The Tombigbee and Alabama rivers unite near the southwest corner of the state, their waters discharging into Mobile Bay by the Mobile and Tensas rivers.

The province's most populous city is Vancouver, which is not on Vancouver Island but rather is located in the southwest corner of the mainland ( an area often called the Lower Mainland ).

A statue of Venus in a bikini was found in a cupboard in the southwest corner in Casa della Venere, others were found in the front hall.

At the southwest corner of Central Park, Broadway crosses Eighth Avenue at West 59th Street ; on the site of the former New York Coliseum convention center is the new shopping center at the foot of the Time Warner Center, headquarters of Time Warner.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

Gate sat in the southwest corner, Middle sat in the far northeast, South sat in the table to the west of Middle, while North sat to the west of the southeast corner.

For example, during the 2008 flooding, Credit Island in the city's southwest corner remained closed for 5½ months while crews worked on cleaning up damage and removing river debris.

During the period of Israeli control, Israel created a settlement bloc, Gush Katif, in the southwest corner of the Strip near Rafah and the Egyptian border.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

There is a boat landing area in the middle of the western shoreline near a crumbling day beacon, and another near the southwest corner of the island.

The team camped in the old chemical weapons storage bunkers on the southwest corner of the island.

The remaining subregion — the Ñeembucú Plain — is in the southwest corner of the Paraneña region.

These Aborigines occupied the southwest corner of Western Australia, living as hunter-gatherers.

The largest island, Jeju-do, lies off the southwest corner of the peninsula and has a land area of 1, 825 square kilometers.

The vast majority of Shanghai's land area is flat, apart from a few hills in the southwest corner, with an average elevation of.

Located in the west of the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre of the Haaglanden conurbation and lies at the southwest corner of the larger Randstad conurbation.

Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs | The Tetrarchs, a Porphyry ( geology ) | porphyry sculpture sacked from a Byzantine palace in 1204, now standing at the southwest corner of St Mark's Basilica, Venice

Following the coast south there is the Southwest Australia savanna and the Swan Coastal Plain around Perth, and then farther south the Warren on the southwest corner of the coast around the wine-growing area of Margaret River.

Zheng, born as Ma He ( 馬和 / 马和 ), was the second son of a Muslim family which also had four daughters, from Kunyang, present day Jinning, just south of Kunming near the southwest corner of Lake Dian in Yunnan.

An old belief is that the southwest corner of a basement provides the most protection during a tornado.

The stage was in the telegraph tower in the southwest corner of the castle.

The location of the Four Corners Monument was effectively set in 1861 as the southwest corner of the Colorado Territory by the 36th United States Congress.

The fair planners also sought two other properties near the southwest corner of the grounds.

Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around 30 km southwest of Regensburg, 40 km east of Ingolstadt, 50 northwest of Landshut and 100 km north of Munich.

Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.

Chiang was born in Xikou, a town approximately 30 kilometers southwest of downtown Ningbo, in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang.

However, his ancestral home, a concept important in Chinese society, was the town of Heqiao ( 和橋鎮 ) in Yixing, Wuxi, Jiangsu ( approximately southwest of downtown Wuxi, and from the shores of Lake Tai ).

The A379 road runs through Dartmouth, linking the town to Slapton and Kingsbridge to the southwest and to Torbay to the east across the Higher Ferry.

Keflavík ( pronounced, meaning Driftwood Bay ) is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland.

* A well-preserved ancient tomb in the town of Abusir, southwest of Alexandria, is thought to be a scaled-down model of the Alexandria Pharos.

Surrounding towns and communities are the community of Elz and the town of Hadamar in the north, the community of Beselich in the northeast, the town of Runkel in the east, the communities of Villmar and Brechen in the southeast, the community of Hünfelden in the south ( all in Limburg-Weilburg ), the community of Holzheim in the southwest, and the town of Diez and the communities of Aull and Gückingen in the west ( all in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate ).

Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles ( 69 km ) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.

The most expensive examples of Chardonnay from Chablis comes from the seven Grand Cru vineyards that account for around on the southwest side of one slope along the Serein river near the town of Chablis — Blanchots, Bougros, Les Clos, Grenouilles, Preuses, Valmur and Vaudésir.

In the Late Middle Age, chronicles mention a Tigheci " republic ", predating the establishment of the Principality of Moldavia, situated near the modern town of Cahul in the southwest of Bessarabia, preserving its autonomy even during the later Principality even into the 18th century.

An all-weather road was completed in 1962 between Thimphu and Phuntsholing, the overland gateway town on the southwest border with India.

To the north west of the town lies the high mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the high Kirkjubøreyn.

The Chiricahua range extended to the east as far as the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico and to the west as far as the San Pedro River Valley in Arizona, north of Magdalena just below present day Hwy I-40 corridor in New Mexico and with the town Ciudad Madera ( 276 km northwest of the state capital, Chihuahua, and 536 km southwest of Ciudad Juárez ( formerly known as Paso del Norte ) on the Mexico – United States border ), as their southernmost range.

The situation of the town as a major crossing point over the River Thames, its position on the main road from London to the southwest, and its proximity to Windsor has led to the town being involved in national affairs.

Francis was born at the Château de Cognac in the town of Cognac 400 km southwest of Paris, which at that time lay in the province of Saintonge, a part of the Duchy of Aquitaine.

Leaving the area the next day, Gist rode southwest to " Maguck ," another Delaware town near Circleville.

A British Commonwealth Air Training Plan air force base, RCAF Station Vulcan, was located a few kilometres southwest of the town during the Second World War.

* The Florence Village District is located just southwest of the town of Florence in central Pinal County.

Cossacks founded an ostrog in 1638, southwest of the modern town.

Several fine modern buildings rise on or close to the shore in the town and to its south, whilst to the southwest is a convent of Capuchin nuns, who manage a large girls ' school and several other educational establishments.

Duranbah is a small town located about southwest of the beach, but the name Duranbah Beach has become its accepted ( if not official ) identity.