The important economic pillar of the village is the fishery. After the IJsselmeer was formed, the Urkers fished on the North Sea. Due to rising prices of fish, at present Urk is a very prosperous village. In the past, many lives were lost in storms on the Zuiderzee and North Sea. There is a memorial to lost fishermen on Urk, popularly known as the "Urker vrouw": a statue of a woman looking out to sea, vainly awaiting the return of her husband and sons.
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Urk | Economy
North Sea Yes, Almere, the Vecht river, the IJssel river Yes, the North Sea. Yes the North Sea
when will the new dunkirk film be released on dvd
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18 December 2017
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what is this film about?
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Dunkirk evacuation of World War II
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can you mention a few members of the cast?
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Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles
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where was it shot?
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Dunkirk and Urk, Netherlands
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can you tell me anything about the latter place's past?
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Until 1475 the High and Low Lordship of Urk and Emmeloord was in the hands of the Van Kuinre family
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what does the economy of this place depend upon?
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Fishery
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is there any waterbody nearby ?
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The important economic pillar of the village is the fishery. After the IJsselmeer was formed, the Urkers fished on the North Sea. Due to rising prices of fish, at present Urk is a very prosperous village. In the past, many lives were lost in storms on the Zuiderzee and North Sea. There is a memorial to lost fishermen on Urk, popularly known as the "Urker vrouw": a statue of a woman looking out to sea, vainly awaiting the return of her husband and sons.
Urk | Economy
The mainstay of the town's economy has always been fishing, and the products of the sea coming in through Urk's harbour continue to be exported widely, although today Urk's fishing boats must travel greater distances to gather them than was required in most historical periods. Religious life has also traditionally been very important to Urk's inhabitants, with active, conservative congregations of the Dutch Reformed denominations playing key roles in the life of the community.
Urk | Introduction
All rivers and creek are rich in fish, so the fishery was probably also developed. Water springs are abundant in the area. Some of the marshes remained through the hole year, being rich in fish, birds and other animal life. Former local ponds of Velika Bara and Nurča, which survived up to the 1970s, are today merely draining canals. Also, at the time, the area was surrounded by the centennially old oak forests.
Crkvine (Stubline) | Economy
In addition to the cellulose and paper mill, there is chemical production and timber production conducted in and near the town, as well as some machinery production.
Amursk | Economy
Economy of the town like most other towns depend on agriculture. Fruits like pomegranates, plums, apricots, grapes, figs as well as olives are the most pronounced products There is also a trout farm in the town.
Göksu, Mut | Economy
Though there are several small industrial objects, the settlement is predominantly agricultural with the livestock breeding especially being developed.
Nemenikuće | Economy
The town has food-processing enterprises (a cannery, a dairy factory, a brewery, a meat-processing plant, etc.), a knitting mill, a clothes and a shoe factory.
Yessentuki | Economy
Due to its location surrounded by ocean, fishing is the primary source of income for its residents.
Wuqiu, Kinmen | Economy
Today the Plant is not functional. But there is agricultural happening and there is a State radio station known as the Radio Stacioni Kombetar Shtermen. The City has had many opportunities for a better economy for its people and land.
Cërrik | Economy
The major enterprises in the town include a shipbuilding and repair plant, a milk factory, a meat factory, a bakery, and a mineral water plant. Akhtubinsk is the transfer point for Bassol, the industrial complex which extracts salt from Lake Baskunchak.
Akhtubinsk | Economy
The town's economy is based on nearby mineral resources and agricultural resources. Mineral resources include gold, manganese, antimony and mineral water.
Pingcha | Economy
The town's economy relies mainly on fishing, particularly salmon.
Aniva | Economy
The economy of a village depends on agriculture and husbandry. In the village, there is a drinking water supply, but there is no sewerage system. There is a post office and a post office branch but no health centers and health posts nor school. The village has asphalt roads connecting the village and electricity and landline telephone.
Siledik | Economy
The economy of the town depends on agriculture. There is a tomato paste factory and a dairy products factory around the town.
Tatkavaklı | Economy
The main economic activity is agriculture and animal husbandry. The town has always been famed for hot springs. In a systematical research, it is reported that the temperature of the water is 60 °C (140 °F) and the flow rate is 55 lt/s. Thermal spas under planning or construction may contribute to town economy.
Sağlık, Meram | Economy
The city's industrial production is concentrated on ceramics (two major holdings), food (Biserovo fisheries and a fish factory in Noginsk), beverage (one of Russia's biggest beverage producers is located near Noginsk), and construction materials.
Noginsk | Economy
Termonfeckin is primarily dependent on the farming industry. However, tourism also plays a large part, and nearby Baltray and Seapoint, with their coasts and golf courses, attracting visitors.
Termonfeckin | Economy
There are several companies active in the industrial park of the village.
Sóskút | Economy
The unemployment rate was 5.3% in August 2020. The most important sector is tourism service. Several ski resorts are very close to the town. Another important economic sector is the growing of bioproducts and forestry. Rests of the graphite deposits are not recently mined. A successor of the former state-owned mining company bankrupted in 2011.
Staré Město (Šumperk District) | Economy
Uryupinsk is a developed industrial center with a concentration in heavy industries such as agricultural machinery (harvesting machines) and loading equipment (a large crane-making plant is located here). The city also contains factories of light industry production (such as knitted fabric, shoe fabric, and furniture fabric), paper production plant, and a packing plant. Another major industry involving the outlying areas of the town is goat farming and goat leather production. Because of its mild southern climate, the region is a good area for agriculture, and there are many agricultural processing factories in the region, specializing mainly in beef, oil and butter production.
Uryupinsk | Economy and industry
The current water quality allows for a stable fish fauna with five species populating the river, namely salmon (extinct in 1940 and restored thanks to the re-population programs of the 1980s), trout, "ezkailu" ("Phoxinus phoxinus"), loach and eel.
Urumea | Fauna
The present-day Udege population of the basin lives primarily in one village – Agzu – while the residents of the remaining three towns are largely of Slavic origin. Almost the entire people of the river system is actively involved in fishing – pink salmon and Dolly Vardena only.
Samarga | Resources and economy
The economy of the village is based on agriculture and animal husbandry.
Kirazcık | Economy
The city has a river port, industry enterprises, Katanov State University of Khakasia, and three theatres. Furthermore, it has a commercial center that produces footwear, foodstuffs, and metal products.
Abakan | Economy
The economy of a village depends on agriculture and husbandry. The village has a primary school, drinking water network, but no sewerage system. The newly opened health center was shut down in July 2010. The village has asphalt roads connecting the village and has electricity and landline telephone.
Dışkaya, Uşak | Economy
Gadwall, ruddy shelduck, demoiselle crane are among the bird population of the lake. Animal husbandry is one of the major economic activities around the lake. Fishing is only of minor importance.
Lake Haçlı | Fauna
The major economic activities are irrigated farming, cattle breeding and dairying. Although there are marble quarries to the south of the town they are inactive.
Yunusemre, Mihalıçcık | Economy
The town's main industries are forestry and woodworking.
Apsheronsk | Economy
The village relies on the Zhalpaksaiskoe Reservoir, located to the southeast of the village for its water supplies. Agricultural land lies to the north of the village between the M33 and to the south.
Abay, Almaty | Economy
Salt pan owners revolted against the government decision to build a seaport, but the port has proved to be the main source of income to residents and nearby villages, as major projects and warehouses have opened nearby.
Uran | Economy
Yanrakynnot is a traditional Chukchi locality, with the economy being dominated by whaling. The locality also serves as a base for those wishing to visit Whale Bone Alley on Yttygran Island or Arakamchechen Island.
Yanrakynnot | Economy
Timber processing and a power plant are the focus of the town's economy, along with farming in the surrounding area.
Olyokminsk | Economy and infrastructure
Agricultural products of the village are tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, potatoes, onions, peppers, corn, peas, sunflowers, lentils, cabbage, cherry, sour cherry, apple, peach, pear, mulberry, blackberry, grape, walnut, plum, apricot.
Porsuk, Ulukışla | Economy
There is a hydraulic systems plant (ShAAZ, Shadrinsky Avtoagregatny Zavod) in the town, which manufactures auto parts. The plant is controlled by the Ural Mining Metallurgical Company (UMMC). Another plant is Shadrinsk Milk Canning Plant. It produces dairy products and "Shadrinskaya" brand mineral water.
Shadrinsk | Economy
In the 1950s, the heavy economy began to develop in the city. In 1959 a mechanical workshop for boilers and tools was built in the city.Today, the city has a large machine-building plant, automobile plant and metallurgical plant
Oskemen | Economy
Biryusinsk's industrial enterprises include a timber factory and a hydrolysis plant.
Biryusinsk | Economy
The town's economy is based on nearby mineral resources and agricultural resources. Underground mineral resources include diabase, tungsten, silicon and lead. Agricultural products include rice, pepper, tomato, pear, tea, cattle, goat, medicinal materials, etc. Among them, pear, tea seed oil, pepper, tofu and fish are famous local products in the town.
Wutuan | Economy
The economy of the municipality of is mainly based on natural resources (mostly mineral water), tourism (two private spas), agriculture and small trade businesses. Klokot has some important hot-water springs that get up to . There are 29 registered private businesses operating in the municipality.
Klokot | Economy
The town's economy is based on oil and natural gas extraction.
Pyt-Yakh | Economy
The economy of the neighborhood is based on agriculture, animal husbandry and trade.
Koçyazı, Yunak | Economy
Gaoyou was dependent on its agriculture and aquaculture sections financially. Primary agricultural products include rapeseed, rice, wheat, poultry and eggs. A variety of aquatic products contain fish, crab and shrimp. The environment in this county has been well protected by the government. The local government has closed many factories in order to protect the lakes.
Gaoyou | Economy
The economy of Noheji is heavily dependent on commercial fishing, especially for scallops, and on agriculture with the raising of mountain yams predominating. The town also serves as a commercial and transportation center for the surrounding rural areas.
Noheji | Economy
Most of the area west of the city is a polder riddled with drainage trenches. The major economic activity of the region is dairy farming, producing the famous butter of .
Diksmuide | Introduction
The economy is mostly depended on agriculture and livestock. Although most of the young population prefer working in the city center.
Düvecik, Canik | Economy
The main occupation of the inhabitants is reindeer herding and fishing, hunting and trapping. Currently, Anyuysk is the base for the municipal agricultural enterprise "Lakeside". The village has a school, local hospital, post office, communications center, a cultural center, a library, a hotel with ten beds.
Anyuysk | Economy
The village has an active ice-club. The club has a natural ice ice rink and they organize long distance tours when possible.
Wanneperveen | Economy
The river is home to Arctic char. Large populations of the American brant goose nest on coastal islands at the river's mouth.
Kuunajuk | Fauna
One of the main enterprises is the sea trading port, with clients from all over the world. It carries out metal processing, scrap metal, grain, coal, ore, clay, sunflower-seed oil, industrial oils, mineral oil, and pig-iron. There is a complex for processing fertilizers and mineral oil, the container terminal, and a railway depot. Tracks and roads approach all moorings, and all are equipped with electric cranes. Depth in port water area is . Berdyansk is also an important fisheries centre which is an integral part of the city's food industry. There is also a scientific organisation which does fish research in reservoirs of the Azov basin.
Berdyansk | Economy
All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
Ueken | Geography
The economy of this area is centered on fishing and some other small industries.
Åkrehamn | Introduction
Situated in the fertile plain, the town's economy depends on agriculture. Cereal, cotton, sugar beet and anise are among the more important crops. Travertine mining is another profitable activity.
Kaklık | Economy
The nearest facilities are in Snitterfield.
Bearley | Economy
There is some agriculture in the area, where strawberries and potatoes are grown by local farmers. Wildlife and fishing are available in the mountains and lakes close to residential areas, and boats are available for sea excursions.
Borkenes | Economy
The economy of the district depends mainly on agriculture. Hazelnuts, beekeeping, dairy farming, corn, and kale are the main products. In recent decades the population has declined as people have migrated away to jobs in Turkey's larger cities or abroad, now mainly their grandparents remain.
Ulubey, Ordu | Economy
The economy of the village is based on agriculture and there is an active primary school in the village. The village has drinking water, sewerage (completed in 2001), electricity and fixed telephone. Also the road that provides access to the village is asphalt.
Yücetepe, Muş | Economy
The local economy is based on agriculture and to a lesser extent on commercial fishing.
Iwaizumi, Iwate | Economy
Some of this degradation also comes from industrial and municipal wastewater discharge.
Kura (Caspian Sea) | Economy and human use
Surface water resources are insufficient in the region, with often water shortages. The town is supplied with water from drill wells and water catchment areas located near the town. Eight pumping stations provide bacteria-free drinking water which does not need further treatment. The water sources are in constant operation. A security area surrounds each source, and the water distribution is controlled by computers. The municipality boasts a complete water supply network.
Dobrich | Water resources
Tasek Merimbun is dark in color; a phenomenon generated by tannin coming from leaves falling into the water. The lake supports a rich variety of fauna including birds, mammals and reptiles. Visitors can hire a boat to take them around to explore the lake and its two islands. There is a small island in the center body of water that can be reached via a wooden walkway. Here, picnic pavilion facilities fashioned from logs enhance enjoyment of this restful spot. Chalet facilities for researchers are available nearby.
Tasek Merimbun | Physical environment and facilities
Yūki has an industrial park, however, the local economy remains based on agriculture and food processing.
Yūki, Ibaraki | Economy
The area is both industrial and agricultural. There are dolomite deposits and, beneath the flatter area to the south-west of the municipality, coal deposits.
Imielin | Economy
Water from the upper reaches of the Ural River is used to supply the prominent Magnitogorsk (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, built in the early 1930s) and Orsk-Khalilovsk metallurgical plants, and the low reaches are used for irrigation. Two reservoirs were created near Magnitogorsk, and there is a hydroelectric plant near the village of Iriklinskaya with the corresponding reservoir. Below Uralsk, there is another reservoir and the Kushumsky channel. The river is navigated up to Uralsk and there is a port in Atyrau. Fishery is well developed; the commercial fish species include sturgeon, perch, herring, bream, carp and catfish. The delta of Ural River accounts for about half of the fish catchment in Kazakhstan.
Ural (river) | Industry
However, the economic impact of these businesses is generally small compared to the fishery.
Clark's Harbour | Economy
Town's industrial facilities include a water-accumulator installations plant, a wood-processing factory, a fruit-and-vegetable processing plant, a bread-making plant, a beverage plant, a dairy factory, and a hemp-processing plant.
Toguchin | Economy
Town's economy is dominated by timber industry. Vaga was used for timber rafting until the 1990s. Food production is also present.
Velsk | Industry
The population lives mostly from fishing, trading and small agriculture. Some are tricycle and pedicab drivers who deliver goods and ferry commuters. Popular products in this place are dried or fresh fish. Tapon also has a thriving crab processing plant which produces sea products for exports. Some people also sell peanut products, and produce and repair fishing nets and other fishing equipment.
Tapon | Economy
Due to the porous soil, there are no permanent water streams or other bodies of water on the island.
Susak | Geography
The economy of Kazamaura is heavily dependent on forestry and commercial fishing (particularly for squid, sea urchin and konbu).
Kazamaura | Economy
Agriculture, coconut and cashew plantations, Paddy and farmings are major occupation. Chakkarakkal is the nearest economical hub.
Iriveri | Economy
There is an ore-mining and processing plant, a mining equipment repair shop, a timber industry company, and a poultry farming sovkhoz.
Ust-Omchug | Economy
All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located on a terrasse on the south-east slope of the Gurten.
Kehrsatz | Geography
The town's economy relies mainly on black coal mining, which supports a power station.
Shakhtyorsk | Economy
The nuclear industry and government largess form the basis of the local economy. Main agricultural products include rice, sweet potatoes and Japanese radish. Main fishery products include whitebait, sardines, flounder and clams. Marine food processing includes salted and dried horse mackerel, smelt and sardines and boiled octopus.
Ōarai, Ibaraki | Economy
Several chemical enterprises that supply the furniture and wood processing industry have been set up in the vicinity of the industrial park.
Qui Nhơn | Economy
Commercial fishing is virtually the only industry in the town.
Severo-Kurilsk | Economy
The economy of the Province is dominated by animal husbandry such as horse, sheep and yak, and wool and meat being the main products. Today, the district is the poorest region in the country. The mineral mines developed during the Soviet period were largely abandoned after the fall of communism as they were not profitable.
Naryn | Economics
Salmon, whitefish, vendace, grayling, pike, rainbow herring (northwestern smelt), burbot, bull trout and loach are common in its waters.
Ekityki | Fauna
The local economy is based on agriculture. There is a large horticultural business, a national haulage firm and several small family run pubs and shops.
Kildorrery | Economy
The Gustavus economy is strongly linked to the surrounding natural resources; tourism and commercial fishing are mainstays. However, the importance of commercial fishing is in decline, as the Dungeness crab fishery in Glacier Bay National Park was closed in the early 2000s and the fishing for Dungeness outside of the national park has become poor. Salmon and halibut remain as the primary catch of the commercial fishing done out of Gustavus. Those not involved in tourism or seafood typically work for the government at the public school, the post office, the National Park Service, or the City of Gustavus.
Gustavus, Alaska | Economy
Poronaysk has a paper mill, as well as timber and fishing industries. "Sakhalinskaya GRES" power station is supplied with coal from an open cut mine close to the town.
Poronaysk | Economy
Formerly the town economy depended on coal mines. In the early twentyfirst century greenhouse agriculture superseded the mining economy.
Bakacakkadı | Introduction
The stream is inhabited exclusively by trout (both brown and rainbow, repopulated annually by the regional fish consortium. Among the wildlife must be mentioned the white-throated dipper which is present in great numbers.
Évançon | Fauna
The lake's islands are the main places where waterbirds rest and nest. The only fish in the lake is a species of stone loach.
Karakul (Tajikistan) | Environment
Three-quarters of all personal use salmon came from the commercially caught fish.
Egegik River | Economy
Crab fishing is currently the main economic activity of the community.
Kegashka | Economy
Economy of the village depends on agriculture and animal husbandry.
Hacıköy, Biga | Economy
As of 1997, local industrial facilities included a thermal power station and various construction, chemical, and electrical plants. Urussu is a railway station on the Ulyanovsk–Ufa line.
Urussu | Economy
Life in Tukuran is relatively abundant.
Tukuran | Economy
Mutriku's economy is tied to the sea. Fishing has historically been the main economic driver, providing the raw material for canning factories. The fishing sector has been greatly affected by the economic crisis; only a few inshore fishing boats remain. Agriculture in the rural districts is for subsistence and local consumption; surplus crops are sold in regional markets. Little livestock is present. Logging in rural areas focuses on insignis pine and other conifers. Supplements to the fishing sector are still developing. The canning industry, historically the main town industry, has given way to all kinds of metal processing workshops that export regionally.
Mutriku | Economy
In towns, wastewater collection provides about 70% of the water supply. Although towns have biological treatment equipment, as much as 50% of such equipment is rated as ineffective. The major sources of toxic waste in the water supply are the mercury mining combine at Haidarkan; the antimony mine at Kadamzai; the Kadzyi Sai uranium mine, which ceased extraction in 1967 but which continues to leach toxic materials into nearby Ysyk Köl; the Kara-Balta Uranium Recovery Plant; the Min Kush deposit of mine tailings; and the Kyrgyz Mining and Metallurgy Plant at Orlovka.
Geography of Kyrgyzstan | Water resources
The people in the area depend mostly upon subsistence agriculture and livestock production, with some production of handicrafts.
Duzduzan | Economy
The economy of a village depends on agriculture and husbandry.
Yaylapınar, Bayburt | Economy
The economy is primarily based on agriculture, husbandry and fisheries. Since 2000, the town has embraced the concept of eco-tourism and converted old traditional village houses into guesthouses in traditional styles. The area lacks any industrial plants.
Rizokarpaso | Introduction
Taüll's economy is based on tourism and livestock.
Taüll | Economy
The town now supports the surrounding agricultural district mainly producing cotton, cattle and grain.
Goovigen | Economy
The inhabitants mostly subsist on hunting, fishing and tourism. The settlement has its own school, church, and grocery store.
Kapisillit | Economy
A carpentry workshop, cowshed, future restaurant and deer breeding are source of local income. The area is not serviced by public transport. the nearest bus stop is 2 km away in Bludov or 1.6 km away in Šumperk.
Bludoveček and Zámeček | Economy
The surrounding land has boggy areas, some of which have been converted to coniferous plantations. The water quality is variable, sometimes suffering from run-off of nutrients from agricultural land. At one time the lake was a trout fishery.
Lough Kinale | Geography
The unemployment rate was 5.4% in January 2020. The town is known for a brewery named Holba. Its production is about 200,000 hectoliters each year. Factory producing ball bearings is situated in south outskirt of the town. Small amphiboliteand gneiss quarry is located near a confluence of Morava River and Krupá Creek.
Hanušovice | Economy
The village economy is based on agriculture and animal husbandry. The village primary school has been temporarily closed. The village has telephone and sealed road access and a potable drinking water supply, but no sewerage system and no post office. There are no health services.
Kargakonmaz | Introduction