heavy
... constraints include declining oil production, high unemployment and inflation, rising budget deficits, and increasing pressure on water supplies caused by heavy use in agriculture, rapid population growth, industrial expansion, and water pollution
www.exxun.com/Syria/e_ec.html
heavy
... Togo in 1960. Gen. Gnassingbe EYADEMA, installed as military ruler in 1967, ruled Togo with a heavy hand for almost four decades. Despite the facade of multiparty elections instituted in the early ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/a_fg.html
heavy
... economy, with important agricultural, mining, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. Governmental control of economic affairs while still heavy has gradually lessened over the past decade with increasing privatization, simplification of the tax structure ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/e_ec.html
heavy
tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds (March to November); westerly gales and heavy rain (November to March)
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/b_mp.html
heavy
... farms provided substantial quantities of meat, milk, grain, and vegetables to other republics. Likewise, its diversified heavy industry supplied the unique equipment (for example, large diameter pipes) and raw materials to industrial ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/e_ec.html
heavy
... the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/b_mp.html
heavy
extra heavy crude oil 992 km; gas 5,400 km; oil 7,607 km; refined products 1,650 km; unknown (oil/water) 141 km (2007)
www.exxun.com/Venezuela/g_tr.html
heavy
hot, dry desert; rain is rare; cold offshore air currents produce fog and heavy dew
www.exxun.com/WesternSahara/b_mp.html
heavy
... the black rhinoceros herd - once the largest concentration of the species in the world - has been significantly reduced by poaching; poor mining practices have led to toxic waste and heavy metal pollution
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/b_mp.html
Hebei
... and plural), and 4 municipalities (shi, singular and plural) provinces: Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang ...
www.exxun.com/China/d_gv.html
Hebrew
Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by many Palestinians), English (widely understood)
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/c_pp.html
Hebrew
Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language
www.exxun.com/Israel/c_pp.html
Hebrew
Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians), English (widely understood)
www.exxun.com/WestBank/c_pp.html
Hebrides
Part of the Norwegian Kingdom of the Hebrides until the 13th century when it was ceded to Scotland, the isle came under the British crown in 1765. Current concerns include reviving the ...
www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/a_fg.html
Hebrides
Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic ...
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/a_fg.html
Hebrides
conventional long form: Republic of Vanuatu conventional short form: Vanuatu local long form: Ripablik blong Vanuatu local short form: Vanuatu former: New Hebrides
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/d_gv.html
hectares
world's largest producer of opium; cultivation dropped 48% to 107,400 hectares in 2005; better weather and lack of widespread disease returned opium yields to normal levels, meaning potential opium production declined ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/i_ti.html
hectares
arable land: 6.15% (includes about 27 million hectares of cultivated grassland) permanent crops: 0.04% other: 93.81% (2005)
www.exxun.com/Australia/b_mp.html
hectares
world's third-largest cultivator of coca (after Colombia and Peru) with an estimated 26,500 hectares under cultivation in August 2005, an 8% increase from 2004; transit country for Peruvian and Colombian ...
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/i_ti.html
hectares
... in 2005 of 380 metric tons, up 13% from 2004 and cultivation in 2005 was 40,000 hectares, a 10% increase from 2004; the decline in opium production in the United Wa State ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/i_ti.html
hectares
... majority of other international drug markets; in 2005, aerial eradication dispensed herbicide to treat over 130,000 hectares but aggressive replanting on the part of coca growers means Colombia remains a key producer ...
www.exxun.com/Colombia/i_ti.html
hectares
major transit country for cocaine and heroin; in 2005, cultivated 100 hectares of opium poppy after reemerging as a potential source of opium in 2004; potential production of less than 1 metric ...
www.exxun.com/Guatemala/i_ti.html
hectares
estimated opium poppy cultivation in 2005 was 5,600 hectares, about a 45% decrease from 2004; estimated potential opium production in 2005 was 28 metric tons, a significant decrease from 200 metric tons ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/i_ti.html
