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... 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 ...
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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 ...
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lowest point: unnamed location in the coastal plain -2 m highest point: Juliana Top 1,230 m
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primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
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... 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 ...
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gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
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high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges
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... 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 ...
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flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
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mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
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mostly mountainous islands of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
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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 ...
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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
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... 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
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... 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
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only country in Central America without a coastline on the North Pacific Ocean
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geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands
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smallest Central American country and only one without a coastline on Caribbean Sea
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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
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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 ...
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... Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin Martinique: mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano Reunion: mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
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Italy's long coastline and developed economy entices tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from southeastern Europe and northern Africa
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facing the Atlantic Ocean, the coastline is characterized by lagoons, mangrove swamps, and river-deposited sandbars; the inland grassy plateau supports limited agriculture
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highly indented coastline with narrow coastal plain backed by rugged high limestone mountains and plateaus
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most of the 32 km coastline consists of almost inaccessible cliffs, but the land slopes down to the sea in one small southern area on Sydney Bay, where the capital of Kingston ...
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