Southwest of the Hawran lies the high volcanic region of the Jabal al-Druze range ( renamed Jabal al Arab ), home of the country's Druze population.

To the Southwest to Northwest regions of Fountain Hills are the McDowell Mountains, a chain of extinct volcanic mountains.

This region of Southwest Washington is noted for its complex topography and volcanic geology.

A line running from Cape Aspro ( 28 ° 16 ' E ) in Asia Minor, to Cum Burnù ( Capo della Sabbia ) the Northeast extreme of the Island of Rhodes, through the island to Cape Prasonisi, the Southwest point thereof, on to Vrontos Point ( 35 ° 33 ' N ) in Skarpanto < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, through this island to Castello Point, the South extreme thereof, across to Cape Plaka ( East extremity of Crete ), through Crete to Agria Grabusa, the Northwest extreme thereof, thence to Cape Apolitares in Antikithera Island, through the island to Psira Rock ( off the Northwest point ) and across to Cape Trakhili in Kithera Island, through Kithera to the Northwest point ( Cape Karavugia ) and thence to Cape Santa Maria () in the Morea.

A recent report ( 2006 ) by the NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, indicates that the increased rat presence on Clipperton Island has led to a decline in both crab and bird populations, causing a corresponding increase in both vegetation and coconut palms on the island.

The island and the very small islands administered along with it are split into four regencies ( local government districts ); these are: Sumba Barat ( West Sumba ), Sumba Barat Daya ( Southwest Sumba ), Sumba Tengah ( Central Sumba ) and Sumba Timur ( East Sumba ).

Marco Island is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Southwest Florida.

Originally named San Marco Island by Spanish explorers, Marco Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Florida's Ten Thousand Islands area extending southerly to Cape Sable.

The Southwest coast of Mindoro to Buruncan Point, its Southern extreme, thence a line through Semirara and Kaluya Islands to Nasog Point () the Northwestern extreme of Panay, along the West and Southeast coast of that island to Tagubanhan Island (), thence a line to the Northern extreme of Negros and down the West coast to Siaton Point, its Southern extreme, thence across to Tagolo Point (), Mindanao.

From Tagolo Point, down the West coast of Mindanao to the Southwest extremity thence to the North coast of Basilan Island (), through this island to its Southern extremity, thence a line to Bitinan Island () off the Eastern end of Jolo Island, through Jolo to a point in long.

* Southwest Group-including the main island of Selvagem Pequena ( 800 x 500 m ) and Fora Islet ( Portuguese: Ilhéu de Fora, 500 x 300 m ), also called Great Piton and Little Piton respectively, it is surrounded by a group of very small islets ( Alto, Comprido and Redondo ) and a group collectively known as the Northern Islets ( Portuguese: Ilhéus do Norte ).

The book of Chu-fan-chi mentioned that Java was ruled by a maharaja, that rules several colonies: Pai-hua-yuan ( Pacitan ), Ma-tung ( Medang ), Ta-pen ( Tumapel, now Malang ), Hi-ning ( Dieng ), Jung-ya-lu ( Hujung Galuh, now Surabaya ), Tung-ki ( Jenggi, West Papua ), Ta-kang ( Sumba ), Huang-ma-chu ( Southwest Papua ), Ma-li ( Bali ), Kulun ( Gurun, identified as Gorong or Sorong in West Papua or an island in Nusa Tenggara ), Tan-jung-wu-lo ( Tanjungpura in Borneo ), Ti-wu ( Timor ), Pingya-i ( Banggai in Sulawesi ), and Wu-nu-ku ( Maluku ).

The Southwest Islands of Palau are several small islands spread across the Pacific Ocean, about 600 km from the main island chain of Palau.

The nearshore islands to the southwest of the main island of Palau ( Babelthuap ), which belong to the states of Koror, Peleliu and Angaur and to the unincorporated Rock Islands of Palau, are not considered part of the Southwest Islands.

Southwest water of the island is zoned as Hei Ling Chau Typhoon Shelter.

On the North The Southeastern limit of the Savu Sea a line from the Southwest point of Timor to the Northeast point of Rote Island | Roti, through this island to its Southwest point the Southeastern coast of Timor and the Southern limit of the Banda Sea

Federal Center SW is an island platformed Washington Metro station in an area of Southwest known as the Southwest Federal Center in Washington, D. C., United States.

Machias Seal Island is an island located in the Gulf of Maine, approximately southeast from Cutler, Maine, and approximately southwest of Southwest Head, New Brunswick on Grand Manan Island.

Tobian ( Tobian: ramarih Hatohobei, literally " the language of Tobi ") is the language of Tobi, one of the Southwest Islands of Palau, and the main island of Hatohobei state.

Philippine forces guarding the Southwest Cay attended the party and upon their return, found that the South Vietnamese, who were then allies, had occupied the island in their absence.

Some of the South Vietnamese who had taken over the island from the Philippines fled Southwest Cay and swam to Northeast Cay ( Philippine controlled island ) to seek refuge.

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* Southwest Indoor Soccer League ( evolved into the outdoor USL )

The Diggers evolved into a group known as the Free Family, which established chains of communes around the Pacific Northwest and Southwest.

It evolved out of the archaic southwest, which originally was literally the western U. S. South, as can be seen in the now defunct Southwest Conference of the NCAA.

The trends have been in evidence for many years -- population shifts to the Southwest and Far West, and from city to suburbs.

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

Current opinion holds that the closer cultural similarity between the Mogollon and Ancient Pueblos and their greater differences from the Hohokam and Patayan is due to both the geography and the variety of climate zones in the Southwest.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

Then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.

* 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa.

He taught history and geography in the Baltimore City Public Schools from 1966 to 1978, most notably at Baltimore City College and the now closed Southwest Senior High School.

With the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan became a major transit country for narcotics produced in Southwest Asia, primarily from Afghanistan.

Kyrgyzstan is used increasingly as a transshipment point for illicit drugs to Russia and Western Europe from Southwest Asia.

transshipment point for opiates and cannabis from Central and Southwest Asia to Western Europe and Scandinavia and Latin American cocaine and some synthetics from Western Europe to CIS ; limited production of illicit amphetamines, ephedrine, and ecstasy for export.

One example is the Siberian sturgeon ( Acipenser baerii ) which accidentally escaped from a fish farm into the Gironde Estuary ( Southwest France ) following a severe storm in December 1999 ( 5, 000 individual fish escaped into the estuary which had never hosted this species before ).

A number of finds from the American Southwest have yet to be formally submitted to the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, as many finders think it is unwise to publicly state the coordinates of their discoveries for fear of confiscation by the federal government, and fear competition with other hunters at published find sites.

Cultural influences left from Spanish colonization of the South and Southwest remain not only in the names of places but also in some ingredients in cooking, provided they grow in these regions ; these influences are strongly reinforced today by their proximity to northern Mexican states like Sonora, Baja California, and Chihuahua.

Na-Dené spans from Alaska and western Canada through Washington, Oregon, and California to the U. S. Southwest and northern Mexico ( with one outlier in the Plains ).

Following the Mexican-American War, from 1846 – 1848 and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, Mexico ceded its mostly unsettled northern holdings, today known as the American Southwest and California, to the United States of America.

In Southwest China, red pandas are hunted for their fur, especially for the highly valued bushy tails from which hats are produced.

Eventually the Persians took control of Syria as part of their general control of Southwest Asia ; this control transferred to the Macedonians after Alexander the Great's conquests ( after whose death hegemony of Syria passed from the Antigonids and subsequently the Seleucids ) and from thence to the Romans and the Byzantines.

Selayar Islands make up a peninsula stretching southwards from Southwest Sulawesi into the Flores Sea are administratively part of Sulawesi.

Southwest of this, separating Tanzania from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is Lake Tanganyika.