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 that were annexed by the Soviets were reincorporated into Romania, along with the newly established Transnistria Governorate.

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 of the photo-etch image may be stopped-out before etching to exclude them from the final image on the plate, or removed or lightened by scraping and burnishing once the plate has been etched.

Areas such as the Antelope Valley desert which is a high desert received snow each year, in the past it could snow 2-3 times a year ; however, recently snow level has declined significantly to once a year or less.

Areas once belonging to Rupert's Land include all of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, northern parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as parts of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota.

Areas of neighboring Fitchburg were once part of Lunenburg, but broke away around this time because the walking distance to church and town meetings was too great for many.

Areas that were once fields were turned into housing for these young families, and Dubuque began pushing westward.

Areas such as Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas which were once very inexpensive to live in prior to the real estate bubble are now quite expensive, although prices have dropped significantly since 2006.

Each province is governed by a city and contains several " Rural Areas " which can be towns, farms, monasteries and coast towns.

Areas near suitable mosquito breeding grounds — marshes, wetlands, waterways and farms with irrigation systems — are high risk areas for outbreaks.

Grazing herbivores are more common in the Main Camp Wild Area and Linkwasha Concession Area, with mixed feeders more common in the Robins and Sinamatella Wild Areas, which are more heavily wooded.

Areas are seldom stated to sufficient accuracy for the different definitions to be detectable.

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 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.

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.