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 Vietnam was the protectorate of Annam, which had a Vietnamese emperor as well as parallel French and Vietnamese systems of administration.

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.

Although his father, Afzal Khan, who had none of these qualities, came to terms with the Amir Sher Ali, the son's behavior in the northern province soon excited the Amir's suspicion, and Abdur Rahman, when he was summoned to Kabul, fled across the Oxus into Bukhara.

When Afzal Khan died at the end of the year, Azam Khan became the new ruler, with Abdur Rahman as his governor in the northern province.

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.

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.

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.

* Be language or Ong Be, a language of northern Hainan province, China

The Bay of Quinte () is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter " Z " on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada.

With the arrival of northern Gothic people, particularly the Scirii in the then Roman province of Pannonia by 493 a soundshift changed Boi to Bai ( Bajuwari ).

Cottius, king of the Alpine Salassi tribe and friend of Augustus, after whom were named the Alpes Cottiae Roman province and the Cotini Celtic tribe of the northern Carpathians.

Only the Peucini, therefore, were situated on the extreme northern border of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior, which ran along the southernmost branch of the Danube delta.

Rabbani, son of Muhammed Yousuf, was born in the northern province of Badakhshan in 1940.

Roman soldier 175 a. C. from a northern province, ( re-enactment ).

The Ottoman state maintained control over much of the northern coastal areas for nearly three hundred years, leaving their possessions ( the province of Habesh ), to their Egyptian heirs in 1865 before being given to the Italians in 1885.

Elbing is the German name of Elbląg, a city in northern Poland which until 1945 was a German city in the province of East Prussia.

A minority of scholars have argued that the " Galatia " is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor, but most agree that it is a geographical reference to the Roman province in central Asia Minor, which had been settled by immigrant Celts in the 270s BC and retained Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.

The position of emperor is a territory-independent phenomenon — the emperor is the emperor, even if he has followers only in one province ( as was the case sometimes with the southern and northern courts ).

Fierce fighting took place primarily in the East of Austria, especially in the streets of some outer Vienna districts, where large fortress-like municipal workers ' buildings were situated, and in the northern, industrial areas of the province of Styria, where Nazi agents had great interest in a bloodbath between security forces and workers ' militias.

* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.

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.

By 64 BC, Julius Caesar's legions had established their occupation, and the Romans had thus unified all three regions of Libya ( Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and northern Fezzan ) in one single new province called Africa proconsularis ( later Cyrenaica was separated administratively ).

The Shahi or Shahiya dynasties ruled portions of the Kabul Valley ( in eastern Afghanistan ) and the old province of Gandhara ( northern Pakistan and Kashmir ) from the decline of the Kushan Empire up to the early 9th century.

Jerusalem, while probably not totally abandoned, was much smaller than previously, and the town of Mizpah in Benjamin in the relatively unscathed northern section of the kingdom became the capital of the new Babylonian province of Yehud Medinata.