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“Asia Minor” Turkey
“Axis of evil” Iraq, North Korea and Iran (Declared by Bush)
“Boot of Europe” Italy
“Britain of South” New Zealand
“Buffer State of Asia” Afghanistan
“City of Angels” Bangkok (Thailand)
“City of Arabian nights” * Baghdad
“City of Bazaars” Cairo (Egypt)
“City of Brotherly Love” Philadelphia
“City of Canals” Venice
“City of Conferences” Geneva
“City of Cosmonauts” Moscow
“City of diamonds” Ratna Pur
“City of Domes” Istanbul (Constantinople)
“City of Dreaming Spires” Oxford
“City of eternal spring” Quito (Ecuador)
“City of Gandolas” Venice (Italy)
“City of Gardens” Harare (whole year only spring is there)
“City of Ghosts and Temples” Veransi (Benares)
“City of Golden Gate” San Francisco
“City of Golden Temple” Amritsar
“City of Hotels” Beirut
“City of lights” Paris
“City of mosques” Dhaka
“City of old buildings” Ankara
“City of Palaces” Calcutta
“City of parks” Kiev (Ukraine)
“City of Peace” Baghdad
“City of Pool Nectar” Amritsar
“City of Popes” Rome
“City of Priests” Rome
“City of Rams” Guangzhou (China)
“City of roses and nightingales” Shiraz (Iran)
“City of seven hills” Rome
“City of silent thoroughfares” Venice
“City of Sky Scrapers” New York
“City of smile” Bangkok
“City of Songs” Vienna (Austria)
“City of Space Flights” Cape Kennedy (Florida)
“City of roses and nightingales” Shiraz
“Cockpit of Europe”* Belgium (because of the number of battles throughout history fought on its soil)
“Country of Copper” Zambia
“Cradle of civilizations” Turkey
“Crossroads of Western Europe” Belgium
“Dark Continent” Africa
“The desert fox” Gen. Erwin Rommel (A German Field Marshal)
“Down Under” Australia
“Emerald Island” Ireland
“Empire City” New York
“Entrance to the underworld” Avernus (a lake near Naples in Italy)
“Eternal City” Rome
“Father of Anatomy” Andreas Vesalius (Belgian doctor)
“Father of biography” Plutarch
“Father of Botany” Theophrastus
“Father of Civil Engineering” John Smeaton
“Father of Computer” Charles Babbage
“Father of Economics” Adam Smith
“Father of English prose” Samuel De Champlain
“Father of Genetics” Gregor Mendel
“Father of historical novels” Sir Walter Scot
“Father of hydrogen bomb” Edward Teller (1952)
“Father of League of Nations” Hugh Grotius (Holland jurist)
“father of Medicine” Hippocrates
“Father of Mexican independence” Miguel Hidalgo
“Father of modern Chemistry” Antoine Lavoiser
“Father of modern economics” Adam Smith
“Father of modern Italy” G. Garibaldi
“Father of modern music” Johan Sebastian Bach
“Father of modern philosophy” Rene Descartes (French philosopher)
“Father of modern physical chemistry” Josiah Willard Gibbs (American)
“Father of modern Political Science” Niccolò Machiavelli (Italy)
“Father of modern rocketry” Robert H. Goddard
“Father of moral philosophy” Thomas Aquinas
“Father of natural history” John Ray
“Father of science of political economy” Adam Smith
“Father of Texas” Stephen Fuller Austin (Capital of Texas is Austin)
“Father of Utilitarianism” John Biddle
“Father of waters” Mississippi (USA)
“Flower garden of Europe” Netherlands
“Forbidden City” Lahaska (China)
“The four elements” Earth, air, fire, and water
“Garden of England” Kent
“Gateway to Central Asia” Gawadar (Pakistan)
“Gateway to East” Beirut
“Gateway to Gulf” Abu Dhabi
“Gateway to Gulf of Iran” Strait of Hormuz
“Gateway to India” Bombay
"George Cross Island" Malta
“Gift of Nile” Egypt
“Golden Ass” Lucius Apuleius (Writer)
“Grandfather of Australian Cricket” Bill Brown
“Grand old man of Britain” Gladstone
“Granite City” Aberdeen
“Great Britain of Pacific” Japan
“Herring Pond” Atlantic Ocean
“Homeland of Viking Empire” Denmark
“Horn of Africa” Somalia
“Incubator of Western Civilization” Mediterranean Sea
“Island continent” Australia
“Island of Hispaniola” Haiti
“Isle of cloves” Zanzibar
“Isle of Death” Kahoulawe
“Isle of June” Bahamas
“Isle of Pearls” Bahrain
“Iron Duke” Duke of Wellington
“Jewel of the Sky” Venus
“John Bull” England and English people
“Key of Mediterranean” Gibraltar
“King of German Literature” Goethe
“Lady with the Lamp” Florence Nightingale
“Land gate of the country” Belarus
“Land of Amber” Lithuania
“Land of Canals” Netherlands
“Land of Cloves” Zanzibar
“Land of contrasts” Colombia
“Land of Druk Yul” Nepal
“Land of free people” Thailand
“Land of fertile fields” Algeria
“Land of golden Fibre” Bangladesh
“Land of golden fleece” Australia
“Land of golden Pagoda” Myanmar (Burma)
“Land of Kangaroos” Australia
“Land of Lilies” Canada
“Land of the long white clouds” New Zealand
“Land of many races” Colombia
“Land of midnight Sun” Norway
“Land of mighty rivers” Nigeria
“Land of Milk and Honey” Lebanon
“Land of morning calm” Korea
“Land of mountains” Nepal
“Land of Prophets” Palestine
“Land of pure people” Pakistan
“Land of Queen of Sheba” Ethiopia
“Land of Rice and Teak” Myanmar (Burma)
“Land of rising Sun” Japan
“Land of rivers” Bangladesh
“Land of seven hills” Rome
“Land of South Slaves” Yugoslavia
“Land of Thousand Islands” Indonesia
“Land of thousand Lakes” Finland
“Land of white Elephants” Thailand
“Land of Windmills” Netherlands
“Little Pakistan” Bradford
“King Maker” Earl of Warwick
“Maiden Queen” Queen Elizabeth I
“Man of Blood and Iron” Bismarck
“Man of Destiny” Napoleon
“Manchester of Orient” Osaka
“Mother of COBAL” Grace Murray Hopper
“Old Hickory” Andrew Jackson, 7th President of USA
“Pearl of Antilles” Cuba
“Pillars of Hercules” Gibraltar (Strait)
“Playground of Europe” Switzerland
“Port of Five Seas” Moscow
“Queen of Adriatic” Venice
“Queen of Baltic” Stockholm (Sweden)
“Queen of crime fiction” Agatha Christie
“Queen of South” * Sydney
“Queen of water” Water Lilly
“Red Planet” Mars
“Remnant of mighty empire” Austria
“Roof of the World” Tibet and Pamirs
“Scourge of God” Attila
“Shock and Awe” US campaign in Iraq
“Sick man of Europe” Turkey
“Sick Man of Europe” Turkey
“Site of Ancient Civilization” Iraq
“Sorrow of China” Hawang Hoo
“Sugar bowl of the world” Cuba
“Switzerland of Africa” Swaziland
“Uncle Sam” USA
“Vegetable and fruit garden of Europe” Bulgaria
“Venice of North” Stockholm
“White city” Belgrade
“White man’s grave” Guinea
“Windy City” Chicago
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