The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.

The vast distances between the European industrial centers and coalfields in Kazakhstan presented a formidable problem that was only partially solved by Soviet efforts to industrialize Central Asia.

Through 13 games in 2008, the Royals were 8 – 5 and in first place in the AL Central, a vast improvement over their start from the previous season.

The Meseta Central (" Inner Plateau ") is a vast plateau in the heart of peninsular Spain, has elevations that range from 610 to 760 m. Rimmed by mountains, the Meseta Central slopes gently to the west and to the series of rivers that form some of the border with Portugal.

With the Turkic expansion during Early Middle Ages ( c. 6th – 11th centuries ), peoples speaking Turkic languages spread across Central Asia, covering a vast geographical region stretching from Siberia to Europe and the Mediterranean.

The Ottomans fused various culinary traditions of their realm with influences from Middle Eastern cuisines, along with traditional Turkic elements from Central Asia ( such as yogurt ), creating a vast array of specialities — many with strong regional associations.

These campaigns expanded Han sovereignty into the Tarim Basin of Central Asia and helped establish the vast trade network known as the Silk Road, which reached as far as the Mediterranean world.

The Neotropic includes more tropical rainforest ( tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ) than any other ecozone, extending from southern Mexico through Central America and northern South America to southern Brazil, including the vast Amazon Rainforest.

On the Great Plains the Cree or Nēhilawē ( who spoke a closely related Central Algonquian language, the plains Cree language ) depended on the vast herds of bison to supply food and many of their other needs.

Castile and León is roughly coterminous with the Spanish part of the Douro River basin, on the northern half of the Meseta Central, a vast plateau in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula.

The natural distribution range of the genus Yucca ( 49 species and 24 subspecies ) covers a vast area of North and Central America.

By that time, however, you could still see vast sugarcane fields in the " Montellano " area of Cayey and the " Central " where the sugarcane was processed.

Shortly thereafter, Kyle Rayner, having imbued with the vast power of Ion after his battle with Oblivion and Alexander Nero funneled the remaining energy left in the sun that was once the immortal Guardians back into the Central Power Battery.

The vast majority of the Town of Perinton falls within the Fairport Central School District and Fairport zip code ( the physical limits of both correspond closely with the official town borders ), thus much of what is technically Perinton is often identified as Fairport.

It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies.

Other Cabinet Ministers also respected his vast knowledge of Central Asia but disliked his arrogance and often blunt criticism.

" Central Arizona " is a vast metropolitan area spread across one contiguous sprawling oasis, essentially equivalent to the Phoenix metropolitan area.

The vast scale of the self-supporting ferro-concrete structure reflects the original intention that Central Hall was intended to be " an open-air meeting place with a roof on ".

Azande territory covers a vast expanse of land from the fringes of the Upper Nile basin in the South Sudan to the Semitropical rain forests in Congo and part of Central Africa Republic.

In group 8 the vast majority of schools administer an aptitude test called the Cito Eindtoets Basisonderwijs ( literally, " Cito final test primary education ", often abbreviated to Citotoets ( Cito test ), developed by the Centraal instituut voor toetsontwikkeling ( Central Institute for test development )), which is designed to recommend the type of secondary education best suited for a pupil.

These early riding traditions, which were strongly tied to the ruling caste of nobility ( as only those of noble birth or caste could become cavalry warriors ), now spread throughout the Eurasian steppes and Iranian plateau from around 600 BC and onwards due to contact with the Median Empire's vast expanse across Central Asia, which was the native homeland of the early, north-eastern Iranian ethnic groups such as the Massagetae, Scythians, Sakas, and Dahae.

Numerous clamshell beads, a major currency among the Indians of Central California, were also found, indicating a vast trade network.

The vast majority are native to South America, but with a few occurring north through Central America to Mexico, and also several from New Zealand to Tahiti One species, Fuchsia magellanica, extends as far as the southern tip of South America, occurring on Tierra del Fuego in the cool temperate zone, but the majority are tropical or subtropical.

In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.

The most densely populated areas are the Po Valley ( that accounts for almost a half of the national population ) and the metropolitan areas of Rome and Naples, while vast regions such as the Alps and Appennines highlands, the plateaus of Basilicata and the island of Sardinia are very sparsely populated.

* Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, United States, what was once an oasis in the vast Mojave desert has over the years grown into a metropolitan area.

The vast valley around the Po is called the Po Basin or Po Valley ( Italian Pianura Padana or Val Padana ); in time it became the main industrial area of the country.

Glaaki is an ancient and wise creature with vast knowledge of the other beings that are active in Britain's Severn River Valley, such as Y ' golonac, the Denizens of S ' glhuo, Shub-Niggurath, Eihort, and Byatis.

The vast majority of traffic into and out of the Salt Lake Valley passes through only four geographic features, all of which are narrow.

Located in southeast California, the thinly populated deserts and mountains of this vast county stretch from where the bulk of the county population resides, the roughly 480 square miles south of the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino Valley, to the Nevada border and the Colorado River.

The Silver Valley is famous nationwide for the vast amounts of silver, lead, and zinc mined from it.

Prior to 1782, with the exception of occasional failed colonization schemes, the Europeans ignored the vast Ouachita Valley, which extended from the area around Hot Springs, Arkansas southward towards the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

One of the most destructive floods in the history of the Wyoming Valley occurred on Sunday, March 2, 1902, when the waters of the Susquehanna River rose and flooded a vast developed area.

In contrast many hydroelectric projects are of enormous size, such as the generating plant at the Hoover Dam of 2, 074 MW or the vast multiple projects of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Cagayan Valley is the vast mass of land in the northeastern region of Luzon, comprising today the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino.

The province of Nueva Vizcaya used to be a territory of the vast Cagayan Valley which was once an integral political unit with one governor.

Their vast region included the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay area, as well as present-day Alameda County, Contra Costa County and the Salinas Valley.

* Kent Weeks, leading Egyptologist, launched the Theban Mapping Project, which discovered the identity and vast dimensions of KV5, the tomb of the sons of Rameses II in the Valley of the Kings

However, the chateau is a part of the Loire Valley by virtue of the date of its construction and its vast dimensions, which give it a similar appearance to Chambord.

These canals are all of what is left of what used to be a vast lake and canal system that extended over most parts of the Valley of Mexico, restricting cities such as Tenochtitlan ( Mexico City ) and Xochimilco to small islands.

The plant was once abundant in the UK, particularly in the Thames Valley and parts of Wiltshire, and was collected in vast quantities to be sold as a cut flower in the markets of London, Oxford and Birmingham.

* The Antelope Valley Union High School District is the primary public school district covering the vast majority of high school education in the metropolitan Palmdale and Lancaster area.

Monument Valley ( Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, meaning valley of the rocks ) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching above the valley floor.

The Ohio Valley was also claimed by France, however, as it was nominally part of the vast territory of New France.

In the 19th century, the Central Valley was the main destination for vast numbers of immigrants traveling into California from the eastern United States.

After his narrow reelection to the Senate in 1944, defeating Republican Lieutenant Governor Frederick F. Houser by 52 percent to 48 percent, Downey began a push for the California Central Valley project, which had been initiated during the 1930s as part of the New Deal's vast array of public works projects, such as power dams and irrigation canals.