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Hadrach

(Encyclopedia)Hadrach hāˈdrăk [key], in the Bible, region, N Syria. ...

Tsangbo

(Encyclopedia)Tsangbo, river, Tibet Autonomous Region, China: see Brahmaputra. ...

Alsace-Lorraine

(Encyclopedia)Alsace-Lorraine, former region, Germany: see under Alsace, France. ...

Donbas

(Encyclopedia)Donbas, industrial region, Ukraine and Russia: see Donets Basin. ...

Yarlung Zangbo

(Encyclopedia)Yarlung Zangbo, river, Tibet Autonomous Region, China: see Brahmaputra. ...

Indian Head

(Encyclopedia)Indian Head, town, SE Sask., Canada, E of Regina. In a wheat-growing region, it has flour mills and grain elevators. A dominion experimental and forestr...

Franche-Comté

(Encyclopedia)Franche-Comté fräNsh-kôNtāˈ [key] or Free County of Burgundy, former province and former administrative region, E France. It is coextensive with Haute-Saône, Doubs, and Jura depts. Dôle was the...

Patagonia

(Encyclopedia)Patagonia pätägōˈnyä [key], region, c.300,000 sq mi (777,000 sq km), primarily in S Argentina, S of the Río Colorado and E of the Andes, but including extreme SE Chile and N Tierra del Fuego. Pa...

Southeast Asia

(Encyclopedia)Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on t...

Ossetia

(Encyclopedia)Ossetia älänˈyä [key], Ossetian Iryston, region of the central Caucasus, divided between the Republic of Georgia and the Russian Federation. On the northern slope is North Ossetia-Alania (1990 est...