The northern two-thirds of the province is largely unpopulated and undeveloped, and is mostly mountainous except east of the Rockies, where the Peace River District, in the northeast of the province contains BC's portion of the Canadian Prairies.

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

Cyprus has been divided, de facto, into the Greek Cypriot controlled southern two-thirds of the island and the Turkish-occupied northern third.

* The North Island Brown Kiwi, Apteryx mantelli or Apteryx australis before 2000 ( and still in some sources ), is widespread in the northern two-thirds of the North Island and, with about 35, 000 remaining, is the most common kiwi.

The topography of the country is divided very clearly between the hilly Oesling of the northern third of the Grand Duchy and the flat Gutland, which occupies the southern two-thirds.

Morocco assumed control over the northern two-thirds of the territory and conceded the remaining portion in the south to Mauritania.

From 1904 until 1975, Spain occupied the entire territory, which is divided into a northern portion, the Saguia el-Hamra, and a southern two-thirds, known as Río de Oro.

The most numerous ethnic group in the northern two-thirds of the country is the Hausa-Fulani, the overwhelming majority of whom are Muslim.

The country consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, a chain of small islands stretching south from Saint Vincent to Grenada.

In the 1990s indigenous populations of the northern two-thirds of Quebec state opposed to being incorporated into a Quebec nation and even stated a determination to resist it by force.

The island is characterized by the contrast between the eastern two-thirds, consisting mostly of rugged mountains running in five ranges from the northern to the southern tip of the island, and the flat to gently rolling Chianan Plains in the west that are also home to most of Taiwan's population.

Morocco later virtually annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara in 1976, and the rest of the territory in 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal.

Following to the Madrid Accords, the territory was partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in November 1975, with Morocco acquiring the northern two-thirds.

The Sacramento River is often said to receive " two-thirds to three-quarters of northern California's precipitation though it has only one-third to one-quarter of the land.

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.

Free Countian is the name of both the dialect of Langue d ' Oïl spoken by people in the northern part of the region and the dialect of Arpitan spoken in its southern part since as early as the 13th century ( the southern two-thirds of Jura and the southern third of Doubs ).

The northern two-thirds of its range, from the American River in Placer County southward to the Kings River, has only eight disjunct groves.

Most rain falls during the short rainy season ( hivernage ), from July to September, and average annual precipitation varies from in the far south to less than in the northern two-thirds of the country.

The northern two-thirds of Chile lie on top of the telluric Nazca Plate, which, moving eastward about ten centimeters a year, is forcing its way under the continental plate of South America.

This movement has resulted in the formation of the Peru-Chile Trench, which lies beyond a narrow band of coastal waters off the northern two-thirds of the country.

The Early Miocene (~ 23. 03 — 15. 7 Ma ) sedimentation in Leon County is Hawthorn Group, Torreya Formation and St. Marks Formation and found in the northern two-thirds of the county.

As early as the 13th century, inhabitants of the northern two-thirds of Doubs spoke the Franc-Comtois language, a dialect of Langue d ' Oïl.

The northern two-thirds of the municipality consists of the mountainous interior, with the southern third divided between hills, coastal plains, and the coastal flat.

The Raystown Branch of the Juniata River is the main drainage in the northern two-thirds of the county.

In Vietnam, the use of dill in cooking is regional, specifically northern Vietnamese cuisine.

The treaty ending the war, put France in a protectorate over northern and central Vietnam, which it divided into Tonkin and Annam.

The Chinese Yunnan provincial army, under the KMT, occupied northern Vietnam after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the VNQDD tagging alone, opposing Ho Chi Minh's communist party.

In 1930 Ho Chi Minh founded the Communist Party of Vietnam by unifying three smaller communist movements that had emerged in northern, central and southern Vietnam during the late 1920s.

This wooden statue of Quan Âm Nghìn Mắt Nghìn Tay ( Quan Am with 1000 eyes and 1000 hands ) was fashioned in 1656 in Bắc Ninh Province, northern Vietnam.

The archipelago is approximately equidistant from the coastlines of Vietnam and China, 180 nautical miles southeast of Hainan Island, and about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines.

Vietnam in the northern regions have a humid subtropical climate, with humidity averaging 84 % throughout the year.

Originating in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese people pushed southward over two millennium to occupy the entire eastern seacoast of the Indochinese Peninsula.

Both nations are working to establish an " economic corridor " from China's Yunnan province to Vietnam's northern provinces and cities, and similar economic zones in the Gulf of Tonkin and connecting the Nanning of Guangxi province, Lang Son province, Hanoi, Haiphong and Quang Ninh province of Vietnam.

In northern Vietnam, colder climate limits the production and availability of spices.

Many notable dishes of northern Vietnam are crab-centered ( e. g., bún riêu ).

Being the cradle of Vietnamese civilization, northern Vietnam produces many signature dishes of Vietnam, such as phở, bún riêu, and bánh cuốn, which were carried to central and southern Vietnam through the road of Vietnamese migration.

* February 17 – The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.

* 221 BC: With the conquest of the State of Qi, Qin Shihuang unifies the whole of China into one empire that also included northern Vietnam, forming the Qin Dynasty.

* The Mongols take Dai Viet ( northern Vietnam ).

Both Emperors Wen and Yang sent military expeditions into Vietnam as Annam in northern Vietnam had been incorporated into the Chinese empire over 600 years earlier during the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 CE ).

The naval conquest of Nanyue in 111 BCE expanded the Han realm into what are now modern Guangdong, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam.

France obtained control over northern Vietnam following its victory over China in the Sino-French war ( 1884 – 1885 ).

French troops landed in Vietnam in 1858 and by the mid-1880s they had established a firm grip over the northern region.

The VNQDD had previously attempted to engage in clandestine activities to undermine French rule, but increasing French scrutiny of their activities led to their leadership group taking the risk of staging a large scale military attack in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam.