The Mediterranean climate regime resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, parts of western North America, parts of Western and South Australia, in southwestern South Africa and in parts of central Chile.

Similar plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin ( where it is known as maquis ), central Chile ( where it is called matorral ), South African Cape Region ( known there as fynbos ), and in Western and Southern Australia.

The Hungarian tribes of Árpád vezér who came to settle in the Carpathian Basin were noted for their fearsome light cavalry, which conducted frequent raids throughout much of Western Europe ( as far as present-day Spain ), maintaining their military supremacy with long range and rapid-firing reflex bows.

* Perth Basin, a sedimentary basin in Western Australia

It is separated from the Western Isles by the Rockall Trough, itself located within the Rockall Basin.

* The Chinese government establishes Aide of the Western Regions over the Tarim Basin.

* Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xiyu states, or the Western Regions in the Tarim Basin, commences in this year, as the Tang Dynasty Chinese commander Hou Junji captures Gaochang to solidify Chinese rule in Central Asia.

The second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere is in Badwater Basin, which is below sea level.

At below sea level, Badwater Basin on Death Valley's floor is the second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere ( behind Laguna del Carbón in Argentina ), while Mount Whitney, only to the west, rises to.

Evolution of the Western Interior Basin.

* The Han Dynasty government establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the highest military position of a military commander on the Western frontier ( Tarim Basin ).

The " Silk Road " came into being from the 1st century BC, following these efforts by the Yuezhi and Xiongnu in the Tarim Basin to consolidate a road to the Western world and India, both through direct settlements in the area of the Tarim Basin and diplomatic relations with the countries of the Dayuan, Parthians and Bactrians further west.

Portions of the Bay of Fundy, Shepody Bay and Minas Basin, form one of six Canadian sites in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, and is classified as a Hemispheric site.

Typical of Carefree's character are its street names — Tranquil Trail, Easy Street, Ho-and-Hum Roads and Long Rifle, Stagecoach and Bloody Basin — which reflect both its quiet, casual air as well as its Western heritage.

Rapid City's location on the boundary of the Western and Eastern power grids, together with the hydroelectric plants of the Mainstem Dams on the Missouri River and the large coal fields and power plants of the Powder River Basin of Wyoming make it one of the points where the two national power grids connect with each other, allowing switching of electrical power from east to west and vice versa.

Rapid City's location on the boundary of the Western and Eastern power grids, together with the hydroelectric plants of the Mainstem Dams on the Missouri River and the large coal fields and power plants of the Powder River Basin of Wyoming make it one of the points where the two national power grids connect with each other, allowing switching of electrical power from east to west and vice versa.

With expulsion from Spain came the dissemination of Jewish Philosophical investigation throughout the Mediterranean Basin, Northern Europe and Western Hemisphere.

The Great Basin Desert is defined as the desert lands in Nevada, Western Utah, as well as Southeastern Oregon and Southern Idaho.

It is also the most geographically diverse, incorporating geographic regions such as the Pacific Coast, the temperate rainforests of the Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, most of the tall-grass prairie eastward to Western Wisconsin, Illinois, the western Ozark Plateau, the western portions of the southern forests, the Gulf Coast, and all of the desert areas located in the United States ( the Mojave, Sonoran, Great Basin, and Chihuahua deserts ).

South ( east ) of the Western Ore Mountains lie the Sokolov Basin, the Eger Graben and the Doupov Mountains.

In China, the term Western Regions (; Uyghur: Qurighar ) referred to the regions west of the Yumen Pass, and more specifically the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang that had come under the Han Dynasty's control since 60 BC.

The Pacific Coast Ranges are part of the North American Cordillera ( sometimes known as the Western Cordillera, or in Canada, as the Pacific Cordillera and / or the Canadian Cordillera ), which includes the Rocky Mountains, Columbia Mountains, Interior Mountains, the Interior Plateau, Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Great Basin mountain ranges, and other ranges and various plateaus and basins.

* Banff Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

Government forces clashed violently with rebel forces, including the Movement for Democracy and Development, MDD, National Revival Committee for Peace and Democracy ( CSNPD ), Chadian National Front ( FNT ) and the Western Armed Forces ( FAO ), near Lake Chad and in southern regions of the country.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

After more delays, he finally achieved his seventh WSR at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth, Western Australia, on the last day of 1964, at a speed of.

There are a number of Guatemalan bus and van transport companies that most travelers use to get from the airport in Guatemala City to Antigua, Lake Atitlan in the Western Highlands of Guatemala and Monterrico on the Pacific coast.

After the Portuguese arrival in the area in the 16th century, the next significant Western contact was the arrival of David Livingstone along the shore of Lake Malawi in 1859.

The Engaresero village on the Western shores of Lake Natron has been chosen by the government of Tanzania to exemplify the Maasai pastoral system given its singularity, integrity, high diversity of habitats and biodiversity.

Mono Lake is a vital resting and eating stop for migratory shorebirds and has been recognized as a site of international importance by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.

Other Native American nations in the region included the Miwok, Western Mono, and Tubatulabal to the west, the Shoshone to the south and east, and the Mono Lake Paiute to the north.

From Montrose, a line was laid north through Delta, reaching Grand Junction in March 1883, which completed a narrow gauge transcontinental link with the Rio Grande Western Railway to Salt Lake City, Utah.

In 1931, the D & RGW acquired the Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad ( a company in name only ), a subsidiary of the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad ( D & SL ) which had acquired the rights to build a connection between the two railroads.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

IJsselmeer (; Lake IJssel, alternative international spelling: Lake Yssel ) is a shallow artificial lake of 1100 km² in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland, with an average depth of 5 to 6 m. The IJsselmeer is the largest lake in Western Europe.

Western boundaries include primarily the Hudson River and Lake George.

Beyond Toledo, the planned route would have used the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad ( 1900 ), Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, Little Kanawha Railroad, West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway, Western Maryland Railroad and Philadelphia and Western Railway, but the Panic of 1907 strangled the plans before the Little Kanawha section in West Virginia could be finished.

The Alps are usually divided into two main parts, the Western Alps and Eastern Alps, whose division is along the Rhine from Lake Constance to the Splügen Pass.

Lake of mountain spirits < P > Western Sayan, Ergaki mountains

The Eastern Sayan extends from the Yenisei River at 92 ° E to the southwest end of Lake Baikal at 106 ° E. The Western Sayan forms the eastern continuation of the Altay Mountains, stretching for from 89 ° E to the middle of the Eastern Sayan at 96 ° E.

* Lake Jasper, a permanent freshwater lake in the South West area of Western Australia

Stromatolites at Lake Thetis, Western Australia

The ethnographic division of Plain Nilotes, Highland Nilotes, River Lake Nilotes corresponds to the largest tribes in the Eastern, Southern and Western group, respectively.