The Niger is a huge territory covering 1,267,000 square kilometres.

In Argentina, for example, more than 2,760 farmers (mainly poor farmers with small plots of land dispersed over a wide area) were trained to use alternatives in the first year of the project.

Sprawled over 11 time zones between the EU and the US, of which five border China, it is impossible to expect Russia to remain merely a regional power.

Along with their associated islands, they cover 8.3 of the Earth's total surface area (28.4 of its land area).

A large landlocked country in South West Africa, the Niger covers an area of 1,267, 000 km2.

The vast, 832 square mile body of water is Ethiopia's largest lake, and is packed with ecological, cultural and historical charm.

The purchases in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.

All sources of renewable energy require large land areas within which to gather relatively large collectors in order to produce meaningful amounts of energy.

These hills are cut down to a kind of terrace which lies between them and the river.

Much of the land is unsuitable for agriculture, and food accounts for about 20 of imports.

A high percentage (47 of the land area) of the country is covered with natural and semi natural ecosystems.

On a much larger area observers get to see a partial eclipse.

But the gap between textbook solutions drawn up in universities and think tanks and the reality on the ground can be vast.

This matters chiefly to Russians, but, because Russia straddles the vast Eurasian land mass, lack of clarity about its future imposes a permanent fearfulness on the rest of us.

History and administration In total it is equivalent to the size of the state of California in the USA, though the total land area is only .

North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 4.8 of the planet's surface or about 16.5 of its land area.

The tsunami and nuclear accident affected a large area of agricultural land in the three prefectures.

These rights are meaningless without sufficient land over which to exercise them.

The signatories of such conventions represent 50 per cent of the world's countries.

For my country, whose population is dispersed on many islands scattered over a vast area of the Pacific, access to affordable and reliable information and communication technologies (ICTs) is critical to the socio economic advancement of its people.

Holland is 7,494 square kilometres (land and water included), making it roughly 13 of the area of the Netherlands.

A single minimum tree crown cover value between 10 and 30 per cent and A single minimum land area value between 0.05 and 1 hectare and A single minimum tree height value between 2 and 5 metres.

Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, and the tenth wealthiest (per capita income).

In 1939, when the war began, Canada had a tiny population on a vast area of land.

Environmental protection and land management Farm or undeveloped land composes the majority of land in most countries.

How can we do that? How can we actually use more area than there is on earth?

Mars is half the size of the Earth, but because two thirds of the Earth is covered by water, the land area on Mars is comparable to the land area on Earth.

The landscape is covered mostly (86 of land area) by coniferous taiga forests and fens, with little cultivated land.

The message has been received loud and clear. We are using up too much of the planet s area.

The Grimaldi's stronghold was now a power base from which the family ruled a large but very vulnerable area of land.

Flower acreage is currently estimated at 135 hectares, most of which is planted with over 40 rose varieties.

And so it takes a very large footprint on the land, a very large footprint in terms of materials, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

A microstate or ministate is a sovereign state having a very small population or very small land area, but usually both.

The average surface of a residential unit was 60.45 square metres per family, i.e. 16.68 square metres per capita.

The right of the Palestinian people to self determination was being seriously undermined by the reduction and fragmentation of Palestinian territory.

Vast areas of vegetation are being destroyed for lines of white powder.

The population is sparse roughly 700,000 people on territory the size of France with agricultural communities nestled in deep valleys and a few herdsmen in the high mountains.

A relatively small number of fighters is threatening a huge area and millions of people.

Indeed, every year, the world loses forest area the size of Ireland.

Between its coastal mountain ranges, North America has vast flat areas.

It was just the right distance from its star to contain huge oceans of open water.

We also reduced the free building floor area but we allowed builders to reach higher up.

But the gap between textbook solutions drawn up in universities and think tanks and the reality on the ground can be vast. More spending or regulation does not always lead to better outcomes.

The rise in food prices is leading to a land grab, as powerful politicians sell foreign investors massive tracts of farmland, brushing aside the traditional land rights of poor smallholders.

There was never enough land to satisfy the passionate possessiveness of all those with claims to it.