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 the address of the closest object found, you might sometimes get one result,
 sometimes the other for the closest point.
 
+#### 4. Can you return the continent?
+
+Nominatim assigns each map feature one country. Those outside any administrative
+boundaries are assigned a special no-country. Continents or other super-national
+administrations (e.g. European Union, NATO, Custom unions) are not supported, 
+see also [Administrative Boundary](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#Super-national_administrations).
+
+#### 5. Can you return the timezone?
+
+See this separate OpenStreetMap-based project [Timezone Boundary Builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder)
+
+#### 6. I want to download a list of streets/restaurants of a city/region
+
+The [Overpass API](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API) is more
+suited for these kinds of queries.
+
+That said if you installed your own Nominatim instance you can use the
+`/utils/export.php` PHP script as basis to return such lists.