Geography :

GTL : Ground Truth Local(Project Name)

Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford[1] working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP).

The domaingoogle.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally

incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 4, 1998 at a friend's garage
in Menlo Park, California.

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol",[44][45] which refers to the
number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin write in their
original paper onPageRank:[46] "We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a
common spelling of googol, or 10100and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale
search engines."

10 states of US and corresponding cities:

States

OKLAHAMA

OKLAHAMA CITY

TEXAS

AUSTIN

VIRGINIA

RICHMOND

WASHINGTON -

OLYMPIA

NEWYORK

ALBANY

NEW JERSEY

TRENTON

MISSISSIPI

JACKSON

CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO

ALASKA

HONOLULU

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NEW MEXICO -

SANTA FE

Time zones of USA:

Central Time zone

North American Eastern Time Zone
Mountain Time Zone
Alaska Time Zone
Pacific Time Zone
Samoa Time Zone
Atlantic Standard Time Zone
Hawaii-Aleutian time zone
UTC-5
UTC-6
UTC-7
UTC-8
UTC-9
UTC-10

10 Google products and their uses, History of Google

Android ( alpha, beta ,cupcake, clair ,honey comb , ice cream sandwich ,jelly bean &
lime pie)

Gmail
YouTube

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Google+
Orkut
Picasa
Chrome
Maps
Google earth

Longitudes :

The angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or
west of the standard meridian of a celestial...: "at a longitude of 2 W"; "lines of
longitude"

Latitudes : Noun
The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, usually
expressed in degrees and minutes.
Regions, esp. with reference to their temperature and distance from the equator.

Altitudes: The height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level.

Prime meridian :

A planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude.

The earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes through Greenwich,

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England.

Island: A piece of land surrounded by water

Peninsula: A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of
water.,

Tropic of Cancer: a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator

Tropic of Capricorn: a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator

Countries passing through equator: The equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador,
Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati.

Above the equator: Ecuador, Brazil, Gabon, Kenya & Indonesia

Below the equator: Colombia, Maldives, Uganda, Congo & Somalia

All the oceans: Pacific Ocean , Atlantic Ocean , Indian Ocean , Southern Ocean & Arctic
Ocean

Arctic Ocean is the smallest ocean

Pacific ocean is the biggest ocean

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States & capitals of India & Union territories of India

1

Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad

Arunachal Pradesh

Itanagar

Assam

Dispur

Bihar

Patna

Chhattisgarh

Raipur

Goa

Panaji

Gujarat

Gandhinagar

Haryana

Chandigarh

Himachal Pradesh

Shimla

10

Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar
(winter)

11

Jharkhand

Ranchi

12

Karnataka

Bengaluru

13

Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram

14

Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal

15

Maharashtra

Mumbai

16

Manipur

Imphal

17

Meghalaya

Shillong

18

Mizoram

Aizawl

19

Nagaland

Kohima

20

Orissa

Bhubaneswar

21

Punjab

Chandigarh

22

Rajasthan

Jaipur

23

Sikkim

Gangtok

24

Tamil Nadu

Chennai

25

Tripura

Agartala

26

Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow

27

Uttarakhand

Dehradun

28

West Bengal

Kolkata

(summer),

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Jammu

S.no

Union Territories

Andaman
Islands

Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Dadar and Nagar Haveli

Silvassa

Daman and Diu

Daman

Delhi

Delhi

Lakshadweep

Kavaratti

Pondicherry

Pondicherry

and

Capital
Nicobar

Port Blair

countries & capitals 20(familiar)

Afghanistan - Kabul
Australia - Canberra
Canada - Ottawa
China - Beijing
France - Paris
India - New Delhi
Japan - Tokyo
Maldives - Male
Mexico - Mexico City
Nepal - Kathmandu
Oman - Muscat
Pakistan - Islamabad
Singapore - Singapore
Spain - Madrid
Sri Lanka - Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)
Thailand - Bangkok
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom - London
United States of America - Washington D.C.

5 Countries from Middle east:

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

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Kuwait

Oman

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Scandinavian countries:

Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Finland and Iceland are generally included.
Greenland, however, is rarely included.

European: Austria, Spain , Moldova , United Kingdom & Switzerland

South American: Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Colombia,Ecuador,French

Guiana,Guyana,Paraguay,Perum,Suriname,Uruguay & Venezuela
North American: Mexico City , New York , Los Angeles , Chicago , Toronto , Dallas-Fort
Worth , Delaware Valley , Houston , Washington, D.C. & Miami

Asian Countries: Afghanistan , Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China ,Hong Kong, Japan,
Korea North, Korea South

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states of Australia and cities

Jurisdiction

Capital

Australia and
Australian Capital Territory

Canberra*

New South Wales

Sydney

Victoria

Melbourne

Queensland

Brisbane

Western Australia

Perth

South Australia

Adelaide

Tasmania

Hobart

Northern Territory

Darwin

Difference between Google Maps and Google earth:

1. Google Maps is an online application while Google Earth is a standard application
2. Google Maps is limited to the browser while Google Earth has more UI freedom

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3. Google Maps can be used in just about any operating system while Google Earth is
restricted to a few
4. Google Maps is absolutely free while a pro version exists for Google Earth at a fee

Seas:

biggest Philippine Sea, 2,000,000sq miles, 5,177,762sq kms.

Smallest Sovereign states with a non-sea area less than 1,000 km2 (386 sq mi).

Rivers:

biggest Nile
Smallest Roe River, Montana, United States, at 61 metres

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