** High Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco, contains the highest point in the Atlas Mountains

Mont Blanc spans the French – Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps.

Much of the Alpine culture is unchanged since the medieval period when skills that guaranteed survival in the mountain valleys and in the highest villages became mainstays, leading to strong traditions of carpentry, woodcarving, baking and pastry-making, and cheesemaking.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

Bimberi Peak being the highest mountain in the ACT approximately south west of Canberra.

An afterglow may appear above the highest clouds in the hour of deepening twilight, or reflected from the high snowfields in mountain regions long after sunset.

The area around Lake Tanganyika is warmer, averaging ; the highest mountain areas are cooler, averaging.

The terrified local Thracians took refuge with their families and animal herds on the slopes of Mons Donuca, the highest mountain in Thrace ( Mt.

The highest elevations of Mount Kinabalu are home to the Kinabalu mountain alpine meadow, an alpine shrubland notable for its numerous endemic species, including many orchids.

Mount Musala () in the Rila mountain in Bulgaria is the highest.

Ben Nevis (, ) is the highest mountain in the British Isles.

The highest point in Chad is Emi Koussi, a mountain that rises in the northern Tibesti Mountains.

Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

sometimes referred to as ' the hinge of Africa ;' throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity ; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano

The country's highest peaks lie in this mountain range: the Cerro Chirripó and the Cerro Kamuk.

The highest point is Cerro Chirripó, a volcanic mountain with an elevation of ( part of Chirripó National Park ).

It is the smallest of the four islands and has a central mountain chain reaching 860 meters at its highest.

* Mount Charleston, Nevada, the highest mountain in the Spring Mountain Range

Its highest mountain is Diego de Ocampo, close to Santiago, with 1, 249 m. There are several small plains between this range and the Atlantic Ocean.

* The Sierra de Neiba, with Mount Neiba the highest mountain with 2, 279 m. An extension to the southeast of Sierra de Neiba is the Sierra Martín García ( Loma Busú, 1, 350 m ).

Almost all the annual rainfall and the highest humidity occurs during this time, and yearly rain totals, particularly on southern-facing mountain slopes, can be as high as.

It is close to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, and Glen Nevis.

The colonial government's budget originally relied largely on tax collections in Cambodia as its main source of revenue, and Cambodians paid the highest taxes per capita among the French colonies in Indochina.

Over 63, 500 landmine and ERW casualties have been recorded in Cambodia since 1979, and with over 25, 000 amputees Cambodia has the highest ratio per capita in the world.

The Dângrêk are a relatively low mountain system, their average elevation being around 500 m. The highest summit is Phu Khi Suk, an unconspicuous 753 m high place at the eastern end, in the Chong Bok ( 603 m ) area, where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia intersect.

Fansipan ( Vietnamese: Phan Xi Păng, ) is a mountain in Vietnam, the highest in Indochina ( comprising Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia ), at.

The highest elevation is Phnom Bokor at 1, 081 meters ( 3, 547 feet ) above sea level.

The highest elevation of the Cardamom Mountains is Phnom Aural at high.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Factory stocks in recent months have been the highest they have been in three years, while those at retail are below 1959.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

Last year Robert Harris, a leading Junior Handler entered the Dog Judging Contest ( Junior ) at the International KC of Chicago show and had the highest score in judging of any Junior since the Class' inception.

Religion at its best also offers the experience of spiritual fulfillment by inviting man into the highest realm of the spirit.

For convenience we chose a stronger pigment, unknown to the early Italians or to Brumidi, titanium oxide, reserving the active lime white for highest lights, put on at the end of the day's stint.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

The Postmaster General recently reported that mail order frauds -- among which fake therapeutic devices figure prominently -- are at the highest level in history.

The highest waves, 55 feet, occurred at Pololu Valley.

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.

In the 2nd and 3rd century CE, those at Didyma and Clarus pronounced the so-called " theological oracles ", in which Apollo confirms that all deities are aspects or servants of an all-encompassing, highest deity.

Mount Ararat, at the highest point in Turkey, is located in the Anti-Taurus.

Since then, Alumni has played at the highest level of Argentinian rugby and its rivalry with Belgrano Athletic Club is one of the fiercest local derbies in Buenos Aires.

Average precipitation ranges from per year in the lower Araks River valley to at the highest altitudes.

Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

The highest place was assigned to him, both in church and at table.

* 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

It was this high degree of agricultural productivity in the south that enabled the growth of the highest population densities in the world at this time, giving Akkad its military advantage.