Alabama () is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years, although often substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of Pueblo buildings.

American Samoa, located within the geographical region of Oceania, is one of only two possessions of the United States in the Southern Hemisphere, the other being Jarvis Island.

Regional dialects in the United States typically reflect some elements of the language of the main immigrant groups in any particular region of the country, especially in terms of pronunciation and vernacular vocabulary.

The United States ' regional cuisines are characterized by its extreme diversity and style with each region having its own distinctive cuisine.

New England is a Northeastern region of the United States, including the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

* Bluegrass region, a region of the United States centered in Kentucky

It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

In addition to the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes region and the Southeastern United States have had many reports of Bigfoot sightings.

The brown bear's principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States ( mostly in Alaska ), Canada, the Carpathian region ( especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on ), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal.

In other places, such as Alaska, borough designates a whole region ; Alaska's largest borough, the North Slope Borough, is comparable in area to the entire United Kingdom.

Both the terms coast and coastal are often used to describe a geographic location or region ; for example, New Zealand's West Coast, or the East and West Coasts of the United States.

According to the Aztec legend, Aztlán is a region ; Chicano nationalists have equated it with the Southwestern United States.

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transformed the Rio Grande region from a rich cultural center to a rigid border poorly enforced by the United States government.

Until at least September 2005, the United States funded efforts to help protect a major pipeline, the 769-kilometer-long Caño Limón – Puerto Coveñas pipeline, which carries about 20 percent of Colombia's oil production to Puerto Coveñas from the guerrilla-infested Arauca region in the eastern Andean foothills and Amazonian jungle.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Connecticut () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

With a population of 110, 438 as of the 2011 according to the United States Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 175, 831 residents.

It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.

The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the state of Colorado in the United States.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

Delaware ( ) is a U. S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom the Northern Soul explosion, which started in late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco which the region's Disk Jockeys were bringing back from New York.

In addition as a member of the Association of Caribbean States ( ACS ), Cuba was re-appointed as the chair-of the special committee on transportation issues for the Caribbean region.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

In all cases, most of the activity lay in the region of high anionic binding capacity.

Frequently a few isolated thick-walled cells or, rarely, groups of such cells in the xylem region, were also specifically stained, but there was no such staining in epidermis, cortex, most xylem cells, ray cells, or pith.

In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.

The Andes is rich in fauna: With almost 3, 500 species, of which roughly 2 / 3 are endemic to the region, the Andes is the most important region in the world for amphibians.

MtDNA Haplogroup G has been found most frequently among indigenous populations of easternmost Siberia, but it is also common among some populations of East Asia, Central Asia, the Altai-Sayan region of southern Siberia, and the sub-Himalayan region.

While these positions were well suited for most of his local constituency, this was not the case when he stepped outside that region politically.

The Calgary-Edmonton Corridor is the most urbanized region in the province and one of the densest in Canada.

Edmonton, and more so its surrounding region ( Nisku, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan ), is the site of most oil-and-gas related industry including refining and manufacturing.

Its apparent magnitude is 10. 6, and it is unique because it is younger than most other globular clusters in the same region as determined by its metallicity.

During this period the region along with most of Eastern Australia was part of the ocean floor ; formations from this period include the Black Mountain Sandstone formation and the Pittman Formation consisting largely of quartz-rich sandstone, siltstone and shale.

This region is regarded as perhaps the one most influenced by native Indians, and its foods are closely linked to the Andean-Incan tradition.

This region is the most suitable to taste empanadas, particularly those stuffed with meat and offering different types of tempting varieties such as the meat empanada, salteña also filled with potatoes, or the empanada tucumana, which is stuffed with matambre and cut with a knife, or empanadas made with cheese.

However, in the 17th and 18th centuries Bern encouraged industrial development in Unteraargau and by the late 18th century it was the most industrialized region in the city-state.

However, the region is visited by more than 40, 000 tourists annually, the most popular destinations being the Antarctic Peninsula area ( especially the South Shetland Islands ) and South Georgia Island.

On August 20, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt established the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve, which formed the heart of the Tongass National Forest that covers most of the region.

Its position as the Asia-Pacific gateway resulted in the settlement of the province by people of Asian descent, making it one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Western North America, as well as helping start trade, cultural and diplomatic relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

* most of the north and central region of the country is part of the Okavango inland drainage basin ;

Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

The most recent large excavation was undertaken between 1990-95 in a region of " black earth ", believed to be the site of the main settlement.

The Bacillus-specific study with the most diversity covered is by Xu and Cote ' using 16S and the ITS region, where they divide the genus into 10 groups, which includes the nested genera Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Geobacillus, Marinibacillus and Virgibacillus.

During the post-Roman centuries of Germanic migration and settlement, the region afterwards included in the Diocese of Bamberg was inhabited for the most part by Slavs.

illegal logging activities throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand have resulted in habitat loss and declining biodiversity ( in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries ); soil erosion ; in rural areas, most of the population does not have access to potable water ; declining fish stocks because of illegal fishing and overfishing

With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).