Sunday, August 17, 2014

Zaporizhia

Received from: Ukraine
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2014
Distance: 1120 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

Zaporizhia is an important industrial center of Ukraine, the country's main car manufacturing company, the Motor-Sich world-famous aircraft engine manufacturer. Well supplied with electricity, Zaporizhia forms, together with the adjoining Donets Basin and the Nikopol manganese and Kryvyy Rih iron mines, one of Ukraine's leading industrial complexes.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Nîmes

Received from: France
Category: from a friend
Date: June 2014

Nîmes  is a city in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. It is the capital of the Gard department.
Nimes is located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Cévennes mountains. The estimated population of Nimes is 175 503.