In fact, because of atmospheric refraction and because the sun appears as a disk and not a point, part of the midnight sun may be seen on the night of the northern summer solstice up to about 50 ′ () south of the Arctic Circle ; similarly, on the day of the northern winter solstice, part of the sun may be seen up to about 50 ′ north of the Arctic Circle.

Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.

In the northern part of this plateau, west of Jackson county, there are about of level highlands from above sea level.

and occupies a small triangular-shaped section of which Randolph and Clay counties, together with the northern part of Tallapoosa and Chambers, form the principal portion.

Elam and the northern part of Mesopotamia ( Subartu ) were also subjugated, and rebellions in Sumer were put down.

During his reign the Lombards ended their migrations by settling in Italy, the northern part of which Alboin conquered between 569 and 572.

Members of an Indian tribe in the northern part of Argentina were farmers who grew squash, melons, and sweet potatoes.

Also vexatious were the Saxons, the name Roman writers gave to the peoples who lived in the northern part of what is now Germany and the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.

The northern part, the so-called Unteren Freie Ämter ( lower Freie Ämter ), which included the districts of Boswil ( in part ) and Hermetschwil and the Niederamt, were ruled by Zurich, Bern and Glarus.

The north-eastern monsoon sweeps up the valley of the Ganges from the Bay of Bengal and waters the northern part of Rajasthan, but hardly penetrates farther west than the longitude of Ajmer.

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.

At the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia the water is no longer salty and many fresh water species live in the sea.

The northern part of the Baltic Sea is known as the Gulf of Bothnia, of which the northernmost part is the Bay of Bothnia

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

Prince George is the largest city in the northern part of the province, while a village northwest of it, Vanderhoof, is near the geographic centre of the province.

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.

* The Una in the northwest part of Bosnia flows along the northern and western border of Bosnia and Croatia and through the Bosnian city of Bihać.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

The MTR operates the metro network within inner urban Hong Kong, Kowloon Peninsula and northern part of Hong Kong Island with newly developed areas, Tsuen Wan, Tseung Kwan O, Tung Chung, Hong Kong Disneyland, the Hong Kong International Airport, the northeastern and northwestern parts of the New Territories.

The northern part of Hong Kong Island together with Kowloon forms the core urban area of Hong Kong.

) and their combined population ( that of the northern part of the island and of Kowloon ) is approximately 3, 156, 500, reflecting a population density of 35, 700 / km² ( 91, 500 / sq.

New Kowloon covers the entirety of the Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong districts, as well as the mainland portion of the Sham Shui Po District ( i. e. excluding the Stonecutters Island ) and the northern portion of the Kowloon City District ( portion to the north of the Boundary Street / Prince Edward Road West, as well as reclaimed land including the Kai Tak Airport ).

Prince Edward is an area in northern Kowloon, Hong Kong.

The Peking Opera school was run from a small theatre in the Lai Chi Kok amusement park, Kowloon by Master Yu Jim Yuen ( 于占元 ), a northern ( 北拳 ) kung fu practitioner and a very stern teacher.

Historically, the street marked the boundary between the southern part of Kowloon, ceded by Qing China to the United Kingdom in 1860, and the northern part of Kowloon ( New Kowloon ), which remained part of China until it was leased as part of the New Territories to the United Kingdom in 1898 for 99 years.

Beacon Hill ( or ) is a hill in the northern part of Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong.

The northern portion of Kowloon Park is only a few blocks south of the station and King's Park is about 250m northeast using Jordan Road.

Residents can take buses to other parts of North District, western New Territories ( including Yuen Long Town, Tuen Mun Town and Tsuen Wan Town ), Tai Po Town, Sha Tin Town, most parts of Kowloon, parts of northern Hong Kong Island and the Hong Kong International Airport.

Ngau Tau Kok () is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, located at the northern part of Kwun Tong District, next to Kowloon Bay.

A MTR station in the northern part of Ngau Tau Kok is named Kowloon Bay ; the Ngau Tau Kok MTR station is located in the southern part of Ngau Tau Kok.

Kowloon Central Post Office, northern entrance

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

The northern and western sides consist of stony but fertile plains, which are well cultivated and produce luxuriant crops of grain, with some cotton, vines, almonds, olives and figs, but the most characteristic crop of Aegina today ( 2000s ) is pistachio.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

Alexandria Troas (" Alexandria of the Troad ", modern ) is an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos ( modern Bozcaada ).

Bayer did not always follow this rule ; he sometimes assigned letters to stars according to their location within a constellation ( for example: the northern, southern, eastern, or western part of a constellation ), according to either the order in which they rise in the east, to historical or mythological information on specific stars within a constellation, or to his own random choosing.

The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.

** C. v. taylori ( Lincoln, 1915 )-Plains Bobwhite-South Dakota to northern Texas, western Missouri and northwest Arkansas

) After leaving New York City, it is the main north – south street of western Yonkers, New York through Sleepy Hollow ( known as ether North or South Broadway in most sections ), before becoming Albany Post Road ( and Highland Avenue ) at the northern border of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Between the western part of the Dangrek and the northern part of the Cardamom ranges, however, lies an extension of the Tonle Sap Basin that merges into lowlands in Thailand, which allows easy access from the border to Bangkok.

During the late 1770s and the early 19th century, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants.

The island is located east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; its western coast also forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait.

However, lamb and goat are rarely eaten, unlike in the cuisines of northern or western China.

These two tribes intended to pass into Italy through the western passes, while the Cimbri and the Tigurines were to take the northern route across the Rhine and later across the Tirolian Alps.

In the early period it was the name of a small territory in southern Babylonia extending along the northern and probably also the western shores of the Persian Gulf.

Other areas sometimes included are Afghanistan, Mongolia, eastern Iran and northern and western Pakistan, and sometimes Xinjiang and Tibet in western China, Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, and southern Siberia in eastern Russia.

The first systematic population on the European continent was taken in 1719 in Prussia ( roughly corresponding to today's northern Germany and western Poland ).

The Clyde or Clyde-Carlingford type are principally found in northern and western Ireland and southwestern Scotland.

If the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.