The Nazareth Range, in which the town lies, is the southernmost of several parallel east-west hill ranges that characterize the elevated tableau of Lower Galilee.

In the far north, however, the rugged east-west ranges of the Karkaar Mountains lie at varying distances from the Gulf of Aden coast.

In the west and the southwest, the Cape Ranges, the country's only " fold mountains "-- formed by the folding of the continental crust — form an " L ," where the north-south ranges meet several east-west ranges.

The John Day Fault ( one of the only major faults in North America to run east-west ) runs along the southern edge of the John Day Valley, caused an uplift, forming the Strawberry and Aldrich mountain ranges and the northern boundary of the Great Basin.

It is bordered on the north by the Uinta Mountains, one of the few mountains ranges in the world which lie in an east-west rather than the usual north to south direction.

The northern two thirds of the district belong to the North German plain ; the mountain ranges Teutoburg Forest and Wiehen Hills run east-west in the southern third of the district.

The Laramie Plains and the Green River basin, essentially a single structural basin between the east-west ranges of the Rattlesnake Mountains on the north and the Uinta Range on the south, measuring roughly 260 miles ( 420 km ) east-west by 200 miles ( 320 km ) north-south, make up the largest intermontane basin.

Traditional Mustang ( the Lo Kingdom ) is 53 km north-south at its longest and 60 km east-west at its widest, and ranges from a low point of 2750 m above sea level on the Kali Gandaki River just north of Kagbeni to 6700 m ( Khamjung Himal, a peak in southeast Mustang.

Their orientation along an east-west axis as opposed to the general southeast-northwest trend of most California ranges results from a pronounced step in the San Andreas Fault, the cause of which is a subject of intensive ongoing study.

The Transverse ranges run predominantly east-west, while the other coast ranges tend north-south, including the Central Coast Ranges to the north and the Peninsular Ranges to the south.

The Peninsular ranges run predominantly north-south, unlike the Transverse Ranges to their north, which mostly run east-west.

Although the Watchungs commonly are described in terms of their east-west ridge arrangement ( First, Second, and Third Watchung Mountain ), they also are divided into smaller mountain ranges, as well as various named ridges.

The city ranges in latitude from 27 ° 50 '– 29 ° 16 ' N, and in longitude from 103 ° 36 '– 105 ° 20 ' E, stretching east-west and north-south.

The east-west orientation of the Uintas is anomalous compared to most of the ranges of the northern Rocky Mountains ; it may relate to changing stress patterns and rotation of the Colorado Plateau

The Pinzgau Ridgeway ( Pinzgauer Höhenweg ) runs through both ranges in an east-west direction.

The range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these two east-west ranges divide Indian Subcontinent into the Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India and the Deccan Plateau of the south.

In Central Kutch there are four major east-west hill ranges characterized by fault propagation folds with steeply dipping northern limbs and gently dipping southern limbs.

The swelling or undulating plain between these two ranges of the Bey-san measures about across and is traversed by several stretches of high ground having generally an east-west direction.

The mountains parallel the Channel Islands to the south, another east-west trending range, a geologic extension of the Santa Monica Mountains ; the two ranges are about thirty miles apart.

The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large east-west mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.

The upper valley of the Chota River in northern Ecuador, and the small villages in it are usually referred to as ' El Chota ', and it runs east-west between the two ranges of the Andes.

The original town was basically a square with streets aligned north-south and east-west, split diagonally by the railroad with a line of lots paralleling either side of the tracks.

At the end of the 1880s, the Illinois Central railroad built its competing east-west line through the center of Winnebago Township paralleling the Chicago & Galena Union.

A Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad line runs east-west through the city with a second line branching off to the northwest, paralleling K-96.

The majority of the northern border of the city is a line that runs east-west just above Forbes Terrace, mostly paralleling Ruie Road, with the rest of the northern border being a short northwesterly line that runs from Ward Road to Witmer Road.

New York State Route 286 is another east-west highway, paralleling and north of NY-441, also ending at NY-350.

The town was built at the crossing of the Moscow road ( east-west ) and the Smolensk road ( north-south, paralleling the river ).

The Osceola Parkway, signed as County Road 522 since around 2003 ( and originally planned as State Road 424 ), is a long, partially tolled arterial road extending east-west across the northern boundary of Osceola County, Florida, USA roughly paralleling the border with Orange County.

The line served as a long-distance passenger and freight line between Philadelphia, Reading, and Harrisburg, nearly paralleling the old Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad — later incorporated as the main east-west line of the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ).

The Mahabharat Range ( mahābhārat shrinkhalā ) – also called the Lesser Himalaya – is a major east-west mountain range with elevations 1, 500 to 2, 700 meters ( 5, 000 to 9, 000 feet ) along the crest, paralleling the much higher Great Himalaya range from the Indus River in Pakistan across northern India, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan but then the two ranges become increasingly difficult to differentiate east of Bhutan as the ranges approach the Brahmaputra River.

It was connected to the Hanseatic League city of Bremen by the Leine, and was situated near the southern edge of the wide North German Plain and north-west of the Harz mountains, so that east-west traffic such as mule trains passed through it.

Thus, it was possible that an east-west line extending east from Lake Michigan's southern tip may have intersected Lake Erie somewhere east of Maumee Bay, or worse, may not have intersected the lake at all ; the farther south that Lake Michigan actually extended, the more land Ohio would lose, perhaps even the entire Lake Erie shoreline west of Pennsylvania.

runs east-west across southern Canada, the populated portion of the country, and it connects many of the major urban centres along its route crossing almost all of the provinces, and reaching almost all of the capital cities.

In 1857, the Memphis and Charleston Railroad was completed, the only east-west railroad across the southern states prior to the Civil War.

Marlboro is just off Route 9 which runs east-west across southern Vermont, from Brattleboro ten miles ( 16 km ) to the east to Wilmington and Bennington further to the west.

The Zhongtiao Mountains run along part of the southern border and separate Shanxi from the east-west part of the Yellow River.

The southern part of I-395 is part of the Connecticut Turnpike, which branches off the interstate in Killingly and runs east-west from I-395 exit 90, to U. S. Route 6 at the Rhode Island state line.

The Grand Central Parkway separates a western lobe from the main part of the northern half, while the east-west Jewel Avenue bisects the southern half.

The southern border is an east-west line that bisects the city of Kannapolis.

U. S. Highway 64 traverses east-west across the southern part of the county connecting Cashiers to Brevard in the east and Highlands in the west.

*, is an east-west route crossing through the southern portion of the county from south of Niles through Three Oaks to New Buffalo and Michiana, Michigan, before leaving the state and continuing to Michigan City, Indiana.

The southern boundary of the county has a mutual east-west interface of about with Florida, although it is not continuous.

Presently, the city is served by three U. S. highways ( all four-laned within the city limits, and for some distance beyond ): U. S. 84 ( east-west ), U. S. 231 ( north-south ) and U. S. 431 ( north-south ; southern terminus in Dothan ).

Streets running east-west use the railroad as a dividing line between their eastern and western halves, and streets running north-south use Main Street as a dividing line between their northern and southern halves.

The Artesia Freeway ( State Route 91 ) passes east-west through the southern portion of Bellflower, the San Gabriel River Freeway ( Interstate 605 ) runs north-south just east of the city, and the Century Freeway ( Interstate 105 ) runs east-west just north of the city.

The Century Freeway ( Interstate 105 ) passes east-west through the northern portion of Paramount, the Long Beach Freeway ( Interstate 710 ) follows north-south along the city's western border, and the Artesia Freeway ( State Route 91 ) runs east-west less than a one-half-mile from the southern Paramount city limits.

* 30px State Route 58 ( CA SR-58 ), State Route 58 ( SR 58 ) is an east-west highway across the California Coast Ranges, the southern San Joaquin Valley, the Tehachapi Mountains, which border the southern Sierra Nevada, and the Mojave Desert.

Goings headed a band of robbers known as the " Goings Gang " that preyed on frontier travelers on the Vincennes-St. Louis Trace, a dirt road or path that extended east-west between these two settlements across southern Illinois.

U. S. Route 30 is the major east-west artery on the southern side of the city.

The Hoisington Subdivision of the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad runs east-west around the southern side of the city.