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Alberta, Michigan

In 1954, Ford Motor Company donated the town of Alberta, Michigan and 1700 acres (7 km²) of land to what is now the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University.

Allhallows, Kent

Situated in the northernmost part of Kent, and covering an area of 23.99 km², the parish is bounded on the north side by the River Thames, and in the east by the course of Yantlet creek, now silted up.

Avondale House

It is set in the Avondale Forest Park in over 2 km² (500 acres) of land, approximately 1.5km from the nearby town of Rathdrum.

Baganuur

Baganuur is actually a separate city, located as an exclave of 620 km² at the border between the Töv and Khentii aimags.

Bahía Blanca Partido

The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km² (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Belmonte de Miranda

The inhabitants of the municipality are in 66 principal villages divided into 15 parishes, the largest of which is Belmonte, with 32.1 km².

Bidwell Park

Since that time, the City has purchased additional land, such as Cedar Grove in 1922, and 1,200 acres (5 km²) of land south of Big Chico Creek in upper Bidwell Park in 1995.

Bolton upon Dearne

In the early 18th century Barnsley attorney William Henry Marsden Esquire of nearby Burntwood Hall bought the Lord of the Manor of Bolton on Dearne with Goldthorpe for £10,000 together with over 1,000 acres (4 km²) of land.

Bresso

At the 2001 census the municipality had a population of 27,132 inhabitants and a population density of 8,027.2 persons/km², making it the most densely populated comune in Italy outside the Province of Naples (although it was only seventh overall, behind Portici, Casavatore, San Giorgio a Cremano, Melito di Napoli, Naples, and Arzano).

Brookhaven, Pennsylvania

Thomas Brassey was granted 385 acres (1.6 km²) in 1684.

Cardamom Hills

The Meghamalai reserve forest, also contiguous with Periyar, is proposed to be the 600 km² Meghamalai Wildlife Sanctuary to protect several threatened species including: Bengal Tiger, Indian Elephant, Nilgiri tahr, lion-tailed macaque, Slender loris, Grizzled Giant Squirrel, Salim Ali's fruit bat, Great Indian Hornbill, Hutton's pitviper and Vindhyan Bob butterfly.

Charles S. Fairfax

He was collaterally related to Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, who relinquished his English estates to his brother, Robert, and emigrated to America, where he settled on a plantation of more than a million acres (4,000 km²) in Virginia, which he inherited from his mother, Catherine Colepeper.

Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt

He was the younger son of George Tennyson, who bought the family seat of Beacons, in the village of Tealby, Lincolnshire, along with 2,000 acres (8 km²) of land, and came in time to own a large part of the village.

Château de Vincennes

In 1860 Napoleon III, having employed Viollet-le-Duc to restore the keep and the chapel, gave the Bois de Vincennes (9.95 km² in extent) and its château to Paris as a public park.

Chignecto Bay

It includes the 10.2 km² John Lusby National Wildlife Area, which is recognized as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance since October 1985.

Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est

The board employs approximately 2,000 teachers and professionals and it covers an area of 35,615 km², including the City of Ottawa.

Earl Fitzwilliam

The family seat of Wentworth Woodhouse was sold while the more than 80,000 acre (320 km²) estate including much of the town of Malton, North Yorkshire, was retained.

The other family seat, Milton Hall, and its considerable estate of over 50,000 acres (200 km²) together with valuable properties in Peterborough and the surrounding area continue by descent in the family.

Electoral division of Drysdale

It covers 12 km², encompassing north-western suburban areas of Palmerston including the CBD and the suburbs of Driver, Durack, Gray and Yarrawonga.

Electoral division of Greatorex

Greatorex is a mostly urban electorate, covering an area of 76 km², and encompassing the Alice Springs suburbs of Sadadeen and Traeger Park.

Electoral division of Nhulunbuy

Nhulunbuy is a rural electorate, covering 113,600 km² and taking in the towns of Nhulunbuy, Galiwinku, Yirrkala and Gapuwiyak.

Electoral division of Nightcliff

Nightcliff is one of the smallest electorates in the Territory, covering only 3.37 km² and taking in the suburb of Nightcliff, most of Rapid Creek and a small area of Coconut Grove.

Electoral division of Rumney

The division covers an area of 1,516 km² and includes a number of outer Hobart localities including; Lauderdale, Rokeby, Cambridge, Sorell, Richmond.

Electoral division of Sanderson

Sanderson is an urban electorate, covering 5.51 km² and taking in the Darwin suburbs of Anula, Marrara, Wulagi and part of Malak.

Floréal-class frigate

The concept of "sentry frigate" emerged from the will of the French government to protect its Exclusive Economic Zone (12 million km²), as defined in the Montego Bay treaties.

Gerald Lyda

Today, sons Gerald D. and Gene Lyda, along with their sister Jo Granberg, manage the 320,000 deeded acres (1400 km²) La Escalera Ranch, which spreads across four Texas counties: Reeves, Pecos, Brewster, Archer, and Baylor.

Gerringong, New South Wales

In 1824, Governor Brisbane reserved 600 acres (2.4 km²) for the present Gerringong township.

Gower Peninsula

Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers 188 km², including most of the peninsula west of Crofty, Three Crosses, Upper Killay, Blackpill and Bishopston.

Henry J. Lutcher

Lutcher purchased more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) of land in the southwest Louisiana parishes of Calcasieu and Beauregard.

Highland, California

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.9 square miles (48.9 km²).

Iroquois Park

In 1889, Mayor Charles Donald Jacob purchased Burnt Knob, a 313 acre (1.3 km²) tract of land 4 miles (6 km) south of the city, for $9,000, and was reimbursed by the city treasurer without approval from the city council or public referendum, meaning the original purchase was probably illegal.

Joint Expeditionary Base East

The base includes 1,451 acres (5.9 km²) of sandy trails, cypress swamps, grassy dunes and soft and hard sand beaches.

Kalsia

The area of Kalsia was 497 km² (168 sq mi), consisting of 20 detached pieces of territory in the Ambala and Ferozepore districts, lying mainly between 30° 12 and 30° 25 N and 77° 21 and 77° 35 E. It was divided into 3 major parts: two tehsils, Chhachhrauli and Basi, and a sub-tehsil named Chirak, in Ferozepur district.

Kapodistrias reform

Municipalities and communities varied in land area from 873.552 km² (Kato Nevrokopi in Drama Prefecture) to 0.800 km² (Nea Chalkidona in Athens Prefecture), with an average of 127.618 km² and a median of 105.669 km².

Lake Fork Reservoir

It consists of 27,690 acres (112 km²), situated in Wood and Rains County in Northeast Texas, between the towns of Quitman, Alba, Emory, and Yantis, Texas.

Loango National Park

It protects diverse coastal habitat, including part of the 220 km² Iguéla Lagoon, the only significant example of a typical western African lagoon system that is protected within a national park.

Mitchell's rainforest snail

This critically endangered snail is now largely restricted to a range of less than 5 km² of remnant lowland rainforest, scattered around the Tweed, Byron and Ballina Shires of northern New South Wales.

Novar House

Novar Estate extends to 20,000 acres (80 km²) between the Allt Graad and the River Alness and incorporates farming, forestry, open hill, traditional country sports, fishing, over 150 miles of paths and tracks, a hydroelectric scheme and the first wind farm in the Highlands.

Oued Tamri

Until recently the Northern Bald Ibis was believed to survive in the wild only in Morocco at Souss-Massa National Park (338 km²) where there are three colonies, and at the nearby Tamri River mouth, where there is one colony containing almost half the African breeding population, with some movement of birds between these two sites.

Rikbaktsa people

Their traditional territory spanned 50,000 km² of Juruena River basin, stretching from the Papagaio River in the south to the Augusto Falls on the upper Tapajós River in the north.

Rolador

-- Its area is km² and its population was 6,146 in 2003.--> It is located 524 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Puerto Montt

The archdiocese, which comprises the entire province of Llanquihue in the Los Lagos region of Chile, covers a territory of 18,205 km² and has 31 parishes.

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud

The diocese, which comprises the provinces of Chiloé and Palena, in the Los Lagos region of Chile, covers a territory of 24,283 km² and has 26 parishes.

Samuel Carpenter

Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was named in honour of the birthplace of Samuel Carpenter "purchased 5,000 acres (20 km2), 4,200 acres (17 km2) within the present boundaries of the township. In 1709, Carpenter, then Treasurer of Pennsylvania, began to sell tracts of land to migrating Quakers. In 1717, Horsham Township was established as a municipal entity by a vote of the people."

Sierra de las Nieves Natural Park

The park centres on La Torrecilla (1,919 m), the highest point of the range, and covers an area of 300 km².

Vitaly Nikolayenko

He helped conduct an inquiry after Michio Hoshino, the renowned Japanese bear photographer, was pulled out of his tent and eaten by a bear in 1996 in the southern reserve, a more remote region neighbouring the 2.8 million acre (11,000 km²) Kronotsky state reserve where Nikolayenko was based.

Wellington Island

It has an area of 5,556 km² and most of the island forms part of Bernardo O'Higgins National Park.

Zamantı River

A 500 km² area along the river basin corresponds to Aladağlar National Park, mostly covered in forests and extending within Yahyalı (Kayseri Province), Çamardı (Niğde Province) and Aladağ (Adana Province) districts.

Zarghun Ghar

The base of the Zarghoon Ghar up to Ziarat is densely covered by Pashtun Juniper (Juniperus macropoda) trees, a forest of about 200,000 acres (810 km2).


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