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Okha
Okha (Russian: ) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. Population: 29,000 (2003 est.); 27,963 (2002 Census). It is the center of a petroleum industry (an oil pipeline and gas main Okha–Komsomolsk-on-Amur). The name has come from local dialect, meaning 'bad water'. ..

Okhaldhunga District
Okhaldhunga district, a part of Sagarmatha zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Okhadhunga as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,074 sq km and has a population (2001) of 156,702. See also Zones of Nepal Reference &#..

Okhankanyiweyo
The Okhankanyiweyo (Mention in Despatches) emblem is a South African military award. It was instituted with effect from 27 April 2003, and may be awarded to members of the South African National Defence Force (or any other armed forces serving with the SANDF) for brave or meritorious conduct, leade..

Okha port
Okha port is a census town in Jamnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Okha port had a population of 18,847. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Okha port has an average literacy rate o..

Okhi Day
Celebrated throughout Greece on October 28 each year, Okhi day (also spelled Ohi day, Oxi Day, or Ochi day) commemorates the refusal of an Italian ultimatum by the Greek dictator (in power from August 4 1936 until January 29 1941), Ioannis Metaxas on October 28, 1940. This ultimatum, which was prese..

Okhotny Ryad
Sokolnicheskaya Line Ulitsa Podbelskogo Cherkizovskaya Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad Sokolniki Krasnoselskaya Komsomolskaya Krasniye Vorota Chistiye Prudy Lubyanka Okhotny Ryad Biblioteka Ime..

Okhotsk
Okhotsk (Russian: ) is an urban-type settlement and a seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Okhotsk was the first Russian settlement in the Russian Far East, established in 1647. At various points in its history, Okhotsk was a centre for the Ru..

Okhotsk Plate
The Okhotsk Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and Eastern Japan. It was considered a part of the North American Plate, but recent studies show that it is an independent plate. It is bounded on the north by the North American Plate, on the e..

Okhranka
The Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Russian: , meaning Security Section or Security Station), also the Okhrana or Tsarist Okhranka in Western sources, or diminutive Okhranka by those dissatisfied with the tsarist regime, was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Internal Af..

Okhtyrka
Coordinates: [50°45′N 33°28′E] Okhtyrka (Ukrainian: Охтирка, Russian: ) is a city in Ukraine, a raion centre within Sumy Oblast. It is situated near the Vorskla River, on an eleven-mile spur of the Kiev–Kharkiv railway line. Population 50,400 (2001), 25,965 (1900), 17,411 ..

Okhwangsangje
Okhwangsangje is a deity of Bocheon-gyo. ..

OK Hotel
The OK Hotel was a bar and music venue located under the viaduct in Seattle's Pioneer Square district. The club's 15-year-plus life span came to an end with the Nisqually earthquake of March 2001, which damaged numerous buildings in the historic district. Most widely recognized as a prominent locat..

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