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see enlargementBangladesh holds GIS Day rally third year in a row. Teachers and students from Jahangirnagar University donned GIS Day t-shirts and held a rally and march circulating around the entire campus, returning to their department to celebrate with a GIS Day cake. See photo at right.

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GIS Day events have been held in more than 80 countries. Reports of successful events are pouring in. Read about other events. Submit a summary of your event.

Participant Spotlight

read more about the Pinellas County eventPinellas County Planning Department celebrated GIS Day early with a cake prepared by Denise Welch. There were over thirty people attending from around the County held in Clearwater, Florida. Read more about their event.

North Dakota is gung ho for GIS Day. They got their governor, mayor (Grand Forks), and state university president to sign GIS Day proclamations. Congratulations, North Dakota!

read more about the Budapest eventEotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary celebrated GIS Day on Nov. 9. There were presentations, a GPS demonstration, a map gallery, a children's map competition, and a visit to the map room and its collection of globes. Read more about their event.

When is GIS Day?

GIS Day is held each year in the third week of November, on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness Week, a geographic literacy initiative sponsored by the National Geographic Society.

GIS Day 2010 will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010.