This was the first step in opening up the vast interior.

(a) Countries that are large in terms of area or heavily populated

Its extensive territory borders (nine) African countries.

The vast Soviet empire exited the historical stage without a single shot being fired.

A case like the island of La Española (Hispaniola), where a simple border can reflect such vast differences, is not very common.

In order to find him, they need the technology and training to track him in the vast jungle.

However, this vast land had a population of only 14 million.

Considering the country s vast size, a two party system seems to be the most appropriate.

There are an estimated 600,000 villages in this vast country of one billion citizens.

The proximate cause was the abduction of two Spanish aid workers from the vast refugee camps that encircle Dadaab.

Huge mourning crowds, crying, nearly hysterical, could be seen all over the vast empire Stalin had ruled.

The political and security situation in the vast region between the Indus Valley and the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean is a cause for grave concern.

It also creates this incredibly interesting, I think, new amphibious public space, where you can imagine working, you can imagine recreating in a new way.

China s government responded to this by encouraging manufacturers to move into the country s vast hinterland, where wages are much lower.

Thanks to large fields of recoverable natural gas located offshore, Burma now earns substantial foreign exchange revenues.

By the first millennium AD CE, South America's vast rainforests, mountains, plains and coasts were the home of tens of millions of people.

Nobel Prize nominee Hernando De Soto recognized that the key to economic liftoff for most developing countries is to tap the vast amounts of uncapitalized land.

The island is hit regularly by devastating hurricanes. It has been massively deforested, and its soils have been depleted of nutrients.

They came in search of a better quality of life, both as part of the contingent of workers who constructed the Costa Rican railroad to the Atlantic Ocean, as well as those who worked on the banana plantations.

And the city s incoming mayor, Bill de Blasio, is championing a bold program of educational innovations to narrow the vast gaps in income, wealth, and opportunity that divide the city.

Bordering the province to the north is the province of Northern Samar and to the west is Western Samar and to the east is the vast Pacific Ocean.

They have been compared to astronauts these elder navigators who sail vast open oceans in double hulled canoes thousands of miles from a small island.

Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.

Britain and France had turned away from internationalism, adopting trade systems known as Imperial Preference, which favored their vast overseas empires.

The vast distances of space, the sophisticated technologies of space systems and the difficulty of differentiating between systems used for both civilian and military purposes can make verification complex.

Agriculture is the main economic activity, notably in the vast internal delta of the Niger River, home to many tribes, including the Dogon, a people remarkable for their sculpture and architecture.

Although there are vast differences surrounding the departure of the IMF and Bank heads, there are some worrisome similarities.

Worse still, in a vast and predominantly rural country, the prime minister s underlings control broadcasting and maintain a choke hold on other media.

And solar power plants in the Sahel of Africa, just south of the vast Sahara, could supply power to much of West, East, and Central Africa.

Afghan cameleers first came to Australia in the 1860s and were instrumental in opening up the vast, dry Australian interior for trans continental trade and transport.

The designer Nathalie Rykiel is reportedly planning to show the new Sonia Rykiel collection in March not in the usual vast rented area, but in the smaller space of her own boutique.

And the United States indifferent to the integrity of the Malian state and the welfare of its citizens in normal circumstances was aware of the possibility that Mali s vast territory could fall under fundamentalist terrorist control.

Diameter Due to their great distance from the Earth, all stars except the Sun appear to the unaided eye as shining points in the night sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere.

Weapons are not Russia s only strength. The country also benefits from its enormous size, vast natural resources, and educated population, including a multitude of skilled scientists and engineers.

From largely unused land a generation ago, Pudong has become a booming center of skyscrapers, luxury hotels, parks, industry, and vast stretches of apartment buildings.

The junta certainly has no intention of abandoning its vast economic empire (with its tax free benefits, land ownership and confiscation rights, preferential customs and exchange rates, and other prerogatives).

In the wake of the ferocious religious war that tore Algeria apart in the 1990 s, a great number of Muslim fundamentalist Arabs fled south to the vast Sahara that covers part of Mali.

It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products, and millions of women and men.

Third, Africa is economically isolated, owing to very poor infrastructure, large over land distances, and many landlocked countries.

Fearing threats to their vast economic empire and their grip on high politics, the generals decided to end the reforms, overturn the results of Algeria s first democratic parliamentary elections, and remove Benjedid from power.

The Committee, while recognizing the sizeable population in the vast expanse of the territory of the State party, notes that there are no significant factors and difficulties impeding its capacity to effectively implement the Covenant.

Given the vast size of the Sudan and the inadequate road infrastructure in most areas of the country, the movement of personnel and transportation of cargo will depend, to a large extent, on the air lift capacity of UNMIS.

Some 80 of Sudan s oil is in the South, and the country s vast swaths of fertile, naturally irrigated land hold much promise for commercial agriculture.

We must make the vast seas stretching from the Pacific to the Indian Oceans a zone of peace and freedom, where all adhere to the rule of law. For this reason, too, it is our responsibility to fortify the US Japan alliance.

Through the spread of Chinese characters, the concept of ren and the Golden Rule spread throughout the vast Chinese influenced area that reaches from Central Asia to Taiwan and from Korea to Singapore.