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uplands and region
The highest elevation is 297. 84 meters above sea level, found in the eastern part of the republic and separated from the uplands of the western region of Samogitia by the fertile plains of the southwestern and central regions.
The fertile floodplain and tropical monsoon climate, ideally suited to wet-rice ( tham na ) cultivation, attracted settlers to this central area over to the marginal uplands and the highlands of the northern region or the Khorat Plateau to the northeast.
; Morthond Vale: The uplands of the river Morthond or Blackroot, rendered to Sindarin as Imlad Morthond in some of Tolkien's texts and described in The Lord of the Rings as a prosperous and densely populated region, except in the vicinity of the Hill of Erech.
Mangroves in the Delta region required only one spraying and did not survive once defoliated, whereas dense forests in the uplands required two or more spray runs.
The Weser Uplands ( German: Weserbergland ) () is a hill region ( Bergland = uplands, hills or hill region ) in Germany ( Lower Saxony, Hesse, and North Rhine-Westphalia, between Hannoversch Münden and Porta Westfalica near the river Weser.
In the central part of the region lie Roztocze, Opillia, and part of the Podolia uplands.
The region, which was merely dominated by shifting cultivation and subsistence agriculture for a long time, now opens more and more for using the uplands for multifunctional and commercial purposes.
This physiographic region of Saskatchewan and Alberta is classified as the uplands Missouri Coteau which is a part of the Great Plains Province or Alberta Plateau Region which extends across the south east corner of the province of Saskatchewan as well as the south west corner of the province of Alberta.
It lies in the region of uplands to the west of Mare Undarum and northeast of the Sinus Successus on the Mare Fecunditatis.
The northern region uplands are dominated by pine, originally Longleaf and Slash in the south and Shortleaf mixed with hardwoods in the north.
To date volumes 64 — 74 have appeared under the aegis of PAU publications ; these have comprised collections of papers dealing with neotectonics, Palaeolithic settle ­ ment on the loess uplands of the Cracow region, palaeomalacology, and dendrochronology.
The region covers 356, 717 km², consisting of a broad coastal plain 20-120 kilometres wide, transitioning to gently undulating uplands made up of weathered granite, gneiss and laterite.
The lake is the northwest extension of the region known as the Dzhungarian Gate ( Alataw Pass ), a narrow valley connects the southern uplands of Kazakhstan with arid northwest China.
This region is watered by numerous streams and contains some uplands.
The district can be divided into three broad natural divisions, namely, ( I ) the north and north western portions consisting of the hilly region, ( ii ) the uplands containing coal mines and most of the industries and ( iii ) the remaining uplands and plains lying to the south of the Damodar river consisting of cultivable flat lands.
This plain region comprises the uplands, undulation along ridges and depressions.
The rest of the regionthe Rhinns, Farines, Carrick, Desnes Mór and Desnes Ioan, and the sparsely settled uplands of Glenken — was probably under the control of the sons of Fergus, King of Galloway, in the years before Donnchadh's career in the region.

uplands and between
Situated between 56. 27 and 53. 53 latitude and 20. 56 and 26. 50 longitude, Lithuania is glacially flat, except for morainic hills in the western uplands and eastern highlands no higher than 300 metres.
Annual precipitation in the valleys averages between 12 and, while the uplands or highlands of the county average between 16 and.
The escarpment between South Quarter uplands and the valley is forested — too steep to farm — and dissected by streams that have eroded ravines back into the uplands.
The primary habitat of wild yaks consists of treeless uplands between, dominated by mountains and plateaus.
In the Great Lakes States it is most abundant in peat bogs and swamps, also on transitional sites between peatlands and uplands.
North of this is a dry, sub-desert area between the uplands and the Mediterranean on its northern edge.
Ryazan Oblastis located in the central part of the Russian Plain between the Central Russian and Volga uplands.
The Pinson Mounds are located amidst three distinctive biotic zones: the oak forests atop the plateau, the cypress forests in the wet bottomlands, and the beech forests on the slopes between the uplands and the bottomlands.
The 1, 000 foot ( 300 meter ) elevation difference between uplands and the Connecticut River Valley produced streams and rivers with gradients around 40 '/ mile ( 8 meters / km.
The reason for this asymmetry is that Alba straddles the dichotomy boundary between the cratered uplands in the south and the lowlands to the north.
It has been identified as the Wadi al-Yabis located between Israel and Jordan, which feeds in the Yarmouk River, flowing west to east, through the forested uplands across deserts of Jordan.
This zone is the fringe between riparian and desert uplands, often sharing vegetation like rabbitbrush, Indian ricegrass, arrowweed, and sand dropseed.
It lies on the northern edge of the Mittelgebirge ( central uplands ), on the Hellweg, a route between Rhine and Elbe which had been used for centuries.

uplands and north
The surface of the state may properly be divided into two parts, the uplands of the north, and the alluvial along the coast.
To the north, Laconia is separated from Arcadia by hilly uplands reaching 1000 m in altitude.
The Etruscans were the chief enemies of the Umbri, and the Etruscan invasion went from the western seaboard towards the north and east ( lasting from about 700 to 500 BC ), eventually driving the Umbrians towards the Apenninic uplands and capturing 300 Umbrian towns.
The term Patayan is used by archaeologists to describe the prehistoric Native American cultures that inhabited parts of modern day Arizona, California and Baja California, including areas near the Colorado River Valley, the nearby uplands, and north to the vicinity of the Grand Canyon.
These areas included territory near the Colorado River Valley, the nearby uplands, and north to the vicinity of the Grand Canyon.
In the north of the county the uplands of the Castlecomer district, the Castlecomer Plateau includes the Culla Hills to the west of the Nore Valley with Castlecomer Hills and Slieve Marcy to the east.
The unsettled areas north and west of Newark were at first referred to as the uplands.
Evidence of prehistoric activity in the area comes from Ashton Moss – a peat bog – and is the only one of Tameside's 22 Mesolithic sites not located in the hilly uplands in the north east of the borough.
In the southern portion of its range it is found primarily on wet organic soils, but farther north its abundance on uplands increases.
To the north are drumlinized uplands, referred to as the Peterborough drumlin field.
Banteay Meanchey is mostly covered by extensive lowlands, with a few uplands to the north and east.
It is largely desert but broken by mountains, uplands, and dry river valleys ( wadis ) in the north, where oases enable ancient towns and villages to survive deep in the otherwise inhospitable Sahara.
The southern regions are mountainous, while moving north the terrain descends from the high Alps, Pyrenees and Carpathians, through hilly uplands, into broad, low northern plains, which are vast in the east.
It clearly ignores the morainic ridges further north and closer to the sea, as well as other true uplands such as the Stemweder Berg or the Rehburg Hills.
Of the higher, say up to 300 metre high uplands, the northern foothills of Deister and Bückeberge extend farther north than the eastern Wiehen range.
It flows generally west along the north edge of the Grand Mesa uplands, past Molina.
* drumlinized uplands in the north, with extensions south of the Oak Ridges Moraine

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