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Bengal's Sorrow ......................... Damodar River

Blue Mountains .......................... Nilgiri Hills

City of Palaces .......................... Calcutta

China's Sorrow ........................... Hwang Ho

City of Eternal Springs ................. Quito (South America)

City of Severn Hills ..................... Rome

Eternal City ................................Rome

City of Skyscrapers ..................... New York

Emrald Isle ................................. Ireland

Forbidden City .............................Lhasa

Gift of the Nile ............................ Egypt

Gateway of India ......................... Mumbai

Gateway of Tears .........................Strait of Bab-el-Manded (Jerusalem, Palestine)

George Cross Island ..................... Malta

Granite City ................................. Aberdeen

Holy Land ................................... Jerusalem

Hermit Kingdom ............................ Korea

Island of Cloves ........................... Zanzibar

Key to Mediterranean .................... Gibraltar

Pillars of Hercules ......................... Straits of Gibraltar

Manchester of the Orient ............... Osaka (Japan)

Playground of Europe .................... Switzerland

Queen of Adriatic ......................... Venice

Rose - Pink City ........................... Jaipur

Roof of the World ......................... Pamirs in Central Asia

Sickman of the Europe .................. Turkey

Venice of North ........................... Stockholm

Windy City .................................. Chicago

Whiteman's Grace ......................... Guinea (West Coast of Africa)

World's Lonliest Island ................... Tristan De Cunha (Mid - Atlantic)

Land of midnight Sun ..................... Norway

Land of rising Sun ......................... Japan

Land of Thousand Lakes ................. Finland

Land of Golden Fleece .................... Austrailia

Land of Morning Calm ..................... Korea

Land of Maple Leaf ........................ Canada

Land of White Elephants ................. Siam (Thialand)

Land of Thunderbolts ...................... Bhutan

Land of fiver rivers ........................ Punjab
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