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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
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Karamay (Asia / Eastern Asia / China)

Karamay or Karamai (Uyghur: قاراماي; Uyghur (Latin): Karamay; , Wade-Giles: K'o-la-ma-i) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China. Karamay comes from the Uyghur language, and means "black oil".


Pole of inaccessibility (Asia / Eastern Asia / China / Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu)

The pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features which could provide access. The term is a geographic construct, not an actual physical phenomenon, and is of interest mostly to explorers and conspiracy theorists.


Extreme points of the world (Asia / Eastern Asia / China / Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu)

This is a list of lists of extreme points of the world, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries.