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Monovalent type 1 Oral Poliomyelitis vaccine, IP
Monovalent type 1 Oral Poliomyelitis vaccine, IP (mOPV1) is a live attenuated Sabin type 1 oral polio vaccine made by Haffkine, India, WHO-prequalified since 2009, used mainly in mass campaigns against type 1 poliovirus.
Monowi, Nebraska
Monowi, Nebraska, a village in Boyd County, is the only incorporated place in the US with a population of one: Elsie Eiler, its mayor, clerk, treasurer, librarian, and tavern owner, founded 1902.
Monreale Cathedral
Monreale Cathedral (Duomo di Monreale) is a 12th-century Norman cathedral in Monreale, above Palermo in Sicily, built by King William II, with about 6,340 square meters of gilded mosaics.
Monroe (singer)
Monroe is the mononym of Monroe Vata Rigby, a French-American soprano born 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She won Prodiges season 11, released a 2025 debut album, and placed 11th for France at Eurovision 2026 with "Regarde!".
Monroe County, Florida
Monroe County, Florida: southernmost Florida county, established July 3, 1823, named for President James Monroe; covers the Florida Keys, Key West, and mainland Everglades lands; county seat Key West; population 82,874 (2020).
Monroe County, Indiana, United States
Monroe County, Indiana: county in south central Indiana, created 1818 from Orange County, named for President James Monroe; county seat Bloomington, home of Indiana University; karst limestone terrain.
Monroe County, Michigan, United States
Monroe County, Michigan, is a U.S. county in the Lower Peninsula named for President James Monroe. It was established on July 14, 1817, from Wayne County.
Monroe County, New York, United States
Monroe County, New York: western New York county on Lake Ontario, established 1821 and named for President James Monroe; county seat Rochester, third-largest city in the state; population about 750,000.
Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States
Monroe County, Pennsylvania: Pocono Mountains county created April 1, 1836 from Northampton and Pike Counties, named for President James Monroe; county seat Stroudsburg; 2020 population 168,327; tourism-driven economy.
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine, declared by President James Monroe on December 2, 1823, opposed European colonization and intervention in the Americas; later corollaries (Roosevelt, Trump) turned it into a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America.
Monroe Elementary School (Topeka, Kansas)
Monroe Elementary School was a segregated Topeka, Kansas school attended by Linda Brown and named in Brown v. Board of Education, now a national historical park.
Monroe Freeling
Monroe Freeling, offensive tackle from Georgia, drafted 19th overall by the Carolina Panthers in 2026; All-SEC Second Team in 2025; moved to right tackle as a rookie after Taylor Moton's injury.
Monroe Nichols
Monroe Nichols is an American politician serving since 2024 as the 41st Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, its first African American mayor, after representing District 72 in the Oklahoma House.
Monroe Power Plant
Monroe Power Plant is a coal-fired power station in Monroe, Michigan, on Lake Erie, owned by DTE Electric and among the largest coal plants in the United States.
Monroe Spaght
Monroe Spaght was an American research chemist who led Shell Oil Company as president and CEO from 1961 to 1965 and as chairman until 1970.
Monroe University
Monroe University, formerly Monroe College and Monroe Business Institute, is a private for-profit university founded in 1933 in the Bronx, with campuses in the Bronx, New Rochelle, and Saint Lucia, accredited by Middle States and renamed a university in 2024.
Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe, Louisiana: parish seat of Ouachita Parish on the Ouachita River, twin city of West Monroe. Population 47,702 (2020), 35.9% poverty rate, regional hub for health care, education, and Delta Air Lines history.
Monrovia
Monrovia is the capital and largest city of Liberia, founded 1822 and renamed in 1824 for President James Monroe. It is the country's government seat, main port city, and most densely populated urban area.
Monrovia, California
Monrovia, California: a San Gabriel Valley city incorporated December 15, 1887 as the fourth city in Los Angeles County, named for founder William N. Monroe; about 38,000 residents, 164 historic landmarks, and a Metro A Line station opened in 2015.
Mons Bradley
Mons Bradley, a lunar mountain in the Montes Apenninus at 21.73N 0.38E, diameter 76.49 km, IAU-approved 1961, named for British astronomer James Bradley (1693-1762); part of the Imbrium basin rim.
Mons Hadley
Mons Hadley is a mountain on the Moon at the northern edge of the Apennine range, rising about 4.6 kilometers, and was the backdrop for the Apollo 15 landing in 1971.
Mons Huygens
Mons Huygens is the Moon's tallest mountain, rising about 5.5 km from its base in the Montes Apenninus near the Mare Imbrium; it was named in 1961 for astronomer Christiaan Huygens.
Mons Joseph
Mons Joseph is an Indian lawyer and Kerala Congress politician, a long-serving assembly member from Kaduthuruthy who is Kerala's minister for Water Resources and Housing.
Mons Mouton
Mons Mouton is a 130-km mesa-like lunar mountain near the Moon's south pole, named in 2022 for NASA mathematician Melba Roy Mouton. A remnant South Pole-Aitken basin rim rising about 8 km, it is the VIPER rover landing site and an Artemis III candidate region.
Mons pubis
Mons pubis (mons veneris): rounded fatty eminence over the pubic bone, the most anterior part of the female external genitalia; hair-bearing after puberty, cushions intercourse, and may be reduced surgically by monsplasty.
Mons Rümker
Mons Rümker, also called Rümker Hills, is a large volcanic complex in northern Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, with more than 30 lava domes and a plateau of about 4,000 km².
Mons Seleucus
Mons Seleucus, Gallo-Roman vicus and sanctuary at La Bâtie-Montsaléon (Hautes-Alpes, France), mansio on Alpine roads; site of Constantius II's defeat of the usurper Magnentius in AD 353; excavated since 1799.
Mons Smaragdus
Mons Smaragdus (Greek: ὄρος Σμάραγδος, "Emerald Mountain"), also called Mons Smaragdos, is the ancient emerald mining region of Egypt's Eastern Desert, worked from the first century BC under the Ptolemies and Romans.
Mons Song
Mons Song (Feature ID 16318) is a 114-km-diameter lunar mountain at -43.64°, -153.37°, adopted by the IAU on Aug 6, 2024 and named after Mount Song Shan in Henan, China.
Mons, Wallonia
Mons (Flemish Bergen), capital of Hainaut province in Wallonia, Belgium; hilltop city of about 98,000 on the Trouille. Known for its 87 m Baroque belfry (UNESCO 1999), Spiennes flint mines, Doudou festival, and 2015 European Capital of Culture title.