• Western red cedar, (Thuja plicata), an ornamental and timber evergreenconifer of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to the Pacific coast of North America. (britannica.com)
  • shooting star: Major species: Western Arctic shooting star (P. frigida) is a small delicate species found in Arctic and subarctic regions of North America and far eastern Russia. (britannica.com)
  • Flora of North America [ 151 ] citation also added. (usda.gov)
  • Between 1985 and 2015, the urban land increased from 362,747 to 653,354 km², with 69% of this growth occurring in Asia and North America, mainly China, India, and the United States. (degruyter.com)
  • However, it is found that systematic shifts in peak time relative to each sensor appeared over land, notably over western North America, the Tibetan Plateau, and oceanic regions such as the Gulf of Mexico. (ametsoc.org)
  • The greatest deterioration in the past year has been seen in Latin America and the Caribbean (4th), with all but five countries in the region weakening as a result of impact of the pandemic alongside falter-ing Governance. (prosperity.com)
  • We have seen prosperity weaken in the world's two most prosperous regions - North America and Western Europe. (prosperity.com)
  • Whilst North America (1st) remains the world's most prosperous region, it has deteriorated for the second year in a row. (prosperity.com)
  • The Fish Lake Plateau is located on the Great Basin-Colorado Plateau boundary, the only region in western North America where maize farming was adopted then suddenly abandoned. (usu.edu)
  • During May-June 2009 and 2010, recent isolates of clade 2.3.2 viruses several dead migratory birds were before isolation of 2009 Qinghai Lake found in the Qinghai Lake region. (cdc.gov)
  • The west boundary reaches the western end of Qinghai Lake National Park, 36°56′39″N, 99°34′40″E. (unesco.org)
  • The north boundary reaches the northern end of Qinghai Lake National Park, 37°15′30″N, 100°15′41″E. (unesco.org)
  • Qinghai Lake is also an important water body for the ecological safety of the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a natural barrier to prevent the eastward expansion of the desertification in western China, a treasury of the richest biodiversity on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a concentrated habitat and breeding ground of waterbirds, and the only habitat of an endangered animal, Przewalski's gazelle ( Procapra przewalskii ). (unesco.org)
  • Qinghai Lake plays an irreplaceable role in enriching the biodiversity of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, adjusting the climate of northwestern China, preserving water source and maintaining ecological balance. (unesco.org)
  • The ecological environment of Qinghai Lake and its pattern of evolution reflect the trend of the overall ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. (unesco.org)
  • Qinghai Lake has become a precious study site for bird migration pattern, and for plateau food chain, ecological environment and biodiversity, providing an important gene pool for plateau organisms with great value for scientific research. (unesco.org)
  • The lake is surrounded by four towering mountains, all reaching 3600 m to 5000 m altitude: Datong Mountain on the north, Riyue Mountain on the east, Qinghai Nanshan Mountain on the south and Xiangpi Mountain on the west - the four natural barriers embrace the Qinghai Lake. (unesco.org)
  • The formation of the plateau is related to the intense volcanism of the Early Cretaceous and mid-ocean ridge jumps. (wikipedia.org)
  • The modern Manihiki Plateau rifted from the Hikurangi Plateau, now located adjacent to New Zealand, in the Early Cretaceous. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Early Cretaceous the Manihiki Plateau was much shallower, 200-300 m (660-980 ft) below sea level or less. (wikipedia.org)
  • The present configuration of this region was initiated in the Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous by East Gondwanan rifting between northwestern Australia, greater India, and other Gondwanan fragments to the north. (tamu.edu)
  • Two sites drilled on the Exmouth Plateau (Leg 122 Sites 762 and 763) recorded the Cretaceous to Cenozoic paleoenvironmental and passive-margin evolution of the western part of the central plateau, documenting a thick clastic shelf-margin wedge that prograded from a southern source area during the Early Cretaceous late-rift phase, and was there overlain by an Upper Cretaceous to Cenozoic pelagic (marine) sequence. (tamu.edu)
  • The plateau subsequently subsided rapidly during the Early Cretaceous. (tamu.edu)
  • An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Syrian refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa currently have no access to formal education 10 . (cdc.gov)
  • The Manihiki Plateau extends from 3°S to 6°S and 159°W to 169°W covering 770,000 km2 (300,000 sq mi) and has an estimated volume of 8,800,000 km3 (2,100,000 cu mi) with a crustal thickness of 15-25 km (9.3-15.5 mi). (wikipedia.org)
  • It extends from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram range to the north to the main Great Himalayas to the south. (wikipedia.org)
  • This strike-slip fault extends for about 35 km from north of the Hula basin to the Awali river, and shows left-lateral strike-slip displacements (manifested as offset streams) and vertical movements. (researchgate.net)
  • It is a significant tectonic feature that extends into the country from the north, splitting into the Eastern Rift and the Western Rift. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Rolling Red Plains extends north from the Edwards Plateau in Texas to western Oklahoma. (texas.gov)
  • Central Asia is mostly arid and landlocked, with steppes in the north and harsh deserts in the south. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Sharing borders with Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Israel/West Bank, it is mostly arid desert plateau in the east, with the Highland area to the west. (amerispan.com)
  • Syria is largely a semiarid or arid plateau, and encompasses various mountain ranges, desert regions, and the Euphrates River Basin 6 . (cdc.gov)
  • The Western Plateaus, north-west of the High Plateau, are a series of ridges and seamounts. (wikipedia.org)
  • We plan to camp north of the Brooks Range in a region of long ridges and broad plateaus. (arcticwild.com)
  • The Manihiki Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the south-west Pacific Ocean. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Manihiki Plateau was originally described as a subsided microcontinent in 1966, but has been known to be made of oceanic crust since DSDP drillings were made in the 1970s. (wikipedia.org)
  • http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00250-12 man-yak contact in the Tibet region quences available in GenBank. (cdc.gov)
  • [2] Ladakh is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region to the east, the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the south, both the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan to the west, and the southwest corner of Xinjiang across the Karakoram Pass in the far north. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the past, Ladakh gained importance from its strategic location at the crossroads of important trade routes, [14] but as Chinese authorities closed the borders between Tibet Autonomous Region and Ladakh in the 1960s, international trade dwindled. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bon: The Magic Word will be the first exhibition of art to introduce the Bon, a religious and cultural group of the Himalayas, Tibet, and Central Asia - a group almost unknown in the Western world. (himalayanart.org)
  • The Bonpo (practitioners of the Bon religion) are primarily identified as those that follow the teachings of Tonpa Shenrab , made up of many ethnicities and language groups that inhabit regions of the Himalayas, Tibet and Central Asia and areas of Western China. (himalayanart.org)
  • Mt. kailash is situated in the far western corner of Tibetan Plateau which is very remote part of Tibet. (pinterest.com)
  • KHARTA VALLEY TREK TOUR Country: Tibet Duration:21 Day(s) - 20 Night(s) Kharta Valley trek is an absolute classic and quite special with only a few people trekking this region in a year. (pinterest.com)
  • KHARTA VALLEY TREK TOUR Country: Tibet Duration:21 Day(s) - 20 Night(s) Kharta Valley trek is a quite isolated region borders, Mt. Everest, on the Western side, to the southern side lies the jagged Himalayan range of Mt. Makalu, north and east lie the dry Tibetan Plateau. (pinterest.com)
  • Mountain Leaders is a Kathmandu-based trekking and travel agency having been vigorously engaged in arranging tours in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and north India. (mountainleaders.com)
  • Ladakh ( / l ə ˈ d ɑː k / ) [10] is a region administered by India as a union territory [1] and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959. (wikipedia.org)
  • [16] [17] Ladakh is one of the most sparsely populated regions in India. (wikipedia.org)
  • and the Kinnauri of North India. (himalayanart.org)
  • Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean surrounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran. (indianetzone.com)
  • The Manihiki Plateau was formed by volcanic activity 126 to 116 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous period at a triple junction plate boundary called the Tongareva triple junction. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Pahvant occupied the desert area in the Sevier Lake region and west of the Wasatch Mountains near the Nevada boundary. (aaanativearts.com)
  • Lake Victoria lies to the north of the country, providing a natural boundary with Uganda and Kenya. (worldatlas.com)
  • Important sequence boundaries on the Wombat Plateau between sediments of the middle and late Carnian, the Norian/Rhaetian boundary, and latest Rhaetian conform well with global changes as do sequence boundaries recognized in the Lower Cretaceous of the central Exmouth Plateau. (tamu.edu)
  • It aimed at preparing tropical Africa for self-rule by gradually transferring local authority from tribal chiefs to members of the Western-educated elite. (britannica.com)
  • The Eastern Rift runs along the edge of the Tanzanian plateau, and its western wall forms a series of mountains, such as Mount Meru and the globally famous Mount Kilimanjaro , the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 m. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Western Rift , also known as the Albertine Rift in neighboring countries like Rwanda and Burundi, is characterized by some of the deepest lakes in Africa, including Lake Tanganyika , which is the continent's deepest and the world's second deepest freshwater lake. (worldatlas.com)
  • Five regions have experienced a deterioration in their prosperity over the last year, whilst Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa are the only regions to have recorded an improvement in 2021. (prosperity.com)
  • It is bounded by North-Western (to the west) and Central (south) provinces and by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (to the north and east). (britannica.com)
  • Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda , Burundi , and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia , Malawi , and Mozambique to the south. (worldatlas.com)
  • Two thousand years ago, the Utes lived and ranged in the mountains and desert over much of the Colorado Plateau: much of present day eastern Utah, western Colorado, northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. (aaanativearts.com)
  • The White River Ute (Parianuche and Yamparika) lived in the alleys of the White and Yampa river systems, and in the North and middle park regions of the Colorado Mountains, extending west to Eastern Utah. (aaanativearts.com)
  • The Ozark Plateau and the Ouachita mountains are located here. (archaeolink.com)
  • the Ozark Plateau, the Arkansas Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (referred to as the Mississippi Embayment on the map to the left), and the West Gulf Coastal Plain. (archaeolink.com)
  • As observed on the physical map of Guam, mountains are primarily located on the southern end of Guam, with the northern region of the island sloping into low hills. (worldatlas.com)
  • Central Asia is defined geographically by the Caspian Sea to the west, the northern part of the Kazakhstan steppe to the north, the Altay Mountains and Taklamakan Desert of China to the east and the Pamirs and southern Turkmenistan deserts in the south. (factsanddetails.com)
  • There are high plateaus around the mountains. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The region is divided up into the Coast Range, Puget Sound Basin, Cascade Range, Columbia Plateau and Rocky Mountains. (55places.com)
  • The climate varies considerably between the eastern and western areas of the state due to the Cascade Mountains. (55places.com)
  • So many peaks in this region of the Himalaya Mountains remain unclimbed merely because they are unnamed and therefore they are of less publicity value. (indianetzone.com)
  • The Klamath Mountains region in northwestern California is the second-most gold-productive province in California. (westernmininghistory.com)
  • The Klamath Mountains consist of a number of complex and rugged ranges that continue north into Oregon. (westernmininghistory.com)
  • Other sources of placer gold in the Klamath Mountains have been the Smith River region in Del Norte County and the upper Sacramento River and its tributaries, which include Backbone, Clear, Cottonwood, and Beegum Creeks. (westernmininghistory.com)
  • The Tokelau Basin borders it to the west, the Samoan Basin to the south, the Penrhyn Basin to the east, and the Central Pacific Basin to the north. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Uintah lived east of Utah Lake to the Uinta Basin of the Tavaputs plateau near the Grand and Colorado River systems. (aaanativearts.com)
  • To the north of this basin, they acknowledge that the trace is less clear. (researchgate.net)
  • Presence of a northern limestone plateau with a general elevation of 500ft (150m). (worldatlas.com)
  • The highest point is Mount Lamlam at an elevation of 1,338ft (408m) located in the southwest part of the island and marked on the map by a yellow triangle, and the lowest point is the North Pacific Ocean (0m). (worldatlas.com)
  • The Central Plateau lies in the interior of Tanzania and has an average elevation of about 1,200 meters (3,937 feet) above sea level. (worldatlas.com)
  • We conclude that Indigenous populations shaped high-elevation mixed-conifer fire regimes on the Fish Lake Plateau through land-use practices. (usu.edu)
  • Finally, the last setting is centred around Lospalos, the capital of the Lautém district, set on an inland plateau at an elevation of approximately 340 m. (lu.se)
  • It is the largest inland saline lake watershed, the huge water body and the surrounding water system has given birth to the vast and unique plateau inland wetland ecosystem, providing ideal habitat for many wild animals. (unesco.org)
  • According to the results, we provided suggestions for the rational use and sustainable development of land in cities, especially for mountainous regions in a period of rapid urbanization. (degruyter.com)
  • However, the mountainous regions are currently experiencing a period of rapid urbanization, with the south-western mountainous region's urbanization expanding more quickly than the national average level [ 6 ], and there is still a high demand for new urban construction land. (degruyter.com)
  • It is this difference that determines the phenomenon of land expansion for construction in China still deserves to be studied and explored, notably in terms of how to meet the massive demand for land resulting from the urbanization of mountainous regions. (degruyter.com)
  • Ladakh… bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain ranges, the Karakoram in the north and the Great Himalayas in the Mountain Leaders offers a combined tour via Darjeeling to Sikkim. (mountainleaders.com)
  • Western Garhwal region is considered as the most attractive areas among the popular Indian Himalayan regions. (indianetzone.com)
  • Shinnery oak grasslands occur in broad rolling topographic relief of the western and northern parts of the area. (texas.gov)
  • The Western Short Grasslands are among the most biologically diverse ecoregions in the United States and Canada. (texas.gov)
  • Western Short Grasslands also contain the fastest declining bird populations on the continent. (texas.gov)
  • Bordering the Indian Ocean, the Tanzanian coastal plain is a narrow, low-lying region characterized by sandy and clay soils. (worldatlas.com)
  • This region in north-western China was known for impoverished peasants dwelling in caves hewn out of the deep, compacted soils of the Loess plateau. (chinafile.com)
  • The Utes settled around the lake areas of Utah, some of which became the Paiute, other groups spread north and east and separated into the Shoshone and Comanche people, and some traveled south becoming the Chemehuevi and Kawaiisus. (aaanativearts.com)
  • Western Australia, state of western Australia occupying that part of the continent most isolated from the major cultural centres of the east. (britannica.com)
  • Turkmenistan measures about 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) from east to west and 650 kilometers (430 miles) from north to south and is located on southern section of the great Eurasian plains. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Most of the population is concentrated on the borders, in the foothills of the Kopet Dagh, in the oases of the Murgab and Tejen rivers, along the Amu Darya in the east, the Caspian Sea shore in the west, and the western border of Khorezm in the north. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The East African Rift Valley is one of Tanzania's most prominent geographical regions. (worldatlas.com)
  • Tanzania is a country in East Africa's Great Lakes Region. (worldatlas.com)
  • However, few large-scale studies have been reported on plant traits in the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the cradle of East Asian flora and fauna with specific alpine ecosystems, and no report on plant trait databases could be found. (copernicus.org)
  • East of the Bhagirathi River is the region of Western Garhwal Himalaya, which is more easily reached from Har-ki-doon and the Tons river . (indianetzone.com)
  • The states are landlocked with the Tibetan Plateau to the east, Jammu and Kashmir to the north. (mountainleaders.com)
  • Middle East [ 1 ] and also in northern and Although malaria has been eradicated central areas of the Islamic Republic of from northern and central regions of the Iran [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • Alps: Physiography: The Western Alps trend north from the coast through southeastern France and northwestern Italy to Lake Geneva and the Rhône valley in Switzerland. (britannica.com)
  • The plateau periodically re-emerged until the Rhaetian when it developed a fully marine carbonate sequence resembling coeval strata in the western Tethys region of the Alps. (tamu.edu)
  • the plateau is covered with a thick growth of jungle. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Rift Valley region contains large, shallow lakes, including Lake Natron in the northeast and Lake Manyara further south. (worldatlas.com)
  • Carbonate rocks were deposited on the Wombat Plateau during the mid-Carnian in a southern embayment of a shallow Tethys Sea. (tamu.edu)
  • Outbreaks of 2 lake regions by bird migration. (cdc.gov)
  • The caves may also be known as the Dunhuang Caves, however, this term is also used as a collective term to include other Buddhist cave sites in and around the Dunhuang area, the Western Thousand Buddha Caves, Eastern Thousand Buddha Caves, Yulin Caves, and Five Temple Caves. (tourismchina-ca.com)
  • Her scythe-like wings and torpedo-shaped body blink in and out of view as she rockets toward a 1,500-foot-deep canyon here in western Colorado's Flat Tops region, where 10,000-foot-high plateaus are riddled with water-carved caves. (audubon.org)
  • We examined correlations between percentage of rural residents, commute times, food retail gap per capita, and body mass index (BMI) among North Carolina residents. (cdc.gov)
  • We obtained county-level food retail gap per capita, defined as the difference between county-level food demand and county-level food sales in 2008, from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, and BMI data from the 2007 North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. (cdc.gov)
  • To better understand associations between area-level factors and obesity, we conducted ecologic analyses of associations between the percentage of rural-dwelling residents, commute times, food retail gaps, and BMI for all 100 North Carolina counties. (cdc.gov)
  • However, the pace of progress continues to lag behind that seen in regions like Eastern Europe and Asia-Pacific over the past decade. (prosperity.com)
  • However, the momentum seems to have slowed down since 2008, with stunting prevalence having plateaued and ranging between 35-36 percent in the last decade (Ministry of Agriculture, 2018). (who.int)
  • to the west of Hawaii and to the southeast of North Korea. (worldatlas.com)
  • It is a region of clear-water lakes , mountain streams and rivers , towering bluffs, underground caverns , and abundant wildlife that has managed largely to avoid development. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The rivers that thread through the region are fed by melting snow and glaciers and carve deep valleys and ravines. (factsanddetails.com)
  • This is where the Western arctic caribou herd, numbering about 235,000 animals, calves their young before gathering in large herds each spring. (arcticwild.com)
  • We have 3 days (and nights) to explore the Western Arctic! (arcticwild.com)
  • North of the Missouri River lie the Northern Plains that stretch into Iowa , Nebraska , and Kansas . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Pecos & Staked Plains cover the western panhandle of Texas, west end of the panhandle of Oklahoma, and extensive areas in eastern New Mexico. (texas.gov)
  • Areas in the Texas Northern Plains (southern Western Short Grass Ecological Region) have been invaded by mesquite and thorny shrubs, forming a savanna or shrubland with a shortgrass prairie understory. (texas.gov)
  • The core five Central Asian nation, plus western China (Xinjiang) are sometimes called Turkestan (Turkistan) because many of the people that live there speak Turkic languages. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Mixed prairie represents the transition zone between tall-grass prairie and other plant associations in the western part of this physiographic area. (texas.gov)
  • This landscape has for centuries been home to a North-Arawakan people known as the Lokono (or Arawak), whose language and culture are highly endangered today. (lu.se)
  • A comparatively large region, its landscape is varied, and three different settings will be focused on. (lu.se)
  • The shift in peak time particularly between PR (TMI) and VIRS varies by region. (ametsoc.org)
  • Each region of the country is further sub-divided into districts, and districts into divisions which are further sub-divided into local wards. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Timonogots lived in the south and eastern area of Utah Lake, to North Central Utah. (aaanativearts.com)
  • Covering an area of 540 sq.km, Guam is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States in Micronesia, located in the Western North Pacific Ocean. (worldatlas.com)
  • The regions inaccessibility during the Soviet area only augmented this reputation. (factsanddetails.com)
  • This region houses the Serengeti National Park , a crucial wildlife area known for the migration of millions of wildebeest and zebras . (worldatlas.com)
  • With an area of 76,150 sq. km, Tabora is the largest region in Tanzania by area. (worldatlas.com)
  • Deep crustal extension and thinning of the northern Exmouth-Wombat Plateau area occurred during the Permian followed by rifting in the Triassic. (tamu.edu)
  • The Dolpo region of Western Nepal is also home to a large group of people identified with the Bon religion and culture, and many paintings in the exhibition will be drawn from this area. (himalayanart.org)
  • Interestingly, this region first came into prominence when the Doon School masters - R. L. Holdsworth, J. T. M. Gibson, J. A. K. Martyn and Gurdial Singh - used this area to offer climbing experience to their wards during summer holidays. (indianetzone.com)
  • The nominated property is located in the northeast part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. (unesco.org)
  • Located in southwestern Central Asia and bordered by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the north and northeast, the Caspian Sea to the west, and Iran in the south. (factsanddetails.com)
  • As Ladakh is strategically important, the Indian military maintains a strong presence in the region. (wikipedia.org)
  • On September 8 and 9, 2006, some 170 brokers, lessors, funders and service providers met at the Wyndham Hotel in Costa Mesa, California for the Western Regional Meeting of the National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers. (leasingnews.org)
  • Popularly known as "Land of Gods," Himachal Pradesh is famous for a beautiful hill stations, Smile, which nestles in the north-west region of western Himalayas. (mountainleaders.com)
  • ABSTRACT A diagnostic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay using species-specific primers and direct sequencing was used to identify members of the Anopheles maculipennis complex in the north-west and central regions of the Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • The High Plateau is the largest part of Manihiki covering 400,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi) above 4000 m. (wikipedia.org)
  • The second largest part is the Western Plateaus covering 250,000 km2 (97,000 sq mi) above 5000 m and reaching 3,500-4,000 m (11,500-13,100 ft) below sea level. (wikipedia.org)
  • At this stage it was part of the largest large igneous province on Earth, over twice its present size, when a triple junction originated in its north-western corner, splitting it into three parts. (wikipedia.org)
  • and the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana Island chain, located in the western North Pacific Ocean. (worldatlas.com)
  • Situated on the coral plateau in the north-central part of Guam is, Dededo - the largest and the most populous village in Guam. (worldatlas.com)
  • It is the largest lake on the largest, highest and youngest plateau in the world, as well as the largest lake in China. (unesco.org)
  • The coastal region includes hubs like its largest city Dar es Salaam . (worldatlas.com)
  • Dar-es-Salaam Region that hosts Dar-es-Salaam city, the former capital of Tanzania, is the country's largest region by population. (worldatlas.com)
  • The medium fragment encodes the envelope glycoproteins G1 and G2, regions of which are conserved among Hantaviruses, allowing the identification of new strains by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and immunohistochemistry. (medscape.com)
  • The Western Rift also houses the Mahale and Gombe Stream National Parks , notable for their populations of wild chimpanzees . (worldatlas.com)
  • Sometimes western China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, south-central Russia and/or Mongolia are included depending on whether the countries are grouped together by language family, geography, horseman-nomadic traditions or sharing the "stan" suffix. (factsanddetails.com)
  • This remarkable architectural edifice offers important historical testimony to the history of the Qing Dynasty and to the cultural traditions of the Manchu and other tribes in the north of China. (tourismchina-ca.com)
  • Mount Tai is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an, in Shandong province, China. (tourismchina-ca.com)
  • Introducción: Objetivo: investigar los efectos de una sal baja en sodio combinada con la versión china de la dieta DASH (del inglés Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) modificada en la función cerebrovascular en pacientes con hipertensión y diabetes tipo 2. (bvsalud.org)
  • During the Jurassic, northward tilting raised the Wombat Plateau above sea level again, and non-deposition/erosion prevented the preservation of Jurassic sequences before the onset of seafloor spreading in the Argo Abyssal Plain. (tamu.edu)
  • The main populated regions are the river valleys, but the mountain slopes also support pastoral Changpa nomads. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Kara-Kum (Garagum, "Black Sand)" covers 80 percent of Turkmenistan - the western and central low-lying desolate portions of the country - and is mostly uninhabited. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to more than 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. (audubon.org)
  • These only children-black swifts, unlike the three other North American swift species, lay just one egg-are all safely out of the reach of predators. (audubon.org)
  • The molecular data and relative distribution of these species in relation to their vectorial capacity and the epidemiology of malaria in the region are discussed. (who.int)
  • The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. (britannica.com)
  • Armenian language: …two written varieties-Western Armenian (Arewmtahayerên) and Eastern Armenian (Arewelahayerên)-and many dialects are spoken. (britannica.com)
  • Missouri also marks a transition between the eastern and western United States, with St. Louis often called the "western-most eastern city" and Kansas City the "eastern-most western city. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The eastern part of Turkmenistan is a plateau. (factsanddetails.com)
  • RWI has for several years contributed to/contributes to the Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) training programmes, for participants from Western Balkans, Eastern Partnership and Baltic Sea regions and Sweden. (lu.se)
  • 1 Regionalization - the delineation of a space into regions - is one of the primary fields of study in geography. (openedition.org)
  • Usually, regionalization is carried out within the framework of a particular branch of geography, for example, economic regions or agricultural regions. (openedition.org)
  • In the far northwest corner of Alaska between the Chukchi Sea and the Western Brooks Range is a seldom traveled region of broad vistas and tundra etched with caribou trails. (arcticwild.com)
  • The Chambal River is an important river in the Malwa plateau and a tributary of the Yamuna River. (indianetzone.com)
  • Dorrigo Plateau Local Aboriginal Land Council acquired the North Dorrigo Hall last year and will use the Community Fund grant to undertake repairs and maintenance. (alc.org.au)
  • Prosperity in the region has now increased for the 11th consecutive year, driven by consistent progress in health, levels of social tolerance, and infrastructure and market access. (prosperity.com)
  • [ 3 ] In Western countries, the financial burden on patients ranges from $300 to $1,300 per patient year, increasing with more severe disease. (medscape.com)
  • The cooling effects of its location on a plateau allows Amman to enjoy four seasons of excellent weather. (amerispan.com)
  • Frequent bus connections to other cities in Jordan as well as to major cities in neighboring countries make Jordan a great jumping-off point to visit other countries in the region. (amerispan.com)
  • The findings indicate what follows: (1) The average slope of construction land had a spatial pattern of "high in the south and low in the north," with significant spatial agglomeration characteristics. (degruyter.com)
  • Bon culture and religion pre-date the northern advance of Buddhism onto the Tibetan Plateau in the 7th century. (himalayanart.org)
  • The subdistrict is heavily forested, being covered with tropical dry and moist deciduous forest, although agricultural land is scattered throughout the region. (lu.se)