Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

The cold water currents contribute to heavy fog off the coast of eastern Canada ( the Grand Banks of Newfoundland area ) and Africa's north-western coast.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

Many area codes reserved 999 ; 320 was also formerly reserved in Bell Canada territory.

Dial + 64 ( 8 ) 320-1231, from USA / Canada and rest of NANP dial 011-64-8-320-1231 to hear your 3 digit area code & 7 digit local number read back to you from N. Z.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

The Okanagan area is one of several wine-growing regions in Canada and also produces ciders ; other wine regions in British Columbia include the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, and the Fraser Valley.

Canada is a developed country whose economy includes the extraction and export of raw materials from its large area.

* Upper Becker Creek Cone, a volcanic cone in the Upper Becker Creek area of Carbon Hill, Yukon Territory, Canada

* Enid Creek Cone, a subglacial mound in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located in the Dark Mountain area

* Little Eagle Cone, a subglacial mound in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located in the Dark Mountain area

For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.

Canadian expatriates will organize Canada Day activities in their local area on or near the date of the holiday.

The Maritimes were the second area in Canada to be settled by Europeans, after Newfoundland.

A large prospective study followed a group of 715 homosexual men in the Vancouver, Canada area ; approximately half were HIV-seropositive or became so during the follow-up period, and the remainder were HIV-seronegative.

In 2001, the Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge was absorbed into the much larger Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, which is a cooperative effort between the United States and Canada to preserve the area as an ecological refuge.

As a result of Guam's being added to the North American Numbering Plan ( NANP ) in 1997, calls made to the U. S., Canada, or other participating countries from Guam ( or to Guam from other NANP locations ) only require the caller to dial a 1 followed by the area code.

This region constitutes 1. 5 million square miles ( 3. 9 million km² ) in the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, comprising over 1 / 3 the area of modern day Canada and stretching into the north central United States.

The Firth of Clyde lies between 55 and 56 degrees north, at the same latitude as Labrador in Canada and north of the Aleutian Islands, but the influence of the North Atlantic Drift — the northern extension of the Gulf Stream — ameliorates the winter weather and the area enjoys a mild, damp oceanic climate.

This area is also known as the " thunderstorm capital of Canada " with " breathtaking " lightning displays.

British authorities in Canada were nervous about possible expansion by American settlers across Lake Erie, so Colonel Talbot developed the Talbot Trail in 1809 as a way to stimulate settlement to the area ; Talbot recruited settlers from Ireland and Scotland and there are numerous places named after him, such as Port Talbot and the Talbot River and Talbotville in southern Ontario.

Moncton's economic depression did not last long and a second era of prosperity came to the area in 1871 when Moncton was selected to be the headquarters of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada ( ICR ).

Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada, with an area of, including Cape Breton and some 3, 800 coastal islands.

Canada now has the most protected area in the world with 377, 000 km ^ 2 of national park space.

The revenue from O'Banion's Cicero territory went up still higher, until the yield was more than the Torrio-Capone takings from the far bigger trade area of Chicago's South and West Sides.

Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.

The territory includes Ashmore Reef ( West, Middle, and East Islets ) and Cartier Island ( 70 km east ) with, a total area of within the reefs and including the lagoons, and 114, 400 m² of dry land.

** West Islet, 51, 200 m² land area ;

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

Southeast Alaska has a land area of ( sq ), comprising six entire boroughs and three census areas, in addition to the portion of the Yakutat Borough lying east of 141 ° West longitude.

The archipelago of the Azores is located in the middle of the northern hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean and extends along a west-northwest to east-southeast orientation ( between 36. 5 °– 40 ° North latitudes and 24. 5 °– 31. 5 ° West longitudes ) in an area approximately 600 km wide.

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

The Greater Bay of Quinte area includes the municipalities of Brighton, Quinte West, Belleville, Prince Edward County, and Greater Napanee as well as the Native Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

Historically the languages were spoken over a larger area: West to the mouth of the Vistula river in present-day Poland, at least as far East as the Dniepr river in present-day Belarus, perhaps even to Moscow, perhaps as far south as Kiev.

Historical expansion of the usage of Slavic languages in the South and East, and Germanic languages in the West reduced the geographic distribution of Baltic languages to a fraction of the area which they had formerly covered.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.

Battery Park City is bounded on the east by West Street, which separates the area from the Financial District of downtown Manhattan.

West of Broadway as far as Canal Street was the city's fashionable residential area until circa 1825 ; landfill has more than tripled the area and the Hudson shore now lies far to the west, beyond TriBeCa and Battery Park City.

Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

The first elected trustees of the town were the slate of Denis Kearney's Workingman's Party, who were particularly favored in the working class area of the former Ocean View, now called " West Berkeley.

The area of Costa Rica is 51, 100 km² of which 50, 660 km² is land and 440 km² is water, making it slightly smaller than the U. S. state of West Virginia.

The town included a much larger area than the present city, with various outlying parts becoming independent towns over the years: Newton ( originally Cambridge Village, then Newtown ) in 1688, Lexington ( Cambridge Farms ) in 1712, and both West Cambridge ( originally Menotomy ) and Brighton ( Little Cambridge ) in 1807.

* Brattle area / West Cambridge ( Area 10 ) is bordered on the north by Concord Avenue and Garden Street, on the south by the Charles River and the Watertown border, on the west by Fresh Pond and the Collins Branch Library, and on the east by JFK Street.

The central area includes the Near North Side, the Near South Side, and the Near West Side, as well as the Loop.

Tramlink serves seven National Rail stations and has one interchange with the London Underground, at Wimbledon station for the District Line, and one with London Overground, at West Croydon for the East London Line ; one of the factors leading to its creation was that the area around Croydon has no Underground service.

The entire area of the Caribbean Sea, the numerous islands of the West Indies, and adjacent coasts, are collectively known as the Caribbean.