International Organizations and their Headquarters , and Geographical Discoveries in World

International Organizations and their Headquarters

1. UNO (United Nations Organizations) - New York
2. UNICEF - New York
3. UNESCO - United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) : Paris
UNESCO Women: New York
4. UNIDO - Vienna
5. WHO - (World Health Organizations) Geneva
6. UNFPA - New York
7. ILO - Geneva
8. IMF - (International Monetary Funds) : Washington DC
9. WTO - Geneva
10. International Court Of Justice - The Hague
11. International Atomic Energy Agency - Vienna
12. World Bank - Washington D.C.
13. International Committee of the Red Cross -Geneva
14. International Maritime Organization - London
15. Universal Postal Union - Bernie
16. Food and Agricultural Organization - Rome
17. World Meteorological Organization - Geneva
18. SAARC - (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) - Kathmandu
19. Amnesty International - London
20. Transparency International - Berlin
21. World Intellectual Property Organization - Geneva
22. International Renewable Energy Agency - Abu Dhabi (UAE) (Interim HQs)
23. FIFA (Federation Internationale Football Association) Zurich, Switzerland
24. ICC (International Cricket Council) - Dubai, UAE 
25. FIH (International Hockey Federation) Lausanne, Switzerland
26. FIDE (Federation international chess) or World Chess Federation - Athens, Greece
27. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) - Gland, Switzerland
28. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) - Los Angeles, USA
29. MSF (Medicine Sans Frontiers) or Doctors without Borders - Geneva, Switzerland
30. ISSF (International Shooting Sports Federation) : Munich, Germany
31. ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) : Paris, France
32. Common wealth of Nations - London
33. ISO : International Standards Organization - Geneva
34. UNEP: ( united nations environmental programme) Nairobi (Kenya).
35. OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) : Paris
36. UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization) : Vienna
37. ITEA - (International Atomic Energy Agency) : Vienna
38. OPEC - Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) : Vienna
39. ICJ - (International Court Of Justice) - The Hague
40. UPU - (Universal Postal Union) - Berne
41. FAO - (Food and Agricultural Organization - Rome
42. NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Brussels
43. UNCTAD - (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - Geneva
44. BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation



Important Geographical Discoveries in World

1). America - Christopher Columbus (Italian)
2). Sea Route To India - Vasco Da Gama (Portuguese)
3). China - Marco Polo
4). New Found land - John Cabot (British)
5). Brazil - Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese)
6). Island of Tasmania And New Zealand - Tasman (Dutch)
7). Hawaiian Islands - Captain Cook (Britain)
8). North Pole - Robert Peary (USA)
9). South Pole - Amundsen (Norway)
10). Suez Canal - Ferdinand De Lesseps
11). Victoria Falls - David Livingston (British)
12). Cape of Good Hope - Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese)
13). Greenland - Norseman Eric
14). North America - Leif Erricsson
15). Niger River - Mungo Park
16). Lake Tanganyika - Richard Francis Burton
17). Hudson Bay - Henry Hudson
18). Mount Everest - Edmund Hillary
19). Tasmania Island - Abel Tasman (Dutch)
20). Sea route to India via cape of Good hope - Vasco-Da-Gama (Portugal)
21). Solar System - Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland)
22). First Person to set foot on moon or reached at moon - Neil Armstrong (United State of America)