Its total length from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 295 km ( 183 miles ), during which distance it descends, draining an area of, including the whole of central Switzerland.

The area totals 151 km² ( about 0. 9 times the size of Washington, DC ) and comprises 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands ; includes the islands of Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost van Dyke.

The sovereign state of Brunei, located on the north coast, comprises about 1 % of Borneo's land area.

This fringing seaward reef shelf comprises an area of approximately 13. 61 square miles ( 35. 2 km < sup > 2 </ sup >).

Each district comprises a main district office, and a number of Resident Posts, which are FDA offices located away from the district office to serve a particular geographic area.

Greater Poland comprises much of the area drained by the Warta River and its tributaries, including the Noteć River.

Christmas Island comprises over 70 % of the total land area of Kiribati, a country encompassing 33 Pacific atolls and islands.

The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia ( the Westphalian part ), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt ( the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as the northeast of The Netherlands ( i. e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.

Cyrenaica comprises 51 %, Fezzan 33 %, and Tripolitania 16 % of the country's area.

Lazio comprises a land area of and it has borders with Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo and Molise to the east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west.

The area around the mosque comprises the old city.

* The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario ; though this area mostly does not support agriculture it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes and rivers.

A collection of their burrows has been termed by travelers a ' dog town ,' which comprises from a dozen or so, to some thousands in the same vicinity ; often covering an area of several square miles.

The City ( not the whole of modern London but the area of the ancient city, which now mainly comprises the financial district ) has a unique electoral system.

The Cultural District comprises a 14-block area of downtown along the Allegheny River.

That statistical area comprises only the city of Bratislava, which distorts Slovak regional and regional-international comparisons.

Much of the North End is made up of the former city of Portland and comprises another former working class area which is slowly undergoing gentrification at the eastern end of Douglas Avenue ; immediately north of Portland and upstream from the Reversing Falls is the former community of Indiantown.

The area of the municipality comprises a section of the Saane valley and of the Fribourg alps.

Southwest of Gruyères, the municipality comprises most of the catchment area of the brook Albeuve, which originates on the flanks of mount Moléson.

It forms the core of the Grand Avignon metropolitan area ( communauté d ' agglomération ), which comprises twelve communes on both sides of the river:

The state comprises a land area of 34, 083 km² ( 13, 158 square miles ) and shares borders with Belgium in the southwest and the Netherlands in the west and northwest.

Pierce College comprises amidst a dense metropolis, an area larger than many university campuses, including that of UCLA.

This comprises a large sacred area on the south side of the ancient city where seven monumental Greek temples in the Doric style were constructed during the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

The region comprises four areas of local government: the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and the unitary authority area of the city of Peterborough.

It is against this background that two religious orders or congregations, one of men and one of women, when founded in the Milan area during the 13th and 15th centuries, took Saint Ambrose as their patron and hence adopted his name.

The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of between 4, 200, 000 and 4, 500, 000 within an area of, being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan.

When Charles Emmanuel withdrew his forces from the area, the allies were forced to retreat, and the beleaguered Austrians capitalized, eventually recovering most of Milan against little opposition in November.

It has been suggested that the Milan metropolitan area is part of the so-called Blue Banana, the area of Europe with the highest population and industrial density.

The most important parks in Milan are the set of adjacent parks in the western area of the city, forming Parco Agricolo Sud Milano ( Parco delle Cave, 131 hectares ; Boscoincittà, 110 hectares ; and Trenno Park, 59 hectares, whose total area amounts to about 300 hectares ), Sempione Park, Parco Forlanini, Giardini Pubblici, Giardino della Villa Comunale, Giardini della Guastalla and Lambro Park.

Ecopass traffic sign delimiting restricted area, Milan, Italy.

One of the most distinctive characteristics of Gothic architecture is the expansive area of the windows as at Sainte Chapelle and the very large size of many individual windows, as at York Minster, Gloucester Cathedral and Milan Cathedral.

Currently all children in the Pollock area attend classes in the Milan C-2 school district.

* Milanville – Location of the " Milan " Post Office from 1818 to 1908 and located at the junction of Salisbury Turnkpike and Milan Hollow Road this area is now known as " Case's Corner " after Rensselaer Case.

Other well known new cities are located close to Milan in the metropolitan area.

In the 1970s in the eastern metropolitan area of Milan a new city was built by Silvio Berlusconi.

About 60 % of the city's area and 75 % of its residents are located on the Washtenaw County side adjacent to York Township in Washtenaw County ; while 40 % percent of the city's area and 25 % of its residents are located on the Monroe County side adjacent to Milan Township.

There are many historic cities in this part of Italy such as Turin, the manufacturing capital of Italy, Milan, the business and fashion capital of the country, and the important port of Genoa which share the region's visitors with beautiful landscapes like the Lake Como area.

Other well known new cities are located close to Milan in the metropolitan area.

In the 1970s in the eastern metropolitan area of Milan a new city was built by Silvio Berlusconi.

It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan.

Mascarpone originated in the area between Lodi and Abbiategrasso, Italy, southwest of Milan, probably in the late 16th or early 17th century.

In 1342, Luchino and Giovanni Visconti conquered the area, which brought Locarno back under the power of Milan.