Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.

Near Antwerp, the largest city on its banks, the Scheldt flows west into the Netherlands towards the North Sea.

Near the entrance to nearby Ten Sleep Canyon is the former site of the Girl Scout National Center West, a portion of which was one of the largest encampments in the world at.

Near the city of Larvik is the largest naturally occurring beech forest in Norway.

Near Neuwied, one of the largest Roman castra on the Rhine has been excavated by archeologists.

Attu () is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost

Near its center is the fovea, a small pit that contains the largest concentration of cone cells in the eye and is responsible for central, high resolution vision.

Near the western edge of the township, just outside of Cambridge, Ontario is Puslinch Lake, the largest kettle lake in North America.

Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated Trajan's Bridge, the largest in the Empire.

When opened in 1930, the Merchandise Mart ( or the Merch Mart, or the Mart ), located in the Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, United States, was the largest building in the world with of floor space.

Near the city emperor Diocletian, born in Salona, built the Diocletian's Palace ( around year 300 AD ), which is the largest and most important monument of late antique architecture in the World.

Near the town of Sarov there is the largest and the most famous convent in Russia, established by Saint Seraphim of Sarov-Diveevo convent.

Near the town of Medicine Bow the Medicine Bow River is joined by its two largest tributaries, Rock Creek and the Little Medicine Bow River.

Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago, the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association and promotes good oral health to the public while representing the dental profession.

Near Avenue L what was believed to be the largest all-kosher supermarket in the United States opened in August 2008.

Near the border to Mitte the former S-Bahn station Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was demolished to make space for the new central station Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Europe's largest two level railway station, where the east-west and the north-south railway axis meet.

The Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies ( often simply referred to as the BYU Jerusalem Center, or BYU – Jerusalem ), situated on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, Israel, is a satellite campus of Brigham Young University ( BYU ), the largest religious university in the United States.

Near the Motagua river, the largest in Guatemala that crosses all over El Progreso to Zacapa, in direction to Izabal, it can be found big extensions of green lands, and cities and villages near it.

Near the city of Sambalpur, it is dammed by the largest earthen dam in the world, the Hirakud Dam.

Near each end of the boom Château-Renault had moored two of his largest men-of-war: the Bourbon, and the Esperance.

Near Fenzhongsi Bridge is what is claimed to be the largest restaurant in Asia.

Near Lucerne, this motorway passes through the Sonnenberg Tunnel, which until recently was the world's largest nuclear blast shelter.

Near Andong, a series of massive hydroelectric dams have been constructed, creating a small chain of artificial lakes of which Andong Lake is the largest.

The Antarctic hosts the world largest protected area comprising 1. 07 million km < sup > 2 </ sup >, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protection Area created in 2012.

The British Virgin Islands comprise around sixty tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola long and wide, to tiny uninhabited islets.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

The largest numbers of expatriates living in the Cayman Islands ( as of the government's 1999 Census Report ) hail from Jamaica ( 8, 320 ), the United Kingdom ( 2, 392 ), the United States ( 2, 040 ), Canada ( 1, 562 ), and Honduras ( 873 ).

Dominica is the largest and most northerly of the Windward Islands.

Diego Garcia is the largest land mass in the Chagos Archipelago ( which includes Peros Banhos, the Salomon Islands, the Three Brothers, the Egmont Islands and the Great Chagos Bank ), being an atoll occupying approximately, of which is dry land.

Seabirds include the second largest colony in the western Indian Ocean of Great Frigatebirds ( with up to 1100 pairs ), Audubon's Shearwaters ( up to 100 pairs, probably of the subspecies Puffinus lherminieri bailloni previously considered endemic to the Mascarene Islands ), Dimorphic Egrets and Caspian Terns.

The largest company in the islands used to be the Falkland Islands Company ( FIC ), a publicly quoted company on the London Stock Exchange.

At 1, 660 km² it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife.

in length and wide, it has an area of 768 hectares ( 3 square miles ), making it the tenth largest of the Shetland Islands.

The largest include Kotlin Island with the city of Kronstadt ( population 42, 800 ), Beryozovye Islands, Lisiy Island, Maly Vysotsky Island with the nearby city of Vysotsk ( population 1706 ), Hogland ( Suursaari ), Moshnyi Island, Bolshoy Tyuters ( Tytärsaari ), Sommers, Naissaar, Kimitoön, Kökar, Seskar, Lavansaari, Grachevo ( Seiskari ), Pakri Islands and others.

The Islands of the Firth of Clyde are the fifth largest of the major Scottish island groups after the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.

Jersey lies in the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel and is the largest of the Channel Islands.

Jersey is the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands.

From 1946 to 1958, as the site of the Pacific Proving Grounds, the U. S. tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, including the largest nuclear test the U. S. ever conducted, Castle Bravo.

Methodist and Wesleyan traditions in the Philippines are shared by three of the largest mainline Protestant churches in the country – The United Methodist Church, Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas ( IEMELIF ) ( Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands ), and The United Church of Christ in the Philippines.

The Methodist Church is the third largest denomination throughout the Samoan Islands, in both Samoa and American Samoa.

Filipinos are the largest overall ethnic group in the Northern Mariana Islands, making up over 29 % of the population.

At this time, it was named after the largest of the British Channel Islands, Jersey, Carteret's birthplace.

With an area of, it is the fifth largest of the Orkney Islands.

With Europe's growing desire for coconut oil, Godeffroy's of Hamburg, the largest trading firm in the Pacific, began trading for copra in the New Guinea Islands.

Offshore islands include the small, forested Admiralty Islands, the largest of which is Manus, to the north of the main island of New Guinea.