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a. The Royal Family residence is located here
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 e. A world renowned writer William Shakespeare was born in this town
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| b. The Legendary band Beatles started their career in this city
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| f. Prime Meridian (0 degree meridian) passes through
this place
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| c. This prehistoric monument is one
of the most famous
sights in the world
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|  g. It is the capital of the part of Great Britain where bagpipes are played
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d. It is the UK’s2nd
largest city in terms
 of population
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| h. Thanks to this it takes just 35 minutes to get from
England to France
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| island
| a piece of land completely surrounded by water
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| isle
| a word for an island, used in poetry or in names of islands: the British Isles
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| peninsula
| a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large mass of land
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| mainland
| the main area of land that forms a country, as compared to islands near it that are also part of that country
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| coast
| the area where the land meets the sea
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| off the coast
| in the sea near the land
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| latitude
| the distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees
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| mild
| not to cold or wet, and sometimes pleasantly warm
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| temperate/moderate
| a type of weather that is never very hot or very cold
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| extreme n
| something that goes beyond normal limits, so that it seems very unusual and unacceptable
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| rainfall
| the amount of rain that falls on an area in a particular period of time
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| spell n
| a period of a particular kind of activity, weather etc, usually a short period: sunny spell
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| shower
| a short period of rain or snow
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| gale
| a very strong wind
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