Areas of open water left from ice melt are good areas for phytoplankton blooms.

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

Areas where shifting cultivation or slash and burn agriculture are practiced are generally only fertile for 2 – 3 years before they are abandoned.

Within each of these maturity levels are Key Process Areas which characterise that level, and for each such area there are five factors: goals, commitment, ability, measurement, and verification.

Areas of distribution of families vary largely-while some are restricted to tropics, others exist mainly in Arctic or temperate regions.

Areas that were shired by 1607 and continued in existence down to the local government reforms of 1836, 1898 and 2001 are sometimes referred to as " traditional " or " historic " counties.

Areas surrounding these new townships are easily accessible via the SILK Expressway.

The Gilgit – Baltistan, formerly called Northern Areas, are a group of territories in the extreme north, bordered by the Karakoram, the western Himalayas, the Pamir, and the Hindu Kush ranges.

There are three Episcopal Areas of the United Methodist Church in the Philippines namely: Baguio Episcopal Area, Davao Episcopal Area and Manila Episcopal Area.

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

The Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir lie mainly in Central Asia along the edge of the Indian plate and hence are prone to violent earthquakes where the two tectonic plates collide.

There are representatives from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and from Islamabad Capital Territory.

Seats are allocated to each of the four provinces, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and Islamabad Capital Territory on the basis of population.

All telecom companies are working to broaden their networks in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Northern Areas, which were largely ignored until recently.

Areas coloured red are lower in energy than areas coloured yellow

Areas of East African mangroves on the coast are also important habitats.

Virginia has 11 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ; Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, and Richmond-Petersburg are the three most populous.

Areas around the southern part of Lake Maracaibo are swampy, and, despite the rich agricultural land and significant petroleum deposits, the area was still thinly populated in 1990.

Areas inhabited nonseasonally by wolverines are thus restricted to zones with late-spring snowmelts.

Areas worldwide where tornadoes are most likely, indicated by orange shading

Areas that are to be light in the final print are protected by varnishing between acid baths.

The second proclamation was titled " Policy of the United States With Respect to Coastal Fisheries in Certain Areas of the High Seas ", and stated in its operative clause:

In an interview with Dave Owen of Access All Areas and I Can't Breathe Media Luke Jenner stated that Justin Timberlake originally sang on the track " No Sex For Ben ": " We were recording with Timbaland, ' cause he beatboxes on the track and Justin was upstairs with Duran Duran and he came down and sang on the track, but when we got it back from the label someone had removed JT's vocals.

* State Parks – Areas of scientific, historic, or scenic value that are of sufficient size to be developed for public use without infringing on the primary value of the area.

Areas should be large enough to include the attractions, have ample space for the use of facilities needed, and have room around the edges to protect the values of the area from encroachment by private developments.

Diamond Jubilee Schools for girls were established throughout the remote Northern Areas of what is now Pakistan.

The areas of Lochnagar and Ballochbuie were designated in 1998 by the Secretary of State for Scotland as Special Protection Areas ( SPA ) under the European Union ( EU ) Birds Directive.

The country is noted for its national park system, administered by SINAC ( Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion, or " National System of Conservation Areas ").

A literature compendium for a large variety of audio coding systems was published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications ( JSAC ), February 1988.

Areas with ravines or forests, like Chambal, Chilapata Forests were once known for dacoits.

( See Metropolitan Statistical Areas of New Jersey for details.

Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently ( for example, see Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in the United States ), an international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined " National Park " as its Category II type of protected areas.

" Shire " is the most common word in Australia for rural Local Government Areas ( LGA ).

In the 1994 Oslo accords, responsibility for the administration over some of the territory of Samaria ( Areas ' A ' and ' B ') was transferred to the Palestinian Authority.

Tora Bora (, ), known locally as Spīn Ghar (, ), is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains ( Safed Koh ) ( Safed Koh is the Dari form for Spin Ghar ) of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately west of the Khyber Pass and north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA ) in Pakistan.

The recent history of Tours is marked by the personality of Jean Royer, who was Mayor for 36 years and helped to save the old town from demolition by establishing one of the first Conservation Areas.

It began in 2004 when tensions rooted in the Pakistani Army's search for al-Qaeda members in Pakistan's mountainous Waziristan area ( in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ) escalated into armed resistance by local tribesmen.

* 11 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Europe ( although Areas smaller than 10 million square kilometers gives the area for Europe as ~ 9 million km, and Europe gives the area for Europe as ~ 10 million km )

Areas which the GLA has responsibility for include transport, policing, fire and rescue, development and strategic planning.

* International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Currently, India and Pakistan are the main producers of cluster bean, accounting for 80 % production of the world's total, while Thar, Punjab Dry Areas in Pakistan and Rajasthan occupies the largest area ( 82. 1 %) under guar cultivation in India.