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The forerunner of the Labour Party, the Irish...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Labour-Party-political-party" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Labour Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Labour Party, British political party whose historic links with trade unions have led it to promote an active role...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Labour-Party-political-party/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Labour-Party-political-party/Policy-and-structure" style="text-decoration: underline">Social Democracy, UK Politics, Trade Unions</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberation-of-Labour" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Labour, Liberation of</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberation of Labour, first Russian Marxist organization, founded in September 1883 in Geneva, by Georgy Valentinovich...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Bureau-of-Land-Management" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Land Management, Bureau of</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Bureau of Land Management (BLM), agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. It was established in 1946 through...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/landlocked-country" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>landlocked country</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> landlocked country, an independent sovereign state that does not have direct access to an ocean, such as the Atlantic,...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/doctrine-of-lapse" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>lapse, doctrine of</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> doctrine of lapse, in Indian history, formula devised by Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56), to...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Lapua-Movement" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Lapua Movement</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Lapua Movement, (1929–32), fascist movement in Finland that threatened the young state’s democratic institutions...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/event/Lateran-Council-Fifth-1512-1517" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Lateran Council, Fifth</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Fifth Lateran Council, (1512–17), the 18th ecumenical council, convoked by Pope Julius II and held in the Lateran...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/event/Lateran-Council-Fourth-1215" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Lateran Council, Fourth</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Fourth Lateran Council, (1215), the 12th ecumenical council, generally considered the greatest council before Trent....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/event/Third-Lateran-Council" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Lateran Council, Third</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Third Lateran Council, (1179), the 11th ecumenical council, convoked by Pope Alexander III. The council was attended...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Leaders-of-Germany-1935160" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Leaders of Germany</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Germany is a federal multiparty republic with two legislative houses. Its government is headed by the chancellor...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/place/Leaders-of-Ireland-1935162" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Leaders of Ireland</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Until the 17th century, political power in Ireland was shared among small earldoms. Afterward, Ireland effectively...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Leaders-of-Muscovy-Russia-the-Russian-Empire-and-the-Soviet-Union-1832695" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Leaders of Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Russia is a federal multiparty republic with a bicameral legislative body; its head of state is the president,...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/League-of-Women-Voters" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>League of Women Voters</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> League of Women Voters, nonpartisan American political organization that has pursued its mission of promoting active...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Lebensraum" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Lebensraum</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Lebensraum, policy of Nazi Germany that involved expanding German territories to the east to provide land and material...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Lee-Commission" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Lee Commission</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Lee Commission, body appointed by the British government in 1923 to consider the ethnic composition of the superior...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/left" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>left</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> left, in politics, the portion of the political spectrum associated in general with egalitarianism and popular...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Left-Communist" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Left Communist</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Left Communist, in Soviet history, one of a group within the Communist Party which in the first half of 1918 opposed...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Left-Party-political-party-Germany" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Left Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Left Party, German political party that ruled East Germany as the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and now...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/legate-Roman-Catholicism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>legate</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> legate, in the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric sent on a mission, ecclesiastical or diplomatic, by the pope as...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-1"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/legation" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>legation</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> legation, major administrative division of the Papal States ruled by a cardinal legate during the 18th and 19th...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/legislative-apportionment" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>legislative apportionment</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> legislative apportionment, process by which representation is distributed among the constituencies of a representative...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/legitimacy" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>legitimacy</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> legitimacy, popular acceptance of a government, political regime, or system of governance. The word legitimacy...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Legitimist" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Legitimist</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Legitimist, in 19th-century France, any of the royalists who from 1830 onward supported the claims of the representative...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/event/Leningrad-Affair" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Leningrad Affair</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Leningrad Affair, (1948–50), in the history of the Soviet Union, a sudden and sweeping purge of Communist Party...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Leninism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Leninism</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Leninism, principles expounded by Vladimir I. Lenin, who was the preeminent figure in the Russian Revolution of...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Leon-Trotsky-on-Lenin-1983748" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Leon Trotsky on Lenin</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Leon Trotsky’s essay on Vladimir Lenin is historically significant not because it is trustworthy in its judgments...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/event/Leveler-English-history" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Leveler</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Leveler, member of a republican and democratic faction in England during the period of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/liberal-democracy" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>liberal democracy</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> liberal democracy, a form of democracy in which the power of government is limited, and the freedom and rights...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Democrats" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal Democrats</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal Democrats, British political party founded in 1988 through a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Democrats/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Democrats/Policy-and-structure" style="text-decoration: underline">Social Reform, Electoral Reform, Coalition Government</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Front-Party" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal Front Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal Front Party (PFL), centre-right Brazilian political party that supports free-market policies. Founded in...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/liberal-internationalism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>liberal internationalism</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> liberal internationalism, cluster of ideas derived from the belief that international progress is possible, where...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-political-party-United-States" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal Party, a minor U.S. political party in New York state, founded in May 1944 by leaders of the moderate wing...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-political-party-United-Kingdom" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal Party, a British political party that emerged in the mid-19th century as the successor to the historic...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-political-party-United-Kingdom/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-political-party-United-Kingdom/Policy-and-structure" style="text-decoration: underline">UK Politics, Reforms, Platforms</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-of-Australia" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal Party of Australia</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal Party of Australia, one of the major Australian political parties. In its current form it was founded in...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-of-Canada" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal Party of Canada</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal Party of Canada, centrist Canadian political party, one of the major parties in the country since the establishment...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-of-Canada/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Party-of-Canada/Policy-and-structure" style="text-decoration: underline">Politics, Platforms, Leadership</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Republican-Party-political-party" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal Republican Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal Republican Party, insurgent reform wing of the U.S. Republican Party that challenged what it considered...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Democratic-Party-of-Japan" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), Japan’s largest political party, which has held power almost continuously...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Democratic-Party-of-Japan/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/Liberal-Democratic-Party-of-Japan/Policy-and-structure" style="text-decoration: underline">Policy, Structure, Japan</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/liberalism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>liberalism</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/liberalism/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/liberalism/Classical-liberalism" style="text-decoration: underline">Individualism, Free Markets, Liberty</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/liberalism/Rights" style="text-decoration: underline">Rights, Equality, Freedom</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/liberalism/Liberalism-in-the-19th-century" style="text-decoration: underline">19th Century, Reforms, Equality</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/liberalism/The-modern-liberal-program" style="text-decoration: underline">Equality, Rights, Democracy</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/liberalism/Contemporary-liberalism" style="text-decoration: underline">Equality, Rights, Democracy</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/liberalism/Legacy-and-prospects" style="text-decoration: underline">Democracy, Equality, Liberty</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/classical-liberalism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>liberalism, classical</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> classical liberalism, an early form of liberalism, the political-philosophical doctrine which holds that the central...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-2"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Union-of-Liberation" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberation, Union of</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Union of Liberation, first major liberal political group in Russia. The Union was founded in St. Petersburg in...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Libertarian-Party" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Libertarian Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Libertarian Party, U.S. political party devoted to the principles of libertarianism. It supports the rights of...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/libertarianism-politics" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>libertarianism</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> libertarianism, political philosophy that takes individual liberty to be the primary political value. It may be...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/libertarianism-politics/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/libertarianism-politics/Historical-origins" style="text-decoration: underline">Origins, Philosophy, Politics</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/libertarianism-politics/Libertarian-philosophy" style="text-decoration: underline">Individualism, Free Markets, Limited Government</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/libertarianism-politics/Contemporary-libertarianism" style="text-decoration: underline">Individualism, Free Markets, Limited Government</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Saenuri-Party" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberty Korea Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberty Korea Party, conservative political party in South Korea. It advocates fiscal responsibility, a market-based...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Liberty-Party" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Liberty Party</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Liberty Party, U.S. political party (1840–48) created by abolitionists who believed in political action to further...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Lifan-Yuan" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Lifan Yuan</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Lifan Yuan, government bureau established in the 17th century by China’s Qing (Manchu) dynasty to handle relations...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/lijia" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>lijia</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> lijia, system of social organization in Ming dynasty China. See... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Likud" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Likud</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Likud, right-wing Israeli political party. It was founded in September 1973 to challenge the Israel Labour Party,...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/event/Linz-program" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Linz program</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Linz program, expression of German nationalist radicalism within Austria-Hungary, named after its town of origin...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-Australian-politicians-2046162" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of Australian politicians</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of Australian politicians. (See also... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-Central-Intelligence-Agency-directors-1787118" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of Central Intelligence Agency directors</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), formally created in 1947, is the principal foreign intelligence and counterintelligence...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-chancellors-of-Germany-2066807" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of chancellors of Germany</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a chronologically ordered list of chancellors of... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Argentina-2056026" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Argentina</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of cities and towns in Argentina, ordered alphabetically by province (provincia). (See also city;...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Australia-2027337" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Australia</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in Australia, ordered alphabetically by state...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Austria-2050559" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Austria</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in Austria, arranged by state (Bundesland). (See also...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Brazil-2055400" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Brazil</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of cities and towns in Brazil, ordered alphabetically by unidad federativa (federative unit). All...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Canada-2038873" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Canada</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in Canada, ordered alphabetically by province...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Chile-2056028" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Chile</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of cities and towns in Chile, arranged alphabetically by region (región). (See also city; urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Colombia-2059454" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Colombia</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of cities and towns in Colombia ordered alphabetically by departamento (department). (See also city;...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Denmark-2055396" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Denmark</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in Denmark, arranged by region. (See also city; urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-3"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Egypt-2054780" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Egypt</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of cities and towns in Egypt, ordered alphabetically by muḥāfaẓah (governorate). (See also city;...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-France-2039172" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in France</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in France, ordered alphabetically by administrative...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Germany-2038874" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Germany</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in Germany, ordered alphabetically by state....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Guatemala-2059365" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Guatemala</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in Guatemala. (See also city; urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-India-2033033" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in India</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in India, ordered alphabetically by state...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Indonesia-2058166" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Indonesia</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of cities and towns in Indonesia, ordered alphabetically by province (propinsi, or provinsi) or...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Iran-2059067" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Iran</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in Iran. (See also city; urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Israel-2060226" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Israel</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Italy-2047404" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Italy</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of cities and towns in Italy, ordered alphabetically by region (regioni). (See also city; urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Japan-2039519" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Japan</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in Japan, ordered alphabetically by prefecture....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Kenya-2043174" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Kenya</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of selected cities and towns in Kenya. (See also city and urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Mexico-2039050" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Mexico</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in Mexico, arranged by state. (See also city; urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-New-Zealand-2041679" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in New Zealand</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in New Zealand, ordered alphabetically by...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Nigeria-2042462" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Nigeria</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is a list of selected cities, towns, and other populated places in Nigeria, ordered alphabetically by state....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Norway-2050561" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Norway</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of significant cities and towns in Norway. (See also city; urban... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Peru-2059456" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>list of cities and towns in Peru</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in Peru. 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