Central Japan is marked by the convergence of the three mountain chains — the Hida, Kiso, and Akaishi mountains — that form the Japanese Alps ( Nihon Arupusu ), several of whose peaks are higher than 3, 000 meters.

* Mountains and seas: The range of Occitan is bounded naturally by the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees, and the Alps.

Central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Wallachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps

Slovenia is situated in Central Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean.

Encompassing the Central Alps, Switzerland sits at the crossroads of several major European cultures.

The city enjoys a continental climate that incorporates some characteristics of a mountainous climate because of the nearby Massif Central and Alps. Heavy snows in the Massif Central often make roads impassable, but Vichy is low enough at about above sea level that the climate is more continental.

They are considered to be part of the Central Eastern Alps.

# REDIRECT Central Eastern Alps

On the north the upper Rhône valley separate them from the Bernese Alps and the Furka Pass and the upper Reuss valley separates them from the Urner Alps ; on the west the Simplon Pass separates them from the Pennine Alps ; on the north-east the Oberalp Pass and the Vorderrhein valley separate them from the Glarus Alps ; on the east the Splügen Pass separates them from the Central Eastern Alps ( Oberhalbstein Range ).

Because of their central position within the entire Alpine range, they are also known as the Central Alps.

The latter are part of the Central Eastern Alps, except the Ortler Alps which belong to the Southern Limestone Alps.

Simplified map of Cottian Alps showing their three subsections: Southern Cottian Alps ( 4. I ), Central Cottian Alps ( 4. II ), Northern Cottian Alps ( 4. III )

* Central Cottian Alps ( It: Alpi del Monginevro / Fr: Alpes du Montgenèvre )-SOIUSA code: I / A-4. II

* Central Cottian Alps:

The Southern Limestone Alps ( Italian: Alpi Sud-orientali ) are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps mainly located in northern Italy and the adjacent lands of Austria and Slovenia.

File: Another Room of Casts. jpg | Room 46b ; Cast Court — Plaster Cast of Central doorway of S. Petronio, Siena by Jacopo della Quercia

Act I was telecast live from Rome's basilica of Sant ' Andrea della Valle on Saturday, 11 July, at noon ( Central European Daylight Savings Time ); act II was telecast later that evening from the Palazzo Farnese at 9: 40 p. m .; act III was telecast live on Sunday, 12 July, at 7: 00 am from the Castel Sant ' Angelo, also known as Hadrian's Tomb.

* Central Direction for the Anticrime Police ( Direzione Centrale della Polizia Anticrimine )

* Premio Presidente della Repubblica-( 2 )-Flagbird ( 1995 ), Central Park ( 1999 )

The two largest, Zacate Grande and El Tigre, are eroded volcanoes, part of the chain of volcanoes that extends along the Pacific coast of Central America.

The country's most extensive river systems are the Pulangi River, which flows into the Mindanao River ( Rio Grande de Mindanao ); the Agusan, in Mindanao which flows north into the Mindanao Sea ; the Cagayan in northern Luzon ; and the Pampanga, which flows south from east Central Luzon into Manila Bay.

M. emarginata is originally from Yucatán, and can be found in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America as far south as Peru and the south east region in Brazil, and in the southernmost parts of the contiguous United States ( southern Florida and the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas ),.

The industry was helped in 1879 when the Texas Central Railroad reached Dublin, and in 1889 when the Fort Worth and Rio Grande was completed through Stephenville.

A new roadway, Wall Street, was built and the Grande Central Station outdoor mall was opened with a discount movie theater along with a mix of restaurants, retail, and light industry businesses.

The city is served by the La Grande School District, which includes Central Elementary School, Greenwood Elementary School, La Grande Middle School, and La Grande High School.

It is home to the Rio Grande Valley Magic of the Southern Indoor Football League, the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees of the Central Hockey League, and the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League, who play in the local State Farm Arena ( Formerly Dodge Arena ), also a concert venue serving the McAllen – Edinburg – Mission and Reynosa – McAllen metropolitan areas.

* Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees, a Central Hockey League team based in Hidalgo, Texas, U. S.

After some decades, many of them started to migrate to other parts of Rio Grande do Sul, including Porto Alegre. Minority communities of immigrants, such as Central Europeans from Poland and Eastern Europeans from Ukraine ; Arabs from Palestine, Lebanon and Syria ; Asians from Japan and Jews also made Porto Alegre their home.

* Mexamerica — the southern and Central Valley portions of California as well as southern Arizona, the portion of Texas bordering on the Rio Grande, most of New Mexico, northern Mexico, and the Baja California peninsula.

Pagbilao has numerous primary and secondary educational institutions like the Pagbilao Central Elementary School ( public ), Pagbilao Academy ( high school, private ), Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao ( high school, Catholic-private ) Talipan National High School, Pagbilao National High School, Pagbilao Grande Island National High School, and some tertiary education institutions such as the Quezon National Agricultural School ( QNAS ) located in Brgy.

Praia Grande Central Business District ( 南灣中心商業區 ) is in south-central part of the district.

The southwestern portions border the Rio Grande, and are generally drier than other areas of the South Central United States, Central Texas having the most annual precipitation.

The vegetation in Campo Grande and Central Brazil is a tropical savanna called " Cerrado " that varies from pure grassland to a nearly closed canopy of medium height trees overlying grass.

* The Second World War – Somme 1940, Odon, Tourmauville Bridge, Caen, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Falaise, Dives Crossing, Aart, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenburg, North-West Europe 1940, 44 – 45, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, El Alamein, Medenine, Akarit, Diebel Azzag 1942, Kef Ouiba Pass, Mine de Sedjenane, Medjez Plain, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940 – 43, Landing in Sicily, Gerbini, Adrano, Centuripe, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Sangro, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Aquino, Monte Casalino, Monte Spaduro, Monte Grande, Senio, Santerno Crossing, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943 – 45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, North Malaya, Grik Road, Central Malaya, Ipoh, Slim River, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941 – 42.

At the time Penn Central owned Six Flags and Rio Grande had plans to build several theme parks of their own in addition to owning a coaster-building company.

* Rio Grande de Pampanga, a river in Central Luzon, Philippines.

* Acanthocereus baxaniensis-Barbed-wire Cactus ( Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, northern South America )

In 1928, she went to Paris and enrolled briefly at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, after which she spent a year in London studying fine art at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Bernard Meninsky.

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y is otherwise found mainly among Nivkhs, and with lower frequency among Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols ( including Kalmyks and Buryats ), Chinese, Japanese, Central Asians, South Siberian Turkic peoples ( e. g. Tuvans, Todjins, Soyots ), Koryaks, Alyutors, Itelmens, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, and Malaysians.

These cultures show a variety of influences: Pomeranian, Milograd, Scythian and Getic, with La Tene and Roman Danubian influences evident at their maturity ; making them more " Central European " in outlook ( i. e. similar to the Przeworsk culture ) rather than of the " forest-Venedic " or Carpic-Dacian types.

* European Central Bank in some Romance languages ( e. g., Banco Central Europeo )

Others believe it was a corrupted term of " Chilango ", meaning an inhabitant from Mexico City or Central Mexico ( i. e. the highland states of Mexico ( state ), Jalisco, Puebla ( state ) and Michoacán ); and even from the term " Chileno " by the Chilean presence in mid 19th-century California, when miners from Chile arrived in the California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 51 ).

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

Scholarship from the early 20th century literature connected the sudden and apparently devastating Hun appearance as a predatory migration from the more easterly parts of the steppe, i. e. Central Asia.

The term " traditional " ( masorti ) is most common as a self-description among Israeli families of " eastern " origin ( i. e., the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa ).

Many peoples of the Near, Middle East and Central Asia claim Nasreddin as their own ( e. g., Turks, Afghans, Iranians, and Uzbeks ).

Their settlements were divided into three regions, i. e., ' Wallokirat ' that lay to the East of the Kathmandu Valley, ' Majkirat ' or Central Kirat region and ' Pallokirat ' that lay to the far East of the Kathmandu valley.

Many Central American and South American nationals can travel within their respective regional economic zones, such as Mercosur and the Andean Community of Nations, or on a bilateral basis ( e. g., between Chile and Peru, between Brazil and Chile ), without passports, presenting instead their national ID cards, or, for short stays, their voter-registration cards.

Central and Eastern European slaves were generally known as Saqaliba ( i. e., Slavs ).

Coltan, the industrial name for a columbite – tantalite mineral from which columbium ( i. e. niobium ) and tantalum are extracted, can also be found in Central Africa, which is why tantalum is being linked to warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ).

In the December 2001 issue the magazine printed a cover by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz showing a map of New York in which various neighborhoods were labeled with humorous names reminiscent of Middle Eastern and Central Asian place names and referencing the neighborhood's real name or characteristics ( e. g., " Fuhgeddabouditstan ", " Botoxia ").

Some populations are still poorer today than they were in 1989 ( e. g. Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, Central Asia, Caucasus ).

The Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac ( Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës, Medvegjës dhe Bujanocit, UCPMB ) was a separatist militant group fighting for independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the three municipalities: Preševo, Bujanovac, and Medveđa, home to most of the ethnic Albanians of Central Serbia, adjacent to Kosovo.

Tropical rainforest is present in Southeast Asia ( from Myanmar ( Burma ) to Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and northeastern Australia ), Sri Lanka, sub-Saharan Africa from Cameroon to the Congo ( Congo Rainforest ), South America ( e. g. the Amazon Rainforest ), Central America ( e. g. Bosawás, southern Yucatán Peninsula-El Peten-Belize-Calakmul ), and on many of the Pacific Islands ( such as

It has been suggested that the ' Eastern Great Lakes ' languages — what Goddard has called ' Core Central ', e. g., Ojibwe – Potawatomi, Shawnee, Sauk – Fox – Kickapoo, and Miami-Illinois ( but not Cree – Montagnais or Menominee ), may also constitute their own genetic grouping within Algonquian.

The Central Policy Review Staff was established by Heath in February 1971, while the 1972 Local Government Act changed the boundaries of Britain's counties and created " Metropolitan Counties " around the major cities ( e. g. Merseyside around Liverpool ): this caused significant public anger.

Early Senufo classifications ( e. g. Bendor-Samuel 1971 ) were mainly geographically motivated, dividing the Senufo languages into Northern, Central, and Southern Senufo.

Another measure of central obesity which has shown superiority to BMI in predicting cardiovascular disease risk is the Index of Central Obesity ( waist-to-height ratio-WHtR ), where a ratio of >= 0. 5 ( i. e. a waist circumference at least half of the individual's height ) is predictive of increased risk.

There are also small Russian communities in the Balkans, Eastern and Central European nations such as Germany and Poland, as well Russians settled in China, Japan, South Korea, Latin America ( i. e. Mexico, Brazil and Argentina ) and Australia.