C. crocodilus, the Spectacled Caiman, has the widest distribution, from southern Mexico to the northern half of Argentina, and grows to a modest size of about 2. 2 meters.

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of Alaska, which lies west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

* R1 is the southern half ringway and R2 is the northern half ringway around Antwerp.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

In the northern half of Chile cultivation is highly dependent on irrigation.

In the eastern half of the country, the San Juan River forms the northern border with Nicaragua.

The two most widely spoken forms of the Corsican language are Supranacciu, spoken in the Bastia and Corte area ( generally throughout the northern half of the island ), and Suttanacciu, spoken around Sartene and Porto-Vecchio ( generally throughout the southern half of the island ).

The southern half is separated from the northern half at what used to be the Lisan Peninsula because of the fall in level of the Dead Sea.

The channel and anchorage areas in the northern half of the lagoon are dredged, along with the pre-1971 ship turning basin.

Windsurfing is common around Corralejo and Playas de Sotavento and wave sailing ( windsurfing on the waves ) on the coast along the northern half of the island.

The majority of the seventy islanders live in the crofts on the southern half of the island, with the northern half consisting of rocky moorland.

Serbia and Montenegro were promised much of northern Albania, and Greece was promised much of the country's southern half.

The distribution of immigrants is largely uneven in Italy: 87 % of immigrants live in the northern and central parts of the country ( the most economically developed areas ), while only 13 % live in the southern half of the peninsula.

Starting with the unification of Italy in 1861, a wide and increasing economic divide has been noticeably growing between the northern provinces and the southern half of the Italian state.

Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian languages, because Argentina has had a continuous large influx of Italian settlers since the second half of the nineteenth century: initially primarily from northern Italy ; then, since the beginning of the twentieth century, mostly from southern Italy.

Macdonald is credited with creating a Canadian Confederation despite many obstacles, and expanding what was a relatively small colony to cover the northern half of North America.

The Fells, a local nonprofit organization that has maintained and managed the John Hay Estate on Lake Sunapee for over a decade, acquired the northern half of the property from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on March 25, 2008.

Although these trips were long and arduous, they resulted in very little Kalevala material ; only 1, 000 verses were recovered from the southern half and an unknown quantity from the northern half.

During this time, the northern half of Australia was rainforest.

The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.

This block of country lies just west of the line of the great East African Trough, the northern continuation of which passes along its eastern escarpment as it runs up to join the Red Sea.

From the end of 1888, the Amir spent eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in rebellion.

Bosnia occupies the northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina occupies the rest in the south part of the country.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

Sandstorm at Abéché airport, Chad ( 2005 ). The Saharan region covers roughly the northern third of the country, including Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture along with the northern parts of Kanem, Batha, and Biltine prefectures.

The southern third of the country has a two-month dry season ; the northern two-thirds, a four-month one.

About 50 % are Baya-Mandjia, 40 % Banda ( largely located in the northern and central parts of the country ), and 7 % are M ' Baka ( southwestern corner of the CAR ).

Due to failure to curb deepening unrest in the northern part of the country, Gambi was in July 2006 replaced with Bozizé ’ s old friend from the military academy, Jules Bernard Ouandé.

During a UN mission in the northern part of the country in November 2006, the mission had a meeting with a prefect who said that he could not maintain law and order over the military and the presidential guards.

On June 5, 1926, Chiang became Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), and on July 27 he launched a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition in order to defeat the warlords controlling northern China and to unify the country under the KMT.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

This means that southern portions of the country are snow-covered about three to four months of the year and the northern, about seven months.

The produce of these northern regions is also considered some of the best in the country, including cauliflower and artichokes.

The country is divided into four geographic regions: A lowland belt running north to south behind the coast ( Lower Guinea ), which is part of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion ; the pastoral Fouta Djallon highlands ( Middle Guinea ); the northern savanna ( Upper Guinea ); and a southeastern rain-forest region ( Forest Guinea ).

Many Greek recipes, especially in the northern parts of the country, use " sweet " spices in combination with meat, for example cinnamon and cloves in stews.

Galilee ( HaGalil, lit: the province,, Latin: Galileia, al-Jalīl ), is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District and Haifa District of the country.

In Roman times, the country was divided into Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprised the whole northern section of the country, and was the largest of the three regions under the tetrarchy.

After their able leader Totila was killed at the Battle of Taginae, effective Ostrogothic resistance ended, and the remaining Goths were assimilated by the Lombards, another Germanic tribe, who invaded Italy and founded a Kingdom in the northern parts of the country in 567 AD.

( This division of Crown Poland into two entities called Greater and Lesser Poland had its roots in the Statutes of Casimir the Great of 1346 – 1362, where the laws of " Greater Poland " – the northern part of the country – were codified in the Piotrków statute, with those of " Lesser Poland " in the separate Wiślica statute.

With the exception of relatively recent, Asian-dominated investment in assembly firms along Honduras's northern coast, the country remains heavily dependent on United States-based multinational corporations for most of its investment needs in the early 1990s.