International Organizations and their Headquarters

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1. UNO - New York
8. UNICEF - New York
3. UNESCO - Paris
4. UNIDO - Vienna
5. WHO - Geneva
6. UNFPA - New York
7. ILO - Geneva
8. IMF - Washington DC
9. WTO - Geneva
10. International Court Of Justice - The Hague
11. International Atomic Energy Agency - Vienna
12. World Bank - Washington D.C.
13. International Committee of the Red Cross -Geneva
14. International Maritime Organisation - London
15. Universal Postal Union - Berne
16. Food and Agricultural Organisation - Rome
17. World Meteorological Organisation - Geneva
18. SAARC - Kathmandu
19. Amnesty International - London
20. Transparency International - Berlin
21. World Intellectual Property Organization - Geneva
22. International Renewable Energy Agency - Abu Dhabi (UAE) (Interim HQs)
23. Commonwealth of Nations - London
24. International StandardsOrganisation - Geneva
25. UNEP( united nations environmental programme)- Nairobi(Kenya).
Important Geographical Discoveries in World
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1). America - Christopher Columbus (Italian)
2). Sea Route To India -Vasco Da Gama (Portuguese)
3). China - Marco Polo
4). New Foundland - John Cabot (British)
5). Brazil - Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese)
6). Island of Tasmania And New Zealand - Tasman (Dutch)
7). Hawaiian Islands - Captain Cook (Britain)
8). North Pole - Robert Peary (USA)
9). South Pole - Amundsen (Norway)
10). Suez Canal - Ferdinand De Lesseps
11). Victoria Falls - David Livingston (British)
12). Cape of Good Hope - Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese)
13). Greenland - Norseman Eric
14). North America - Leif Erricsson
15). Niger River - Mungo Park
16). Lake Tanganyika - Richard Francis Burton
17). Hudson Bay - Henry Hudson
18). Mount Everest - Edmund Hillary
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