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General lists of places

Lists of countries

Lists of sovereign states and dependent territories This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of ''nation'' (a cultural entity) or ''state'' (a political entity).The Oxford English Dictionary, Seco ...

* List of countries by name, by capital, by government * by area * by continent * by country code ** Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) two-letter ** International Olympic Committee (IOC) three-letter ** Internet TLDs ** ISO 3166-1 two and three-letter ** ITU country calling numbers * by name * by national capital * by official language * by population * by population density * by time zone *

List of oil-producing states This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2023, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis. Compared wi ...

List of flags This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commo ...

List of regions A list is a Set (mathematics), set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of t ...

List of territorial disputes Territorial disputes have occurred throughout history, over lands around the world. Bold indicates one claimant's full control; ''italics'' indicates one or more claimants' partial control. Ongoing disputes between UN member/observer states ...

List of active autonomist and secessionist movements Below are the articles listing active separatist movements by continent: * List of active separatist movements in Africa *List of active separatist movements in Asia *List of active separatist movements in Europe *List of active separatist mo ...

Dependent areas

List of dependent territories A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controll ...

List of subnational entities Administrative divisions by country Legend * The "Type" column indicates a federation (which includes lower-level units that exercise some sovereignty), unitary state (where the highest-level entity is the only sovereign), or regional st ...

Table of administrative country subdivisions by country Administrative divisions by country Legend * The "Type" column indicates a federation (which includes lower-level units that exercise some sovereignty), unitary state (where the highest-level entity is the only sovereign), or regional st ...

Pseudo-states

List of extinct countries, empires, etc. A historical sovereign state is a Sovereign state, state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, country, countries, nations, or empires that ceased ...

List of micronations Micronations, sometimes also referred to as ''model countries'' and ''new country projects'', are small, self-proclaimed entities that assert their sovereignty as independent states but which are not acknowledged as such by any of the recognise ...

Cities

List of city listings by country This is a list of lists on the city, cities of present-day nations, states and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized ...

Lists of cities This is a list of lists of cities: Cities proper * List of largest cities * Lists of cities by country * Lists of cities by continent (or continental region) ** Lists of cities in Africa ** Lists of cities in Asia ** Lists of cities in Centra ...

Capitals

List of national capitals This is a list of national capitals, including capitals of territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. The capitals included on this list are those associate ...

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List of capitals and larger cities by country The list of countries whose capital is not their largest city refers to the list of sovereign states A sovereign state is a State (polity), state that has the highest authority over a territory. It is commonly understood that Sovereignty#Sov ...

List of current and former capital cities within U.S. states This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals. Washington, D.C. has been the federal capital of the Unite ...

List of metropolitan areas by population The United Nations uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities in all jurisdictions are classified using the same criteria. Cities may be defined as the cities proper, the extent of their urban area, or their metrop ...

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List of cities in India This is a list of the most populous cities in India. Cities are a type of sub-administrative unit and are defined by the Ministry of Home Affairs. In some cases, cities are bifurcated into municipalities, which can lead to cities being included ...

List of planned cities This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part ...

List of city nicknames in the United States This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the pseudonym, aliases, sobriquets and slogans that city, cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local p ...

List of towns This is a list of lists of towns and villages by country: Africa Equatorial Guinea * List of cities in Equatorial Guinea Gambia * List of cities in the Gambia Guinea-Bissau * List of cities in Guinea-Bissau Lesotho * List of ...

* List of places in London * List of Brooklyn, New York neighborhoods * List of Manhattan, New York neighborhoods *

List of urban studies topics Urban studies is the diverse range of disciplines and approaches to the study of all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. This includes among others: urban economics, urban planning, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, ...

* List of named ethnic enclaves in North American cities

List of sites

Ecclesiastic

List of abbeys and priories List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory. , the Catholic Church has 3,600 abbeys and monasteries worldwide. In Europe Armenia *Akhtala Monastery * Gandzasar monastery *Geghard *Goshavank *Haghartsin Monastery *Haghpa ...

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Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

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England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

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Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

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Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...

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Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

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Isle of Man The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern ...

List of cathedrals This is a list of cathedrals by country, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in episcopal denominations, such as Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy) and a few prominent churches from non-episcopal denominations commonly referr ...

List of churches and cathedrals of London This is a list of cathedrals, Church (building), churches and chapels in Greater London, England, which is divided into 32 London boroughs and the City of London. The list focuses on the more permanent churches and buildings which identify the ...

List of Shinto shrines For lists of Shinto shrines, see: * List of Shinto shrines in Japan ** List of Shinto shrines in Kyoto * List of Shinto shrines outside Japan ** List of Shinto shrines in Taiwan ** List of Shinto shrines in the United States See also * List of ...

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* List of aquaria *

List of botanical gardens A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research, conservation, and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, ...

List of buildings This is a list of list of buildings and nonbuilding structures. By type * List of abbeys and priories * List of amphitheatres (contemporary) * List of amphitheatres (Roman) * List of ancient Greek theatres * List of ancient pyramids * ...

List of largest suspension bridges The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (architecture), span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comp ...

List of castles __NOTOC__ This is a list of castles from around the world. By country Africa * Castles in Ghana * Castles in South Africa Americas * Castles in Brazil * Castles in Canada * Castles in Mexico * Castles in the United States Asi ...

Lists of cemeteries by country These lists of cemeteries compile notable cemetery, cemeteries, mausoleum, mausolea, and other places people are burial, buried worldwide. Reasons for notability include their design, their history, and their burial, interments. Lists of cemeteri ...

List of reservoirs and dams The following is a list of reservoirs and dams, arranged by continent and country. Africa Algeria # Djorf Torba Dam # Keddara Dam # Koudiat Acerdoune Dam # Meraldene Dam # boughrara Dam # Beni Bahdel Dam # Mafrouch Dam # Sikak ...

List of gardens The list of gardens is a link page for any park or garden open to the public, anywhere in the world. Argentina * Buenos Aires Botanical Garden Australia Australian Capital Territory *Australian National Botanic Gardens New South Wales * Aubu ...

List of historic houses List of historic houses is a link page for any stately home or historic house. Algeria * Villa Montfeld, Algiers Australia * List of historic houses in South Australia *Houses in New South Wales **Houses in Sydney **List of heritage houses ...

List of hospitals Lists of hospitals include the following. According to Cybermetrics Lab, they completed their rankings from over 16,500 hospitals worldwide in 2015. By continent *Lists of hospitals in Africa *Lists of hospitals in Asia *Lists of hospitals in Eu ...

List of museums This is a list of museums, it is sorted by country, topic and by size. The total number of museums in the world is disputed. UNESCO claims that there are 95,000 museums today. The International Council of Museums has 57,208 members in 137 countrie ...

List of museum ships This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notab ...

* List of Japanese landmarks * List of public outdoor clothes free places *

List of skyscrapers This is a list of the tallest buildings. Tall buildings, such as skyscrapers, are intended here as enclosed structures with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Such definition excludes non-building structures, such as tow ...

Tall buildings in London At , St Paul's Cathedral was the tallest building in London from 1710 until it was eventually surpassed by the 118 metre (387 ft) Millbank Tower in 1963. This in turn was overtaken by the BT Tower at tall in 1964. Throughout the 1960s and ...

Tall buildings in Melbourne Melbourne is home to approximately 758 completed high-rise buildings. Of those completed and or topped-out, 77 buildings are defined as "skyscrapers"–buildings which reach a height of at least ; more than any other city in Australia. Over ...

List of spa towns The list of spa towns lists national lists and various relevant spa towns around the world. In Africa Morocco * Moulay Yacoub Ethiopia *Afar Region * Guder * Sodere * Ambo South Africa * Caledon * Tshipise * Badplaas * Bela Bela In the Ame ...

List of United States military bases A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

* List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century *

List of walls See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls. Pre-modern fortifications Africa * Fossatum Africae * Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1 ...

List of waterfalls This list of notable waterfalls of the world is sorted by continent, then country, then province, state or territory. A waterfall is included if it is at least tall and has an existing Wikipedia article, or it is considered historically sig ...

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World Heritage Sites World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural heritag ...

List of zoos A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

Man-made geographical features

List of countries The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership with ...

List of cities This is a list of lists of cities: Cities proper * List of largest cities * Lists of cities by country * Lists of cities by continent (or continental region) ** Lists of cities in Africa ** Lists of cities in Asia ** Lists of cities in Central ...

Twin cities Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal criteria, but twin cities are generally comparable in stat ...

Twin towns A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there are early examples of inte ...

Sister cities A sister city or a twin town relationship is International relations, a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there ar ...

** List of historical national capitals *

List of schools The following are lists of schools: * Lists of schools by country * List of art schools * List of boarding schools * List of choir schools * List of Christian Brothers schools * List of democratic schools * List of fictional schools * List of for ...

Natural geographical features

* List of impact craters * List of mountains * List of rivers *

List of waterways This is a list of waterways, defined as navigable rivers, canals, estuaries, lakes, or firths. In practice, and depending on the language, the term "waterway" covers maritime or inland transport routes, as suggested by "way". Wherever a free-fl ...

Islands

Lists of islands This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water A body of water or waterbody is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet. The term most often refer ...

** by name ** by population ** by population density ** by area ** by highest point *

List of archipelagos This is a list of archipelagos, organised by oceans, then seas, then finally arranged alphabetically, with geographically isolated islands included as well. Arctic Ocean Archipelagos of the Arctic Ocean: *Arctic Alaska ** Kasegaluk Lagoon Is ...

** by number of islands * List of isolated islands and archipelagos *

List of artificial islands This is a list of artificial islands. Table Australia *Areas around the Gold Coast region Bahamas * Ocean Cay Bahrain *New Bahrain International Airport Bolivia :'' See #Peru/Bolivia'' Brazil * Cidade Universitária (Rio de Ja ...

List of island countries An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. Many island country, island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines—these countries consist of thousand ...

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List of divided islands This is a list of islands whose land is divided by one or more border, international borders. Sea islands Island country, Island countries Non-island countries Both island countries and non-island countries Lake islands *Amon ...

Lake island A lake island is any landmass within a lake. It is a type of inland island. Lake islands may form a lake archipelago. Formation Lake islands may form in numerous ways. They may occur through a build-up of sedimentation as shoals, and become t ...

Lists of places in a country

* List of places in Belarus *

List of places in Cuba This is a list of places in Cuba. Cities and towns Cities *Bayamo *Camagüey *Ciego de Ávila *Cienfuegos *Guantánamo *Havana *Holguín * Las Tunas *Matanzas *Pinar del Río *Sancti Spíritus * Santa Clara *Santiago de Cuba Towns * Gua ...

* List of places in Germany *

List of places in Iraq This is a list of places in Iraq. Governorates of Iraq lists the governorates, and Districts of Iraq lists the subdivisions of those governorates. Modern cities and towns * Afak (عفك) * Samarra * Al `Awja (العوجا) *Baghdad (ܒܓܕ ...

* List of places in the Netherlands *

List of places in the United Kingdom A gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's county, unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates. __NOTOC__ ;Location names beginning with A: * Location names beginning with Aa–Ak * Location nam ...

* List of places in the United States

Lists of places in a state or city

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

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List of localities in Victoria This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned ...

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Counties of Victoria Cadastral divisions in Victoria are called counties, which are further subdivided into parishes and townships, for cadastral or land administration purposes. Cadastral divisions of county, parish and township form the basis for formal identific ...

List of Melbourne suburbs This is a list of Municipalities and their Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburbs (neighbourhoods), townships, and rural localities in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Suburbs are defined her ...

Lists of places by name etymology

List of places named after people There are a number of places named after famous people. For more on the general etymology of place names see toponymy. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym. Continents * Americas (North America and South America) – ...

** List of things named after Queen Anne **

List of places named for Lewis Cass This is a list of places in the United States named for Lewis Cass: Counties * Cass County, Illinois * Cass County, Indiana * Cass County, Iowa * Cass County, Michigan * Cass County, Minnesota * Cass County, Missouri * Cass County, Nebr ...

List of places named for DeWitt Clinton This is a list of places in the United States named for DeWitt Clinton. His role in the construction of the Erie Canal created accessible Eastern seaboard markets for Midwestern agriculture and he was widely admired by settlers, especially those ha ...

** List of places named for Christopher Columbus ** List of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette **

List of places named after Saint Francis The following is a list of places named after Saint Francis of Assisi. Africa South Africa * Cape St. Francis * St. Francis Bay, a town in the Eastern Cape Americas Argentina * San Francisco, Córdoba * San Francisco del Chañar, Córdoba * San ...

List of places named for Benjamin Franklin There are many places and institutions named for Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. These include counties, municipalities (that is, towns and cities), geologic features, colleges and universities, high schools, ...

** List of places named for Charles de Gaulle ** List of places named for Pope John Paul II **

List of places named for Nathanael Greene This is a list of places in the United States named for Nathanael Greene, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. General George Washington appointed him to lead the American forces in the Southern Theater of the wa ...

** List of places named for Sam Houston **

List of places named for Andrew Jackson This is a list memorials to Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. Cities, towns, and villages *Hermitage, Pennsylvania (formerly Hickory Township), after his homestead *Hermitage, Tennessee, after his homestead *Jackson, Al ...

List of places named for Thomas Jefferson This is a list of memorials to Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third president of the United States and the author of the United States Declaration of Independence. Buildings Elementary schools *Jefferson Elementary School, in Cammack Vill ...

List of things named after Tadeusz Kościuszko A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

** List of places named after Lenin ** List of places named for James Madison ** List of places named for Francis Marion **

List of places named for James Monroe This is a list of memorials to James Monroe, a Founding Father and the fifth president of the United States. United States Academic buildings There are academic buildings named after him at the University of Mary Washington, College of William an ...

** List of places named for Richard Montgomery **

List of places named for James K. Polk This is a list of places named for James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States. Buildings * President James K. Polk Home & Museum, Polk's young adult home in Columbia, Tennessee * Polk Place, Polk's now-demolished home in Nashville, ...

List of places named for Israel Putnam {{Short description, none This is a list of places named for Israel Putnam, a major general in the Continental Army who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. *Putnam, Connecticut *Putnam County, Georgia *Putnam County, Illinois *Putnam County, Indi ...

** List of places named after Stalin **

List of places named after Tito During Josip Broz Tito's presidency and in the years following his death in 1980, several places in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and across the world were named or renamed in honor of him as part of his cult of personality. Since t ...

List of places named after Queen Victoria Many places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria. As such, Victoria is one of the most commemorated individuals in ...

List of places named for George Washington This is a list of memorials to George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and first president of the United States. Federal holiday Presidents' Day, Washington's Birthday has been a fe ...

List of places named after peace The following is a list of geographic names denoting the concept of peace, in their respective language. Languages in this list * ''vrede'' - Afrikaans and Dutch * ''makmur'' – Arabic (’tranquility’) * ''salaam'' – Arabic * 安平 – Ch ...

* List of populated places named after populated places * List of non-US places that have a US place named after them

Other lists of places

* List of chemical elements named after places *

List of places with 'Silicon' names A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

List of research parks The following is a list of science park, technology parks and biomedical parks of the world, organized by continent. Asia China Mainland China * Shanghai Pudong Software Park (Shanghai) * Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park (''aka'' Zhangjiang Drug ...

Lists of political and geographic subdivisions by total area This is an index of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area ...

List of short place names This is a list of short place names, natively in Latin characters or romanized, with one or two letters. One-letter place names * A, a former village in Kami-Amakusa city, Kumamoto, Japan *Á, a farm in Dalabyggð municipality, Dalasýsla, Ic ...

List of long place names This is a list of long place names. Single-word names 25 letters or more 20–24 letters 14–19 letters Names with spaces or hyphens, by country * Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchatha ...

Extraterrestrial features/regions

Lists of geological features of the Solar System This is a directory of lists of geological features on planets including Earth, moons and asteroids ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Bodies in a planetary system are ordered similarly. Mercury * List of craters on Mercury * List of ...

* List of mountains on Venus *

List of mountains on Mars alt=four peaks, Comparison of Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons) to three Earth peaks This is a list of all named mountains on Mars. Naming Most Martian mountains have a name including one of the following astrogeological terms: * '' Mons'' — lar ...

List of mountains on Io More than 135 mountains of Io, mountains have been identified on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io (moon), Io. Despite the extensive active volcano, volcanism taking place on Io, most mountains on Io are formed through tectonic processes. These ...

List of craters on Venus This is a list of craters on Venus, named by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. All craters on Venus are named after famous women or female first names. ''(For features on Venus oth ...

List of craters on Mars __NOTOC__ This is a list of craters on Mars. Impact craters on Mars larger than exist by the hundreds of thousands, but only about one thousand of them have names. Names are assigned by the International Astronomical Union after petitioning ...

List of craters on Europa This is a list of craters on Europa. The surface of Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 time ...

List of craters on Ganymede Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all ...

List of craters on Callisto This is a list of named craters on Callisto, one of the many moons of Jupiter, the most heavily cratered natural satellite in the Solar System ''(for other features, see list of geological features on Callisto)''. As of 2020, the Working Group ...

* Phobos (moon)#Named geological features * Deimos (moon)#Named geological features *

List of valleys on the Moon There are several large valleys that have been given names on the surface of the Moon. These are listed below. Most of these valleys are named after a nearby crater; see the list of craters on the Moon for more information. See also * List of ...