Up until World War II it was still possible to regard the city as being a settlement of narrow streets localized to some part of the harbor or the Gulf of Ajaccio ; such bucolic descriptions do not fit the city of today, and travellogues intended for mountain or coastal recreational areas do not generally apply to Corsica's few big cities.

flat coastal plain, rises to mountain in east ; hilly lowland in west

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.

Several east-west trending mountain spurs extend to the narrow coastal plain, which is studded with sea cliffs and has level stretches no wider than.

Two parallel mountain ranges cross El Salvador to the west with a central plateau between them and a narrow coastal plain hugging the Pacific.

The coastal plains averaging, the inland and mountain areas averaging, and the higher mountain regions,.

The narrow coastal plain rises very rapidly into several mountain ranges.

The land area is composed of varying topographic features: valleys and desert account for 82 percent of the land mass ; mountain ranges, 15 percent ; and the coastal plain, 3 percent.

The history of Peru spans several millennia, extending back through several stages of cultural development in the mountain region and the coastal desert.

The terrain ranges from coastal plains to rugged mountains bordered by the South China Sea in the west and the Cordillera Central and Zambales mountain ranges in the east.

Except for the Southeast Peninsula which is very dry, mean annual rainfall ranges from about in the coastal areas, to about in the central mountain ranges but, from May to October rainfall is heavier while temperatures are a little hotter.

Mount Gimie, the highest peak, is located in the central mountain range and rises to above sea level, a contrast that is also evident in the abrupt climatic transition from coastal to inland areas.

To the west, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea form a coastal border of almost 1, 800 kilometres that extends to the southern part of Yemen and follows a mountain ridge for approximately 320 kilometres to the vicinity of Najran.

The western coastal escarpment can be considered two mountain ranges separated by a gap in the vicinity of Mecca.

The rugged mountain wall drops abruptly to the sea with only a few intermittent coastal plains.

A short coastal strip on the Adriatic Sea, an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy and Austria, mixed mountain and valleys with numerous rivers to the east.

It is divided into a coastal zone — with a narrow, double mountain belt enclosing a depression in the west — and a much larger eastern plateau.

The Jabal an Nusayriyah, a mountain range paralleling the coastal plain, has an average elevation of just over 1, 212 meters ; the highest peak, Nabi Yunis, is about 1, 575 meters.

The topography surrounding Saint John is hilly ; a result of the influence of two coastal mountain ranges which run along the Bay of Fundy – the St. Croix Highlands and the Caledonia Highlands.

Trinidad is traversed by three distinct mountain ranges that are a continuation of the Venezuelan coastal cordillera.

) that are concentrated in Venezuela's northern coastal mountain strip.

The Israeli Gat Hepher industrial zone is erected on that mountain.

They are divided by the Wadi Samail ( the largest wadi in the mountain zone ), a valley that forms the traditional route between Muscat and the interior.

Geographers traditionally divide the vast territory of Russia into five natural zones: the tundra zone ; the taiga, or forest, zone ; the steppe, or plains, zone ; the arid zone ; and the mountain zone.

Between the humid Mediterranean coast and the arid desert regions lies a semiarid steppe zone extending across three-quarters of the country and bordered on the west by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and the Jabal an Nusayriyah, on the north by the Turkish mountain region, and on the southeast by the Jabal al Arab, Jabal ar Ruwaq, Jabal Abu Rujmayn, and the Jabal Bishri ranges.

The GPP was based on the " accumulation of forces in silence ": while the urban organization recruited on the university campuses and collected funds through bank holdups, the main cadres were to go permanently to the north central mountain zone.

The lodge was located at the south end of Spirit Lake at the foot of the mountain, and was in the danger zone at the time of the eruption.

Signals intelligence, in the form of Ultra, enabled the British to wait on each German drop zone, yet despite compromised secrecy, surviving German paratroops and airlanded mountain troops pushed the Commonwealth forces off the island in part by unexpected fire support from their light 75 mm guns, though seaborne reinforcements were destroyed by the Royal Navy.

To the south and west of that mountain range is Darkover's nominally temperate continental zone which borders the open water of the planet's ocean.

The effect of mountain topography on prevailing winds is to force warm air from the lower region into an upper zone where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow, rain or hail.

The Lake Vostok basin is a small ( 50 km / 30 mi wide ) tectonic feature within the overall setting of a several hundred kilometer wide continental collision zone between the Gamburtsev Mountain Range, a subglacial mountain range and the Dome C region.

The transition zone of the nearby foothills also contain mixtures of Pinion Pine, Joshua tree forests, and concentrated riparian habitat surrounding the small streams descending from the mountain peaks.

Banner Elk is located in North America's humid continental climate zone due to its elevation which gives it a climate more like that of Altoona, Pennsylvania than Asheville, North Carolina during the winter and during the summer the temperatures are much like a mountain lake town in New Hampshire.

It is characterized by the influence of mountain-valley circulation, which is especially evident in the northern part of the city, located directly in the transition zone of the mountain slopes to the plains.

As part of the exchange of territorial ( specified at the Yalta Conference ) the mountain was transferred to the Soviet occupation zone.

Choughs can be locally threatened by the accumulation of pesticides and heavy metals in the mountain soils, heavy rain, shooting and other human disturbances, but a longer-term threat comes from global warming, which would cause the species ' preferred Alpine climate zone to shift to higher, more restricted areas, or locally to disappear entirely.

The two-man team was to be parachuted in and sheltered with Heidentaler, after which they could make the approach to the killing zone disguised as German mountain troops.

Boer ( 1997 ) classified the UAE climate as hyper-arid and divided it into four climatic regions: the coastal zone along the Persian Gulf, the mountain areas northeast of UAE, the gravel plains around Al Ain area, and the central and southern sand desert.

Unlike the coastal regions of the country which receive annual monsoon rainfalls exceeding 2500 mm, the dry zone gets little precipitation as it is sheltered from the rain by the Rakhine Yoma mountain range in the west.

Most geographers divide the vast Soviet territory into five natural zones that generally extend from west to east: the tundra zone ; the taiga or forest zone ; the steppe or plains zone ; the arid zone ; and the mountain zone.