Sentences with phrase «region near the border»

The quake struck about 80 kilometers east of the city of Khash in a thinly populated mountainous region near the border with Pakistan.

I am a PhD student in the chemistry department at the University of Hull, but I come from a very remote town, Yi Ning, in the Xinjiang Ugur autonomous region near the border of the former Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan.

Not exact matches

Asheville is located in the western region of the state and near the North Carolina - Tennessee border.

«Peshmerga forces have reached Mount Sinjar, the siege on the mountain has been lifted,» Masrour Barzani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish region's national security council, told reporters from an operations centre near the border with Syria on Thursday, according to Aljazeera.

Hacienda Rio Negro, Coto Brus Region, Costa Rica Near the Panama border, Hacienda Rio Negro is located in southern Costa Rica.

We have applied this approach in Cameroon, focusing on two clusters of community forests that border protected areas in the country's southern region — one cluster that's adjacent to the CampoMa'an National Park and another that's near the Dja Biosphere Reserve.

While the name is used across all states, our French - speaking friends in the northern states near the Canadian border have used Pierre the most compared to other U.S. regions.

The insurgency group, who at the peak of it's siege on the nation occupied towns in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, used Sambisa forest, especially the mountainous region of Gwoza near the Cameroon border, as shelter and strategic headquarters until they were pushed out by the military on Christmas eve, last year.

Still, Mr. Cuomo was awash in criticism from elected officials and residents in the Southern Tier, a far more sparsely populated region near the Pennsylvania border where unemployment runs high, after the state board rejected proposals for a casino license in that area.

A French man has been kidnapped in Chad in a remote area near the border with Sudan's Darfur region early on Thursday, France's foreign ministry said.

The issue has been cast as an economic boon for the upstate region, especially the Southern Tier of New York near the Pennsylvania border.

The fossils were discovered in sediment in the Corumbá region of western Brazil, near the border with Bolivia.

When Gordon Van Wiele, chief executive of ISO New England — in charge of transmission in the six - state region — unfurls a map of the land there, large ovals show the location of the best wind sites: Vermont near the Quebec border and eastern Maine spilling over into New Brunswick.

In contrast, if regional differences are induced by signals received from the gut lumen, muscle, enteric nerves or other sources, then ISCs near a border should on occasion generate daughter cells from both regions.

The size of the region is shown by the fact that the northern part of Gloucestershire, near Chipping Campden, is as close to the Scottish border as it is to the tip of Cornwall.

Agnieszka Holland, in cooperation with Kasia Adamik, Poland / Germany / Czech Republic, 2017, 128m U.S. Premiere Janina Duszejko (Agnieszka Mandat) is a vigorous former engineer, part - time teacher, and animal activist, living in a near wilderness on the Polish - Czech border, where hunting is the favored year - round sport of the corrupt men who rule the region.

Carmi is a small city located in the southern region of the state near the Illinois - Indiana border.

Asheville is located in the western region of the state and near the North Carolina - Tennessee border.

Deep in the humid jungle, an hour drive north of the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand near the imaginary Burmese border (there are no roads between Burma and Thailand in this region), I began my trek amongst the two hill tribes that populate the region, the Akha and the Karen.

Sit atop a ridge in the remote Valsesia region near the Italian Lakes district, pull into a small cove while sea kayaking on lake Annecy near Mont Blanc, bike through stunning valleys on the Italian / Austrian border in the Dolomites... It's these experiences we've crafted with on - the - ground knowledge and expertise, ensuring you'll go home having seen the real European Alps.

Near the borders of Israel and Jordan, this historic region offers traditional Arabic experiences such as camel rides and Nubian entertainment in addition to boasting a beautiful marina and outstanding water sport opportunities.

Located in the Moroccan desert near the Algerian border in southeastern Morocco this is one of the region's best - kept secrets.

Pula is the capital of Istria, a beautiful peninsula near the Italian border and one of Croatia's most beautiful regions.

ℹ️ Marvão is a small village located in Alto Alentejo region, near the border with Spain.

The national constitution grants land titles to traditional forest peoples, and the Tolo River inhabitants now collectively own 32,000 acres of rainforest in Chocó region, near Colombia's border with Panama.

Though wildfires in the east along the Russia - China border are still small and lack intensity, the region near the Urals is showing some significant flare - ups.

While carbon accounting at the scale of individual households and their landholdings is unlikely in the near future, nations and regions need efficient methods to determine how much carbon is held and released within their borders - and this applies even more to the monitoring of projects to store carbon by means of tree plantings and deforestation reduction (e.g..

The pipeline would cross the U.S. border near Morgan, Montana and continue through Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska, where it would connect to existing pipeline facilities near Steele City, Nebraska for onward delivery to Cushing, Oklahoma and the U.S. Gulf Coast region.

PUCALLPA, Peru — Tribal people in a remote headwaters region in the Peruvian Amazon are reacting with defiance and despair to the recent brutal murders of four community leaders who were ambushed on a jungle trail near the border with Brazil.

The clip seen below was recorded in the Cross River gorilla's dwindling habitat near Cameroon's border with Nigeria, a region hit hard by human encroachment and poaching.

Asheville is located in the western region of the state and near the North Carolina - Tennessee border.

It lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl - shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers.