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.

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

Areas further from the center were the domain of the chōnin ( 町人, literally " townsfolk ").

Areas which were converted to Islam early, such as Aceh, broke away from Srivijaya ’ s control.

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 of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in their own right and given powers equivalent to those of administrative counties.

Areas that were traditionally Muslim had very little crusader settlement, just as they already had very few native Christian inhabitants.

Areas that had many Polish-language speakers were known as the Polish departments.

As of early 1994, there were thirty-three ministerial portfolios: commerce ; communications ; culture ; defence ; defence production ; education ; environment ; finance and economic affairs ; food and agriculture ; foreign affairs ; health ; housing ; information and broadcasting ; interior ; Kashmiri affairs and Northern Areas ; law and justice ; local government ; minority affairs ; narcotics control ; parliamentary affairs ; petroleum and natural resources production ; planning and development ; railways ; religious affairs ; science and technology ; social welfare ; special education ; sports ; state and frontier regions ; tourism ; water and power ; women's development ; and youth affairs.

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 that were still missing were gap-filled with a blue or white resin.

In 1994, control of Areas ' A ' and ' B ' were transferred to the Palestinian Authority.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

In November 2001, before the capture of Kunduz by United Front troops under the command of Mohammad Daud Daud, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the Kunduz airlift, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of Kunduz by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas.

Areas outside city limits were left open as farmland.

This allowed for new development on infill sites or on the edge of larger towns and villages, “ but preventing development in the open countryside and in designated areas such as green belts and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty .” In addition, opportunities for public participation in the planning process were also increased by the Act, partly in response to opposition to some features of urban housing and planning policies.

In 1966, five development areas ( covering half the population in the UK ) were established, while subsidies were provided for employers recruiting new employees in the Development Areas.

It is estimated that, between 1964 and 1970, 45, 000 government jobs were created outside London, 21, 000 of which were located in the Development Areas.

In July 1967, the government decided to pour money into what the Plowden Committee defined as Educational Priority Areas, poverty-stricken areas where children were environmentally deprived.

Areas occupied by USSR were annexed to Soviet territory, with the exception of area of Vilnius, which was transferred to Lithuania, although soon attached to USSR, when Lithuania became a Soviet republic.

A. Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan abolished Mir government and annexed the region to the Northern Areas of Pakistan under the federal government.

Areas it annexed on top of the Niagara Escarpment west of Highway 20 ( now known as Upper Centennial Parkway ) became known as Upper Stoney Creek or Satellite City.

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.

Areas of the south east such as Harran and the Hakkari mountains continued to be inhabited by remnants of the Assyrians, but these regions remained under Parthian and then Sassanid Persian rule.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

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.

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

Areas maintained by the National Park Service include: Appalachian National Scenic Trail ; Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor ; and Weir Farm National Historic Site.

Source of " Today " map: compiled by George Draffan from roadless area map in The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States, by Dave Foreman and Howie Wolke ( Harmony Books, 1992 ).

Areas controlled by European colonial powers on the African continent in 1914

By 2010 under one of the National Key Economic Areas ( NKEA ) and under the Government Transformation Programme ( GTP ), the federal government have announced to improve the public transport system by building a Mass Rapid Transit ‘”( MRT )”’ system in the Klang Valley / Greater KL.

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.

The National Council ( Rashtriya Sabha ) had 60 members, 35 members elected by the Pratinidhi Sabha, 15 representatives of Regional Development Areas and 10 members appointed by the king.

Areas managed by the National Park Service include:

Areas managed by the National Park Service include:

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.

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

The Executive was reincorporated as a body consisting of councillors drawn from the 12 Council Areas which succeeded Strathclyde Region :-

The federal Office of Management and Budget divides New Jersey's counties into seven Metropolitan Statistical Areas, including sixteen counties in the New York City or Philadelphia metro 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.

Areas that were once farms or wooded backcountry are now being developed into subdivisions.

Effective June 6, 2003 the Office of Management and Budget redefined the Federal Statistical Areas and dismantled what had been for decades the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, MSA and split them into two separate MSAs even though the region still functions as a single metropolitan area.

The SFWMD built Stormwater Treatment Areas ( STAs ) near sugarcane fields where water leaving the EAA flows into ponds lined with lime rock and layers of peat and calcareous periphyton.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan ( CERP ) proposed more than 60 construction projects over 30 years to store water that was being flushed into the ocean, in reservoirs, underground aquifers, and abandoned quarries ; add more Stormwater Treatment Areas to filter water that flowed into the lower Everglades ; regulate water released from pumping stations into local waterways and improve water released to Everglades National Park and Water Conservation Areas ; remove barriers to sheetflow by raising the Tamiami Trail and destroying the Miami Canal, and reuse wastewater for urban areas.

Areas of East Jefferson County located south of Port Townsend remain largely rural and can be divided into two parts, those communities located on the Hood Canal and those on the Admiralty Inlet.

Areas of the eastern portion of the county drain into the Lehigh River via the Quakake Creek, Nesquehoning Creek, Mahoning Creek, and Lizard Creek, all of which also start in the county.

The state government currently classifies local governments into two categories: Cities and Areas, there being little significant difference between the two ( a City is simply an Area receiving a proclamation of city status by the Governor ).

It is divided into five Local Electoral Areas ( LEAs ) Ballymote, Dromore, Sligo-Drumcliff, Sligo-Strandhill and Tubbercurry.

Effective June 6, 2003, the U. S. Office of Management and Budget redefined the Federal Statistical Areas and dismantled what had been for decades the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, MSA and split them into two separate MSAs.

The small portions of the city that extend into Erie and Seneca counties are part of the Sandusky Metropolitan and Tiffin Micropolitan Statistical Areas, respectively.

Area 28 no longer exists ; it was absorbed into Areas 25 and 27.

In 1975, the county council was abolished and the area absorbed into the larger Strathclyde region, which itself was divided into new Council Areas in 1996.

* Pacific Ocean Areas ( POA ; divided into Central Pacific Area, North Pacific Area and South Pacific Area ), commanded by Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas

Areas such as Shu ( present-day Sichuan ) and Yue ( present-day Zhejiang ) were also brought into the Chinese cultural sphere during this time.