Mecklenburg ( Low German: Mękelnborg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The oldest metatherian fossils ( Metatheria being a larger clade that groups marsupials with some of their extinct relatives ) are found in present-day China. About 100 mya, the supercontinent Pangaea was in the process of splitting into the northern continent Laurasia and the southern continent Gondwana, with what would become China and Australia already separated by the Tethys Ocean.

In contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated.

* Samoa Peninsula, the larger, northern arm of land separating Humboldt Bay from the Pacific

Catalonia and Navarre have historically extended on both sides of the mountain range, with small northern portions now in France and much larger southern parts now in Spain.

North of Najd a larger desert, An Nafud, isolates the heart of the peninsula from the steppes of northern Arabia.

In northern India and Nepal, tigers tend to be of larger size.

While previously unused parts of the northern Rhône vineyards have been planted with Syrah as part of the expansion, the major part of the new French Syrah plantations are located in southern Rhône ( which covers a much larger vineyard area than the northern part ) and Languedoc-Roussillon.

Newer calculations showed that if the Starfish Prime warhead had been detonated over the northern continental United States, the magnitude of the EMP would have been much larger ( 22 to 30 kilovolts / metre ) because of the greater strength of the Earth's magnetic field over the United States, as well as the different orientation of the Earth's magnetic field at high latitudes.

Clutches vary considerably in size: some larger passerines of Australia such as lyrebirds and scrub-robins lay only a single egg, most smaller passerines in warmer climates lay between two and five, whilst in the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere hole-nesting species like tits can lay up to a dozen and other species around five or six.

In the northern Arctic region, cirrus clouds tend to be composed of only the columns, plates, and conglomerations, and these crystals tend to be at least four times larger than the minimum size.

The E. americanus subspecies are not as highly prized as a game fish as their larger cousins, the northern pike and muskellunge, but they are caught by anglers.

The two more prominent species of Esocidae are Esox lucius, or the northern pike, a popular sport fish that may reach lengths as great 1. 5 m ( 4. 6 ft ), and the muskellunge or " muskie ", E. masquinongy, which grows even larger.

Seeds from the northern portion of Coast Douglas-fir's range tend to be larger than seed from the south.

The once mighty province Holland was carved into three pieces: Amstel ( Amsterdam and immediate vicinity ), Texel ( the northern peninsula ), and Delf ( the southern part ); and the other provinces were often merged in larger entities, like Overijssel and Drente into Ouden Yssel, and Frisia and Groningen into the Eems department.

To larger degree modern Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of Jews who migrated into northern France and lower Germany around 800 – 1000 CE, and later migrated also into Eastern Europe.

The county is divided into six townships: Brasstown comprises the westernmost township, Hayesville is centrally located and home to the county seat, Hiawassee is the smallest and surrounds Lake Chatuge, Shooting Creek is the easternmost township, Sweetwater is a small township northwest of Hayesville Township, and Tusquittee, one of the larger townships and most northern.

In the 1990s and 2000s, the university began exporting the larger breed guinea pigs to Europe, Japan, and the United States in the hope of increasing human consumption outside of these countries in northern South America.

Observation of the Dolgan hunter-gatherers of northern Russia suggested that, while reciprocal food-sharing occurs between both kin and non-kin, there are larger and more frequent asymmetrical transfers of food to kin.

The courtyard was larger than it is now, as there were no corridors on the western side and the northern and southern sides only had enclosed galleries on the first floor ( second floor in American English ) with open galleries below.

The largest cities or towns in the area are on Maimbung and Jolo of the Sulu Archipelago, plus the larger island of Palawan to its north, the coastal regions of the westward-extending Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao, and the northern part of the island of Borneo were formerly parts of the thalassocratic Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo.

The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro become large metropolises and the civilization expands to over 2, 500 cities and settlements across the whole of Pakistan, much of northern India, and parts of Afghanistan and Iran, covering a region of around one million square miles, which was larger than the land area of its contemporaries Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, and also had superior urban planning and sewage systems.

As you go further south, it moves toward the northern horizon, and is then seen with the larger loop at the top.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

Not only did this mean that Ford enjoyed much larger demand, but the resulting larger demand also allowed further economies of scale to be exploited, further depressing unit price, which tapped yet another portion of the demand curve.

The remaining larger portion, designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, was built in 1973.

In 2006 the Danish military budget was the fifth largest single portion of the Danish Government's total budget, significantly less than that of the Ministry of Social Affairs (~ 110 billion DKK ), Ministry of Employment (~ 67 billion DKK ), Ministry of the Interior and Health (~ 66 billion DKK ) and Ministry of Education (~ 30 billion DKK ) and only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (~ 14 billion DKK ).

* Function ( computer science ), or subroutine, a portion of code within a larger program, performs a specific task

As of 2010 US Military spending is about 43 % of the world total .. Only a handful of countries spent a larger portion of GDP on military in 2010 and of these only Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates spent more than US $ 10 billion.

The preface then provided an origin to both the poem and why it was merely a smaller portion of an intended larger work.

The glass pavilion is a relatively small portion of the overall building, serving as a symbolic architectural entry point and monumental gallery for larger scale art.

There are stringent restrictions on the uses of the area formally demarcated as the masjid ( which is often a small portion of the larger complex ), and, in the Sharia, after an area is formally designated as a masjid, it remains so until the Last Day.

In turn, many studies from MIT, Black & Veatch and the DOE -- see natural gas -- will account for a larger portion of electricity generation and heat in the future.

He sets aside the larger portion as the afikoman.

Consequently, many will choose this time to give a larger portion, if not all, of the zakat for which they are obligated to give.

In addition, many will also use this time to give a larger portion of sadaqa in order to maximize the reward that will await them on the Day of Judgment.

KSXX started with all local talent, and KTKK today has a larger portion of its schedule featuring local talent than most other stations that run a full schedule of talk.

In the end, the state of Ohio was awarded the land after the state of Michigan was given a larger portion of the Upper Peninsula in exchange.

The setter usually stands about ⅔ of the way from the left to the right of the net and faces the left ( the larger portion of net that he or she can see ).

Sharks possess a heterocercal caudal fin in which the dorsal portion is usually noticeably larger than the ventral portion.

Feeding in the winter accounts for a much larger portion of narwhal energy intake than in the summer and, as marine predators, they are unique in their successful exploitation of deep-water arctic ecosystems.

In 1798, Chemung County was formed from Tioga County, but the county at that time was rather larger than the present county, containing a portion of what would later become Schuyler County.

The colony at Akaroa was to be merely the starting point of the acquisition for France of a much larger portion of the South Island.

If it is desired to sample more of the exponential electron portion of the characteristic, an asymmetric double probe may be used, with one electrode larger than the other.