It is roughly equivalent in area to South America, although there is a large amount of unmapped land to the far north with extremely cold temperatures.

As such, there is not Title 32 United States Code equivalent for the sea services, even though Alaska, California, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas and Ohio have incorporated Naval Militia units.

Worthy of note is the South African English equivalent " bull dust ".

Some countries have their own terms equivalent to pickup, such as ute – an abbreviation of " utility vehicle " – in Australia and New Zealand, or bakkie in South Africa.

In real-world terms, Tolkien's inspiration for the word Arda may be certain cognates of the English word " Earth " in the other Germanic languages, specifically the Afrikaans " Aarde " which has equivalent pronunciation and meaning, and unsurprising in use given Tolkien's South African origins.

South China Sea is the dominant term used in English for the sea, and the name in most European languages is equivalent, but it is sometimes called by different names in neighboring countries, often reflecting historical claims to hegemony over the sea.

* Talwar, the South Asian equivalent

If this is the case, it would make Gargarei virtually equivalent to the Georgian term Dzurdzuk ( referring to the lake Durdukka in the South Caucasus, where they are thought to have migrated from, as noted by Strabo, before intermixing with the local population ) which applied to a Nakh people who migrated North across the mountains to settle in modern Ingushetia.

South African Statements of GAAP are entirely consistent with IFRS, although there may be a delay between issuance of an IFRS and the equivalent SA Statement of GAAP ( can affect voluntary early adoption ).

In jurisdictions that have become republics, the office of Queen's Counsel has been replaced with an equivalent, for example, Senior Counsel in South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, Senior Advocate in Nigeria, India and Bangladesh, and President's Counsel in Sri Lanka.

South Orange is governed under a Special Charter granted by the New Jersey Legislature by a six member board of trustees and a village president ( equivalent to a mayor ), all unpaid positions.

In South Korea, hanja are used most frequently in academic literature, where they often appear without the equivalent hangul spelling.

The total catchment of the Orange River ( including the Vaal ) extends over 973, 000 km², i. e. equivalent to about 77 % of the land area of South Africa ( 1, 268, 5358 km² ).

These sections correspond roughly with the geographic regions ( North, Central, and South America ) but are not equivalent.

The two consecutive ' High Commissioners in the Antilles ' ( quite a misleading title: French Guyana is in continental South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast, so in North America ) held both administrative authority over the local Governors and equivalent officers ( rather like a gouverneur général did elsewhere on a permanent basis ) and military command in the ' Theater Atlantic West ':

The Pathet Lao were the Laotian equivalent of North Vietnam's Vietnam People's Army, South Vietnam's Viet Minh and later Viet Cong, and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.

The rank of brigadier general is known in South Korea as junjang (; hanja: 准將 )< ref >< font color =" gray ">( Korean )</ font > Empas hanja dictionary, Junjang entry and is a direct equivalent to the United States one-star rank, with very similar insignia.

In South Africa, the equivalent is the Senior Certificate or Matric examination.

They were in turn supported by the 151, 000-man South Vietnamese Regional Forces and 149, 000-man South Vietnamese Popular Forces, which were the equivalent of regional and local militias.

The term sangoma is often used colloquially in South Africa for equivalent professions in other Bantu cultures in Southern Africa.

Calling the NBPP extremist, critics have cited Muhammad's " Million Youth March " in Harlem, a youth equivalent of the Million Man March, in which the protest against police brutality included speakers calling for the extermination of whites in South Africa.

The restyled Sierra range differed from its European equivalent by featuring the traditional black grille of the Sierra Sapphire sedan ( known simply in South Africa as the Sapphire ) on the hatchback and wagon.

In South Africa, the equivalent of the American prom is the Matric Dance, taking place during the matriculation ( i. e., final ) year of high school ( 12th grade ).

This led to generations of mixed-race slaves, some who were otherwise considered legally white ( 1 / 8 or less African, equivalent to a great-grandparent ) before the American Civil War.

The conceit of Harad representing some African or Arabian equivalent ( being south of Middle-earth as " Europe ") is more explicit in these materials ; most of these original names have no relation to Tolkien's writings, and some, such as " hasharin ", are actually Arabic words.

Gen. Clark's 5th Army comprised three corps: U. S. IV Corps on the left formed by U. S. 1st Armored Division, South African 6th Armoured Division and two regimental Combat Teams (" RCT "), equivalent to 5, 000 men each: one of the U. S. 92nd Infantry Division ( Buffalo Soldiers ) and other was the Brazilian 6th RCT, the first arrived contingent of land forces element of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force ; in the centre was U. S. II Corps ( U. S. 34th, 85th, 88th and 91st Infantry Divisions supported by three tank battalions ); and on the right British XIII Corps ( British 1st Infantry Division, British 6th Armoured Division, 8th Indian Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Tank Brigade ).

For instance, in 1822 Virginia law stated that to be defined as " mulatto " ( that is, multi-racial ), a person had to have at least one-quarter ( equivalent to one grandparent ) African ancestry.

* 58 percent of African Americans have at least 12. 5 % European ancestry ( equivalent of one great-grandparent );

* 19. 6 percent of African Americans have at least 25 % European ancestry ( equivalent of one grandparent );

* 1 percent of African Americans have at least 50 % European ancestry ( equivalent of one parent ) ( Gates is one of those, he discovered ); and

* 5 percent of African Americans have at least 12. 5 % Native American ancestry ( equivalent to one great-grandparent ).

Among the 30 % who do have African ancestry, Shriver estimates their black racial admixture is 2. 3 %; the equivalent of having had 3 black ancestors among their 128 5xgreat-grandparents.

In a 2010 divorce case the Western Cape High Court recognised the validity of a British civil partnership as equivalent to a marriage or civil partnership in South African law.

The champion of the Premier Soccer League advances to the Orange CAF Champions League, while the Nedbank Cup champions advance to the CAF Confederation Cup, which is the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League.

Performing in English and Afrikaans, the bilingual actress also starred in other local plays, including Stille Nag ( Silent Night ) and A Chain of Voices, both earning her nominations for the South African equivalent of the Tony Award.

She garnered a South African equivalent of an Oscar nomination playing a rape victim who becomes deaf and mute, in the psychologically intense Afrikaans feature film, Nag van die 19de ( Night of the 19th ) in 1992.

From 1953 to 1963, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland — equivalent to today's Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, respectively — were joined in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation.

The IWO offered insurance to all working people at the same rate regardless of race or occupation and was, at the time, the only service provider where African Americans could obtain insurance at the same rate as others and also the only place where workers in dangerous occupations such as coal mining could obtain insurance at a rate equivalent to other occupations.

Born in 1881, he graduated with a law degree from the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1905, and was admitted as an advocate ( the South African equivalent of a barrister ) in 1913.

Jansen was a founder member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ( the " South African Academy for Science and Art ") in 1909, of the Saamwerk-Unie (" Co-operation Union ") in 1917, of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (" Federation of Afrikaner Cultural Associations ") in 1929, and of the Voortrekkers ( the Afrikaner equivalent of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides ) in 1930, and was master of ceremonies at the laying of the foundation stone of the Voortrekker Monument in 1938 and at its dedication in 1949.

Drechsler illustrates the gap between the rights of a European and an African ; the German Colonial League held that, in regards to legal matters, the testimony of seven Africans was equivalent to that of one white man.

Born in 1873, de Wet obtained a law degree from the University of Cambridge in 1895 and was admitted as an advocate ( the South African equivalent of a barrister ) in 1896.

Born in 1903, he graduated with law degrees from the University of Stellenbosch in 1926, was admitted as an advocate ( the South African equivalent of a barrister ) in 1928, and obtained a doctorate in law in 1929.

Stork parties are usually not attended by men, and South African men do not have an equivalent party of their own.