* The Tuareg migrate to the Aïr region.

It is traditionally a twice yearly caravan from the capital of the Aïr region to the natron salt pans along the string of oases formed by the Kaouar cliffs.

The region includes the vast Ténéré portion of the Sahara desert, dune seas like the Erg of Bilma, and the mountains of the Aïr.

Africa saw the advent of some the earliest ironworking technology in the Aïr Mountains region of what is today Niger and the erection of some of the world's oldest monuments, pyramids and towers in Egypt, Nubia, and North Africa.

Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.

They would have traveled overland down through the Appalachian Mountains to the Scots-Irish community in the Waxhaws region, straddling the border between North and South Carolina.

The Sequani did not reside in the region of the confluence of the Doubs into the Saône and of the latter into the Rhône, as Caesar says that the Helvetii, following the pass between the Jura Mountains and the Rhône southwards, which belonged to the Sequani, plundered the territory of the Aedui.

The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria and Serbia.

It is derived from the native cooking styles of the Huangshan Mountains region in China and is similar to Jiangsu cuisine, but with less emphasis on seafood and more on a wide variety of local herbs and vegetables.

With the loss of their lands on the Delaware River and the destruction of the Minqua by the Iroquois of the Five Nations in the 1670s, the remnants of the Lenape who wished to remain identified as such left the region and moved over the Alleghany Mountains by the mid-18th century.

It was during the period of Crusader rule in Syria ( 1099 – 1291 ) that the Druze first emerged into the full light of history in the Gharb region of the Chouf Mountains.

The Chartreuse Mountains are in this region, and the liquor Chartreuse is produced in a monastery there.

Satellite image showing the seven main geographical regions of Hungary ( in parenthesis: major region ): 1., Great Alföld ( Great Alföld ) 2., North Hungarian Mountains ( North Hungarian Mountains ) 3., Transdanubian Mountains ( Transdanubia ) 4., Transdanubia | Transdanubian Hills ( Transdanubia ) 5., Mecsek Mountains ( Transdanubia ) 6., Little Alföld ( Transdanubia ) 7., Alpokalja ( Transdanubia )

Hungary has three major geographic regions ( which are subdivided to seven smaller ones ): the Great Alföld, lying east of the Danube River ; the Transdanubia, a hilly region lying west of the Danube and extending to the Austrian foothills of the Alps ; and the North Hungarian Mountains, which is a mountainous and hilly country beyond the northern boundary of the Great Hungarian Plain.

In the oldest documented map of the island, created by Andrés de Morales, that region is named Montes de Haití (" Haiti Mountains ").

Khunjerab Pass ( elevation ) is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains in a strategic position on the northern border of Pakistan's Gilgit – Baltistan region within the region of Kashmir and on the southwest border of the Xinjiang region of China.

Kansas City is situated in " Tornado Alley ," a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains in Canada collide with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms especially during the spring.

The western range, the second major region, is the Lebanon Mountains, sometimes called Mount Lebanon, or Lebanon proper before 1920.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

One estimate is over one hundred thousand meteors an hour, but another, done as the storm abated, estimated in excess of two hundred thousand meteors an hour over the entire region of North America east of the Rocky Mountains.

The region is bounded to the north by the Coast Mountains and to the southeast by the Cascade Mountains, and is traversed from east to west by the Fraser River.

By the end of the 16th century, Oyo had added the western region of the Niger to the hills of Togo, the Yoruba of Ketu, Dahomey, and the Fon nation.

An Islamic-inspired uprising in the largely Fula Inner Niger Delta region against rule by Ségou in 1818 led to establishment of a separate state.

The most productive agricultural area lies along the banks of the Niger River, the Inner Niger Delta and the southwestern region around Sikasso.

Others suggest the technology moved west from the Nile Valley, although the Iron Age in the Niger River valley and the forest region appears to predate the introduction of metallurgy in the upper savanna by more than 800 years.

Following the breakup of Mali a local leader named Sonni Ali ( 1464 – 1492 ) founded the Songhai Empire in the region of middle Niger and the western Sudan and took control of the trans-Saharan trade.

Over of rainfall is received in the coastal region of Nigeria around the Niger delta area.

Bonny town found in the coastal region of the Niger delta area in southern Nigeria receives well over of rainfall annually.

Nigeria's most expansive topographical region is that of the valleys of the Niger and Benue River valleys ( which merge into each other and form a " y " shaped confluence at Lokoja ).

Rainfall in the coastal belt of the Niger Delta is heavy due to the closeness of the Delta region to the equator.

There is a Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta region designated " Restore Hope.

During the 17th century, Muslim Fula from the Upper Niger and Senegal rivers moved into an area called Futa Jalon in the mountainous region north of present-day Sierra Leone.

* Conflict in the Niger Delta ( 2004 – present ) – an ongoing conflict in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

In sub-Saharan Africa irrigation reached the Niger River region cultures and civilizations by the first or second millennium BCE and was based on wet season flooding and water harvesting.

The Bura-Asinda system of settlements apparently covered the lower Niger River valley, including the Boura region of Burkina Faso.

According to the maps, the European travellers used the word Biafara to describe the entire region east of River Niger going down to the Mount Cameroon region, thus including Cameroon and a large area around Gabon.

In Niger and Mali, these peoples are also known as the Azawagh Arabs, after the Azawagh region of the Sahara.

Wars amongst tiny states along the Niger River's Igbo-inhabited region and the accompanying banditry also spiked in this period.

The 2010 Sahel famine hit millions in Niger and across West Africa face food shortages after erratic rains hit farming in countries in the Sahel region south of the Sahara desert, the European Commission's aid group said Thursday.

These migrations resulted in part from the formation and disintegration of a series of large states in the western Sudan ( the region north of modern Ghana drained by the Niger River ).

The subspecies is named after I. R. P. Heslop, who claimed in 1945 to have shot a pygmy hippo in the Niger Delta region and collected several skulls.

The first large Sahelian kingdoms emerged after 750, and supported several large trading cities in the Niger Bend region, including Timbuktu, Gao, and Djenné.