descending dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling ... www.exxun.com/Eritrea/b_mp.html
descent UK and Norman-French descent with small percentages from other European countries www.exxun.com/Guernsey/c_pp.html
descent Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Britons www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/c_pp.html
descent homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal www.exxun.com/Portugal/c_pp.html
descent African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/c_pp.html
descent ... not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may ... www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/c_pp.html
described ... the Coast Guard to the Department of the Interior. A 1998 scientific expedition to the island described it as a unique preserve of Caribbean biodiversity; the following year it became a National ... www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/a_fg.html
described ... in general, most countries make the following claims measured from the mean low-tide baseline as described in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: territorial sea - 12 nm ... www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
describes ... 29.1% land. The former portion is divided into large water bodies termed oceans. Exxun.com recognizes and describes five oceans, which are in decreasing order of size: the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian ... www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
describing ... Refugees camps since 1990; Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a boundary alignment to resolve substantial ... www.exxun.com/Bhutan/i_ti.html
describing ... does not recognize Pakistan's ceding historic Kashmir lands to China in 1964; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a boundary alignment to resolve substantial ... www.exxun.com/China/i_ti.html
describing Lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms area in ... www.exxun.com/Lebanon/i_ti.html
describing ... Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) patrolling a buffer zone since 1964; lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute ... www.exxun.com/Syria/i_ti.html
Desenvolvimento ... Paz e Cidadania); Mozambican League of Human Rights (Liga Mocambicana dos Direitos Humanos) or LDH [Alice MABOTE, president]; Human Rights and Development (Direitos Humanos e Desenvolvimento) or DHD [Artemisia FRANCO, secretary general www.exxun.com/Mozambique/d_gv.html
desert mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain www.exxun.com/Algeria/b_mp.html
desert mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment www.exxun.com/Bahrain/b_mp.html
Desert predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest www.exxun.com/Botswana/b_mp.html
desert broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in northwest, lowlands in south www.exxun.com/Chad/b_mp.html
Desert strategic location relative to sea lanes between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage); Atacama Desert is one of world's driest regions www.exxun.com/Chile/b_mp.html
desert desert; torrid, dry www.exxun.com/Djibouti/b_mp.html
desert vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta www.exxun.com/Egypt/b_mp.html
Desert ... of sexual exploitation; these women generally arrive as tourists and are subsequently trafficked through the Sinai Desert by Bedouin tribes; men and women from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are believed to ... www.exxun.com/Egypt/i_ti.html
desert ... dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling ... www.exxun.com/Eritrea/b_mp.html
desert mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes ... www.exxun.com/Iraq/b_mp.html
desert Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley www.exxun.com/Israel/b_mp.html
desert mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River www.exxun.com/Jordan/b_mp.html
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