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This region encompasses the city of Bristol and the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, while Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Wiltshire are usually also included, although the northern and eastern boundaries of the area are hard to define and historically Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which were also part of Wessex, were, and sometimes still are included.
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Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods.
The Middle East ( Arabic الشرق الأوسط Persian خاورمیانه Turkish Orta Doğu or Mideast ) is a region that encompasses Western Asia and all of or part of North Africa, depending on the context.
Freedom of religion encompasses all religions acting within the law in a particular region, whether or not an individual religion accepts that other religions are legitimate or that freedom of religious choice and religious plurality in general are good things.
Growth was particularly spectacular in the southeastern coastal region, which encompasses the port cities of Pusan, Masan, Yosu, Chinhae, Ulsan, and Pohang.
The large area of the region, stretching as it does from the Isles of Scilly to Gloucestershire, encompasses diverse areas which have little more in common with each other than they do with other areas of England.
The north of the region, comprising Cumbria and northern Lancashire, is largely rural, as is the far south which encompasses parts of the Cheshire Plain and Peak District.
Chūbu, which means " central region ", encompasses nine prefectures ( ken ): Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, Yamanashi, and often Mie.
Much of the region is desert, and encompasses considerable mineral resources.
The region of largely unincorporated land ( portions of the northern fringe are annexed by Orlando ) encompasses the southern portions of the International Drive and Universal Boulevard corridors.
The name Okanogan ( Okanagan ) also refers to the region that also encompasses part of southern British Columbia.
The area the City of Fairfax now encompasses was settled in the early 18th century by farmers from Virginia's Tidewater region.
Wake County is part of the Research Triangle metropolitan region, which encompasses the cities of Raleigh and Durham, the towns of Cary and Chapel Hill, and their surrounding suburban areas.
The Research Triangle region encompasses the U. S. Census Bureau's Combined Statistical Area ( CSA ) of Raleigh-Durham-Cary.
The lake was formerly a widened region of Snapfinger Creek, and the valley that encompasses much of the town was where corn was grown.
The immediate region encompasses approximately of vertical relief between the Rio Grande and the Magdalena Mountains.
The CDP encompasses a region that is in the corner of three towns: Blooming Grove, Cornwall, New Windsor.
The Research Triangle region encompasses the U. S. Census Bureau's Combined Statistical Area ( CSA ) of Raleigh-Durham-Cary in the central Piedmont region of North Carolina.
In metazoans, on the other hand, miRNA complementarity typically encompasses the 5 ' bases 2-7 of the microRNA, the microRNA seed region, and one miRNA can target many different sites on the same mRNA or on many different mRNAs.
Aqueous normal-phase chromatography ( ANP ) is a chromatographic technique which encompasses the mobile phase region between reversed-phase chromatography ( RP ) and organic normal phase chromatography ( ONP ).
West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music that originates in the westernmost region of the United States, as opposed to East Coast hip hop, based originally in New York alone.
Many producers and wine critics will argue that Niagara's best offerings come from the Niagara Escarpment region which encompasses the Short Hills Bench, 20 Mile Bench and Beamsville Bench.
Further south along European route E6 is the Bardufoss region, which encompasses the local communities Andselv and Heggelia, the latter including the Norwegian army's 6th division.
The modern usage of the term encompasses the region of Al-Yamama, which was not always considered part of Nejd historically.
The region encompasses some of the Louisiana Purchase, most of the land ceded by Britain in 1818, some of the land acquired when the Republic of Texas joined the U. S., all of the land ceded by Britain in 1846, all of the land ceded by Mexico in 1848, and all of the Gadsden Purchase.
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The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in Mesopotamia.
Amphipolis (: Amphípolis ) was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day region of Central Macedonia.
The city states of this region later formed a confederation known as the Achaean League which was influential during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.
It is the capital and largest city of the region of Corsica and the prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud.
The city is located in rich farm country, which produces corn, soybeans, and tomatoes ; and is in the Indiana natural gas region, to which fact it owed its growth as a manufacturing center.
The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.
Quinte is also a region comprising several communities situated along the Bay of Quinte, including Belleville which is the largest city in the Quinte Region, and represents a midpoint between Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto.
Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war.
When the Assyrians attacked Judah in 701 they did so via the Philistine coast and the Shephelah, the border region which included Micah's village of Moresheth, as well as Lachish, Judah's second largest city.
Baku (, ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region.
Within this region, Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö are growing into a combined metropolitan area.
* Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government
Once a city expands far enough to reach another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis.
This Croatia included a part of Bosnia ( region ), most of Herzegovina and the city of Dubrovnik and the surroundings.
# Geographic communities: range from the local neighbourhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or even the planet as a whole.
This upgrade involved two main projects: the 1, 484-kilometer line linking Bogotá to the Caribbean Coast and the 499-kilometer Pacific coastal network that links the industrial city of Cali and the surrounding coffee-growing region to the port of Buenaventura.
The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.
The latest Ordnance Survey Ireland " Discovery Series " ( Third Edition 2005 ) 1: 50, 000 map of the Dublin Region, Sheet 50, shows the boundaries of the city and three surrounding counties of the region.
The small size of nearby communities make the city a major commercial and industrial hub of the region.
Corinth is the second largest city in the region of the Peloponnese.
It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.
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