Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.

The new interchange among the four Los Angeles freeways, including the grade-constructed accesses, occupies by itself no less than eighty acres of downtown land, one-eighth of a square mile, an area about the size of Rockefeller Center in New York.

The appeal of the suburb is particularly strong for heavy industry, which must move bulky objects along a lengthy assembly line and wants enough land area to do the entire job on one floor.

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

The largest city by total land area is Huntsville.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.

The rural area surrounding Adelaide was surveyed by Light in preparation to sell a total of over of land.

The territory includes Ashmore Reef ( West, Middle, and East Islets ) and Cartier Island ( 70 km east ) with, a total area of within the reefs and including the lagoons, and 114, 400 m² of dry land.

It has no permanently dry land area, although large parts of the reef become exposed during low tide.

** West Islet, 51, 200 m² land area ;

** Middle Islet, 21, 200 m² land area ;

** East Islet, 25, 000 m² land area ;

** Cartier Island, 17, 000 m² land area ;

Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open area due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, as well as land.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

Divisions of land area were typically based on the square mile, and fractions thereof.

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.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

The ACT's land on the Beecroft Peninsula is an " exclave ", that is, an area of territory not physically connected to the main part of the ACT.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay ( the contra costa, " opposite shore ") for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley.

According to the United States Census Bureau the city's area includes of land and ( 40. 83 %) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.

Madero assured Zapata that the land redistribution promised in the Plan of San Luis Potosí would be carried out when Madero became president.

There is also a tale about a tunnel in the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona near Cedar Creek which is said to lead inside the earth to a land inhabited by a mysterious tribe.

The plantation no longer exists, however the land in which the plantation was located is now a San Patricio suburb with a shopping mall by the same name.

The campus also includes much land in unincorporated San Mateo County ( including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ), as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park ( Stanford Hills neighborhood ), Woodside, and Portola Valley.

In memory of the stonecutter, the land was renamed " Land of San Marino ", and was finally changed to its present-day name, " Republic of San Marino ".

In some cities such as Miami and San Francisco, the main city is much smaller than the surrounding suburban areas, leaving the city proper with a small portion of the metro area's population and land area.

The San Joaquin River watershed occupies two-thirds to three quarters of northern California's land, but only collects one-third to one-quarter of the precipitation.

* The first Filipinos in North America land in Morro Bay, near San Luis Obispo, California.

Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.

A few other counties of Colorado have some land in the Rio Grande Basin including Archuleta County, Hinsdale County and San Juan County.

Map of the proposed San Luis Valley Conservation Area showing federal, state, and protected land use

East Oakland, which includes the East Oakland Hills, encompasses more than half of Oakland's land area, stretching from Lakeshore Avenue on the east shore of Lake Merritt southeast to the San Leandro border.

For example, San Antonio becomes " Sand-and-Stony-o "; the country to the south of Bedrock's land is called " Mexirock " ( Mexico ).

The adjacent cities in the Gran Asunción area, such as Luque, Lambaré, San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora and Mariano Roque Alonso, have absorbed most of this influx due to the low cost of the land and easy access to Asunción.

* The San Lucy District comprises seven small non-contiguous parcels of land in and northwest of the town of Gila Bend in southwestern Maricopa County.

In his book Dell ’ Istoria della Sacra Religione et Illustrissima Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano (), written between 1594 and 1602, Giacomo Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( Which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").

Ownership of 1, 051. 44 acres ( for all practical intents being the exact area of land occupied by the original mission buildings, cemeteries, and gardens ) was subsequently conveyed to the Church, along with the Cañada de los Pinos ( or College Rancho ) in Santa Barbara County comprising, and La Laguna in San Luis Obispo County, consisting of.

Victor Emmanuel entered Venice and Venetian land, and performed an act of homage in the Piazza San Marco.

, with promises of salaries and land after the war. Commemorative plaque at San Jacinto Plaza in the district of San Ángel, Mexico City