Grand Rapids sits along the Grand River in western Michigan, shaped by industry, reform, and a strong civic culture.

Quatre Cocos is a village on the eastern side of Mauritius, within the Flacq District and close to the Indian Ocean coast.

The Ijssel is is a slow-moving lowlands river flowing northeastward through the Netherlands as a distributary of the Rhine.

Everglades National Park protects a vast subtropical wetland at the southern tip of Florida, where freshwater moves slowly through sawgrass marshes, mangrove forests, hardwood hammocks, and coastal lagoons toward Florida Bay. Covering more than 1.5 million acres, it is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. The park is part of a much larger ecosystem whose waters originate in central and southern Florida and eventually reach the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay

Gibraltar is located in southern tip of Spain, on a tiny peninsula. It is governed by the British and named after the Rock of Gibraltar, which is located on its east side. The territory is mainly used as a shipping port, and a port-of-call for cruise ships.