( shkä´r ) (KEY) , second largest river of Japan, c.225 mi (360 km) long, rising in the mountainous interior of Hokkaido and flowing generally south...
member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Italy a...
( s ´-l -m l n ´) (KEY) , suburb SW of Paris (1990 pop. 46,734), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France. It is an industrial center where metals, ae...
relatively small body of land surrounded entirely by water. (As the oceans form a continuous mass of water on the earth’s surface, all continents ar...
( sh m´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 66,000), W Siberian Russia, on the Ishim River and the Trans-Siberian RR. An agricultural center, it produces farm m...