1/  Louvre, Paris (8,300,000,  visitors 2007)
2/  Centre Pompidou, Paris (5,509,425 )
3/ Tate Modern, London (5,191,840 )
4/ British Museum, London (4,837,878 )
5/ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (4,547,353)
6/ National Gallery of Art, Washington (4,518,413)
7/ Vatican Museums, Vatican City (4,310,083)
8/ National Gallery London (4,100,000)
9/ Musée d’Orsay, Paris (3,166,509)
10/ Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (2,652,924)
11/ National Palace Museum, Taipei (2,650,551)
12/ Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2,435,300)
13/ State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2,395,075)
14/ Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (2,232,475)
15/ Museum of Modern Art, New York (2,219,554)
16/ Field Museum, Chicago (2,133,149)
17/ Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo (1,772,255)
18/ CaxiaForum Barcelona, Barcelona (1,674,607)
19/ Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow (1,650,000)
20/ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1,649,960)

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The competition took place in three stages from 1 October 2007 through 1 June 2008, with the final results declared in Moscow’s Red Square on 12 June 2008.
1 Lake Baikal (Irkutsk Oblast)
2 Valley of Geysers (Kamchatka Krai)
3 Mamayev Kurgan / Mother Motherland (Volgograd Oblast)
4 Peterhof (Saint Petersburg)
5 Saint Basil’s Cathedral (Moscow)
6 Manpupuner Rock Formations (Komi)
7 Mount Elbrus (Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia)

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• The highest peak on each of the 7 continents ?

Population (2002 census)
1 Moscow 10,382,754
2 Saint Petersburg 4,661,219
3 Novosibirsk 1,425,508
4 Nizhny Novgorod 1,311,252
5 Yekaterinburg 1,293,537
6 Samara 1,157,880
7 Omsk 1,134,016
8 Kazan 1,105,289
9 Chelyabinsk 1,077,174
10 Rostov-on-Don 1,068,267
11 Ufa 1,042,437
12 Volgograd 1,011,417
13 Perm 1,001,653
14 Krasnoyarsk 909,341
15 Saratov 873,055
16 Voronezh 848,752
17 Tolyatti 702,879
18 Krasnodar 646,175
19 Ulyanovsk 635,947
20 Izhevsk 632,140

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• Madonna Benois, Leonardo de Vinci?
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Great Wall of China (5th century BCE – 16th century CE, China)
Petra (c.100 BCE, Jordan)
Christ the Redeemer (1931, Brazil)
Machu Picchu (c.1450 CE, Peru)
Chichen Itza (c.600 CE, Mexico)
Roman Colosseum (80 CE, Italy)
Taj Mahal (c.1648 CE, India)
Honorary Candidate: Great Pyramid (c.2560 BCE, Egypt)

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• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: only one still standing?
• The Giza Necropolis ?
• Colossus of Rhodes in Rhodes soon?

SPQR, the motto of the city of Rome, is an initialism (Latin dictionaries classify it as a formula) from a Latin phrase, Senatus Populusque Romanus (”The Senate and the People of Rome”), referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic, and used as an official signature of the government. It appears on many of the Rome’s civic buildings, public fountains, and manhole covers.

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