lanes
strategic location near world's busiest shipping lanes and close to Arabian oilfields; terminus of rail traffic into Ethiopia; mostly wasteland; Lac Assal (Lake Assal) is the lowest point in Africa
www.exxun.com/Djibouti/b_mp.html
lanes
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
lanes
archipelago of 17 inhabited islands and one uninhabited island, and a few uninhabited islets; strategically located along important sea lanes in northeastern Atlantic; precipitous terrain limits habitation to small coastal lowlands
www.exxun.com/FaroeIslands/b_mp.html
lanes
archipelago of 17,508 islands (6,000 inhabited); straddles equator; strategic location astride or along major sea lanes from Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/b_mp.html
lanes
strategic location between Cayman Trench and Jamaica Channel, the main sea lanes for the Panama Canal
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/b_mp.html
lanes
1,190 coral islands grouped into 26 atolls (200 inhabited islands, plus 80 islands with tourist resorts); archipelago with strategic location astride and along major sea lanes in Indian Ocean
www.exxun.com/Maldives/b_mp.html
lanes
... two-thirds mountains; some 50,000 islands off its much indented coastline; strategic location adjacent to sea lanes and air routes in North Atlantic; one of most rugged and longest coastlines in the ...
www.exxun.com/Norway/b_mp.html
lanes
... country in the world in terms of area but unfavorably located in relation to major sea lanes of the world; despite its size, much of the country lacks proper soils and climates ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/b_mp.html
lanes
... turtles and sooty terns; Queen Mary's Peak on Tristan da Cunha is the highest island mountain in the South Atlantic and a prominent landmark on the sea lanes around southern Africa
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/b_mp.html
lanes
strategically located near several primary shipping lanes in the central South China Sea; includes numerous small islands, atolls, shoals, and coral reefs
www.exxun.com/SpratlyIslands/b_mp.html
lanes
strategic location near major Indian Ocean sea lanes
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/b_mp.html
lanes
lies near vital North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km from France and linked by tunnel under the English Channel; because of heavily indented coastline, no location is more than 125 km ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/b_mp.html
lanes
strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes
www.exxun.com/Yemen/b_mp.html
Lang
chief of mission: Ambassador Michael W. MICHALAK embassy: 7 Lang Ha Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi mailing address: PSC 461, Box 400, FPO AP 96521-0002 telephone: [84] (4) 850-5000 FAX: [84] (4 ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/d_gv.html
LANGDALE
chief of mission: Ambassador Mark LANGDALE embassy: Calle 120 Avenida O, Pavas, San Jose mailing address: APO AA 34020 telephone: [506] 519-2000 FAX: [506] 519-2305
www.exxun.com/CostaRica/d_gv.html
Lange
chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Michael GALLAGHER embassy: Lange Voorhout 102, 2514 EJ, The Hague mailing address: PSC 71, Box 1000, APO AE 09715 telephone: [31] (70) 310-2209 FAX ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/d_gv.html
Langi
Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6% (2002 census)
www.exxun.com/Uganda/c_pp.html
Langton
... SIKOTA]; United National Independence Party or UNIP [Tilyenji KAUNDA]; United Party for National Development or UPND [Hakainde HICHILEMA]; Zambia Democratic Congress or ZADECO [Langton SICHONE]; Zambian Republican Party or ZRP [Benjamin MWILA
www.exxun.com/Zambia/d_gv.html
language
... Berber rather than Arab cultural heritage; Berbers have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has offered to begin sponsoring teaching Berber language in schools
www.exxun.com/Algeria/c_pp.html
Language
First People of the Kalahari (Bushman organization); Pitso Ya Ba Tswana; Society for the Promotion of Ikalanga Language (Kalanga elites) other: diamond mining companies
www.exxun.com/Botswana/d_gv.html
language
Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages
www.exxun.com/Brazil/c_pp.html
language
24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official)
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/c_pp.html
language
French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), tribal languages
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/c_pp.html
language
French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/c_pp.html
