Because of its mountainous topography and lack of development, Laos has few reliable transportation routes.

Because mobility is severely impaired due to PNG's mountainous geography, heavy rain-forest and the nation's under-developed transport infrastructure, artillery is not used by the New Guinea Defence Force.

Because about 70 % of South Korea's land area is mountainous and the population is concentrated in the lowland areas, actual population densities were in general greater than the average.

Because some regions have had difficulty picking up over-the-air signals ( particularly in mountainous areas ), alternative means of distribution such as direct-to-home satellite and cable television have been introduced.

Because of Andorra ’ s mountainous character, only about 2 % of the land is suitable for crops.

Because of the mountainous barrier, there is no road lying entirely within Jefferson County that connects the eastern and western parts.

Because of the mountainous terrain, the existing network consisted of narrow gauge lines, which generally took indirect routes and could not be adapted to higher speeds.

Because of its mountainous landscape, rice farming is done mostly in the Izumo plain where the city of Izumo is located.

Because of its mountainous geography, tourism is important in Nidwalden.

Because of their distinctive shapes, buttes are frequently landmarks in plains and mountainous areas.

Because of their contribution to the liberation movement, the new communist government set out in 1975 to repay the debt by developing the remote mountainous areas.

Because until comparatively recently most Galicians lived in many small towns and villages in a remote and mountainous land, the language changed very slowly and was only very slightly influenced from outside the region.

Because cartographers usually made their observations far away from the mountainous remote areas and also because the Dent d ' Hérens is sometime hidden behind the Dent Blanche thus less visible, the latter received the name.

Because of its twisting, mountainous segments and overloaded traffic conditions on its eastern leg, State Route 138 east of Palmdale and west of Interstate 15 is the site of numerous serious auto accidents as of 2004, according to CHP data.

Because of the mountainous terrain and the vertical character of the sites chosen for fortification, individual blocks typically emerged from rock faces in a steep hillside or cliff with mined galleries within under rock cover.

Because of its mountainous condition, most of Mungyeong's land ( roughly 75 %) is unsuitable for farming.

Because of this mountainous inland location, Bonghwa has a colder climate than most of the province, with an average annual temperature of 10 ° C.

Because the cost of building highways through Appalachia ’ s mountainous terrain was high, the region's local residents had never been served by adequate roads.

Because of its mountainous terrain on the east, it was also an ideal site for the guerrillas who fought the Japanese forces.

Because the traditional Lak lands are mountainous and very dry, agriculture was of secondary importance in the traditional economy.

Because of the mountainous nature of parts of the Bandung District, major landslides are a significant natural hazard for the people of the District.

Because of a wine glut ( wine lake ) in the generic production, the price squeeze induced by an increasingly strong international competition, and vine pull schemes, the number of growers has recently dropped from 14, 000 and the area under vine has also decreased significantly.

Because the base is deeply affixed to the chest, the weight of the breast is distributed over a greater area, and so reduces the weight-bearing strain upon the chest, shoulder, and back muscles that bear the weight of the bust.

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

Because a geographically dispersed population can be expensive to survey, greater economy than simple random sampling can be achieved by treating several respondents within a local area as a cluster.

Because such waves conserve the amount of energy they transmit through any spherical boundary surface drawn around their source, and because such surfaces have an area that is defined by the square of the distance from the source, the power of EM radiation always varies according to an inverse-square law.

Because Greater Poland was the settlement area of the Polans and the core of the early Polish state, the region was at times simply called " Poland " ( Latin Polonia ).

Because the rugged terrain has made the land difficult to traverse and equally difficult to cultivate, this area has not been highly developed.

Because bees carry an electrostatic charge, and can attract other particles, the same techniques of melissopalynology can be used in area environmental studies of radioactive particles, dust or particulate pollution.

Because the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates above their confluence are heavily silt-laden, irrigation and fairly frequent flooding deposit large quantities of silty loam in much of the delta area.

Because international law is a relatively new area of law its development and propriety in applicable areas are often subject to dispute.

Because numerous small islands surround Isle Royale, ships were once guided through the area by lighthouses at Passage Island, Rock Harbor, Rock of Ages, and Isle Royale Lighthouse on Menagerie Island.

Because competition lowered their profits, and because of the doctrines of mercantilism, in 1602 the companies united into a cartel and formed the Dutch East India Company, and received from the government the right to trade and colonise territory in the area stretching from the Cape of Good Hope eastward to the Strait of Magellan.

Because of their jurisdiction over the area in the past, Turkic people today still call the Caspian Sea the Khazar Sea.

Because of the large surface area to volume ratio of MEMS, surface effects such as electrostatics and wetting dominate over volume effects such as inertia or thermal mass.

Because the body of knowledge of physical therapy is quite large, some PTs specialize in a specific clinical area.

Because the area of the fossil site was four hundred kilometers removed from the coastline and there were no indications of large rivers or deep lakes nearby at the end of the Cretaceous, Lawson in 1975 rejected a fish-eating lifestyle, instead suggesting that Quetzalcoatlus scavenged like the Marabou Stork, but then on the carcasses of titanosaur sauropods such as Alamosaurus.

Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks, discovers 30, 000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1, 600 of them unknown to European science, Cook calls the place Botany Bay.

Because the trainyard of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen became obsolete, the area along a big part of the railway crossing the city, the Spoorzone, became an urban renewal project.

Because of the economics of load balancing, wide area transmission grids now span across countries and even large portions of continents.

Because of low transportation and labor costs, Birmingham quickly became the largest and cheapest foundry iron-producing area.

Because of the downward tilt of the Earth's magnetic field at high latitudes, the area of peak field strength is a U-shaped region to the equatorial side of the nuclear detonation.

Because the municipality of Espoo, to which the area of Kauniainen belonged, did not show much interest in the new community, the company was responsible for developing it ; roads were built, a school founded, electricity arranged and the company lobbied for a railway station ( opened in 1908 ) and a police office.

Because of the lake and the through travellers ( including many motorcyclists who enjoy the twisty roads in the area ) the town also supports a small tourist industry, with a motel and caravan park.

Because the park is located in an urban area, the park has a long history of major problems with feral and roaming animals.