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Haut-Rhin

Haut-Rhin is a department in eastern France's Grand Est region, created during the Revolution from southern Alsace, with Colmar as its capital and Mulhouse its largest city.

Haut-Sassandra (region)

Haut-Sassandra is a region of center-west Côte d'Ivoire, established in 2011 with its capital at Daloa. It is the country's second most populous region and a primary cocoa producer.

Haute & Freddy are a Los Angeles synth-pop duo formed in 2024 by Michelle Buzz (Haute) and Lance Shipp (Freddy), former songwriters for Katy Perry and Britney Spears; debut album Big Disgrace (Atlantic, 2026), fans called the Royal Court.

Haute Cime: Dents du Midi

Haute Cime (3,257 m), also la Haute-Cime, is the highest and westernmost of the seven Dents du Midi summits in Valais, Switzerland; first climbed in 1784 by Jean-Maurice Clément, reached by a T4 hike from Col de Susanfe.

Haute couture

Haute couture: the legally protected French appellation for made-to-measure, hand-crafted fashion, founded by Charles Frederick Worth in 1858, regulated since the 1945 decree, shown twice yearly at Paris Haute Couture Week.

Haute cuisine

Haute cuisine, also called alta cocina or grande cuisine, is the highest level of professional gastronomy, rooted in French codification by Carême and Escoffier, reshaped by nouvelle cuisine, and measured today by Michelin stars and dining guides.

Haute Matsiatra Region

Haute Matsiatra, a region of Madagascar's central highlands around Fianarantsoa: 23,034.6 km², 7 districts, 82 communes, 1,444,587 people (2018), rice output 167,860 t/year, 83% poverty rate.

Haute Route

Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt): the original high-level alpine traverse from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn, first walked 1861, first skied 1903 by Michel Payot's party; about 120 km, 7,500 m gain, skied March–May.

Oct 15, 2026

Haute-Provence Observatory

The Haute-Provence Observatory (Observatoire de Haute-Provence, OHP) is a French astronomy and atmospheric science site near Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, where 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star, was discovered in 1995.

Haute-Provence UNESCO Global Geopark

Haute-Provence UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc mondial UNESCO de Haute-Provence), first geopark created in 2000 at Digne-les-Bains, France; UNESCO-listed 2015; home of the Ammonite Slab and GGN headquarters.

Oct 15, 2026

Hauterivian

The Hauterivian is a stage of the Early Cretaceous, spanning about 132.6 to 125.77 million years ago between the Valanginian and Barremian, named after Hauterive, Switzerland.

Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park

Parc national des Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie, a 224.7 km² Quebec national park in Charlevoix created in 2000, protecting deep valleys of the Malbaie River with the 800 m Acropole des Draveurs rock face.

Hauteville-Lompnes

Hauteville-Lompnes is a town in the Ain department of eastern France, formed in 1942 by merging the villages of Hauteville and Lompnes and known for its tuberculosis sanatoriums and limestone quarries.

Hauts-Bassins Region

Hauts-Bassins, a region of western Burkina Faso created in 2001, capital Bobo-Dioulasso; provinces Houet, Kenedougou, Tuy; 25,479 km2, 9.4% of the country, strong agriculture and water resources.

Hauts-de-France

Hauts-de-France, northern French region created 1 January 2016 from Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie, capital Lille, about 6 million inhabitants, leading French logistics region with persistent automobile, metallurgy and textile specialties.

Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine (92), French department in Île-de-France west of Paris; 36 communes, prefecture Nanterre; created 1964, effective 1 January 1968 from Seine and Seine-et-Oise; 1.65 million inhabitants, La Défense business district.

Hauz Khas

Hauz Khas (हौज़ ख़ास), South Delhi: a 14th-century Sultanate reservoir and Firuz Shah Tughlaq madrasa-tomb complex beside a gentrified urban village of boutiques, bars and planning problems.

Hava Nagila (הבה נגילה)

Hava Nagila (הבה נגילה), meaning "let us rejoice," is a Hebrew folk song whose melody comes from a Hasidic tune and whose lyrics were set by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in Jerusalem.

Hava SOJ

Hava SOJ, also designated ASOJ 23-A, is a Turkish stand-off jamming electronic warfare aircraft, a Bombardier Global 6000 conversion built for the Turkish Air Force with ASELSAN's jamming systems.

Oct 15, 2026

Haval Xiaolong MAX

The Haval Xiaolong MAX (哈弗枭龙MAX) is a mid-size plug-in hybrid SUV from Great Wall Motor's Haval brand, launched in China in May 2023 and redesigned in 2025.

Havala Pye

Havala Olson Taylor Pye is an American research physical scientist at the EPA in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, who leads development of the CRACMM chemical mechanism.

Hávamál

Hávamál (Hávamál), the Sayings of the High One, is the longest eddic poem of the Poetic Edda, 164 stanzas of Odin's wisdom, love narratives, runic lore, and magic songs, surviving only in the 13th-century Codex Regius and dated before c. 1000.

Sep 19, 2026

Havan

Havan is a Brazilian big-box department-store chain founded in 1986 in Brusque, Santa Catarina, by Luciano Hang, known for megastores with White House-style facades and Statue of Liberty replicas.

Havana

Havana (La Habana, San Cristóbal de la Habana), capital and largest city of Cuba, founded 1519; Spanish colonial port with UNESCO-listed Old Havana and fortifications (1982), over 2 million inhabitants, now in deep economic crisis.

Oct 3, 2026

Havana (1990 film)

Havana (1990) is a Sydney Pollack romantic drama starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, and Raul Julia, set in 1958 pre-Castro Cuba; shot in Santo Domingo after the U.S. barred filming in Cuba, it earned a Dave Grusin Oscar nomination but flopped.

Havana (Camila Cabello song)

Havana is a 2017 Latin-pop song by Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug, from her debut album Camila. It topped the Billboard Hot 100, spent five weeks at UK Number 1, and was IFPI's best-selling digital single of 2018.

Havana Club

Havana Club, Cuban rum brand created in 1934 by José Arechabala S.A.; expropriated around 1960, now made by the Pernod Ricard–Cuba Ron joint venture Havana Club International and, in the US only, by Bacardi in Puerto Rico.

Havana Rose Liu

Havana Rose Liu (born 1997) is an American actress and model from Brooklyn, known for No Exit (2022), Bottoms (2023), Lurker, Tuner, and the Off-Broadway play All Nighter; IMG New York model, NYU 2019 graduate.

Havana syndrome

Havana syndrome, or anomalous health incidents (AHI): symptoms first reported by US Embassy Havana staff in 2016, later hundreds of cases worldwide; cause contested, with US intelligence judging foreign adversary involvement very unlikely and NIH finding no MRI-detectable brain injury.