. Helium
    7. Hydrogen
    8. Iron
    9. Neon
    10. Nitrogen
    11. Oxygen
    12. Silver
    13. Tin
    14. Zinc
  5. Organic chemistry
    1. Alcohol
    2. Carbohydrate
    3. Hormone
    4. Lipid
  6. Molecule

[edit] Weather, climate and geology

  1. Avalanche
  2. Climate
    1. El Niño-Southern Oscillation
    2. Global warming
  3. Earthquake
  4. Geology
    1. Mineral
      1. Diamond
    2. Plate tectonics
    3. Rock
  5. Natural disaster
    1. Tsunami
  6. Volcano
  7. Weather
    1. Cloud
    2. Flood
    3. Rain
      1. Acid rain
      2. Snow
    4. Tornado
    5. Tropical cyclone

[edit] Physics

  1. Physics
  2. Acceleration
  3. Atom
  4. Energy
    1. Conservation of energy
  5. Electromagnetic radiation
    1. Infrared
    2. Ultraviolet
    3. Light
      1. Color
  6. Classical mechanics
  7. Force
    1. Electromagnetism
      1. Magnetic field
    2. Gravitation
  8. Length
  9. Magnet
  10. Mass
  11. Metal
    1. Steel
  12. Nuclear fission
  13. Phase (matter)
    1. Gas
    2. Liquid
    3. Plasma
    4. Solid
  14. Quantum mechanics
  15. Radioactive decay
  16. General relativity
  17. Special relativity
  18. Semiconductor
  19. Sound
  20. Velocity
    1. Speed of light
  21. Time
  22. Thermodynamics

[edit] Measurement and units

  1. Measurement
  2. Joule
  3. Kelvin
  4. Kilogram
  5. Litre
  6. Metre
  7. Newton
  8. International System of Units
  9. Second
  10. Volt
  11. Watt

[edit] Timekeeping

  1. Calendar
    1. Gregorian calendar
  2. Century
  3. Day
  4. Month
  5. Time zone
  6. Week
  7. Year

[edit] Foodstuffs

  1. Food
  2. Bread
  3. Cereal
    1. Barley
    2. Maize
    3. Oat
    4. Rice
    5. Rye
    6. Sorghum
    7. Wheat
  4. Cheese
  5. Chocolate
  6. Honey
  7. Fruit
    1. Apple
    2. Banana
    3. Grape
    4. Soybean
    5. Lemon
    6. Nut (fruit)
  8. Meat
  9. Sugar
  10. Vegetable
    1. Potato

[edit] Beverages

  1. Beer
  2. Coffee
  3. Juice
  4. Milk
  5. Tea
  6. Water
  7. Wine

[edit] Mathematics

  1. Mathematics
  2. Algebra
    1. Group theory
  3. Arithmetic
  4. Axiom
  5. Calculus
  6. Geometry
    1. Circle
      1. Pi
    2. Square
    3. Triangle
  7. Mathematical proof
  8. Number
    1. Complex number
    2. Integer
    3. Natural number
    4. Prime number
    5. Rational number
  9. Infinity
  10. Set theory
  11. Statistics
  12. Trigonometry

[edit] Technology

  1. Technology
  2. Biotechnology
  3. Clothing
    1. Cotton
  4. Engineering
    1. Lever
    2. Pulley
    3. Screw
    4. Wheel
  5. Agriculture
    1. Irrigation
    2. Plough
  6. Metallurgy
  7. Nanotechnology

[edit] Communication

  1. Communication
  2. Book
  3. Information
    1. Encyclopedia
  4. Journalism
    1. Newspaper
    2. Mass media
  5. Printing
  6. Telephone

[edit] Electronics

  1. Electronics
    1. Electric current
    2. Frequency
  2. Components
    1. Capacitor
    2. Inductor
    3. Transistor
    4. Diode
    5. Resistor
    6. Transformer

[edit] Computers and Internet

  1. Computer
    1. Hard disk drive
    2. Central processing unit
    3. Random-access memory
  2. Artificial intelligence
  3. Information technology
    1. Algorithm
  4. Internet
    1. E-mail
    2. World Wide Web
  5. Operating system
  6. Programming language
  7. Computer software

[edit] Energy and fuels

  1. Renewable energy
  2. Electricity
    1. Nuclear power
  3. Fossil fuel
  4. Internal combustion engine
  5. Steam engine
  6. Fire

[edit] Materials

  1. Glass
  2. Paper
  3. Plastic
  4. Wood

[edit] Transportation

  1. Transport
  2. Aircraft
  3. Automobile
  4. Bicycle
  5. Boat
  6. Ship
  7. Train

[edit] Weapons

  1. Weapon
    1. Sword
    2. Firearm
      1. Machine gun
    3. Nuclear weapon
  2. Tank
  3. Explosive material
    1. Gunpowder

[edit] Arts and recreation

  1. Culture
  2. Art
    1. Comics
    2. Painting
    3. Photography
    4. Sculpture
      1. Pottery
  3. Dance
  4. Fashion
  5. Theatre
  6. Calligraphy

[edit] Architecture and civil engineering

  1. Architecture
  2. Arch
  3. Bridge
  4. Canal
  5. Dam
  6. Dome
  7. House
  8. Specific structures
    1. Aswan Dam
    2. Burj Dubai
    3. Colosseum
    4. Great Wall of China
    5. Eiffel Tower
    6. Empire State Building
    7. Hagia Sophia
    8. Parthenon
    9. Giza pyramid complex
    10. St. Peter's Basilica
    11. Statue of Liberty
    12. Taj Mahal
  9. Pyramid
  10. Tower

[edit] Film, radio and television

  1. Film
    1. Animation
      1. Anime
  2. Radio
  3. Television

[edit] Music

  1. Music
  2. Song
  3. Specific music genres
    1. Blues
    2. Classical music
      1. Opera
      2. Symphony
    3. Electronic music
    4. Flamenco
    5. Hip hop
    6. Jazz
    7. Reggae
    8. Rock music
    9. Samba
  4. Specific musical instruments
    1. Drum
    2. Flute
    3. Guitar
    4. Piano
    5. Trumpet
    6. Violin

[edit] Recreation

  1. Game
    1. Backgammon
    2. Chess
    3. Go (game)
  2. Gambling
  3. Martial arts
    1. Karate
    2. Judo
  4. Olympic Games
  5. Sport
    1. Track and field athletics
    2. Auto racing
    3. Baseball
    4. Basketball
    5. Cricket
    6. Association football
    7. Golf
    8. Rugby
    9. Tennis
  6. Toy

[edit] History and geography

[edit] History

This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:

  1. History

[edit] Prehistory and ancient world

  1. Prehistory
  2. Stone Age
  3. Bronze Age
  4. Iron Age
  5. Mesopotamia
  6. Ancient Egypt
  7. Ancient Greece
  8. Roman Empire
  9. Han Dynasty
  10. Gupta Empire

[edit] Middle Ages and Early Modern

  1. Abbasid Caliphate
  2. Age of Enlightenment
  3. Aztec
  4. Byzantine Empire
  5. Crusades
  6. Holy Roman Empire
  7. Hundred Years' War
  8. Middle Ages
  9. Mongol Empire
  10. Ming Dynasty
  11. Ottoman Empire
  12. Protestant Reformation
  13. Thirty Years' War
  14. Renaissance
  15. Tang Dynasty
  16. Vikings

[edit] Modern

  1. American Civil War
  2. Apartheid
  3. British Empire
  4. Cold War
  5. Cultural Revolution
  6. French Revolution
  7. Great Depression
  8. The Holocaust
  9. Industrial Revolution
  10. Nazi Germany
  11. Meiji Restoration
  12. Russian Revolution (1917)
  13. Qing Dynasty
  14. Treaty of Versailles
  15. Vietnam War
  16. World War I
  17. World War II

[edit] Geography

This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.

  1. Geography
  2. Capital
  3. City
  4. Continent
  5. Desert
  6. North Pole
  7. Ocean
  8. Rainforest
  9. River
  10. Sea
  11. South Pole

[edit] Continents and major regions

  1. Africa
  2. Antarctica
  3. Asia
  4. Europe
  5. Middle East
  6. North America
  7. Oceania
  8. South America

[edit] Countries

Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the 243 countries listed at List of countries. However, for the smaller Wikipedias, some of the more high-priority countries to have articles on are:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Algeria
  3. Argentina
  4. Australia
  5. Austria
  6. Bangladesh
  7. Brazil
  8. Canada
  9. People's Republic of China
  10. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  11. Cuba
  12. Egypt
  13. Ethiopia
  14. France
  15. Germany
  16. Greece
  17. India
  18. Indonesia
  19. Iran
  20. Iraq
  21. Israel
  22. Italy
  23. Japan
  24. Mexico
  25. Netherlands
  26. New Zealand
  27. Nigeria
  28. Pakistan
  29. Poland
  30. Portugal
  31. Russia
  32. Saudi Arabia
  33. South Africa
  34. South Korea
  35. Spain
  36. Sudan
  37. Switzerland
  38. Tanzania
  39. Thailand
  40. Turkey
  41. Ukraine
  42. United Arab Emirates
  43. United Kingdom
  44. United States
  45. Vatican City
  46. Vietnam
  47. Venezuela

[edit] Cities

  1. Amsterdam
  2. Athens
  3. Baghdad
  4. Bangkok
  5. Beijing
  6. Berlin
  7. Bogotá
  8. Brussels
  9. Buenos Aires
  10. Cairo
  11. Cape Town
  12. Damascus
  13. Delhi
  14. Dhaka
  15. Hong Kong
  16. Istanbul
  17. Jakarta
  18. Jerusalem
  19. Karachi
  20. Kinshasa
  21. Kolkata
  22. Lagos
  23. Los Angeles
  24. London
  25. Madrid
  26. Mecca
  27. Mexico City
  28. Moscow
  29. Mumbai
  30. Nairobi
  31. New York City
  32. Paris
  33. Rio de Janeiro
  34. Rome
  35. Saint Petersburg
  36. São Paulo
  37. Seoul
  38. Shanghai
  39. Singapore
  40. Sydney
  41. Tehran
  42. Tokyo
  43. Vienna
  44. Washington, D.C.

[edit] Bodies of water

  1. Amazon River
  2. Arctic Ocean
  3. Atlantic Ocean
  4. Baltic Sea
  5. Black Sea
  6. Caribbean Sea
  7. Caspian Sea
  8. Congo River
  9. Danube
  10. Dead Sea
  11. Ganges
  12. Great Barrier Reef
  13. Great Lakes
  14. Indian Ocean
  15. Indus River
  16. Lake Baikal
  17. Lake Tanganyika
  18. Lake Victoria
  19. Mediterranean Sea
  20. Mississippi River
  21. Niger River
  22. Nile
  23. North Sea
  24. Pacific Ocean
  25. Panama Canal
  26. Rhine
  27. Suez Canal
  28. Southern Ocean
  29. Volga River
  30. Yangtze River

[edit] Mountains, valleys and deserts

  1. Alps
  2. Andes
  3. Himalayas
  4. Mount Kilimanjaro
  5. Mount Everest
  6. Rocky Mountains
  7. Sahara
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