It can be divided in two sections: the northwestern part is the Yaque del Norte Valley ( or Línea Noroeste ) and the eastern Yuna Valley ( or Vega Real, English: Royal Valley ).

In addition, languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan language family ( Kunama and Nara ) are spoken as a mother tongue by the Kunama and Nara Nilotic ethnic minorities that live in the north and northwestern part of the country.

Between 57. 3 and 59. 5 latitude and 21. 5 and 28. 1 longitude, Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea on the level northwestern part of the rising east European platform.

Another example is the strongly oblique convergent plate boundary between the Arabian and Eurasian plates where it runs through the northwestern part of the Zagros mountains.

The army of Temmu and the army of the young Emperor Kōbun fought in the northwestern part of Mino ( nowadays Sekigahara, Gifu ).

Even in official context the area around Enontekiö in northwestern part of the country between Sweden and Norway can be refererred to as the " Arm " ( käsivarsi ).

It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium ( the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ), with extensive portions in what is now northern France ( French Flanders ), and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands ( Zeelandic Flanders ).

The northwestern territory was part of the gateway and buffer zone ( with Estonia ) to and from the imperial Russian capital Petrograd ( Saint Petersburg ), via the Gulf of Finland towards the Kronstadt naval base and the Karelian Isthmus.

Lowlands exist in the northwestern part of the New Territories.

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.

During the latter part of the Roman period British agricultural products, paid for by both the Roman state and by private consumers, clearly played an important role in supporting the military garrisons and urban centres of the northwestern continental Empire.

The island has five major mountain ranges: The Central Range, known in the Dominican Republic as the Cordillera Central, spans the central part of the island, extending from the south coast of the Dominican Republic into northwestern Haiti, where it is known as the Massif du Nord.

The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India, was the first major civilization in South Asia.

He persuaded Virginia to give up its claims to northwestern territories — consisting of most of modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota — to the Continental Congress.

The village of Kourounia lies north of Volissos in the northwestern part of the island.

The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia ( the Westphalian part ), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt ( the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as the northeast of The Netherlands ( i. e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.

Latvia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea on the level northwestern part of the rising East European platform, between Estonia and Lithuania.

The Caledon River marks the northwestern part of the border with South Africa.

In the 1st century AD they formed part of the Suebi, in northwestern Germany.

As part of his training with leading Indo-Europeanists in Germany in 1913-1914 Bloomfield studied the Sanskrit grammatical tradition originating with Pāṇini, who lived in northwestern India during the sixth century B. C.

The higher and contiguous hill lands of the north and northwestern part of the state have an area of more than.

Conversely, the Šar Mountains, which are located in the northwestern part, block cold northern winds.

The Neva (, ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast ( historical region of Ingria ) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland.

On the far northwestern corner is James Observatory, the oldest building on campus.

Glendale Community College and Glendale Community College North, just across the border in northwestern Phoenix, are members of the Maricopa County Community College District, while Arizona State University has its West campus just across the border from Glendale in west Phoenix.

The LSU Campus Mounds, which are part of a larger mound group spread throughout the state, are located near the northwestern corner of the campus and were built an estimated 5, 000 years ago.

The university has on campus apartments located at the northwestern edge of the campus.

The Knoll area, the oldest part of the University's current location, is located in the northwestern part of the campus.

The northwestern area of the main campus includes the Fogelman College of Business and Economics, the Fogelman Executive Center ( a major conference center for regional executives visiting the University ), and the FedEx Institute of Technology, a major research contributor in the areas of Supply Chain Management, nanotechnology, robotics and intelligent systems.

Newer athletic facilities cover the farthest northwestern reaches of campus, including a soccer stadium and baseball / softball fields.

Second Avenue on the northwestern side of the campus.

Its campus spans 20-acre in Downtown Houston, with a satellite location in northwestern Harris County.

It is located in Evin District and extends into Velenjak District in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on a main campus of approximately one million square meters.

Brown College further expanded in October 2001 when it opened its Brooklyn Center, a second campus in a suburb of the northwestern Twin Cities.

This includes the agricultural research area to the west of campus, the TAMUK Rodeo Arena and livestock area to the north of campus, and the Tio and Janell Kleberg Wildlife Research Park adjacent to the northwestern entrance of the main campus on Corral Avenue.

It is situated at about 100 m elevation in the northwestern foothills of the Panachaiko, 2 km southeast of Rio town centre, and adjacent to the campus of the University of Patras.

The conception of the South Bay as a region is relatively new compared to that of the Peninsula and coastal East Bay, and the cities of northwestern Santa Clara County ( Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View, and sometimes as far as Cupertino and Sunnyvale ) maintain an identity more strongly connected to the Peninsula and the Stanford campus than the City of San Jose.

Busitema University, one of Uganda's public universities, maintains a campus at Nagongera, in the northwestern part of the district.

A line over Aker Brygge was added in 1995, and in 1999 an extension of the northwestern Ullevål line was extended past the University of Oslo campus, to the new Rikshospitalet national hospital.

Wayne State University's campus covers in the northwestern section of Midtown.

In, the club began playing all home games at the newly constructed University of Phoenix Stadium in the northwestern suburb of Glendale.

The St. Francis / Sokoki Abenaki Band, who make their home along the Masipskiwibi ( Missisquoi, " Crooked River ") River in northwestern Vermont call the lake Bitawbagok, the same meaning as Petonbowk.

Ní Mháille attacked other ships at least as far away as Waterford on the south central coast of Ireland, as well as closer to her home port in northwestern Ireland.

Twin Falls is home to the College of Southern Idaho ( CSI ), a large community college in the northwestern part of the city.

Albion is " the most northwestern burough in Pennsylvania " and is home to " the most northwestern high school in Pennsylvania ", which is fitting due to the fact that their high school is called Northwestern.

The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and is home to three universities: Lubbock Christian University, Texas Tech University, and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Sora brood-rearing home ranges in northwestern Iowa averaged 0. 5 acre ( 0. 19 ha ).

The northwestern corner is home to industrial establishments, mainly food related ( Gerber, Nestlé, Pilgrim's Pride ).

In mixed-evergreen forests of northwestern California, Northern Spotted Owls preferentially selected ( P ≤ 0. 005 ) foraging and roosting sites in mature or old-growth stands within home ranges.

Northern Spotted Owl home range size in Douglas-fir and mixed-conifer study areas in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California was inversely correlated with proportion of woodrats ( Neotoma spp.

In mixed-evergreen forests of northwestern California, female Northern Spotted Owl summer home ranges averaged 1, 329 acres ( 538 ha ), which was larger than the average male home range of 835 acres ( 338 ha ).

As of June 1, 1997, Essex and Passaic counties, home to Newark and Paterson respectively ( the state's first and third-most populous cities ), as well as the more rural northwestern counties of New Jersey, Morris and Sussex, were broken away from area code 201 as area code 973.

The Coeur d ' Alene Reservation, located in northwestern Idaho, USA, is home to the Coeur d ' Alene peoples.

* Campen, Germany, a village by the Ems estuary, northwestern Germany, home of the Campen Lighthouse

The culture was able to find a new home and continue to flourish in the northwestern part of Utah.

It is the northwestern palace, and was the home of Crown Prince Frederik until 2011.

St. John's Lutheran church in Walhalla, South Carolina, in the extreme northwestern corner of the state, offered the College a new home and the offer was accepted.

Still, some herders drive cattle using transhumance methods in the northwestern half of the province, and the Kounden area is home to some modern ranching.

Hill died and was buried at his home, Hill ’ s Ferry, in northwestern Martin County.

In northwestern Montana, home range boundaries appeared to coincide with the edge of large open meadows and burned areas ; the authors suggested that open areas represent a " psychological rather than physical barriers ".

Vases were a popular souvenir for young northwestern Europeans to bring home from the Grand Tour.

It is located in the northwestern part of the atoll, and is home to the atoll's administration buildings, its post office and several churches.