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  Iransaga - The Caspian Coast
The Iranian coast of the Caspian stretches for 630 kilometres (391 miles) from Astara in the west, on the border with the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the Bandar-e Torkaman region in the east, near the Republic of Turkmenistan.
Two provinces Gilan and Mazanderan occupy this coastal belt, and have a varied terrain, with thick forests, mountains and a coastal plain.
The towering Alborz rises to over 3,658 metres (12,000 feet) and separates the Iranian plateau from the Caspian coast acting as a barrier preventing the moisture from the Caspian entering in land.
www.art-arena.com /caspian.htm   (428 words)

  
 hlth1
The Province, which represents the regional scale, is the level at which FIA data are aggregated, analyzed, and discussed in this Chapter.
Forty-seven percent of the timberland in the Outer Coast Mixed unit is in pine types, including 13 million acres--92 percent--of the longleaf and slash pine forests found in the South.
This Province, which accounts for 40 percent of the total timberland area in the South, is responsible for 50 percent of the South's average net annual growth and 59 percent of its average net annual removals.
www.srs.fs.usda.gov /sustain/draft/hlth1/hlth1-20.htm   (1164 words)

  
 Coast Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coast Province of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean, is Mombasa (click to enlarge map).
Coast Province of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean, is one of Kenya's seven administrative provinces outside Nairobi.
The province covers an area of 83,603 km² and has a population of 2,487,264 inhabitants (1999 census).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coast_Province,_Kenya   (183 words)

  
 New Granada - LoveToKnow 1911
The first viceroy was Pedroza y Guerrero, but his successor, Jorge Villalonga, resumed the title of president, and it was not until 1739 that the title of viceroy was definitely established.
The new viceroyalty included the provinces of Tierra Firma (now the republic of Panama); Maracaibo, Caracas, Cumana and Guyana (now included in Venezuela); Cartagena, Santa Marta, Rio Hacha, Antioquia, Pamplona, Socorro, Tunja, Santa Fe, Neiva, Mariquita, Popayan and Pasto (now included in Colombia); and Quito, Cuenca and Guayaquil (now included in Ecuador).
In 1 777 the provinces of Maracaibo, Caracas, Cumana and Guyana were detached from the viceroyalty to form the captaincygeneral of Caracas; otherwise it remained as above until the termination of Spanish rule in South America.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /New_Granada   (263 words)

  
 Politics and Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
One Censor is appointed to each of the seventeen provinces; the agency itself is headed by the Secretary of the Censorate.
200 members are apportioned among the provinces according to their number of voters, and each province is a multimember constituency.
In addition to ordinary law enforcement, the provincial governments are responsible for their own public works (including intraprovincial roads and rails), education (the bilingual provinces each have two separate Education Ministries, one for each nationality), public health and welfare.
karljahn.tripod.com /fh/polgov.htm   (1001 words)

  
 Freshwater Website:Water and Climate (How might these changes affect Canada?)
West Coast forest ecosystems could become more stressed as a warmer climate allowed insect pests and disease to migrate northward.
Infiltration of salt water into the New York City water supply due to rising sea levels might result in a request for a diversion of Lake Ontario water.
The threat to a given area would be lesser or greater depending on whether the land itself was rising or subsiding.
www.ec.gc.ca /water/en/nature/clim/e_canada.htm   (1549 words)

  
 Mosquito Coast (Nicaragua)
I wasn't aware that the Mosquito Coast was constituted as a kingdom within the British protectorate though, so it may well have had a flag.
Mosquito Coast was, I think, another name for the Bay Islands, which were occupied by Britain in 1839 and ceded to the Republic of Honduras in 1859.
Mosquito Coast was the name the eastern coast of Nicaragua had (and still has) and that today is, I believe, a province with some autonomy due to cultural specificities.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ni-mc.html   (1521 words)

  
 Atlantic Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlantic Canada, also known as the Atlantic provinces, is the region of Canada comprising four provinces located on the Atlantic coast: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island – and Newfoundland and Labrador.
The population of the Atlantic provinces was 2.3 million in 2004.
He believed it would be presumptuous for Newfoundland to assume that it could include itself within the existing term "Maritime Provinces", used to describe the cultural similarities between Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantic_Canada   (211 words)

  
 Immunization against theileriosis in the Southern Province of Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1946 theileriosis was diagnosed in Mbala District, Northern Province, and in 1947 in Chipata District, Eastern Province.
In 1977/78 a malignant form of theileriosis was detected in the Hufwa area of Monze District, in Southern Province.
East Coast fever is found in the Northern and Eastern provinces of the country, where high rainfall is common.
www.fao.org /Wairdocs/ILRI/x5549E/x5549e0o.htm   (963 words)

  
 North Korea Agriculture
Farming is concentrated in the flatlands of the four west coast provinces, where a longer growing season, level land, adequate rainfall, and good, irrigated soil permit the most intensive cultivation of crops.
A narrow strip of similarly fertile land runs through the eastern seaboard Hamgyng provinces and Kangwn Province, but the interior provinces of Chagang and Yanggang are too mountainous, cold, and dry to allow much farming.
Cattle are raised in the mountainous parts of the two P'yngan provinces, and sheep and goats are kept in the rugged areas of the two Hamgyng provinces and in Yanggang and Kangwn provinces.
www.country-studies.com /north-korea/agriculture.html   (2743 words)

  
 Inene's Angola Homepage.
It’s a corresponds to a coast of 1.650 Km along the Atlantic and 4.837 Km of land frontier with tropical forests, savannah and also desert; planes and plateaux, hills and mountains; rich in microclimates that provide the potential for pratically all kinds of agricultural and cattle rearing activities.
The main petroleum wells are situated near the coast, in Provinces of Cabinda and Zaire (Soyo) in the North.
The biggest activity is situated in the province of Namibe where the species of cold water are predominant.
members.tripod.com /inene/angola.htm   (2308 words)

  
 ICSF - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung urged central provinces yesterday to make protecting human lives the priority as Typhoon Xangsane hit the Vietnam mainland as expected early Sunday.
Coast provinces have braced themselves for the typhoon since it left at least 48 dead in the Philippines.
Coast guards have brought 661 vessels with 3,200 fishermen ashore, communicated with 15,600 others and arranged for 17,000 to find safe harbours.
icsf.net /jsp/english/externalnews/newsDetails.jsp?id=30569   (430 words)

  
 The EastAfrican on the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
However, Nyanza and Coast Provinces have the highest number of households using treated nets, perhaps due to to the high level of social marketing activities carried out in those regions.
Coast and Western Provinces have the highest proportion of pregnant women receiving antimalarial drugs for prevention, while Nairobi has the lowest.
The highest proportion of women receiving IPT during an antenatal visits was reported in Western Province, while the lowest was in North Eastern and Central Provinces.
www.nationmedia.com /eastafrican/06092004/Features/Part2.html   (977 words)

  
 Geo Reisen Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Coast: 5 provinces along 640 Km form the lowlands of the Coast.
The nations cities and villages are primarily populated by people of mixed race, white, and Afro-Ecuadorians, although large numbers of indigenous migrants have moved from the country to the city.
The Pacific coast has a rainy season between December and May and a dry one from June to November.
www.georeisentours.com /html/ecuadorinfo.html   (946 words)

  
 Status of oyster culture in selected Asian countries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Culture activities on the Pacific oyster are concentrated and highly developed in the Southern Coast Provinces followed, in terms of production output, by the Western coast Provinces.
On the Western coast the major producing province is Kyonggi (Table 6 and Fig.
Bamboo poles 1.5 m in length are driven into the sea bed forming long rows roughly horizontal to the coast line.
www.fao.org /docrep/field/003/AB716E/AB716E09.htm   (1188 words)

  
 Vietnam travel information and local guide
Its width, stretching from east to west, is 600 km at the widest point in the north, 400 km in the south, and 50 km at the narrowest part in the Quang Binh province on the central coast.
This zone is comprised of mountains that run from the north of the Sino-Vietnamese border to the west of Thanh Hoa Province.
This zone is located to the west of the south central coast provinces.
www.yourrooms.com /vietnam_hotels/overviews.htm   (1596 words)

  
 USGS - Online Publications - FS 188-96
For the purposes of this report the principal aquifers of Puerto Rico have been divided into four major aquifer areas, the: (1) North Coast Province; (2) South Coast Province; (3) West and East Coast Provinces, Lajas valley, and the Esperanza and Resolución valleys; and, (4) Interior Province (Caguas-Juncos valley and Cayey valley) (fig.
Much of the south coast lies in a rain shadow averaging less than 45 inches per year (in/yr) of rainfall, whereas the northern part of the island averages about 80 in/yr.
The offshore islands of Isla de Vieques and Isla de Culebra have a similar rainfall pattern as the south coast of Puerto Rico.
pr.water.usgs.gov /public/online_pubs/fs_188_96/index.html   (332 words)

  
 Geography of Ecuador - Ecuador General Information : GoEcuador.com
The border with Colombia is 590 km in length and that with Peru is 1,420 km, the coast covers 2,237 km.
On the coast the provinces are: Esmeraldas (Esmeraldas), Manabí (Portoviejo), Los Ríos (Babahoyo), Guayas (Guayaquil) and El Oro (Machala).
In the Amazon or “Oriente the provinces are: Sucumbíos (Nueva Loja), Napo (Tena), Pastaza (Puyo), Orellana (Orellana), Morona Santiago (Macas) and Zamora Chinchipe (Zamora) and in the island region, the Galapagos Islands (Puerto Baquerizo Moreno).
www.goecuador.com /ecuador-general-info/ecuador-geography.html   (326 words)

  
 Center for Voting and Democracy
For the most part the "indigenes", especially in the first two provinces have in the past tended to be associated with Kanu against "migrants" who have for the most part have been associated with opposition parties.
The invocation of "ancestral" land rights since 1991, especially by the "indigenes" in the Rift Valley and Coast provinces, mostly inclined to Kanu, has tended to go with clamour by politicians from those communities for some kind of provincial autonomy, federalism or majimboism.
Yet, behind majimboism and the invocation of "ancestral" land claims has also been a genuine fear of being dominated by the numerically superior communities felt by the "indigenes" of especially the Rift Valley and Coast provinces, often regarded as part of the "minority communities".
www.fairvote.org /pr/global/kenyaease.htm   (1892 words)

  
 Atlantic Provinces travel guide - Wikitravel
The Atlantic Provinces of Canada are on the far east coast of that country.
While the people of the Atlantic Provinces predominantly speak English and French, it is worth noting that there are regional dialects of these languages that can throw off the average Central Canadian tourist, not to mention those from abroad.
Greyhound connects to the Atlantic Provinces, and in some cases their passes include coach services in the Maritimes.
wikitravel.org /en/Atlantic_Provinces   (1299 words)

  
 USDP: DPjudge Order Format
You can always specify a coast when one is involved (and I'll tell you how to do so here in a minute), but you usually don't really need to do so.
The DPjudge is smart enough to figure out which coast you mean in all but two cases (on the standard map): a move from Constantinople to Bulgaria, and a move from the Mid-Atlantic Ocean to Spain.
Here's one: If you are writing an order to support a fleet in its move to a multi-coast province, the coast to which it is moving must not be specified.
www.floc.net /dpjudge/?page=Format   (1221 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Lonely Planet Canada's Maritime Provinces: Books: David Stanley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The term 'Maritime provinces' refers collection to three of Canada's four east coast provinces-New Brunswick. Read the first page
Canada's Maritime Provinces is a simple, easy-reference guide to touring Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
Canada's Maritime Provinces is a "must-have" for anyone planning to see the sights on or near Canada's windswept and beautiful coast.
www.amazon.ca /Lonely-Planet-Canadas-Maritime-Provinces/dp/1740590236   (688 words)

  
 Tsunami warning system in Andaman provinces
A Tsunami early warning system covering six 'at-risk' Andaman coast provinces was completed by Thailand.
The warning system was installed in 444 locations in the six provinces.
Thailand also plans to equip 17 provinces on the Gulf of Thailand coast with disaster warning devices.
www.rediff.com /news/2006/jun/29tsunami.htm   (148 words)

  
 Awesome Until Proven Guilty: 10 Provinces: Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The tower's construction began in 1973 with the original intent of using it as a line of defense against the growing threat of revolution in Newfoundland.
As Ontario did not want to spoil its sea trade with PEI, it had to honour the wishes of the CAECP and disarmed the CN missile silo, reforming it to be part of the TV and radio communication platform in Toronto.
They have a song for each of the provinces easily, plus they're one of the most revered and loved bands in Toronto, if not the most canadian band ever ever.
patandtravis.blogspot.com /2006/03/10-provinces-ontario.html   (533 words)

  
 Red Cross estimates 723,000 people affected by floods in Kenya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The floods that have decimated mainly the Northeastern and Coast provinces since late October have spread to the flood-prone Western Province where River Nzoia had broken its banks, submerging villages in Busia District.
Flooding has also hit parts of Nyanza Province in the west, Mwingi District in the south and the Tana River District in Coast Province.
WFP estimates that 150,000 flood victims, mainly in remote areas of Northeastern Province, had not been reached largely because the rains rendered roads impassable.
www.yubanet.com /artman/publish/article_46489.shtml   (487 words)

  
 Maritimes Fishing Overview
The region that I'm referring to is made of Canada's four smallest provinces; New Brunswick, Newfoundland (Labrador), Nova Scotia, and the smallest Canadian province Prince Edward Island.
The Humber River is one of these and is located on the west coast of the Island.
You truly realize how big and diverse the fishing opportunities are in Canada when you compare the fishing in B.C. with that of the east coast provinces.
www.coastangler.com /fishing/maritimes_fishing.shtml   (295 words)

  
 My eleventh hour prediction | Mashada Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Banana will win Nairobi 53 to 47 and coast 51 to 49.
Game over.Orange busy bodies hung their heads in shame as their political fate rests in Mwai's hands.
coast is NO muslim factor crucial to no
www.mashada.com /forums/index/show_topic/22/74589/index.php   (159 words)

  
 USAID/Kenya Mission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is against this background that the DG team revised its strategy in 2003 to include a national advocacy component.
The overall goal of USAID/Kenya’s new conflict strategy is to implement programs aimed at peace building and conflict management in pastoral areas of Northeastern and Coast provinces (Support to Coast Province will be restricted to conflict prone areas, such as Tana River).
The northeastern and parts of the coastal regions of Kenya are mostly arid and semi-arid land with hardly any natural resources and very little rainfall.
www.usaidkenya.org /ke.demogov/conflict.html   (568 words)

  
 DESASTRES.org - Officials Make Preparations for Coming Typhoon Chebi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The ministries of Defence, Fisheries, Transport, and Public Security have sent messages to central coast provinces and relevant agencies to take steps to cope with the typhoon.
By 2am yesterday, the Coast Guard command reported units in 28 central coast provinces had alerted 24,448 vessels about the typhoon’s location and movements.
In Quang Ngai Province, provincial People’s Committee deputy chairman Truong Ngoc Nhi said the province had contacted a majority of its vessels operating on territorial waters to alert them about the typhoon situation and order them to return to port.
www.desastres.org /noticias.asp?id=14112006-11   (236 words)

  
 Ecuador Coast - Ministry of Tourism - Ecuador
Five of the country’s provinces (Esmeraldas, Manabí, Guayas, Los Ríos, and El Oro) are located on the Ecuadorian coast.
The region’s climate varies from hot and dry in the north to hot and humid in the south.
Click here or on the Map to get an overview of the provinces of the Ecuadorian Coast or click on a specific province to go directly to that province's destination guide.
www.vivecuador.com /html2/eng/coast_en.htm   (135 words)

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