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... on the Richter scale occurred 345 km WNW of the capital Honiara, the resulting tsunami devastated coastal areas of Western and Choiseul provinces with dozens of deaths and thousands dislocated; the provincial ...
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/b_mp.html
coastal
... GDP, growth, per capita income, and inflation should be viewed skeptically. In late December 2004, a major tsunami caused an estimated 150 deaths and resulted in destruction of property in coastal areas
www.exxun.com/Somalia/e_ec.html
coastal
vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/b_mp.html
coastal
general assessment: NA domestic: NA international: coastal radiotelephone station at Grytviken
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/f_cm.html
coastal
... south latitude in the Atlantic sector, lowering surface temperatures well below 0 degrees Celsius; at some coastal points intense persistent drainage winds from the interior keep the shoreline ice-free throughout the ...
www.exxun.com/SouthernOcean/b_mp.html
coastal
... disapproves of UK plans to grant Gibraltar greater autonomy; Morocco protests Spain's control over the coastal enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and the islands of Penon de Velez de la Gomera, Penon ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/i_ti.html
coastal
... the 14th century, a south Indian dynasty established a Tamil kingdom in northern Sri Lanka. The coastal areas of the island were controlled by the Portuguese in the 16th century and by ...
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/a_fg.html
coastal
deforestation; soil erosion; wildlife populations threatened by poaching and urbanization; coastal degradation from mining activities and increased pollution; freshwater resources being polluted by industrial wastes and sewage runoff; waste disposal; air pollution ...
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/b_mp.html
coastal
lowest point: unnamed location in the coastal plain -2 m highest point: Juliana Top 1,230 m
www.exxun.com/Suriname/b_mp.html
coastal
primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
www.exxun.com/Syria/b_mp.html
coastal
... note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety ...
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/c_pp.html
coastal
gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
www.exxun.com/Togo/b_mp.html
coastal
high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges
www.exxun.com/Turkey/b_mp.html
coastal
... a regional naval power that wants to develop the capability to project power beyond Turkey's coastal waters; the Navy is heavily involved in NATO, multinational, and UN operations; its roles include ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/h_ml.html
coastal
flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
www.exxun.com/UnitedArabEmirates/b_mp.html
coastal
mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/b_mp.html
coastal
mostly mountainous islands of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/b_mp.html
coastal
landlocked; highlands are main recharge area for Israel's coastal aquifers; there are 242 West Bank settlements and 29 East Jerusalem settlements in addition to at least 20 occupied outposts (August 2005 ...
www.exxun.com/WestBank/b_mp.html
coastal
narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
www.exxun.com/Yemen/b_mp.html
coastline
... Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area of the continent
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/b_mp.html
coastline
... single, part-time battalion with a small regular cadre that is deployed throughout the island; it increasingly supports the police in patrolling the coastline to prevent smuggling and other illicit activities (2007
www.exxun.com/Barbados/h_ml.html
coastline
only country in Central America without a coastline on the North Pacific Ocean
www.exxun.com/Belize/b_mp.html
coastline
geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands
www.exxun.com/Croatia/b_mp.html
coastline
smallest Central American country and only one without a coastline on Caribbean Sea
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/b_mp.html
coastline
strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/b_mp.html
coastline
landlocked - entire coastline along the Red Sea was lost with the de jure independence of Eritrea on 24 May 1993; the Blue Nile, the chief headstream of the Nile by water volume ...
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/b_mp.html
