Mountainous terrain separates Tajikistan's two population centers, which are in the lowlands of the southern and northern sections of the country.

Mountainous terrain in Afghanistan

Mountainous terrain facilitated small-scale resistance activity.

Mountainous terrain and sterility of the soil prevented cultivation.

Mountainous terrain in the Northwest Province of Cameroon.

Mountainous terrain of the region always attracted new settlers and about 1550 a wooden castle was built up on the peak of one of the hills.

Mountainous land accounts for 48. 4 % area and is formed from the decaying of magma, rocks and sedimentary rock.

** Prince N. Tarkovsky was Dictator of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus,

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and las Casas documented that the island was called Haití (" Mountainous Land ") by the Taíno.

* 1918 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.

This makes Nevada the " Most Mountainous " state in the country, at least by this measure.

Mountainous Yerba Buena Island is pierced by a tunnel linking the east and west spans of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.

* May 11 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.

Mountainous and volcanic, Honshu has frequent earthquakes ( the Great Kantō earthquake heavily damaged Tokyo in September 1923, and the earthquake of March 2011 moved the whole island by while causing devastating tsunamis ); the highest peak is the active volcano Mount Fuji at, which makes it the world's 7th highest island.

Loosely based on Claude Lorrain's Liber Veritatis ( Book of Truth ), the plates were meant to be widely disseminated, and categorised the genre into six types: Marine, Mountainous, Pastoral, Historical, Architectural, and Elevated or Epic Pastoral.

The Spanish met strong resistance from indigenous Muslim clans in the Island of Mindanao and animist tribes of central and northern Luzon ; particularly, the Zambal and Igorot Tribes of Zambales and the Mountainous regions of the Cordilleras.

Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Chechens established a short-lived Caucasian Imamate which included parts of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia ; there was also secular pan-Caucasian Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus.

The north-west of Mie consists of the Suzuka Mountains, along the coast of Ise Bay from the Aichi border to Ise City is the Ise Plain, where most of the population of Mie live, south of the Ise Plain is the Shima Peninsula, bordering Nara in the central-west is the Iga Basin, and running from central Mie to its southern borders is the Nunobiki Mountainous Region.

Mountainous areas are mostly covered in conifers while lower and drier areas have trees such as mesquite.

The city is mainly flat, but there are areas mostly to the West that are Mountainous, like San Antonio and La loma de la Cruz, both are tourist sites.

As a response to this concern, the Norwegian Government, as well as the UNESCO, organized an interdisciplinary project called the Development of Cultural and Ecotourism in the Mountainous Regions of Central Asia and the Himalayas project.

Mountainous regions of Iran were brought under a tighter grip of the central Abbasid government, as were areas of Turkestan.

Its established borders were with Kuban People's Republic and the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus in the north, Ottoman Empire, Democratic Republic of Armenia in the south, and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in the southeast.

Said Shamil, a grandson of Imam Shamil, became one of the founders of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, which survived between 1917 and 1920 and later, in 1924, he established the " Committee of Independence of the Caucasus " in Germany.

The town of Khorugh (, ), also transliterated as Khoroq, Khorogh, Khorog, or Xoroq ) is the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan ( Tajik: Kuhistoni Badakhshon, " Mountainous Badakhshan ") Autonomous Province ( GBAO ) in Tajikistan.

Lika () is a geographic region in Mountainous Croatia macroregion of Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast.

Mountainous and forested, Tavush is home to many historic Armenian monasteries, churches, castles, forts, and khachkars.

The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was created on parts of Kuban and Terek Oblasts by the indigenous nationalities after the Russian Revolution ; however, Soviet rule was installed on this territory after the Red Army conquered the Northern Caucasus in the course of the Russian Civil War, and the former republic was transformed into the a Soviet one.

One of the major weaknesses of GPWS is the lack of " look-ahead " information, because it only provides altitude above terrain " look-down ".

Honduras mining efforts were hampered by lack of capital, labor and the difficult terrain.

Agriculture did not arrive until the 3rd millennium BC, because of demanding climate and terrain and a lack of suitable tools to cultivate the land.

One of the SEALs ' immediate concerns was their lack of suitable vehicles to conduct special reconnaissance ( SR ) missions in the rough, landlocked terrain of Afghanistan.

Continued insurgency by native Ethiopians, lack of resources, rough terrain, and uncertainty of political and military conditions discouraged development and settlement in the countryside However, Italian Eritrea enjoyed a huge development, supported by nearly 80, 000 Italian colonists.

* The Mid-glaciation in the southern part of the province, where there is less terrain diversity and a lack of major lakes.

In Western and Northern Norway, with difficult terrain, obstacling fjords and lack of rail transport, regional airline travel provides quick travel within the region or to the capital.

The western plateau slopes gently southward and merges imperceptibly into an area known as the Haud, a broad, undulating terrain that constitutes some of the best grazing lands for Somali nomads, despite the lack of appreciable rainfall more than half the year.

The revolution, lack of funding, and the overall difficulty of building a railroad over such terrain hindered its completion until 1961.

However, aside from points along this path, the very hilly terrain of the town, coupled with the large spacing of commercial areas and large land area make Paradise difficult to navigate on foot or on a bicycle, in addition to the lack of sidewalks.

Nearly endless terrain and lack of people draws visitors from the much more crowded Jackson Hole area.

Uneven terrain, such as in mountains, alleyways and markets, and a lack of formed roads, such as in jungle, makes the use of porters economical where one can hire people to shift inexpensively.

He said the isolation and lack of terrain naturally influenced him toward freestyle skateboarding.

Due to the lack of vegetation, the much more rugged terrain at that time was heavily eroded by water, wind and by soil fluction ; this resulted in valleys like the Totengrund.

While waiting for the publication of Broshi and Eshel's results, Patrich, anticipating them, doubted the possibility that there were once " significantly more habitable caves " cut into the marl, pointing to the lack of paths and suitable terrain.

Paved and unpaved roads allow access to valleys but the interior of the island remains largely unpopulated due to forbidding terrain and lack of infrastructure.

The mountainous terrain, environmental restrictions imposed by Monterey County, and lack of property available for development have kept Big Sur relatively unspoiled.

Because of the lack of roads and difficult terrain, many of these are inaccessible by land.

The reason for the relatively constant area of the Northern Schneeferner in recent years, despite the lack of shade, is the favourable terrain that results in the glacier tending to grow or shrink in depth rather than area.

Poor weather, difficult terrain, and lack of consistent resupply slowed their progress.

Notably cold minimum temperatures tend not to occur due to the lack of higher terrain meaning little cold air drainage occurs.

Pioneered the use of things like in-game spam ads for themselves and lack of due credit given for code (: P ) but also has things like ASCII map terrain, large algorithmically generated areas, etc.

# The lack of situational awareness of the flightcrew regarding vertical navigation, proximity to terrain, and the relative location of critical radio aids.

Hideo Sasaki's architectural firm Sasaki Associates, Inc. found in the February 2010 master plan that the campus's seismic risk, uneven terrain, lack of parking spaces, small classrooms, and pedestrian-unfriendly roads are major constrains for future campus development.