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Neither here nor there: places with multiple parents

The fact that on 43places places cannot have multiple parents (though they are both in this and that, part of this and part of the other…) is a big problem which causes many places to be, um, misplaced.

Sometimes they are actually entered multiple times (a problem, because it’s only one thing, not more), at other times, they’re in one place but not at the right level to acknowledge the fact that one place "spans" multiple others. Yes, geography is messy – it’s not a neat hierarchy like some database designers would like it to be. :)

I thought to gather them in this list to hopefully make the scale of the problem more clear. Or just provide another way at looking geography…

Feel free to add whatever places you come across that really have multiple parents even when that’s not reflected in 43places—yet!

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1. Deltawerken 1 person  
2. Afsluitdijk  
3. Noord-Holland 7 people  
4. Noord-Holland 7 people  
5. Zuid-Holland 5 people  
6. Zuid-Holland 5 people  
7. Waterlinie  
8. Stelling van Amsterdam  
9. Korakoram Highway 3 people  
10. Great Wall 1390 people  
11. Great Wall 56 people  
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Jinshanling Great Wall  
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Huangyaguan Great Wall  
14. Shanhaiguan Great Wall  
15. Tibet 1560 people  
16. Tibet 649 people  
17. Xinjiang 62 people  
18. NeiMenggu 7 people  
19. Mississippi River 7 people  
20. Mississippi River  
21. Mississippi River  
22. Mississippi River 1 person  
23. Mississippi River  
24. Mississippi River  
25. Mississippi River  
26. Mississippi River  
27. Mississippi River  
28. Mississippi River  
29. Appalachian Trail 7 people  
30. Appalachian Trail 1 person  
31. Appalachian Trail 2 people  
32. Appalachian Trail 80 people  
33. Appalachian Trail 9 people  
34. Baltimore-Washington Parkway  
35.
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Baltimore-Washington Parkway  
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Big Horn National Recreation Area  
37. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area  
38. Lake Titicaca 55 people  
39. Lake Titicaca 27 people  
40. Trans-Siberian Railway 397 people  
41. Aral Sea 3 people  
42. Aral Sea 2 people  
43. Sahara 62 people  
44. Western Sahara 88 people  
45. The Great Sahara 151 people  
46. Western Desert 2 people  
47. Gobi Desert 61 people  
48. Monument Valley 58 people  
49. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park  
50. Hans Island 6 people  
This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by Marjolein Katsma on May 22, 2006.