Sandstorm at Abéché airport, Chad ( 2005 ). The Saharan region covers roughly the northern third of the country, including Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture along with the northern parts of Kanem, Batha, and Biltine prefectures.

* Tango Province, Japan, an old province in today's northern Kyoto Prefecture

The area includes Yamanashi, Nagano, and northern Gifu prefectures ; sometimes Niigata Prefecture is included as well.

is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of Japan.

Today there are at most 70, 000 speakers of the Tujia language, most of whom live in the northern parts Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in north-western Hunan Province and in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in south Hubei Province.

A shrine on the western coast of the Tango Peninsula in northern Kyoto Prefecture, named Urashima Jinja, contains an old document describing a man, Urashimako, who left his land in 478 A. D. and visited a land where people never die.

Soil liquefaction in areas of reclaimed land across the northern and western ares of Chiba Prefecture caused damage, primarily to housing.

The northern and north-western border lines with Gunma Prefecture are marked by the Tone River and the Kanagawa River and the drainage divides of the Arakawa River and Kanagawa River.

Nagumo was born in the city of Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture in northern Japan in 1887.

Kagoshima Prefecture corresponds to the ancient Japanese provinces Ōsumi and Satsuma, including the northern part of the Ryukyu Islands ( Satsunan ).

is a United States military facility located northeast of the railway station in Misawa, west of the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Towada, northwest of Hachinohe, and north of Tokyo, in Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region in the northern part of the island of Honshū of Japan.

was an old province of Japan, which is today the northern part of Fukui Prefecture.

* Sakushū: Province also known as Mimasaka ; currently the northern region of the Okayama Prefecture.

* Echizen: One of the old Provinces of Japan, currently the northern portion of the Fukui Prefecture.

is a coastal city located in northern Hamadōri area of the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

The city was founded on March 31, 1956 as the fifteenth city in Ibaraki Prefecture is located in the northern most part of the Prefecture.

is a city located in eastern Tochigi Prefecture, Japan which is in the northern part of the Kantō region north of Tokyo.

The city is located in the most northern part of Saitama Prefecture.

is a city located in northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Kashiwa, like much of northern Chiba Prefecture, saw the development of numerous military installations in the 1930s, notably after the Mukden Incident in 1931.

is a city located in northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Salamanders are distributed widely in the Holarctic region of the northern hemisphere.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

* Antelope Valley, a desert region of northern Los Angeles County, California, in the US

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet and did not have a central region of culture.

Afghan Turkestan is a region in northern Afghanistan, on the border with the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

During the late 2nd century, the main ethnic change in the northern Black sea region was the immigration, from the Vistula valley in the North, of the Goths and accompanying Germanic tribes such as the Taifali and the Hasdingi, a branch of the Vandal people.

:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.

* Easternmost point-the northern section of the Chad-Sudan border, Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region *

In February 1946 he also forced the French to surrender all of their concessions in China and to renounce their extraterritorial privileges in exchange for the Chinese withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region.

The northern Afar region is a remote, hot and arid area.

The Cemetery H culture developed out of the northern part of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1700 BCE, in and around western Punjab region located in present-day India and Pakistan.

As the Languedoc was supposedly teeming with Cathars and Cathar sympathisers, this made the region a target for northern French noblemen looking to acquire new fiefs.

Portsmouth and Anse-de-Mai are located in the northern region of the island, and Roseau is in the south.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

The program was initially highly successful, eliminating the disease in " Taiwan, much of the Caribbean, the Balkans, parts of northern Africa, the northern region of Australia, and a large swath of the South Pacific " and dramatically reducing mortality in Sri Lanka and India.

The first inhabitants of the region that is now Equatorial Guinea are believed to have been Pygmies, of whom only isolated pockets remain in northern Río Muni.

The Tigrinya live in southern, central and northern highlands of Eritrea, as well Tigray region in neighbouring Ethiopia.