The driest part of the region is the semiarid center of the plateau which receives an average yearly precipitation of.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

A desert is a landscape form or region that receives very little precipitation.

The mountainous region of northern Iraq receives appreciably more precipitation than the central or southern desert region.

Most of the East Bank receives less than of rain a year and may be classified as a dry desert or steppe region.

The central government allocates funds to all regions of the country, but the capital region receives the bulk of these funds.

Because it is easier to travel and because of the many beaches and food facilities throughout this region, the south receives the bulk of the tourist traffic.

The level of international aid to Burma ranks amongst the lowest in the world ( and the lowest in the Southeast Asian region )-- Burma receives the $ 4 per capita in development assistance, as compared to the average of $ 42. 30 per capita.

Bonny town found in the coastal region of the Niger delta area in southern Nigeria receives well over of rainfall annually.

With the exception of Dhofar region, which has a strong monsoon climate and receives warm winds from the Indian Ocean, the climate of Oman is extremely hot and dry most of the year.

Dhofar, benefiting from a southwest monsoon between June and September, receives heavier rainfall and has constantly running streams, which make the region Oman's most fertile area.

In Tajikistan's cotton-growing regions, farms were established in large, semiarid tracts and in tracts reclaimed from the desert, but cotton's growing season is summer, when the region receives virtually no rainfall.

With only minor exceptions, every area of the country receives adequate rainfall, but the duration of the rainy season and the amount of rain vary substantially from region to region and with altitude.

The Black Sea coast receives the greatest amount of precipitation and is the only region of Turkey that receives high precipitation throughout the year.

This occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation.

Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation.

The region receives occasional snow most years but has received as much as 50 inches.

On average this region receives 158 lightning strikes per 1 square kilometer ( 0. 39 sq mi ) a year.

In South America, whilst in the continental cratons soils are almost as old as in Australia and Southern Africa, the presence of the geologically young and evolving Andes means that this region is on the western side of the subtropical anticyclones and thus receives warm and humid air from the Atlantic Ocean.

The region is almost uninhabited, has no permanent settlements, and receives little precipitation as the Himalayas and the Karakoram block the rains from the Indian monsoon.

It is a semiarid region whose central area receives an average of about of rain during each of the four winter months, with trace amounts the rest of the year.

Because of its location just south of the foothills of the Himalayas, where monsoon winds turn west and northwest, the region of Sylhet in northeastern Bangladesh receives the greatest average precipitation.

* A book about flora and / or fauna of an area or region ( see for example Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland )

This time the team used the expedition to raise awareness about the global environmental importance of the Antarctic region and to show that biofuel can be a viable and environmentally friendly option.

Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

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.

Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.

The region between the forest and the Danube on the other hand included about a dozen settlements, or " cantons ".

In any case the population of the region must belong to Ptolemy's Tarabeni or Titiani people, neither of which are ever heard about again.

Although the Umayyads did not have a historical presence in the region ( no member of the Umayyad family was known to have ever set foot in al-Andalus before ) and there were grave concerns about young Abd al-Rahman's inexperience, several of the lower-ranking Yemenite commanders felt they had little to lose and much to gain, and agreed to support the prince.

ARIN consists of the Internet community within its region, its members, a 7-member Board of Trustees, a 15-member Advisory Council, and a professional staff of about 50.

Saint Anthony decided to follow this tradition and headed out into the alkaline Nitrian Desert region ( which became the location of the noted monasteries of Nitria, Kellia and Scetis ), about west of Alexandria, on the edge of the Western Desert.

* Bluegrass & Backroads, a television show about people and places in the Bluegrass region

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.

Starting in about AD 200, the Chernyakhov culture became established in the W. Ukraine / Moldova region inhabited by the Bastarnae.

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.

Evidences, studies and oral tradition leave little doubt about its Brazilian roots, but it is impossible to precisely identify the exact Brazilian region or time it began to take form.

The first cereal grains were domesticated about 12, 000 years ago by ancient farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region.

The discovery image gave the first hint that comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 was an unusual comet, as it appeared to show multiple nuclei in an elongated region about 50 arcseconds long and 10 arcseconds wide.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage ( 1931 ) about the Belgian coal mining region.

Analysis of Sporormiella fungal spores ( which derive mainly from the dung of megaherbivores ) in the cores shows that the megafauna of that region virtually disappeared about 41, 000 years ago, at a time when climate changes were minimal ; the change was accompanied by an increase in charcoal, and was followed by a transition from rainforest to fire-tolerant sclerophyll vegetation.