Among other things, this treaty took away a large chunk of the Terai from Nepal and the rivers Mahakali and Mechi were fixed as the country's western and eastern boundaries.

The country's two international boundaries, with Colombia and Costa Rica, have been clearly demarcated, and in the late 1980s there were no outstanding disputes.

Like most of the country's boundaries with the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ), Oman, and the Republic of Yemen ( formerly two separate countries: the Yemen Arab Republic or North Yemen ; and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen or South Yemen ) are undefined, so the exact size of the country remains unknown.

The country's exact size is unknown because of disputed claims to several islands in the Persian Gulf, because of the lack of precise information on the size of many of these islands, and because most of its land boundaries, especially with Saudi Arabia, remain undemarcated.

Other topics include modifying the country's boundaries ( 1871, 1949 ), transfer payments ( 1907 ), temporary changes due to two world wars ( 1916, 1943 ), federal-provincial powers ( 1930, 1964 ), power over changes in the constitution ( No. 2 ), the creation of new social programs ( 1951, 1964 ), and mandatory retirement ages in the Canadian government ( 1960, 1965 )

About 5, 500 Tatars lived within the inter-war boundaries of Poland ( 1920 – 1939 ), and a Tatar cavalry unit had fought for the country's independence.

Although the state did not support an official school of Buddhism, it did protect all religious sites and objects within the country's boundaries.

The country's present boundaries were defined in 1889 after an agreement between the United Kingdom and France.

Dacko's government faced a number of problems during 1964 and 1965: the economy experienced stagnation, the bureaucracy started to fall apart, and the country's boundaries were constantly breached by Lumumbists from the south and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army from the east.

In tandem with the 1970 – 1974 autonomy process, the Iraqi regime carried out a comprehensive administrative reform, in which the country's sixteen provinces, or governorates, were renamed and in some cases had their boundaries altered.

It is the country's first medium for the intellectual exchange of ideas, and its political influence extends beyond the boundaries of Afghanistan.

Chile's system went into effect in 1995 and established the boundaries of the country's wine regions and established regulations for wine labels.

Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha, he greatly modernized Egypt and Sudan during his reign, investing heavily in industrial and economic development, urbanisation, and the expansion of the country's boundaries in Africa.

The City of London had never expanded its boundaries and with many residential dwellings being replaced by businesses and the impact of The Blitz there were barely five thousand residents in the entirety of the country's financial district after the Second World War.

The station's LW signal is strong enough to be heard clearly beyond the country's boundaries, including in most parts of southern Great Britain.

The council boundaries follow that of the existing political divisions, with each handling between four to six GRCs and SMCs and roughly dividing the country's population into equal parts.

He asserted that the Krogers were the bankers for Moscow, Lonsdale the Red paymaster, and the two civil servants the recipients for selling their country's secrets.

The Bulgarians also possessed a small navy of six torpedo boats, which were restricted to operations along the country's Black Sea coast.

The Dutch, however, who clung to their troops for their country's protection, were against any adventurous military operation as far south as the Danube and would never willingly permit any major weakening of the forces in the Spanish Netherlands.

The railways were historically important in Chile, but now play a relatively small part in the country's transport system.

Remittances were $ 513, 000, 000 in 2006 and they represented 2. 3 % of the country's GDP.

This limits the resources available for investments in the country's deteriorated public infrastructure, investments in many cases that would result in higher quality infrastructure if they were better planned.

Wisdom's films, in which he usually played a family man worker who outsmarts his boss, were some of the few Western films considered acceptable by the country's communist rulers, thus Albanians grew familiar and attached to Wisdom.

Although perestroika was considered bold in the context of Soviet history, Gorbachev's attempts at economic reform were not radical enough to restart the country's chronically sluggish economy in the late 1980s.

The country's first democratic elections in four decades were held on 30 July 2006 with a run-off between current president Kabila and his rival Bemba held on 29 October 2006.

As far as British interests were concerned, Abdur Rahman answered their prayers: a forceful, intelligent leader capable of welding his divided people into a state ; and he was willing to accept limitations to his power imposed by British control of his country's foreign affairs and the British buffer state policy.

All schools were ordered closed in 1975, and the country's churches were closed in 1978.

Freely contested municipal elections, the country's first, were held in September.

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

The Afghan monarchs were eager to develop the stature of government and the country's military capability, and so attempted to raise money by the imposition of state monopolies on the sale of commodoties and high taxes.

As of 2007, the country's fruit and nut exports were at $ 113 million per year but could grow to more than $ 800 million per year in 10 years given the proper investment.

The most predominant influences on Finland's geography were the continental glaciers that scoured and gouged the country's surface.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

The distribution of vehicles was skewed, however, because, by 1988, more than half of all vehicles were in Accra, which contained approximately 7 percent of the country's population.

In December 1993, Conté was elected to a 5-year term as president in the country's first multi-party elections, which were marred by irregularities and lack of transparency on the part of the government.

The armed forces, though formally responsible for defending the country's territorial integrity, were really during that period focused upon national development tasks, including agricultural, industrial, and construction tasks.

In 1994, 20 years after independence from Portugal, the country's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held.

Before the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.

The country's fiscal situation improved steadily, education improved slightly, the road network expanded, and the armed forces were modernized.

Funds from the multilateral lending institutions, which eventually would help fill the gap left by the reduction of United States aid, were still under negotiation in 1989 and would be conditioned first on payment of arrears on the country's enormous external debt.

The system of government established by the Dayton Accord is an example of consociationalism, as representation is by elites who represent the country's three major groups, with each having a guaranteed share of power.

From the day King Leopold II established colonial authority in what is now Congo-Kinshasa to today, the country's government has been unstable.

The Ghana Highway Authority, established in 1974 is tasked with developing and maintaining the country's trunk road network totaling 13, 367 km, which makes up 33 % of Ghana's total road network of 40, 186 km.

During his chancellorship, the West Germany economy grew quickly, and West Germany established friendly relations with France, participated in the emerging European Union, established the country's armed forces ( the Bundeswehr ), and became a pillar of NATO as well as firm ally of the United States.

* 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.

Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and established a unique political system, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities – Bechara El Khoury who became independent Lebanon's first President and Riad El-Solh, who became Lebanon's first prime minister, are considered the founders of the modern Republic of Lebanon and are national heroes for having led the country's independence.

Malmö has the country's eighth largest school of higher education, Malmö University College, established in 1998.

Due to the fact that it is the capital and the main city in the country, where most of the government and the commercial offices and facilities are established, along with the entertainment centers, and the country's fast growth, vehicle population is increasing rapidly.

The country's more than roads are administered by the Roads Authority, a state-owned enterprise established by Act # 17 of 1999.

He also established a modern government structure and launched a major development programme to upgrade educational and health facilities, build a modern infrastructure, and develop the country's natural resources.

The Congress of Gniezno in 1000 led to the country's first permanent archbishopric being established in Gniezno ( which is generally regarded as Poland's capital in that period ), although Poznań continued to have independent bishops of its own.

By then, parties were well established as the country's dominant political organizations, and party allegiance had become an important part of most people's consciousness.

Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs of Sri Lanka ( formerly known as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ) established a " Foreign Policy Think Tank " to facilitate the professional advancement of the country's foreign policy and the conduct of its external affairs.

Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, was established as a free trade zone in the 1950s and became the country's second city.

* Kou Qianzhi, Chinese Daoist reformer, dies after having converted emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei and established Daoism as the country's dominant religion.

By 1812 he had established himself as the country's leading ' reporter of sporting events ', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and horse-races.

Rutland Boughton moved from Birmingham to Glastonbury in 1911 and established the country's first national annual summer school of music.

The case lasted ten years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the United States, triggered an amendment in 1985 to that country's Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization.

Until recently the country's oil industry was fully controlled by the state company YPFB, established in 1936 with the mission to develop, refine and distribute oil resources.

Argentina had an electoral college established by its original 1853 constitution, which was used to elect its president during that country's periods of democracy.

One of the early centres of industrial development and the Bulgarian labor movement, Varna established itself as the nation's principal port of export, a major grain producing and viticulture centre, seat of the nation's oldest institution of higher learning outside Sofia, a popular venue for international festivals and events, as well as the country's de facto summer capital with the erection of the Euxinograd royal summer palace ( currently, the Bulgarian government convenes summer sessions there ).

The Twin Oaks Community is one of the country's oldest secular communes, established by its first eight members in 1967.

The 15 Most Wanted Fugitive Program was established in 1983 in an effort to prioritize the investigation and apprehension of high-profile offenders who are considered to be some of the country's most dangerous fugitives.