Large Letter Reprint - Providence, Rhode Island

Nicknames: The Ocean State, Little Rhody

Motto: Hope

Rhode Island is the position with the longest name. Its official name was given in 1776 by the English King Charles II to Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The largest insect in the world is in Providence, on the roof of the Pest Control Station building. It is an eighteen-meter blue ant - 928 times larger than it actually is.

 

Delta airplane and Wasatch Mountains - Salt Lake City, Utah

In the language of the native Ute people, Wasatch means "mountain pass" or "low pass over high range." According to William Bright, the mountains were named for a Shoshoni leader who was named with the Shoshoni term wasattsi, meaning "blue heron".

 

Tea time - Šaľa, Slovakia

Šaľa is located on the Danubian Lowland, on both banks of the Váh River, around 65 km from Bratislava. The town was first mentioned in 1002 in a document of Pannonhalma abbey. 

 

#55 GF - La Fortuna, Costa Rica

In 1968, the Arenal Volcano erupted to the west, causing extensive damage and casualties, including 82 deaths. The eruption did not reach the village of La Fortuna. This catastrophe, nonetheless, changed the geography of the whole region, making it one of the most visited tourist destinations of Costa Rica.

 

Hot air balloon - Makati City, Philippines

Makati is the financial center of the Philippines; it has the highest concentration of multinational and local corporations in the country. Major banks, corporations, department stores as well as foreign embassies are based there. 

 

#56 FOTW - Sofia, Bulgaria

The flag of Bulgaria is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. The flag was first adopted after the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War when Bulgaria gained de facto independence. 

The national flag at times had as a supplement the state emblem, especially during the communist era. The current flag was re-established with the 1991 Constitution of Bulgaria and was confirmed in a 1998 law.

 

Poppy seed flowers - Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Nieuwegein is a municipality and city in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It has 64,606 inhabitants as of 1 December 2021. Nieuwegein was founded on 1 July 1971 as a planned city, following the merger of the former municipalities of Jutphaas and Vreeswijk.

 

Karlskirche in Vienna - Wohnbach, Germany

Widely considered the most outstanding baroque church in Vienna, as well as one of the city's greatest buildings, the church is dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo, one of the great counter-reformers of the sixteenth century.

EUROPA stamp 2021 - "Endangered national wildlife"

 

Kazimierz Dolny watercolor painting - Warsaw, Poland

Kazimierz Dolny is an art center in Poland. Many painters retreat to this small town to paint and sell their work. Galleries can be found in almost every street, offering for sale sculptures, stained-glass, folk art, and fine art.

 

Hanji paper - Incheon, South Korea

It's a traditional handmade paper from Korea. Hanji is made from the inner bark of paper mulberry, a tree native to Korea that grows well on its rocky mountainsides.

 

#54 GF - Dogana, San Marino

There are no railways in San Marino. In the past, a railway line from Italy reached here, of which few traces remain. The line connecting the country with Rimini was opened in 1932. It was destroyed during World War II and has not been rebuilt.

 

The Blue Ridge Parkway - Tampa, Florida

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States noted for its scenic beauty. The parkway, which is America's longest linear park, runs for 469 miles (755 km).

 

Columbia River Gorge - Seattle, Washington

The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 1,200 deep, the canyon stretches for 130 km as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range, forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south.

 

#54 FOTW - Beirut, Lebanon

The national flag of Lebanon is formed of two horizontal red stripes enveloping a horizontal white stripe. The white stripe is twice the height (width) of the red ones (ratio 1:2:1)—a Spanish fess. The green cedar (Lebanon cedar) in the middle touches each of the red stripes and its width is one-third of the width of the flag.

The red stripes represent the blood shed by those who fought for Lebanon. The white stripe represents purity, peace and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon. The cedar tree represents the Christians in Lebanon and is mentioned in the Bible many times.

 

Blick zum Dom - Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew is an important church in the old town of Frankfurt. As the former election and coronation church of the Roman-German emperors, the cathedral is an important building in the history of the empire and was considered a symbol of national unity, especially in the 19th century.

 

Boeing 787-8 - Amagasaki, Japan

With a typical capacity of 220 passengers and a range of 7,355 nautical miles, the −8 is the base model of the 787 family and was the first to enter service in 2011.