It is the westernmost of the three major southern European peninsulas — the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas.

The lower elevations of Tajikistan are divided into northern and southern regions by a complex of three mountain chains that constitute the westernmost extension of the massive Tian Shan system.

The Middle Atlas is the westernmost of three Atlas Mountains chains that define a large, plateaued basin extending eastward into Algeria.

The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on Siouan dialect and subculture: Isáŋyathi or Isáŋathi (" Knife ," originating from the name of a lake in present-day Minnesota ), residing in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Iowa, and are often referred to as the Santee or Eastern Dakota ; Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna (" Village-at-the-end " and " little village-at-the-end "), residing in the Minnesota River area, they are considered to be the middle Sioux, and are often referred to as the Yankton and the Yanktonai, or, collectively, as the Wičhíyena ( endonym ) or the Western Dakota ( and have been erroneously classified as “ Nakota ”); Thítȟuŋwaŋ or Teton ( uncertain, perhaps " Dwellers on the Prairie "; this name is archaic among the natives, who prefer to call themselves Lakȟóta ), the westernmost Sioux, known for their hunting and warrior culture, are often referred to as the Lakota.

The three westernmost wards ( West I, West II, and West III ) of the city constitute the West End of Freetown.

The islands are surface projections of the three oceanic Bahama Banks-the Little Bahama Bank, the Great Bahama Bank, and the westernmost Cay Sal Bank.

Lincoln County, organized in 1780, was one of three counties formed out of the original Kentucky County, which then constituted the westernmost part of Virginia.

The west tower fell around 1550, demolishing the three westernmost bays of the nave.

In any case, in historic and late prehistoric times the three westernmost islands ( La Palma, La Gomera, and El Hierro ) and Gran Canaria held one large and one small species.

Gloucester Road is the westernmost interchange between these three lines, although the tube map promotes the easier interchange at South Kensington.

The old Moldavian ASSR was dismantled and the Moldavian SSR was organized on August 2, 1940 from six full counties and small parts of three other counties of Bessarabia, and the six westernmost rayons of the Moldavian ASSR ( about 40 % of its territory ).

is the westernmost of the three regions of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, the other two regions being Nakadōri in the central area of the prefecture and Hamadōri in the east.

In subsequent years, the United States Congress transferred the authority over time zones to the U. S. Department of Transportation ( DOT ), modified ( several times ) the beginning date of daylight time, and renamed the three westernmost time zones.

The Evergreen Point of the bridge's original name is the westernmost of the three small Eastside peninsulas that SR-520 crosses.

Its three mounted divisions were massed behind the three westernmost infantry divisions of XXI Corps.

At the same time it extended to Kiev's westernmost residential areas of Sviatoshyn and Bilychi in three stages 1963, 1971 and 2003.

* The westernmost route would be better, longer by three kilometres but a third of the cost with its three more conventional structures.

On April 26, 2007 Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag ( sub-district ) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag., affecting three gewogs ( Lhamoy Zingkha, Deorali and Nichula ( Zinchula ) and the town of Lhamoy Zingkha, which formed the westernmost part of Sarpang Dzongkhag and now form the southermost part of Dagana Dzongkhag.

On April 26th 2007 Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag ( sub-district ) was formally transferred from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag, affecting the town of Lhamozingkha and three gewogs – Lhamoizingkha, Deorali and Nichula Gewogs ( Zinchula ) – that formed the westernmost part of Sarpang and became the southernmost part of Dagana.

On the other hand, the three westernmost provinces ( British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan ) have pay equality legislation but no pay equity legislation.

The westernmost three miles are three lanes in each direction, with the remainder of the interstate having two lanes in each direction.

* The westernmost and easternmost points of the world, based on the normal practice of using longitude, can be found anywhere along the 180th meridian in Siberia ( including Wrangel Island ), Antarctica, or the three islands of Fiji through which the 180th meridian passes ( Vanua Levu's eastern peninsula, the middle of Taveuni, and the western part of Rabi.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

Wander past the three superb Columns of Apollo by the arches of the theatre.

The three arches are elliptic, and though very light and elegant, have resisted the fury of the river, which has swept away several other bridges at different times.

The five irregular bones of the midfoot, the cuboid, navicular, and three cuneiform bones, form the arches of the foot which serves as a shock absorber.

The bony fish have three pairs of arches, cartilaginous fish have five to seven pairs, while the primitive jawless fish have seven.

Inside the chapel an arcade of three Gothic arches separates the south aisle from the nave.

Instead of internal gills, they develop three feathery external gills that grow from the outer surface of the gill arches.

The outside of the Arab-Norman cathedral is plain, except the aisle walls and three eastern apses, which are decorated with intersecting pointed arches and other ornaments inlaid in marble.

The outsides of the principal doorways and their pointed arches are magnificently enriched with carving and colored inlay, a curious combination of three styles-Norman-French, Byzantine and Arab.

Windows of complex design and of three or more lights or vertical sections, are often designed by overlapping two or more equilateral arches.

While the arterial system develops mainly from the aortic arches, the venous system arises from three bilateral veins during weeks 4-8 of human development.

On the southern face are the Hulda Gates — the triple gate ( which has three arches ) and the double gate ( which has two arches, and is partly obscured by a Crusader building ); these were the entrance and exit ( respectively ) to the Temple Mount from Ophel ( the oldest part of Jerusalem ), and the main access to the Mount for ordinary Jews.

One of the earliest surviving houses in the town is The Lawn, in front of the Civic Centre with its public tennis courts, in brown brick with three double-hung sash windows set back in reveals with flat arches, roof with parapet and porch of fluted doric columns, pilasters, entablature and semi-circular traceried fanlight.

The arcade arches were fitted with iron grilles: three of them were gates which were closed at night, and which gave access to the library by a grand staircase.

Little survives of the Roman city, but three of the bridges across the Bacchiglione and Retrone rivers are of Roman origin, and isolated arches of a Roman aqueduct exist outside the Porta Santa Croce.

Three sets of three arches, those on the entrance front, three more between the vestibule and the salon, and the three leading from the salon to the garden are all aligned and permitted the arriving visitor to see through to the central axis of the garden even before entering the chateau.

There are three arches by artist Andy Goldsworthy around Cairnhead on Bail Hill, Benbrack and Colt Hill.

The principal arch of this screen is subdivided into three subsidiary arches the central arch framing a statue of Christ the Teacher standing on the top of a central arch of three further subsidiary arches below him.

The main interior is the central Saloon, a roofed courtyard of two storeys, of three by five bays of arches on each floor, the walls are lined with scagliola, the coved ceiling is glazed and the centre has three glazed saucer domes.