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DEAR READERS,
It has become a tradition in the new year's first issue to send our renders season's greetings and tell them about the Moscow News' plans for the year.
Those of you who have been reading this paper for some time must have noticed that its make-up and arrangement of columns changes with time, its main goal remains unchanged, and this is to tell you how Russian people live, work, and spend their leisure, what they dream, worry and care about; to promote peace in the world, to further mutually beneficial cooperation among nations.
Following your requests, we shall continue our "Travel with MN" column. Our correspondents will take you to Latvia, Tatarstan, Western Siberia, and the Altai area, as well as to the old Russian cities of Torzhok, Uglich, Kalinin, etc. The five winners of the "What Do You Know About Russia?" - Competition will also tell you about their trips to Britain.
As usual, we are going to cover major international, events and offer commentary by analysts on both foreign and domestic issues along with interviews with statesmen and public figures, scientists, writers, etc, n topical problems.
THE MOSCOW NEWS will keep you well-versed in cultural news, the life of Moscow and Muscovites, the latent developments in Russian science, and family problems. Of course, we shall keep you informed of major sports events, including the traditional MOSCOW NEWS-sponsored gymnastics and figure-skating tournaments. For the readers wishing to learn English, the foreign language editions of THE MOSCOW NEWS will open a new course. Accidentally, the English language course has been named MN's most popular and useful column. Many regular readers have started writing to us in English.
In the New Year we are looking forward to new letters with comments and wishes and shall be glad to answer them.We congratulate readers on the New Year and wish everyone happiness and all the best. May the New Year bring peace to all the peoples, to each country and to each family.
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GEOGRAPHY
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
State / country / part/ district / capital / hinterland /
Geographical region/ territory / industrial region/ area / urban area/ agricultural area
continent / boundary / border / to border on / frontier/
River / lake / sea / ocean / Oceania/ waterfall / stream / current/ brook
Strait / gulf / bay / channel / canal / dam / delta / mouth / estuary / outfall / river-head / inlet/ creek / lagoon/ reservoir
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Continent / island/ desert island / isles / peninsula / isthmus (neck) / cape
Shore / bank / coast / fjord
Relief/ hill / mountain / mountain range (chain) / peak / glacier / volcano (active /dormant) / passage/ archipelago/ avalanche/ elevation
Valley / plain / lowlands / highlands/ desert
Forest /jungle / rain forests
To separate / to be separated by/ to connect with / to be situated / to include / to be subdivided into/ to occupy /to wash / to be washed by / to encircle/ to be joined to /to spread
North / South / East / West / to the South/ in the North/ northern / southern / eastern / western/ the easternmost point/ the northernmost point
Population / population density /to populate/ densely populated/ inhabitants/ to be inhabited/ demography
Globe / hemisphere /meridian / parallel / Equator / Greenwich / North Pole /South Pole
Long / length /deep / depth /high / height / altitude (above/below sea level altitude) /latitude / longitude
At a height of... meters/ in latitude 30 North
Atmosphere/ biosphere / hydrosphere
Ecology/ Epicenter/ Erosion
Fauna / Flora
Time Zones/ Tropics
Climate: continental / insular/ tropical/ subtropical / Maritime Climate / Mediterranean Climate
Basic Earth Facts
Countries of the World: 195
Age of the Earth: 4.5 to 4.6 billion years
A Listing of Essential Facts about the Planet Earth, the Home to All of Humanity:
Human Population of the Earth: 6,820,000,000 (6.82 billion) as of May 2010
World Population Growth: 1.13% - 2009 estimate (this means at the current rate of growth, the earth's population will double in about 62 years)
Countries of the World: 195
Earth's Circumference at the Equator: 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 km)
Earth's Circumference Between the North and South Poles: 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km)
Earth's Diameter at the Equator: 7,926.28 miles (12,756.1 km)
Earth's Diameter at the Poles: 7,899.80 miles (12,713.5 km)
Average Distance from the Earth to the Sun: 93,020,000 miles (149,669,180 km)
Average Distance from the Earth to the Moon: 238,857 miles (384,403.1 km)
Highest Elevation on Earth - Mt. Everest, Asia: 29,035 feet (8850 m)
Tallest Mountain on Earth from Base to Peak - Mauna Kea, Hawaii: 33,480 feet (rising to 13,796 feet above sea level) (10204 m; 4205 m)
Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth - The peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m) is farthest from the center of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.
Lowest Elevation on Land - Dead Sea: 1369 feet below sea level (417.27 m)
Deepest Point in the Ocean - Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, Western Pacific Ocean: 35,840 feet (10924 m)
Highest Temperature Recorded: 135.8F - Al Aziziyah, Libya, September 13, 1922 (57.7C)
Lowest Temperature Recorded: -128.5F - Vostok, Antarctica, July 21, 1983 (-89.2C)
Water vs. Land: 70.8% Water, 29.2% Land
Age of the Earth: 4.5 to 4.6 billion years
Atmosphere Content: 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and traces of argon, carbon dioxide and water
Rotation on Axis: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 04.09053 seconds. But, it takes an additional four minutes for the earth to revolve to the same position as the day before relative to the sun (i.e. 24 hours).
Revolution around Sun: 365.2425 days
