volcanoes tsunamis, volcanoes, and earthquake activity around Pacific Basin; hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts; tornadoes in the midwest and southeast; mud slides in California; forest fires in the west ... www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/b_mp.html
volcanoes a Y-shaped chain of four main islands and 80 smaller islands; several of the islands have active volcanoes www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/b_mp.html
Volen ATAKA (Attack Coalition) (coalition of parties headed by the Attack National Union); Attack National Union [Volen SIDEROV]; Bulgarian Agrarian National Union-People's Union or BANU [Anastasia MOZER]; Bulgarian New Democracy [Borislav ... www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/d_gv.html
Volfovich ... Democratic Party [Andrey BOGDANOV]; Green Party [Anatoliy PANFILOV]; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKIY]; Party of Russia's Rebirth [Gennadiy SELEZNEV]; Patriots of Russia [Gennadiy SEMIGIN]; Peace and ... www.exxun.com/Russia/d_gv.html
Volga extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oases and desert in Central Asia www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/b_mp.html
Volgograd ... Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver', Tyumen', Ul'yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl' republics: Adygeya (Maykop), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Bashkortostan (Ufa), Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya ... www.exxun.com/Russia/d_gv.html
Volkspartei ... I Verdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Ruth GENNER]; Christian Democratic People's Party (Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz or CVP, Parti Democrate-Chretien Suisse or PDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano Popolare Svizzero ... www.exxun.com/Switzerland/d_gv.html
Volksvertegenwoordigers ... are indirectly elected; members serve four-year terms) and a Chamber of Deputies or Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers in Dutch, Chambre des Representants in French (150 seats; members are directly elected by popular ... www.exxun.com/Belgium/d_gv.html
Volodymyr Christian Democratic Union [Volodymyr STRETOVYCH]; Communist Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO]; European Party of Ukraine [Mykola KATERYNCHUK]; Fatherland Party (Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO]; Forward Ukraine! [Viktor MUSIYAKA]; Labor Party of Ukraine ... www.exxun.com/Ukraine/d_gv.html
Vologda ... Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver', Tyumen', Ul'yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl' republics: Adygeya (Maykop), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Bashkortostan (Ufa), Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy ... www.exxun.com/Russia/d_gv.html
Volta Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960. Repeated military coups during the 1970s and 1980s were followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Current President Blaise COMPAORE ... www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/a_fg.html
Volta lowest point: Mouhoun (Black Volta) River 200 m highest point: Tena Kourou 749 m www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/b_mp.html
Volta conventional long form: none conventional short form: Burkina Faso local long form: none local short form: Burkina Faso former: Upper Volta, Republic of Upper Volta www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/d_gv.html
Volta Lake Volta is the world's largest artificial lake www.exxun.com/Ghana/b_mp.html
Volta 10 regions; Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Western www.exxun.com/Ghana/d_gv.html
Volta 1,293 km note: 168 km for launches and lighters on Volta, Ankobra, and Tano rivers; 1,125 km of arterial and feeder waterways on Lake Volta (2007) www.exxun.com/Ghana/g_tr.html
Voltaic Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% www.exxun.com/Mali/c_pp.html
Voltaiques Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998) www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/c_pp.html
Voltas landlocked savanna cut by the three principal rivers of the Black, Red, and White Voltas www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/b_mp.html
volume ... With few natural resources, Belgium must import substantial quantities of raw materials and export a large volume of manufactures, making its economy unusually dependent on the state of world markets. Roughly three ... www.exxun.com/Belgium/e_ec.html
volume ... capital inflows are regaining strength and the currency has resumed appreciating. The appreciation has slowed export volume growth, but since 2004, Brazil's growth has yielded increases in employment and real wages ... www.exxun.com/Brazil/e_ec.html
volume ... Eritrea on 24 May 1993; the Blue Nile, the chief headstream of the Nile by water volume, rises in T'ana Hayk (Lake Tana) in northwest Ethiopia; three major crops are believed ... www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/b_mp.html
volume ... being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently ... www.exxun.com/Iran/f_cm.html
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