The southern and western parts of the country have a Mediterranean climate while inland areas and areas with high elevation experience short, cool summers and long, severe winters.

These provinces and many areas of Navarre are heavily populated by ethnic Basques, but the Euskara language had, at least until the 1990s, all but disappeared from most of Álava, western parts of Biscay and central and southern areas of Navarre.

The southern areas became part of German offices for the United Nations in 2008.

Notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh ( which is the capital city ), the rural Battambang area, the areas of Northeast Thailand adjacent to Cambodia such as Surin province, the Cardamom Mountains, and in southern Vietnam.

Rice is a major staple food for people from rice farming areas in southern China.

Along the northern and southern stretches of the lake are the residential areas of the city.

In southern California, coyotes frequently kill gray foxes, and these smaller canids tend to avoid areas with high coyote densities.

Other areas sometimes included are Afghanistan, Mongolia, eastern Iran and northern and western Pakistan, and sometimes Xinjiang and Tibet in western China, Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, and southern Siberia in eastern Russia.

These areas include Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Turkic regions of southern Siberia, the five republics, and Afghan Turkestan.

He transplanted his most powerful Pashtun enemies, the Ghilzai, and other tribes from southern and south-central Afghanistan to areas north of the Hindu Kush with predominantly non-Pashtun populations.

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

In 17th and 18th century, king Louis XIV of France captured more French-speaking areas in southern Flanders around Lille, referred to as Lilloise Flanders or la Flandre Lilloise, but also Maritime Flanders, where originally Dutch was spoken, and to this day, a Flemish dialect persists in some rural areas near Dunkirk.

Ghana's transportation and communications networks are centered in the southern regions, especially the areas in which gold, cocoa, and timber are produced.

Most Guineans, 99 %, are blacks — mostly Fula and Mandinka-speakers concentrated in the north and northeast, the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern coastal regions, and the Manjaco and Mancanha, occupying the central and northern coastal areas.

The purpose of these shafts is not clear: they appear to be aligned on stars or areas of the northern and southern skies, but on the other hand one of them follows a dog-leg course through the masonry so there was not intention to directly sight stars through them.

It refers to the upland and mountainous areas of central and southern Germany, it also includes Luxembourg, Austria, Liechtenstein and most of Switzerland.

* the Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves – five protected areas in southern Port Phillip, located at Swan Bay, Point Lonsdale, Mud Islands, Point Nepean and Pope ’ s Eye ( The Annulus ).

In the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age a number of possible population movements occurred, with the Bryges being settled in areas of southern Albania-northwestern Greece and Illyrian tribes moved into central Albania.

Hillbilly is a term referring to certain people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas of the United States, primarily southern Appalachia but also the Ozarks.

The Elector of Saxony was vicar in areas operating under Saxon law ( Saxony, Westphalia, Hanover, and northern Germany ), while the Elector Palatine was vicar in the remainder of the Empire ( Franconia, Swabia, the Rhine, and southern Germany ).

Repelling their regular attacks, especially on Kiev, which was just one day's ride from the steppe, was a heavy burden for the southern areas of Rus '.

They lived in areas of today's southern Poland, western Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary.

One of the most delightful spots in a southern tour is the city of New Orleans.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

A new gas pipeline to Iran has been completed, and a road to Iran through the southern city of Meghri allows trade with that country.

AZ play their home games at the AFAS Stadion, located in the southern part of the city of Alkmaar.

The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.

The upper gate tower stands beside the southern gate in the city wall, along the road to Lucerne and Bern.

Iran announced in 2012 the construction of the largest air defense site in the southern Iranian city of Abadeh.

The main Hadrianic cardo terminated not far beyond its junction with the decumanus, where it reached the Roman garrison's encampment, but in the Byzantine era it was extended over the former camp to reach the southern walls of the city.

conversion of the cleared land in the southern part of the city into the Southwest Corridor linear park and a new right of way for the Orange Line subway and Amtrak.

This city, modern el-Meshed, located only several miles from Nazareth in what would have been known as Israel in the post-exilic period ( as distinct from the southern kingdom, known as Judah ) and Galilee around the time of Christ.

The 1868 Hayward earthquake did occur on the southern segment of the Hayward Fault in the vicinity of today's city of Hayward ( hence, how the fault got its name ).

There is a particularly strong tradition of them in southern New Zealand's main city Dunedin, of which Burns ' nephew Thomas Burns was a founding father.

The southern line runs as far as Puerto Montt and is electrified as far as the city of Temuco, from where diesel locomotives are used.

The city of Ithaca, New York, site of Ithaca College and Cornell University, is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake.

Copacabana ( or, rarely and in other Brazilian dialects ) is a bairro ( neighbourhood ) located in the Zona Sul ( southern zone ) of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

Hoxha was born in Gjirokastër, a city in southern Albania ( then under the Ottoman Empire ) that has been home to many prominent families.

The German naval squadron Meurer blocked the city harbour, bombarded the southern town area, and landed naval troops at Katajanokka.

By the late evening of 12 April most of the major southern parts and all the western area of the city had been occupied by the Germans, who cleared the city house by house, street by street.

* The renovated and expanded ( phase 1 out of two phases of renovation ) La Aurora International Airport lies in the southern part of the city and is the main gateway to the country.

The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay ( of the Baltic Sea ), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity ( Trójmiasto ), with a population near 740, 000.