In the west, Franconia proper comprises the Tauberfranken region along the Tauber River, which today is largely part of the Main-Tauber-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.

Due to its consistency of climate, flora and fauna, geology and land use, " Lower Mainland " is also the name of an ecoregion — a biogeoclimatic region — that comprises the eastern part of the Georgia Depression and extends from Powell River on the Sunshine Coast to Hope at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley.

The region comprises the Macau Peninsula and the islands of Taipa and Coloane.

The NADW comprises three different water masses, each of which is distinguished by a specific formation region ( LSW, see below ) or entry point ( DSOW, see below ) and has unique production and transformation history ( I Yashayaev ).

The region largely comprises a peninsula of Asia south of the Himalayas and constitutes a geoculturally distinct region within Asia.

The region of Epirus in Greece only comprises a fraction of classical Epirus and does not include its easternmost portions, which lie in Thessaly.

It comprises two parts: the cardinal shield, a flat region at the top of the shell ; and the conical shield, the bottom part, which is more conical.

The region comprises, and its population is about 4. 1 million.

West Timor is a political region that comprises the western half of Timor island with the exception of Oecussi-Ambeno district ( which is politically part of East Timor ) and forms a part of the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, ( NTT or East Nusa Tenggara ).

The region comprises four areas of local government: the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and the unitary authority area of the city of Peterborough.

The traditional region of Provence comprises the départements of Var, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and parts of Hautes-Alpes.

The history of Uganda comprises the history of the territory of present-day Uganda in East Africa and the peoples inhabiting the region.

Located northwest of South Carolina's geographic center, Columbia is the primary city of the Midlands region of South Carolina, which comprises several counties in the central portion of the state.

The eastern part of the province comprises the main part of the Campine region.

The chemical and petrochemical industry is widely represented in the port region and comprises the world's second largest cluster of petrochemical industry, next to Houston ( USA ).

The HSGIC to which the NEPAD secretariat reports comprises three states for each region of the African Union, with former President Obasanjo ( Nigeria ) as elected chair, and Presidents Bouteflika ( Algeria ) and Wade ( Senegal ) as deputy chairmen.

The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the mountain range to the valleys it follows the Colorado River south towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean.

The MetroWest region comprises much of the southern portion of the county.

The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia.

The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 140, 247, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 456, 564 residents.

The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 135, 833 which, along with the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area and Macon County, Alabama, comprises the greater Greater Columbus, Georgia, a region home to approximately 500, 000 residents.

It serves the Gothenburg region, which comprises approximately 900, 000 people, and also offers highly specialised medical care for the whole of Sweden.

To the South is the Iowa Lakes region, which comprises Spirit Lake, West Okoboji Lake, and several other small lakes.

It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.

Also included are the nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, the eight governorates of Upper Egypt along the Nile River south from Cairo to Aswan, and the five frontier governorates covering Sinai and the deserts that lie west and east of the Nile.

The Great Lakes region contains not only the five themselves but also many thousands of smaller lakes, often called " inland lakes.

Another method divides India into five physiographic regions: The Himalayas, northern plains ( the Indo-Gangetic plain ), peninsular region, coastal plains, and islands.

Between January and April 1990 each of the Communist Party leaders of the five states of Soviet Central Asia assumed the position of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in their respective SSRs, without any difficulty from the still weak opposition forces in the region.

Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia ( including the Gora region in Kosovo ).

Untranslated regions ( UTRs ) are sections of the mRNA before the start codon and after the stop codon that are not translated, termed the five prime untranslated region ( 5 ' UTR ) and three prime untranslated region ( 3 ' UTR ), respectively.

Ancient trees include two giant olive trees in Arraba and five trees in Deir Hanna, both in the Galilee region, which have been determined to be over 3, 000 years old, although the credibility of the study that produced these dates has been questioned.

Eastern region as a whole naturally divides into five physiographic subregions: the Paraná Plateau, the Northern Upland, the Central Hill Belt, the Central Lowland, and the Ñeembucú Plain.

It is composed of five provinces, namely: Batanes with Basco as the capital, Cagayan, Tuguegarao City as the capital, Isabela considered to be the heart of the region with Ilagan as the capital, Nueva Vizcaya with Bayombong as the capital, and Quirino with Cabaruguis as the capital.

In each region able-bodied men were called up for a limited period of active duty in territorial units, which comprised about half the Army's strength, each year, for five years.

In July 2007, the China state-owned oil company CNOOC signed an agreement with the Somali government to search for oil in the Mudug region of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland ; a competing oil company estimated the total reserves in Puntland could amount to five to ten billion barrels of oil.

" This ribbon of land between northern Ohio and southern Michigan spanned a region five to eight miles ( 8 to 13 km ) wide, of which both jurisdictions claimed sovereignty.

Ieyasu now gave up control of his five provinces ( Mikawa, Tōtōmi, Suruga, Shinano, and Kai ) and moved all his soldiers and vassals to the Kantō region.

Alternative proposals for English regional government have stalled, following a poorly received referendum on devolved government for the North East of England, which had hitherto been considered the region most in favour of the idea, with the exception of Cornwall, where there is widespread support for a Cornish Assembly, including all five Cornish MPs.

The Ulaidh were a group of tribes who dwelt in the region, while " fifth " refers to the five regions into which ancient Ireland was divided.

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.

A traveler who entered the accelerated mouth at this moment would exit the stationary mouth when its clock also read 2005, in the same region but now five years in the past.

** The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand is hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand ( Magnitude 8. 1 on the Richter Scale ); there are five deaths.

In 1352, the Ottoman Turks conducted their first incursion into the region subduing it completely within a matter of two decades and occupying it for five centuries.

Between 1711 and 1812, the Russian Empire occupied the region five times during its wars against Ottoman and Austrian Empires.

The region, with a population of over 5. 9 million inhabitants, is divided in five provinces: Naples, Benevento, Avellino, Caserta and Salerno.

Today Provençal is taught in schools and universities in the region, but is spoken regularly by a small number of people, probably less than five hundred thousand, mostly elderly.