Countries and Regions with French Creoles in them consist of Louisiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, St Lucia, Dominica, St Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Reunion Island, Mauritius, Haiti, Seychelles and Trinidad and Tobago.

Regions that do not contain councils elect a regional board on a yearly basis.

Regions of spacetime in which the Weyl tensor vanishes contain no gravitational radiation and are also conformally flat.

Economists have explained clustering of worker coops through leagues or “ supporting structures ” Regions where large clusters of worker cooperatives are found supported by leagues include Mondragón, in the Basque Region of Spain, home of Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and in Italy, particularly Emilia-Romagna.

Hong Kong and Macau are two Special Administrative Regions ( SAR ) of China which have a high degree of autonomy, except in acts of state like diplomatic relations and national defence.

A later 7th century commentary to the Hanshu by Yan Shigu says: " Among the various Rong in the Western Regions, the Wusun's shape was the strangest ; and the present barbarians who have green eyes and red hair, and are like macaques, belonged to the same race as the Wusun.

Other functional units like Circle Stamp Depots, Postal Stores Depots and Mail Motor Service may exist in the Circles and Regions.

Regional parties like the Social Credit Party, the Confederation of Regions Party and later on, the Reform Party would object strongly to these changes.

Regions, unlike Departments or Arrondissements ( but like Communes ), have defined administrative and political power in Senegal.

Regions can be geographically distinct habitats like mountain vs. flatland.

The special administrative region was modelled after China's Special Administrative Regions ( SARs ), Hong Kong and Macau, and, like them, has a " Basic Law " ( 기본법 ; Kibonpŏp ).

Other functional units like Circle Stamp Depots, Postal Stores Depots and Mail Motor Service may exist in the Circles and Regions.

The Western Regions or Xiyu () was a historical name specified in the Chinese chronicles between the 3rd century BC to 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of Jade Gate, most often Central Asia or sometimes more specifically the easternmost portion of it ( e. g. the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang ), though it was sometimes used more generally to refer to other regions to the West of China as well, such as the Indian subcontinent ( like in the novel Journey to the West ).

Regions of the higher Swiss Plateau like the Jorat region, the Napf region or the Töss region are comparatively scarcely populated with little farming villages and scattered farms.

Many former SouthTrust Customers have defected to banks like Regions and BBVA Compass.

These include such as Ministry of Environment Regions, Health Regions and regional management planning areas such as the Muskwa-Kechika Management Planning Area.

The resulting agreement or treaty led to the creation of a new province called North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) out of areas from Afghanistan, which are currently controlled by Pakistan and includes the FATA and Frontier Regions.

His Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States proposed irrigation systems and state boundaries based on watershed areas ( to avoid squabbles ).

Battles organized Regions to oversee evangelistic ministry in various regional areas across the country.

In 2010, 92 Youth in Mission participants served in 14 world areas, including 52 participants from outside the USA / Canada Regions.

Within United Kingdom airspace, these are known as Altimeter Setting Regions ( ASRs ); these regions may be large areas, or apply only to the airfield for which the QNH was given.

At the time the nomadic Xiongnu tribes controlled what is now Inner Mongolia and dominated the Western Regions, Xiyu ( 西域 ), the areas neighbouring the territory of the Han Dynasty.

It borders the Waikato, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay and Wellington Regions and includes river catchment areas that run from the volcanic plateau to the sea.

Regions were themselves abolished in 1996 and replaced by the current unitary council areas.

It was during this period that sections of senior BBC management in London decided that Scotland, Wales and the English Regions should have ' National Production Centres ' so as to be able to produce more effective television and radio for the areas which they covered.

Historical Regions are former geographic areas whose names are obsolete or have fallen out of use.

Regions under the Board's authority were areas where the rateable valuation was less than 30 shillings.

For regions as administrative areas of countries, see: Category: Regions by country.

To the north ( Region 1 ) and east ( Regions 2, 3, and 4 ) it shared boundaries with largely prosperous residential areas.

Regions of cyclonic vorticity advection downstream of a strong westerly jet are areas where cyclogenesis is likely to occur.

It is also the home of the Cold Regions Test Center ( CRTC ), as Fort Greely is one of the coldest areas in Alaska, and can accommodate cold, extreme cold, or temperate weather tests depending on the season.

Regions and Missions are normally communities established in new missionary areas and they depend on the founding province or vice-province.

The areas the Party of Regions does well in are mostly parts of historic Novorossiya.

But above all visiting, in addition to Xizang ( Tibet ), large areas of other Tibetan Autonomous Regions in Gansu ( the monasteries of the Gelugpas ( Yellow Hats ) in Labrang and Langmu-Si, the famous Buddha caves of Bingling-Si on the Yellow River ), in Qinghai ( Gelugpa complex of Kumbum, the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, monasteries of Rebkong / Tongren etc.

The basis of the map is to provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 areas for Regional Selective Assistance grants ( RSA ), recently re-titled as Selective Finance for Investment in the English Regions ( SFI ), but remaining as RSA in Wales and Scotland, and additionally large areas of the UK, where a lower level of grant aid can also be made available to Small and Medium companies.

The library's specialist areas include items relating to the history of New Zealand and the Pacific, with specific emphasis on the Otago and Southland Regions.

Regions of map space are divided into polygonal, generally convex, areas called sectors.

Regions as defined in this context are merely for statistical, geographical, geological and climate related purposes and do not refer to an administrative division.

The electoral results of National Alliance in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below.

Regions within North America, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and East Asia are monsoon regimes.

In Turkey, there are some dolmens in the Regions of Lalapasa and Suloglu in the Province of Edirne and the Regions of KOfcaz, Kirklareli and Demirkoy in the Province of Kirklareli, in the Eastern Thrace.

Regions outside Mieszko's rule, pruzze ( Prussia ) and russe ( Russia ), are mentioned with the word fines.

Regions most at risk for great loss of life include those where earthquakes are relatively rare but powerful, and poor regions with lax, unenforced, or nonexistent seismic building codes.

Dartmouth College and the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory are located there.

Regions are further divided in provinces.

The different script systems resulting from the preservation or simplication of original pre-Republic Chinese characters are used by Chinese people living under different jurisdictions: " Simplified Chinese " in Mainland China ( the People's Republic of China ), " Traditional Chinese " in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and " Proper Chinese " ( which is the same script as " Traditional Chinese ") in Taiwan ( the Republic of China ).

The Regions are administered by Regional Authorities which were established by the Local Government Act 1991 and came into existence in 1994.

Some special cases are the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau where the Communist Party does not function at all as part of the governmental system, and the autonomous regions where, following Soviet practice, the chief executive is typically a member of the local ethnic group while the party general secretary is non-local and usually Han Chinese.

Smaller branches within those kingdoms include Principalities, Regions, Baronies, and Provinces, and local chapters are known as Cantons, Ridings, Shires, Colleges, Strongholds, and Ports.

Regions in the world with similar climates to southern Tierra del Fuego are: Aleutian islands, Iceland, Alaska Peninsula, Faroe Islands, Macquarie Island and Heard and McDonald Islands.

International amateur radio ALE High Frequency channels are frequency coordinated with all Regions of the International Amateur Radio Union ( IARU entity of ITU ), for international, regional, national, and local use in the Amateur Radio Service.

The Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are completely exempt from the policy.

Each February the city hosts the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup, which are men's ATP World Tour 500 series and WTA events, respectively.

Regions with a polar climate are characterized by a lack of warm summers ( specifically, no month having an average temperature of or higher ).

The five main categories are Countries and Regions, Business, Finance and Economics, Science and Technology, and Other.

Although Hong Kong and Macau are now Special Administrative Regions of China, each maintains its own long-established postal system, which does not utilize postal codes for domestic mail, and no postal codes are assigned to Hong Kong and Macau.

Regions are not entitled to levy their own taxes., and they rely entirely on central state funding ( around 70 %) and funding coming from the municipalities ( around 30 %).

Regions are led by directly elected councils ( regionsråd ).

* Regions: At present 5 of them ( Valle d ' Aosta, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Sardinia and Sicily ) have a special status and are given more power than the others.