Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with Western countries, cultivating links with other Portuguese-speaking countries, and asserting its own national interests in Central Africa through military and diplomatic intervention.

Afghanistan ( Persian / Pashto:, Afġānistān ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and to some extent Western Asia.

The state is sectioned into three fishing zones, Eastern, Central and Western with each fisher required a zone allocated licence.

Most forest areas are in Central, Eastern and Western parts of Bosnia.

The plague disease, generally thought to be caused by Yersinia pestis, is enzootic ( commonly present ) in populations of fleas carried by ground rodents, including marmots, in various areas including Central Asia, Kurdistan, Western Asia, Northern India and Uganda.

The building is located at 1 Garden Road, in Central and Western District on Hong Kong Island.

Central Europe, sometimes referred to as Middle Europe, is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe.

George Schöpflin and others argue that Central Europe is defined by being " a part of Western Christianity ", while Samuel P. Huntington places the region firmly within Western culture.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

* Central Square, formed by the junction of Massachusetts Avenue, Prospect Street, and Western Avenue, is well known for its wide variety of ethnic restaurants.

In Western Africa and Central Africa, crossbows served as a scouting weapon and for hunting, with the Spanish bringing the technology to America.

The CUC is divided into four regions: " BC " ( British Columbia ), " Western " ( Alberta to Thunder Bay ), " Central " ( between Thunder Bay and Kingston ), and " Eastern " ( Kingston, Ottawa and everything east of that ).

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

The game is now played in more than 40 countries worldwide, primarily in North America, Central and Western Europe, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.

The N2, which connects Tema in the Greater Accra Region to Kulungugu in the Upper East Region ; the N10, which connects Yamoransa in the Central Region to Paga in the Upper East Region ; and the N12, which connects Elubo in the Western Region to Hamile in the Upper West Region ; all connect Ghana to landlocked Burkina Faso, where it joins another highway in the Trans-African network, the Trans-Sahelian Highway.

President Portillo pledged to maintain strong ties to the United States, further enhance Guatemala's growing cooperation with Mexico, and participate actively in the integration process in Central America and the Western Hemisphere.

Galatia was named for colonizing Gauls from Western and Central Europe via Thrace ( cf.

Yet, seven years after the Allies ’ Potsdam Agreement to a unified Germany, the USSR via the Stalin Note ( 10 March 1952 ) proposed German reunification and superpower disengagement from Central Europe, which the three Western Allies ( US, France, UK ) rejected.

The Western Australia Mallee shrub ecoregion lies to the west, the Little Sandy Desert to the northwest, the Gibson Desert and the Central Ranges xeric shrublands to the north, the Tirari and Sturt Stony deserts to the east, while the Nullarbor Plain to the south separates it from the Southern Ocean.

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The range consists of three major massifs: Central ( also known as Urrieles ), Eastern ( Ándara ) and Western ( also known as the Picos de Cornión ).

The highest elevations of the Cordillera Central are found in the Pico Duarte and Valle Nuevo massifs.

* The Hercynian massifs are part of the Massif Central of France.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

If these services are to be maintained, the New York Central must have the revenues to make them possible ''.

the drought-seared North Central states are the most notable exceptions to the uptrend.

The family Plethodontidae are also found in Central and South America north of the Amazon Basin.

Caecilians are found in tropical Africa, Asia and Central and South America.

These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatolia and eastern Europe ( Turks, Kalmyks ).

The Central Austro-Bavarian dialects are more intelligible to speakers of Standard German than the Southern Austro-Bavarian dialects of Tyrol.

They are especially numerous in tropical and subtropical regions ( notably Central America, eastern Brazil, the Andes, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central Asia, and southwestern China ).

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

Central to his behaviour in the later novels is the underlying assumption that particular crimes are only committed by particular types of people.

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

* The Mers are a Hindu caste from the Gujarat and Central India who originally immigrated hundred of years ago from Ajmer-Merwara and the surrounding regions of Rajputana.

Most of documents of the archive are letters from the head of the KGB to the Central Committee about activities of Soviet dissidents and recommendations about the interpretation in newspapers.

The town largely consists of the Milnshaw, Peel, Central, Barnfield and Spring Hill wards, although some parts of those wards are in other towns in the borough.

Aimaqs are found throughout the West Central highlands of Afghanistan, immediately to the north of Herat, and in the Khorasan Province of Iran.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.

In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball ( MLB ) teams are divided into the National League ( NL ) and American League ( AL ), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.

Bongos are further classified into two subspecies: Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus, the lowland or " western bongo ", and the far rarer Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci, the mountain or " eastern bongo " restricted to north-eastern Central Africa.

Two other subspecies are described from West and Central Africa, but taxonomic clarification is required.

Bongos are found in dense tropical jungles with dense undergrowth up to an altitude of 4, 000 meters ( 12, 800 ft ) in Central Africa, with isolated populations in Kenya, and the following west African countries: -

A bongo drinks from a swamp. Angola, Benin extinct ?, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya ( the only place where the eastern bongo are found in the wild ), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo extinct?