There are 22. 9 million hectares ( 56. 5 million acres ) of forest ( 37 percent of the total land area ), but only 3. 4 million hectares ( 8. 4 million acres ) of dense forest, all in the south in the regions bordering the DRC.

Nilo-Saharan-speaking Nilotic ethnic minorities also inhabit the southern regions of the country, particularly in areas bordering South Sudan.

These are spoken in the arid zone bordering, and considerably within, the Sahara desert of west and central Niger in the Tillaberi, Tahoua, Dosso, Maradi, Agadez and Zinder regions.

The North Saharan steppe and woodlands ecoregion lies to the north and west, bordering the Mediterranean climate regions of Africa's Mediterranean and North Atlantic coasts.

It has a long history due to its location at the confluence of two rivers and its proximity to the bordering regions from which arose various challenges to the borders of Brittany.

It borders eight provincial-level divisions in all three of the aforementioned regions ( Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu ), tying with Shaanxi for the greatest number of bordering provincial-level divisions.

The Regierungsbezirk Weser-Ems was the most westerly of the four administrative regions of Lower Saxony, Germany, bordering on the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel.

The tradition of gyil music ( known as a Balafon in neighbouring French-speaking countries ) is also shared throughout the northern and upper regions of Ghana bordering Burkina Faso.

Most species grow in the Mediterranean and bordering regions of Europe and Asia.

A branch of the warm Kuroshio Current warms the bay, allowing it to host marine organisms typical of more southerly regions and giving a mild climate to the land bordering the bay.

In regions bordering the Amazon Rainforest they are spreading with deforestation.

Prunus laurocerasus, also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry ( Prunus ), native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran.

The region of West Macedonia is situated in north-western Greece, bordering with the regions of Central Macedonia ( east ), Thessaly ( south ), Epirus ( west ), and bounded to the north at the international borders of Greece with the Republic of Macedonia ( Bitola region ) and Albania ( Korçë County ).

The Rakhine people and Muslim sympathizers Mujahid also initially planned to protect themselves from military and social persecution carried out by the Myanmar government through a rebellion in the regions bordering Bangladesh.

It included not only the present-day Indian and Pakistani Punjabi regions but also the North West Frontier districts bordering Afghanistan.

In south-western Russia, the sound becomes the velar fricative, and sometimes the glottal fricative in regions bordering Belarus and Ukraine.

) Grierson proposed to name this putative language " Lahnda ", and he dubbed as " Southern Lahnda " the coherent dialect cluster now known as Saraiki spoken in Multan Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur division and " North Lahnda " now known as Potwari spoken in Rawalpindi division and " Western Lahnda " now known as Hindko spoken in the regions bordering Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Madre de Dios is a region in southeastern Peru, bordering Brazil, Bolivia and the Peruvian regions of Puno, Cusco and Ucayali.

The relative lack of farms allowed for an abundance of game and husbandry, though dishes near the coastal regions of Friesland, Groningen and the parts of Overijssel bordering the IJsselmeer also include a large amount of fish.

Having secured the bordering regions of Macedon, Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and marched deep into Thrace for a long conquering campaign.

Since most terrorists seem to come from the Gap, he believes that the American military should focus on building partnerships with " seam states ," countries bordering the Gap, to stabilize those regions.

It was widely used in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the bordering areas in Croatia ( Dalmatian and Dubrovnik regions ).

Peakbagger. com also defines and names the mountain regions bordering the Wenatchee Mountains.

In December 1989, Azerbaijanis living in regions bordering Iran ripped down border fences, demanding closer ties with ethnic Azerbaijanis living in Iran.

The IBRA regions, with Gibson Desert in red

The IBRA regions, with Great Victoria Desert in red

The extreme south is the Gobi Desert, some regions of which receive no precipitation at all in most years.

Water concerns become particularly sensitive issues in arid regions, such as the western US and Israel's Negev Desert, where plans exist to expand oil-shale extraction despite a water shortage.

The Great Sandy Desert is a desert located in the North West of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions.

The IBRA regions, with Great Sandy Desert in red

** Chihuahuan Desert, a desert covering much of the state and adjacent regions

The region occupy the southern portion of Atacama Desert, the rest of the desert is mainly distributed among the other regions of Norte Grande

The interior regions ' climates are a northward extension of the Great Basin Desert, which spans the Great Basin farther south, although by their northern reaches dryland and desert areas verge with boreal forest and various alpine flora regimes.

They can range from hot to cold, depending on the prevailing temperatures in the source regions, the Great Basin and upper Mojave Desert.

The Santa Ana winds usually form during autumn and early spring when the surface air in the elevated regions of the Great Basin and Mojave Desert ( the " high desert ") becomes cool or even cold, although they may form at virtually any time of year.

The river also runs east to west through Mohave County, dividing it between two of Arizona's geographic regions, the Arizona Strip in the north and the Mojave Desert in the south.

Yuma County is in the west, and northwestern regions of the north-south Sonoran Desert that extends through Sonora state Mexico to the border of northern Sinaloa state.

North of the county, with La Paz County the regions merge into the southeastern Mojave Desert.

The regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia on the north ; Tibet ( now China ), British India ( now Pakistan ), Afghanistan, and Iran on the south ; the Gobi Desert on the east ; and the Caspian Sea on the west.

Other endorheic regions include the Great Basin in the United States, much of the Sahara Desert, the watershed of the Okavango River ( Kalahari Basin ), highlands near the African Great Lakes, the interiors of Australia and the Arabian Peninsula, and parts in Mexico and the Andes.

Old records show that it once occupied a large area of Central Australia including parts of Queensland, New South Wales as far as Victoria, the Northern Territory and South Australia but it now appears to be restricted to a small number of locations in the Strzelecki Desert and nearby regions in the South Australia – Queensland border area.

In his Desert Road to Turkestan he describes mostly camel caravans run by Han Chinese and Hui firms from eastern China ( Hohhot, Baotou ) or Xinjiang ( Qitai ( then called Gucheng ), Barkol ), plying the routes connecting those two regions through the Gobi Desert by way of Inner ( or, before Mongolia's independence, Outer ) Mongolia.

In his Desert Road to Turkestan he describes mostly camel caravans run by Han Chinese and Hui firms from eastern China ( Hohhot, Baotou ) or Xinjiang ( Qitai ( then called Gucheng ), Barkol ), plying the routes connecting those two regions through the Gobi Desert by way of Inner ( or, before Mongolia's independence, Outer ) Mongolia.

This " Saltpeter War " took place over five years in a variety of terrain, including the Atacama Desert and Peru's deserts and mountainous regions.

They even can be found in the Namib Desert, one of the driest regions of the earth.

In August 1996, Iraqi troops intervened in the Kurdish regions of Iraq, and the United States responded with Operation Desert Strike against targets in southern Iraq.

Almost every summer, sand and dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa drifts across the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean.