And they are regionally separated.

Geographically part of the Tibetan Plateau, Aksai Chin is referred to as the Soda Plain.

The two countries are condemned by history and geography to develop civilized neighborly relations.

Nationalism and imperialism will lead you nowhere you cannot expand geographically without serious costs to your economic growth and your personal enrichment.

This particular question is understandable as the country is situated right between Africa and Asia and its population is very diverse.

A recent revelation concerning the film Everest suggests that the promotional poster doesn't even need to be geographically accurate.

The remaining populations are often geographically isolated from one another, which can lead to inbreeding, and consequently, reduced genetic diversity.

The reactor restarts in Fukui are welcome news to small, geographically and economic isolated host communities.

Can one count on this readiness when the threat is real, but more diffuse, abstract, potential, and often geographically remote?

Although Romania is just a few hundred miles away from the EU countries, it is a few centuries away in terms of agriculture.

Under Israel s occupation, and then with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994, the territories remained separated geographically, but not politically.

Indeed, both geographically and demographically, Afghanistan s non Pashtun groups account for more than half of the country, with Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras alone making up close to 50 of the population.

In his fascinating account of the disaster, Nathaniel Philbrick wrote that these men were just about as far from land as it was possible to be anywhere on Earth.

Lebanon is an ideal social laboratory because it has a large number of geographically segregated religious groups and strongly enforced communal boundaries.

Hungarian Krisztian Gal reflects that even though they were geographically removed from the events, firefighters in his city and schools all took action to remember those who lost their lives during the attacks.

The development of digital communication has allowed the voice of the people to be carried further, whilst at the same time liberating words, images, ideas and actions that were previously restricted to specific areas.

Some sources say that there are two subspecies, Proteles cristatus cristatus of Southern Africa and Proteles cristatus septentrionalis of East Africa, whereas others say it is monotypic.

The way to achieve this is to decouple the question of who pays for most efforts to mitigate climate change from the question of where, geographically, these efforts take place.

At the same time, geographically diversified institutions outperformed even during the recent global crisis, because they were less vulnerable to downturns in individual regions.

First, farming is geographically concentrated and farmers vote on agricultural policy above everything else, greatly enhancing the power of their votes something that few, if any, urban consumers do.

The third challenge that Russia faces one related to addressing its demographic crisis is the need to diversify investment to ensure more even economic development, both geographically and by sector.

Recently, two of Uzbekistan's neighbours (both geographically and in the Transparency International Index), Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, shook their societies with the unprecedented move of arresting and jailing high ranking security services officials on corruption charges.

Indeed, it is not implausible that when a government s repressive policies diminish, or end through regime change, media outlets that were present and government approved will fare poorly vis à vis offshore counterparts that stayed away and conveyed the truth. If news outlets in physically remote open societies meet consumers in countries like China halfway, the benefits for both the Chinese and the bottom line could be enormous.

Israel is closer to Nicosia than to Berlin, not only in geographic but also in political terms, because successive Israeli and Palestinian leaders have likewise failed to demonstrate qualities of vision and imagination.

If news outlets in physically remote open societies meet consumers in countries like China halfway, the benefits for both the Chinese and the bottom line could be enormous.

Over time, Moscow has acquired a number of epithets, most referring to its size and preeminent status within the nation The Third Rome (), The Whitestone One (), The First Throne (), The Forty Forties (), and The Hero City ().