The term " coastal zone " can be used instead, which is a spatial zone where interaction of the sea and land processes occurs.

The following articles describe the various geologic processes that affect a coastal zone:

Since the coastal areas are all part of the littoral zone, there is a profusion of marine life found just off-coast.

The Guinean forest-savanna mosaic belt extends across the middle of the country from east to west, and is the transition zone between the coastal forests and the interior savannas.

The coastal plain of the southern Levant, broad in the south and narrowing to the north, is backed in its southernmost portion by a zone of foothills, the Shephelah ; like the plain this narrows as it goes northwards, ending in the promontory of Mount Carmel.

* Destruction of all Royal Navy units in the coastal zone.

The only craft in military service thereafter were four Zodiac Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats in São Tomé harbour and one in Príncipe. Improvements to naval capabilities are considered vital to increase security in the exclusive economic zone ( EEZ ) to protect oil concerns and to stem the rise of coastal trafficking operations in the Gulf of Guinea area.

It is divided into a coastal zone — with a narrow, double mountain belt enclosing a depression in the west — and a much larger eastern plateau.

Veneto can be divided into four areas: the northern Alpine zone, the hill zone, the lower plain and the coastal territory.

The mountain, the coastal zone as far north as Latina, including the only remaining remnant of the swamp, and two of the Pontine Islands offshore, Zannone and Ponza, have been included in the Circeo National Park.

Most of Sussex lies in Hardiness zone 8 ; the exception is the coastal plain west of Brighton, which lies in the milder zone 9.

The Kru people and their languages, although now many speak English as a second language, are said to be “ dominant in the southwest region where the forest zone reaches the coastal lagoons ”.

The white sand belt lies south of the coastal zone.

The rivers of eastern Guyana cut across the coastal zone, making east-west travel difficult, but they also provide limited water access to the interior.

Archaeological remains found in the coastal zone indicate that the area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age ( ca.

The regime of innocent passage applies in straits used for international navigation ( 1 ) that connect a part of high seas or an exclusive economic zone with the territorial sea of coastal nation ( Strait of Tiran, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Strait of Baltiysk ) and ( 2 ) in straits formed by an island of a state bordering the strait and its mainland if there exists seaward of the island a route through the high seas or through an exclusive economic zone of similar convenience with respect to navigational and hydrographical characteristics ( Strait of Messina, Pentland Firth ).

The adjacent coastal zone, which includes the lower reaches of the rivers and extends from the Mudug Plain to the Kenyan border, averages 180 meters above sea level.

He halted European migration inland, restricting them to the coastal zone ; moreover, he freed the Algerian rebel leader Abd al Qadir ( who had been promised freedom on surrender but was imprisoned by the previous administration ) and gave him a stipend of 150, 000 francs.

The low-lying coastal zone is narrow for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment ( Great Escarpment ) that separates the coast from the high inland plateau.

Rainfall may average per year in the higher central area as compared with in the coastal zone.

Stretching inland from the Aegean coastal plain, the Central Anatolian plateau occupies the area between the two zones of the folded coastal ranges in the north and south, extending east to the point where the two ranges converge.

* Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests: These forests occupy the mountains of northern Anatolia, running east and west between the coastal Euxine-Colchic forests and the drier, continental climate forests of central and eastern Anatolia.

* Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests: This ecoregion occupies the coastal strip of southern Anatolia between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea.

But between 1609 and 1614 King Felipe III expelled thousands of Moriscos who had remained in Valencia after the Reconquista, due to their cooperation with Barbary pirates who continually attacked coastal cities and caused much harm to trade.

The village nestles between the bigger coastal towns of Burntisland to the east and Dalgety Bay to the west.

Consistent with its coastal reputation, Connecticut is a moderately sunny state, averaging between 2, 400 and 2, 800 hours of sunshine annually.

Almost the entire Casablanca waterfront is under development, mainly the construction of huge entertainment centres between the port and Hassan II Mosque, the Anfa Resort project near the business, entertainment and living centre of Megarama, the shopping and entertainment complex of Morocco Mall, as well as a complete renovation of the coastal walkway.

There are also social divisions evident between the coastal suburbs in the east of the city, including those on the northside, and the newer developments further to the west.

The La Tolita developed in the coastal region of Southern Colombia and Northern Ecuador between 600 bc and 200 AD.

The Manteños were the last of the pre-Columbian cultures in the coastal region existing between 600 – 1534.

it has an inventory consisting of about thirty five large patrol craft ( each between twenty and thirty meters in length ) and twenty smaller Bertram-class coastal patrol craft built in the United States.

Two parallel mountain ranges cross El Salvador to the west with a central plateau between them and a narrow coastal plain hugging the Pacific.

Bantu migrations between the 17th and 19th centuries brought the coastal tribes and later the Fang.

The contrast between traditional and modern transport in Eritrea. This article summarizes characteristics of a number of forms of transport in the coastal African nation of Eritrea.

From the first days of the expansion of the British colonies from the coast of North America into the heartland of the continent, a recurring problem was that of transportation between the coastal ports and the interior.

They are found mostly in the hinterland and riverain areas and provide linkages with a number of important mining and forestry activities thus facilitating transportation between the mining and forestry communities and the more developed coastal areas.

Within the country, it provides a link between the coastal areas and communities in the hinterland, many of which are inaccessible by any other means of transportation.

There is no definitive cultural break between the 13th and 12th century BC throughout the entire region, although certain new features in the hill country, Transjordan, and coastal region may suggest the appearance of the Aramaean and Sea People groups.

* 2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U. S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.

It existed between 1871 and 1919, growing out of the small Prussian Navy and Norddeutsche Bundesmarine, which primarily had the mission of coastal defense.

There are four such longitudinal strips between the Mediterranean Sea and Syria: the coastal strip ( or the maritime plain ), western Lebanon, the central plateau, and eastern Lebanon ( see fig.

Good relations between the Portuguese and Chinese Ming Dynasty resumed in the 1540s, when Portuguese aided China in eliminating coastal pirates.