Desert and xeric shrublands lie to the north and east across the centre of Australia, separating Southwest Australia from the other Mediterranean and humid-climate regions of the continent.

Nationals Park is located in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, D. C. on a block of South Capitol Street called Taxation Without Representation Street ( a main artery separating Southeast from Southwest Washington ) at the Anacostia River waterfront.

* Eulophia elegans ( Cameroon, Southwest Tanzania to Malawi )

* Eulophia epiphanoides ( Southwest Tanzania )

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

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.

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.

The party flourished most among farmers in the Southwest and Great Plains, as well as making significant gains in the South, where they faced an uphill battle given the firmly entrenched monopoly of the Democratic Party.

In 2002, Phipps was the New Democratic Party candidate in the Calgary Southwest by-election contested by newly-elected Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper.

A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1969, and represents part of the city's Southwest Side.

Veterans from the party, such as Willie Velasquez, became active in Democratic politics and in organizing projects such as the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, which boosted the electoral fortunes of Mexican-American candidates throughout the Southwest.

Various types of hammered dulcimers are traditionally played in India, Iran, Southwest Asia, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, Central Europe ( Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland ( particularly Appenzell ), Austria and Bavaria ), the Balkans, Eastern Europe ( Ukraine and Belarus ) and Scandinavia.

Following the 1492 expulsion from Spain, and the subsequent expulsions in Portugal ( 1497 ), these Jews, the nascent Sephardim, settled mainly in the Ottoman Empire ( primarily in the province of Bosnia, Anatolia, the Levant and Ottoman North Africa ), Morocco and Algeria, southern France, Italy, Spanish North America, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic ( Southwest United States New Mexico ( Hispano ), Texas ( Tejano ), Arizona, and Mexico ), Spanish South America and Portuguese Brazil and Goa, as well as the Netherlands, whence a number of families continued on to the former Dutch possessions of Curaçao, Suriname, Aruba and New Netherland ( now New York ), England ( as well as English colonies such as Barbados and Jamaica ), Germany, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Hungary.

DynCorp provides aircraft maintenance in countries including the Republic of the Philippines, the United States, throughout Europe, Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

* Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

In 2008, the network sponsored and broadcast several live shows at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, including performances by Basia Bulat, The Constantines, The Most Serene Republic, The Stills, Shout Out Louds, Christine Fellows, Grand Analog and Hot Springs.

Service in the Republic of Vietnam Conflict ( 2 March 1961 to 28 March 1973 ) combined with qualifying service in Laos ; Dominican Republic ; Korea on the DMZ ; El Salvador ; Grenada ; Joint Security Area, Panmunjom, Korea ; Panama ; Southwest Asia Conflict ; and Somalia, regardless of whether a Soldier has served one or multiple tours in any or all of these areas.

The directive was again altered in 1969 to specify that only one award of the Combat Medical Badge is authorized for service in Vietnam, Laos, the Dominican Republic, Korea ( subsequent to 4 January 1969 ), El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Southwest Asia, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan regardless of whether an individual has served in one or more of these areas.

It is known as Suser, Sauser, Neuer Süßer ( new sweet ), or Junger Wein ( young wine ) in Southwest Germany, Switzerland and South Tyrol, Fiederwäissen in Luxembourg, Sturm ( storm, from the cloudy appearance ) in Austria and Bavaria, Neuer Wein ( new wine ) in the Palatinate, Bremser in Franconia, burčiak in Slovakia, burčák in Czech Republic, vin bourru or vernache in France, must in Romania, " მაჭარი " ( machari ) in Georgia.

E. Sixth Street plays host to a wide variety of events each year, ranging from music and film festivals ( such as South by Southwest ) to biker rallies ( such as The Republic of Texas Biker Rally ) and the Pecan Street Festival.

China Southwest Airlines () was an airline based in the People's Republic of China.

Southwest of Cotui, the river reaches Lake Hatillo ( Spanish: Presa de Hatillo ) before turning northeast then east as it reaches its mouth at the Samana Bay in the northeast part of the Domnican Republic.

Since 1961 it is part of the Republic of Cameroon, where it makes up the Northwest Province and Southwest Province.

Southern Cameroons lost its autonomous status and became the Northwest Province and Southwest Province of the Republic of Cameroun.