The main international passenger gateway is Helsinki-Vantaa Airport with over 13 million passengers in 2007.

* The renovated and expanded ( phase 1 out of two phases of renovation ) La Aurora International Airport lies in the southern part of the city and is the main gateway to the country.

It is most likely this was the main settlement of the sagas, a " gateway " for the Norse Greenlanders to the rich lands farther south.

The main gateway for transporting intercities bus travel in La Paz with several daily departs to all the main Bolivian cities.

Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.

At the end of each main road was a large gateway with watchtowers.

It is also a main gateway of trade with Belarus due to its proximity to the border and its current and longstanding relationship with Hrodno, Belarus.

Because it is legal in the UK, and because of khat's short shelf life, Britain serves as a main gateway for khat being sent by air to North America.

The main gateway by air to Norway is Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, located about north of Oslo with departures to most European countries and some intercontinental destinations.

* ( Burlington House, Piccadilly, London ): Burlington's own contribution is likely to have been restricted to the former colonnade ( demolished 1868 ) In London, Burlington offered designs for features at several aristocratic free-standing dwellings, none of which have survived: Queensbury House in Burlington Gardens ( a gateway ); Warwick House, Warwick Street ( interiors ); Richmond House, Whitehall ( the main building );

All that remains of the old stadium is a renovated gateway near the main entrance.

Initial work began in 1357, but the main construction occurred from 1370 onwards, creating a strong fortress with eight towers that protected the strategic gateway of the Porte Saint-Antoine on the eastern edge of Paris.

The main castle courtyard, accessed through the southern gateway, was 120 feet long by 72 feet wide ( 37 m by 22 m ), and was divided from the smaller northern yard by a three-office wing, built around 1716 and renovated in 1761 in a modern, 18th-century style.

Besides the capital Wuhan, other important cities are Jingmen ; Shiyan, a center of automotive industry and the gateway to the Wudang Mountains ; Yichang, the main base for the gigantic hydroelectric projects of southwestern Hubei ; and Shashi.

Although Juárez was not its official name for several decades, it was formally named after the 19th century president Benito Juárez in 2006, and is Mexico's main domestic gateway.

These rules were designed to achieve a fairer distribution of traffic between London Heathrow and London Gatwick, the UK's two main international gateway airports.

It is Cuba's main international and domestic gateway, it serves several million passengers each year ; 80 percent of Cuba's international passengers along with Varadero's Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport.

Alfred Waterhouse designed the main Broad Street frontage of the college, with gateway and tower, known as the Brackenbury Buildings, in 1867-68 Staircases (' Stc ') I-VII, the first Stc next to the Chapel is the Organ Scholars lodgings.

This completely hides a formal gateway similar to that at the Broad Street main entrance, this can be viewed outside from Little Magdalen Street, through the gap marked XIX one finds the small function room ' Massey Room '.

Hollidaysburg became the main transfer point between the Pennsylvania Canal and the Portage Railroad, a gateway to western Pennsylvania.

Folly Beach is an eclectic beach community with surf shops, restaurants, gift shops, offices, and bars along Center Street ; the main road and gateway to the community.

Wigtown remains the gateway to and main centre of the Machars.

Selwyn College began to use its Arms long before an official grant by the College of Arms ( they are displayed above the main gateway, built in 1881, and on the Common Seal, first used in 1882 ).

As the Philippines is connected to the worldwide Anglican Communion through the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, the main edition of the Book of Common Prayer in use throughout the Islands is the same as that of the United States.

Estimates for the main centres of Christadelphian population are as follows: United Kingdom ( 18, 000 ), Australia ( 9, 987 ), Malawi ( 7, 000 ), United States ( 6, 500 ), Mozambique ( 5, 300 ), Canada ( 3, 375 ), New Zealand ( 1, 782 ), Kenya ( 1, 700 ), India ( 1, 300 ), Tanzania ( 1, 000 ), and Philippines ( 1, 000 ).

The native Maguindanaon and other native Muslim or non-Muslim groups of Mindanao have a culture that is different from the main cultures of the Southern Philippines.

In Argentina, one of the country's two main newspapers, Clarín, is a tabloid and in the Southern Philippines, a new weekly tabloid, The Mindanao Examiner, now includes media services, such as photography and video production, into its line as a source to finance the high cost of printing and other expenses.

Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade — Acapulco — shipped out 150, 000 to 345, 000 kg ( 4 to 9 million taels ) of silver annually from this year to 1602.

In the Philippines, in practice, the terms network, station and channel are used interchangeably as programming line-ups are mostly centrally planned from the networks ' main offices, and since provincial / regional stations usually just relay the broadcast from their parent company network's flagship station ( usually based in the Mega Manila area ).

It maintains active guerrilla fronts throughout the Philippines until today and is still considered by the military as the main threat to national security.

The all-percussion Drum and lyre corps in the Philippines uses this as a main instrument.

The forces were led by Australia, which provided the largest contingent and the out of theatre base for operations, supported by New Zealand, who sent the second largest contingent, and took responsibility for the more volatile southern half of the main border, France, whose special forces joined the ANZACs on the first day, as well as contingents from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Fiji, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

During her time in the Philippines, Torres learned to speak Tagalog, the main language of the country and she had a four-year relationship with Filipino actor Aga Muhlach, who is now married to Charlene Gonzalez, Miss Universe 1994 top 6 finalist.

The school is the main source of regular officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ), which prior to 1991 included those of the Philippine Constabulary.

The name refers to the capital of the Philippines, one of the main producers of abacá.

Most colonial cities in Spanish America and the Philippines were planned around a square plaza de armas, where troops could be mustered, as the name implies, surrounded by the governor's palace and the main church.

The National Flag of the Philippines () is a horizontal flag bicolor with equal bands of royal blue and scarlet red, and with a white equilateral triangle at the hoist ; in the center of the triangle is a golden yellow sun with eight primary rays, which represent the country's first group of provinces that started the 1896 Philippine Revolution against Spain ; and at each vertex of the triangle is a five-pointed golden yellow star, each of which represent the country's 3 main regions-Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Nueva Ecija is considered the main rice growing province of the Philippines and the leading producer of onions in the Municipality of Bongabon in South East Asia.

Mayon Volcano is the main landmark of Albay Province, Philippines, rising from the shores of the Gulf of Albay about away.

This was created in preparation for the Defense capability of the Philippines-10 year program of training of Filipino Servicemen and Civilian Volunteers ( Reserve ) forming the Philippine Army as the main ground forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Lapu-Lapu also appears on the official seal of the Philippine National Police and as the main design on the defunct 1-centavo coin circulated in the Philippines from 1967 to 1974.

* Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the main international airport serving Metro Manila, Philippines

Located along the border between Pasay and Parañaque, about seven kilometers south of Manila proper, and southwest of Makati, NAIA is the main international gateway for travelers to the Philippines and is the hub for all Philippine airlines.

Before Khadafi Janjalani was born, in the early 1970s, the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) was the main Muslim rebel group fighting in the Basilan region of the southern Philippines.

The main objective of the program is to win the 1986 Asian Basketball Confederation crown ( now known as the FIBA Asia Cup ) which was last won by the Philippines in 1973.

Ginebra San Miguel's main brand, Ginebra San Miguel, is currently the largest-selling gin brand in the world, with 22 bottles consumed every second in the Philippines.