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True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.
Up until World War II it was still possible to regard the city as being a settlement of narrow streets localized to some part of the harbor or the Gulf of Ajaccio ; such bucolic descriptions do not fit the city of today, and travellogues intended for mountain or coastal recreational areas do not generally apply to Corsica's few big cities.
These two ranges are bordered on the west by a narrow coastal plain that contains Kampong Saom Bay, which faces the Gulf of Thailand.
Geophysically the city is likewise surrounded by the narrow coastal plain of Vocha, Corinthian Gulf, Corinth Canal, the Isthmus of Corinth, Saronic Gulf, Oneia Mountains, and the monolithic rock of Acrocorinth, where the medieval acropolis was built.
Several east-west trending mountain spurs extend to the narrow coastal plain, which is studded with sea cliffs and has level stretches no wider than.
The southern side of the peninsula has a sharp escarpment that subsides after a narrow coastal shelf that slopes into the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
Two parallel mountain ranges cross El Salvador to the west with a central plateau between them and a narrow coastal plain hugging the Pacific.
A narrow plain extends from the coastal volcanic range to the Pacific Ocean.
mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau
Grenada's landmass rises from a narrow, coastal plain in a generally north-south trending axis of ridges and narrow valleys.
: Volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs ; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau ( source of most freshwater ), with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low-rising hills in center, mountains in south
Honduras has three distinct topographical regions: an extensive interior highland area and two narrow coastal lowlands.
The central part of the Caribbean lowlands, east of La Ceiba, is a narrow coastal plain only a few kilometers wide.
: Mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plains
The extremely narrow coastal strip stretches along the shore of the eastern Mediterranean.
A relatively narrow coastal strip and highland steppes immediately south of it are the most productive agricultural regions.
Near their edges, the plateaus are cut by deep canyons, and at several points spectacular waterfalls drop to the narrow coastal plain.
The narrow coastal plain rises very rapidly into several mountain ranges.
Today, most of the people of Nauru live along a narrow and fertile coastal strip of the island.
The islands typically have narrow coastal plains and numerous swift-running streams.
Part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth is located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, a low coastal escarpment.
Off the east end of Upolu are the Aleipata Islands, small uninhabited islets ; The terrain of the two main islands are narrow coastal plains with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountains in interior

narrow and plain
* Para-Lift Flaps – these were the large Fowler flaps Cessna introduced on the 170B in 1952, replacing the narrow chord plain flaps then in use.
A narrow littoral plain extends along the east coast.
Rivers in the extreme northwest and in the narrow northern coastal plain drain directly into the Atlantic Ocean.
In the east and the north, the plain is flat, dissected by long, narrow ridges of granite running from the Central Highlands.
Most of the country is made up of rolling hills, but there is a narrow coastal plain that has swampy terrain.
Most Surinamers live in the narrow, northern coastal plain.
Along the Mediterranean, a narrow coastal plain stretches south from the Turkish border to Lebanon.
The narrow Atlantic coastal plain is sandy and marshy, occasionally broken by shallow lagoons.
Ninety percent of the inhabitants live on the narrow coastal plain, where population density is more than.
From Kamakura's alluvional plain branch off numerous narrow valleys like the Urigayatsu, Shakadōgayatsu, Ōgigayatsu, Kamegayatsu, Hikigayatsu, and Matsubagayatsu valleys.
The traditional identification of Mount Sinai as Jabal Musa, one of the peaks at the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula, would imply that the wilderness of Sin was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the promontory of Ras Mohammed ; however, most scholars have since rejected these traditional identifications.
West of these hills is a narrow, wet coastal plain located between the cities of Chittagong in the north and Cox's Bazar in the south.
An entrenched river is a river that is confined to a canyon or gorge, usually with a relatively narrow width and little or no flood plain, and often with meanders worn into the landscape.
The land at Susquehanna River's edge is alluvial flood plain, but Dauphin sits at the head of a narrow valley between two mountains, at the mouth of Stony Creek.

narrow and known
The relatively small number of atomic absorption lines ( compared to atomic emission lines ) and their narrow width ( a few pm ) make spectral overlap rare ; there are only very few examples known that an absorption line from one element will overlap with another.
A Bohemian () is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic.
Those above the His bundle, also known as junctional, will typically range between 40 and 60 bpm with a narrow QRS complex.
It developed as a trading centre at the head of a narrow, navigable inlet known as the Schlei, which connects to the Baltic Sea.
By the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European countries was on heritage railways largely aimed at tourists and / or railroad hobbyists, known as ' railfans ' or ' railway enthusiasts ', although some narrow gauge lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for all or part of their motive power.
A long, narrow strip of desert known as Ad Dahna separates Najd from eastern Arabia, which slopes eastward to the sandy coast along the Persian Gulf.
An electrical synapse is an electrically conductive link between two abutting neurons that is formed at a narrow gap between the pre-and postsynaptic cells, known as a gap junction.
Eventually, these rings form a very narrow ( 0. 5 mm ), hollow tube commonly known as a " soda straw " stalactite.
A deep, narrow valley is known as a coon ( also spelled combe or coombe ).
It is well known from the theory of Fourier analysis, or from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ( in the case of quantum mechanics ) that a narrow range of wavelengths is necessary to produce a localized wave packet, and the more localized the envelope, the larger the spread in required wavelengths.
The England team became known as the " wingless wonders ", on account of their then-unconventional narrow attacking formation, described at the time as a 4 – 3 – 3.
So-called cosmic strings, hypothesized in some cosmological theories, involve very large energy densities in long, narrow lines, but all known physically reasonable cosmic-string models have positive ( positive space-time warping effects ) energy densities.
; Caster board: Two narrow platforms known as " decks " are adjoined by a rubber or aluminium coated metal beam that houses a strong spring.
The surrounding chalk cliffs have become known as the White Cliffs of Dover, and the narrow sea passage nearby – the Strait of Dover.
At the end of the narrow gorge stands Petra's most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh ( popularly known as " the Treasury "), hewn into the sandstone cliff.
These streets are known as kantoúnia (), and the older amongst them sometimes follow the gentle irregularities of the ground ; while many are too narrow for vehicular traffic.
The terra Australis is therefore the southernmost of all other lands, directly beneath the antarctic circle ; extending beyond the tropic of Capricorn to the West, it ends almost at the equator itself, and separated by a narrow strait lies on the East opposite to New Guinea, only known so far by a few shores because after one voyage and another that route has been given up and unless sailors are forced and driven by stress of winds it is seldom visited.
The Calanques, also known as the Massif des Calanques, are a dramatic feature of the Provence coast, a 20-km long series of narrow inlets in the cliffs of the coastline between Marseille on the west and Cassis on the east.
If they are not the same, i. e. some are narrow triangles, while others maybe wide trapizoids or shouldered triangles, then the mass or area of the output function must be known or calculated.
It is known for its rich valley farm land and is part of the Great Appalachian Valley ( also known simply as the ' Great Valley ') which is a long narrow valley strip often between tall mountain ranges.
Roosevelt Island — known as Welfare Island from 1921 to 1973, and before that Blackwell's Island — is a narrow island in the East River of New York City.
665 ; February 25, 1863 ) was originally known as the National Currency Act and was passed in the Senate by a narrow 23-21 vote.
* The Mulobezi Railway ( also known as Zambezi Sawmills Railway ) is a narrow gauge line constructed to carry timber from Mulobezi to Livingstone.

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