Portugal represents just about 2.1 percent of Europe's total landmass.
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It's more than 1,200 miles from the nearest major landmass.
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Hong Kong geographically is a landmass that's part of China.
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But it's not all Happy Feet on our furthest southern landmass.
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On a globe, every landmass on the planet is an island.
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Hell, the landmass that we believe is there doesn't exist either.
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O.K., surely that hulking landmass to the right must be Harris?
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More than a quarter of California's landmass is used for agriculture.
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Canada, the world's second-largest nation by landmass, has abundant natural resources.
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During the Ediacaran, this landmass was at the bottom of an ancient sea.
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Over time, the rushing waters carved deep V-shaped channels across the landmass.
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He even suggests that China may eventually lay claim to the Australian landmass.
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Antarctica was once part of a landmass that included Australia and South America.
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Though worryingly, the recent slowing also carries ominous news for the thawing landmass.
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They concluded that Tangier had lost two-thirds of its landmass since 1850.
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They have a converging geopolitical strategy to combine – to basically unite the Eurasian landmass into one single market, and to force the United States, first, out of the Western Pacific, then out of the Pacific overall, and off the Eurasian landmass.
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And those origin lines lead to the most direct landmass on any given continent.
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They are, however, a continuous landmass, Eurasia, and are treated as such by geologists.
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The island is a naturally-formed landmass that sits between Oakland and San Francisco.
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Like a true sea-locked landmass, Margarita Island operates by its own mysterious economy.
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That doesn't even account for clarity, visibility, weather and landmass conditions, perspective, and perfect eyesight.
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Because they knew the terminology looked like they were trying to dominate the Eurasian landmass.
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What if Shaka Zulu, and not Genghis Khan, conquered the largest landmass of all time?
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Choose from four World Travel Tracker Scratch Off Maps from Landmass Goods — each is $23.99.
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"A third of the landmass of the city has been platted for wells," he said.
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Treasure Island is a landmass that sits in the bay between San Francisco and Oakland.
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The past week marked a new milestone in Russia's efforts to control the Eurasian landmass.
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Last month, in fact, Trump tweeted this: The problem, again, is that landmass doesn't vote.
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By contrast, the landmass sculpture that sits inside the museum's garden indexes the entirety of Manhattan.
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"'Far Harbor' features the largest landmass for an add-on that we've ever created," Bethesda says.
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The island is known for its national park, which takes up almost half of its landmass.
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No one knows exactly what landmass he reached—possibly Iceland, possibly the Faroe Islands, possibly Greenland.
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Percent of Costa Rica's landmass officially protected as refuges, parks, reserves and other designated conservation areas.
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Images from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal Puerto Rico's landmass has been forever changed.
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Simple: What it shows is that Trump won more landmass than Clinton, which isn't all that revealing.
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For diplomatic reasons, China is anxious to cement ties with its immediate neighbours on the Eurasian landmass.
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Airports have opened the corners of the world, and highways traverse every major landmass on the planet.
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Roughly 23 percent of Americans live in urban areas, covering just 213.5 percent of the overall landmass.
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Where did humans first arrive on the continent, and how did they spread across the entire landmass?
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At its peak, the Soviet Union and its communist allies controlled one-third of the Earth's landmass.
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The Mexican state — which oversees the world's tenth-largest population and 14th largest landmass — is perilously weak.
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"It is not a threat to any landmass in the next several days," CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.
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Andy Woodruff created a series of maps that visualize what landmass is directly across from any given beach.
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I thought about how, on this landmass at least, we aren't ever really fully, properly, actually, genuinely isolated.
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Singapore authorities are actively looking for solutions to the city-state's traffic congestion problems, given its limited landmass.
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Another game, Slingshot Island from developer Sockethead Games, plants a floating landmass in the middle of a room.
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Congo is one of Africa's most pivotal nations, the largest in terms of landmass south of the Sahara.
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Then another group spread throughout this continuous landmass, becoming the Bornean and main Sumatran orangutan we know today.
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Since NATO was created almost 70 years ago, there has not been a major conflict on the European landmass.
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The rubbish landmass of which I speak isn't just a metaphor—it's also a real place, called Henderson Island.
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Coastal provinces and cities account for a small fraction of its landmass, but more than half of its GDP.
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Fallout 4 ventures to Maine on May 19 in Far Harbor, the series' biggest add-on landmass to date.
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First, they cannot change geography: they need Turkey because it stands between Europe and much of the Eurasian landmass.
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And despite its tiny landmass and long winters, Massachusetts has the eighth-highest total solar capacity in the country.
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They currently hold almost the same number of seats, but they cover just 20% of the US' total landmass.
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As the most isolated group of islands from any landmass on the planet, do we really have a choice?
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But it covers a much larger part of the country's landmass, giving it a powerful advantage in the Senate.
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The district, which covers the sparsely populated and heavily forested majority of Maine's landmass, was a target for Democrats.
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The country's soaring ambitions can be seen in the massive Belt and Road Initiative to integrate the Eurasian landmass.
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Construction on 266 luxury condos has already begun on Yerba Buena, a naturally-formed landmass adjacent to Treasure Island.
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" Flight Service Bureau recommended in early August that operators consider rerouting "over the Japanese landmass or east of it.
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At the Atlantic, Ed Yong explains that millions of years ago, Borneo and Sumatra were linked in continuous landmass.
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Below it, the contours of the submerged landmass on which the city has been built are in clear view.
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Aboriginal native title covers more than 2.4 million sq km of Australia, or nearly a third of the national landmass.
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We have a smaller population than the state of California, dispersed across a landmass that is 23.5 times the size.
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Storm surge effectively wiped out the sandy landmass, which was also a breeding ground for threatened Hawaiian green sea turtles.
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It's got a landmass the size of France and a population — 33,93 — that's barely one-hundredth the size of Paris's.
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Usually you hear about raw density, which takes a metro area's total population and divides it by the total landmass.
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US News calls it the "giant of the Middle East" because of its landmass, and notes its importance for Muslims.
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Swine flu swept through the Asian landmass; polio persisted in Pakistan and a measles epidemic created an emergency in Samoa.
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That works out to $2,379,567 for the 760-acre landmass, which is about 1.2 miles wide and about 303 miles long.
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Greenland is mostly covered in ice, but the landmass also has some grassy, carbon-rich vegetation, especially along the western fringes.
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Brexit is mentioned only briefly, despite the obvious echo of Britain once again trying to sever connections with the adjacent landmass.
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The vast, resource-rich area accounts for about 40 percent of the country's landmass but only 5 percent of the population.
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The Far North makes up more than 40 percent of its landmass, but contains less than one percent of Canada's population.
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These croc relatives proliferated all over the bygone Gondwanan landmass, scattering their fossilized bones across South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
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Ice shelves are permanent floating sheets of ice connected to a landmass, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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Between 2006 and 2011, some 60 percent of Syria's landmass was ravaged by the worst drought in the country's modern history.
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The gang has complete control of everything on the landmass, from the monorail network to the shipping industry to the power plant.
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The fact that it never made a big landfall on a big landmass or on high elevation is why it maintained intensity.
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Because they were so geographically isolated from one another—Australia's landmass being particularly vast—genetic diversity between different tribal groups is huge.
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Ilet La Biche, the biennale's eponymous venue, technically has no ground above water, although it exists as a landmass on Google Maps.
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Today, Jakobshavn acts like a plug or cork keeping much of Greenland's colossal ice masses at bay and locked into the landmass.
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Even with summer, the frigid landmass — whose lofty mountains are buried in ice up to their necks — will still be terribly cold.
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With just a sliver of Japan's total landmass, Okinawa is home to about half the American soldiers and sailors stationed in Japan.
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The IPCC estimated that the nation could lose up to 20% of its landmass from just 3 feet of sea-level rise.
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Since then, Beijing has pledged nearly a trillion dollars for investment dozens of countries from the Indo Pacific across the Eurasian landmass.
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According to NTCA, telecom cooperatives serve less than 5 percent of the country's subscribers, but cover 40 percent of the nation's landmass.
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Australia, after all, is a country with a population that's both spread across a vast landmass and concentrated in cities and suburbs.
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That means there was precious little water on the ground to soak up heat, allowing the landmass to get hotter and hotter.
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The United States, a country of vast landmass and incredible wealth, could invite many more of them in, and historically, we have.
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That movement stopped 53 million years ago, and scientists have slowly discovered the landmass, almost entirely submerged, over the past two decades.
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Abu Dhabi accounts for eighty-six per cent of the federation's landmass and more than ninety per cent of its oil reserves.
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Humans moved from Southeast Asia onto this landmass, some settling in what is now New Guinea, others traveling farther south into Australia.
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First off, it&aposs an island, a small, man-made landmass that sits in the bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California.
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The island was made specifically for the exposition in 1936 by stacking rocks on top of the shallow foundation of the landmass.
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Russia accounts for roughly 37 percent of Europe's landmass, and that area is home to about 75 percent of the Russian population.
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Antarctica is a giant landmass—about half the size of Africa—and the ice that covers it averages more than a mile thick.
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The most recent such landmass, Pangea, broke up approximately 200m years ago, meaning the Earth is currently in the middle of a cycle.
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With just over 2 percent of the EU landmass, Portugal accounts for almost a third of burnt areas in the union this year.
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That's because the Northern hemisphere "has more landmass, and less ocean" than the South, she continued, and the land heats up more quickly.
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Speaking to reporters as he left his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, Trump acknowledged that purchasing the landmass owned by Denmark has been discussed.
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The game's lore establishes that the landmass on which Morrowind occurred, the island of Vvardenfell, has been destroyed in a catastrophic volcanic eruption.
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When sitting around telling stories, very few things trump, 'I once started a viral online conspiracy that the landmass of Finland didn't exist.
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It consists of four separate but reinforcing geopolitical imperatives designed to prevent the emergence of a single power from dominating the Eurasian landmass.
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The video reconstructs the tectonic fallout of Antarctica splitting from the bygone landmass of Gondwana, which was one subsection of the supercontinent Pangaea.
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The 20th district is a geographically large landmass located in southeast Florida, while the 21st and 22nd districts are clustered to its East.
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My perspective will be that my plan to cover a landmass five times the size of India in trees is ambitious and desirable.
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We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large landmass, but it doesn&apost have any heroes.
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Draw a line on your desktop or phone, and Land Lines will find a landmass, freeway, bridge, river—something—that follows the same contour.
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As it grew and grew, settlements fanned out from the commercial center like ripples in water, eventually reaching the southern landmass of Isla Trinitaria.
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It estimates 20 percent of livestock has died in the arid and semi-arid counties, an area comprising about 80 percent of Kenya's landmass.
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Antarctica's landmass is surrounded by hundreds of floating ice shelves that play a key role in preventing sea levels from engulfing our coastal cities.
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It treats the largest country in the world by landmass -- and the biggest in Europe by population -- as if it were just another player.
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Portugal's government asked for international help and declared a state of emergency in territory north of the Tagus river - about half of its landmass.
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Another example is the sprawling "one-belt, one-road" initiative, which aims to revivify trade routes across and around the Eurasian landmass (see article).
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Venezuela has a population of over 31 million citizens and covers 85033,800 square miles, a larger landmass than Afghanistan with roughly the same population.
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But the frozen ground has preserved centuries of the seafarers' hardy existence on the western shores of the remote landmass, including bones and DNA.
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They're found in around 30 countries throughout Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and can swarm through one-fifth of the landmass on Earth.
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The images above capture that same area, and you should pay particular attention to Eagle Island, the landmass near the botton of each image.
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Put differently, when people think about the Chinese state, they think about Beijing, with the rest of China's continental-sized landmass as an afterthought.
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It was expected to exit the landmass via Ilocos Norte province between 0000-0200 GMT and moved out of the country by Thursday evening.
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The landmass, which would be called Zealandia if it were a continent, which it isn't, contains two above-water parts: New Zealand and New Caledonia.
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You can trace a blade of grass as it moves across your screen, but you'll never actually move past the greater landmass it sits on.
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While the Antarctic Peninsula is rapidly warming, the greater Antarctic continent is still a sprawling, frigid landmass — with mountains up to their necks in ice.
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We're also something of a geographical puzzle, holding the unique honor of being the only landmass officially classified as both a continent and a country.
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As Antarctic scientist Ted Scambos has repeatedly told me, the lofty mountains on this remote southern landmass are literally up to their necks in ice.
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The Bundys love to remind anyone who will listen that almost half of the landmass of the western states is controlled by the federal government.
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In the early 18th century, Peter the Great — who created Russia's first navy — wanted to know how far the Asian landmass extended to the east.
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The largest landmass in the Western Maritime and Insular Command, overseen by an admiral, is a rocky archipelago with little vegetation and no permanent residents.
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With a landmass as big as the continental United States and one-tenth the population, Australia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries.
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Researching the phenomenon, he learned that more than a quarter of China's landmass is now desert, a figure that is increasing because of over-farming.
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The war tripled Israel's landmass overnight and gave it dominion over the lives of more than a million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Today roughly 40 percent of the European Union's landmass is covered by trees, making it one of the most forest-rich regions in the world.
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The Interior Department oversees a fifth of the U.S. landmass but has been hollowed out amid a lack of permanent leadership staff, critics have said.
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That searing hot weather came atop Australia's third winter in a row with almost no rainfall, leaving much of the landmass in a severe drought.
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It also means that diplodocoids made their way to East Asia before the continents — once a giant landmass called Pangea — tore away from each other.
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Both statues venerate local men whose exploits furthered extended white supremacy by seizing the North American landmass and subjugating all of the peoples contained therein.
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It's neighbors with Treasure Island, a man-made landmass that will see the bulk of the 8,000 new housing units that are included in the project.
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The result was near perfect: The green circuit boards were successfully cut into the various shapes that make up the landmass of greater New York City.
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Most major road and rail networks as well as oil and gas pipelines running east to west on the Eurasian landmass pass through the massive country.
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Over time, they've come to realize that this landmass has a distinctive geology and well-defined structure that separates it from the nearby continent of Australia.
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Australia's landmass is large enough to include climate regions from the tropics in the north to deserts in the middle to temperate regions in the south.
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The U.S. will succeed if we avoid war and steer clear of the negativity generated by toxic Russian politics and the Eurasian landmass that it occupies.
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The Eurasian landmass contains the largest masses of people in the world, the most natural resources, and the most economic potential on a going forward basis.
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These islands are so far from any other landmass (Australia is more than 1,200 miles away) that many of the creatures there resemble nothing else on Earth.
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Inner Mongolia is a strategically important area bordering Russia and Mongolia, covers a tenth of the China's landmass and has the largest coal reserves in the country.
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Glaciers flowing off the landmass keep adding to the ice shelf, pushing it away from land until the ice wedges up against an underwater bump or ridge.
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When modern humans first migrated out of Africa 70,000 years ago, at least two related species, now extinct, were already waiting for them on the Eurasian landmass.
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Though it doesn't have the name recognition of Pangaea, the gigantic landmass that existed during the Triassic period, Rodinia represented an important stage in Earth's continental evolution.
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With just 2.1 percent of the EU's landmass, Portugal suffered the biggest fires during 2008-16 as well, with an average of 36 percent of the total.
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The Horizon series has since expanded further, making playgrounds of a state, Colorado; a European landmass, Southern France and Northern Italy; and now the nation of Australia.
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For the first time in Iceland's long political history — its Parliament was founded in 3303 — a dozen parties were jostling for power over this frozen volcanic landmass.
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They were found in Somerset, England, on the same landmass where, so the story goes, Lord Byron transformed some skeletal bits unearthed at his Newstead Abbey estate.
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Mr. Poliquin represents Maine's heavily rural Second Congressional District, which includes most of the state's landmass and faces more economic challenges than the state's southern, coastal areas.
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Though Hong Kong shares a landmass with mainland China, the territory has not been hit nearly as hard by the outbreak, and has just 17 confirmed cases.
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But there were reasons the empire had so much catching up to do, which involved uniquely Russian characteristics like its sprawling landmass, terrible climate and poor soil.
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If it didn't break apart, we all could have lived on a giant hunk of landmass, and traveling to our dream countries would not be so difficult.
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Using Vespucci's letters along with manuscript maps of Spanish and Portuguese explorers, Waldseemüller created a fourth part of the world — a new landmass surrounded entirely by water.
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The ongoing eruption of Hawaii&aposs Kilauea Volcano and continued lava flows into the sea has created a tiny new landmass off the Big Island, officials revealed Friday.
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The Stanford numbers show that you would need about four-tenths of one percent of America's landmass to produce enough renewable energy, mostly from sprawling solar power stations.
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Although several countries technically claim territory on the frozen landmass, the Antarctic Treaty prohibits them from using that land in a way that inhibits the access of others.
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To put the matter in different terms: The landmass of Bangladesh is one-118th the size of Russia, but its population exceeds Russia's by more than 25 million.
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This action was based on a 2202 General Counsel's opinion (2628-28500) that interpreted the phrase "service in the Republic of Vietnam" to apply only to the landmass.
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These two behaviors — flooding and rerouting — created rich deep loam (as in the Mississippi Delta), and built both the barrier islands and the landmass of South Louisiana itself.
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While coronavirus cases and deaths are rising in much of Southeast Asia, Indonesia's population of 2700 million people, sprawling landmass and creaking healthcare system make it especially vulnerable.
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While coronavirus cases and deaths are rising in much of Southeast Asia, Indonesia's population of 260 million people, sprawling landmass and creaking healthcare system make it especially vulnerable.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has already spent tens of millions of dollars to turn Bhasan Char into a permanent landmass and a temporary home for the refugees.
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The model includes deeply detailed versions of the oceans, landmass, and mountains with precision 3D printing from poly resin materials that was hand-painted with eco-friendly paint.
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On July 19, North Korea went and did a naughty thing: It fired three ballistic missiles, which traveled across its landmass, and dropped into the Sea of Japan.
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Alas, poor Harry, he did not succeed in buying the ice sheet–covered landmass, but the US does have a military base there where it basically has free rein.
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But it was the line inscribed across the variable landmass, determining where people would or would not live, where palm trees would or could not grow, that hypnotized me.
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The U.N.'s most recent State of the World's Forests report indicates forest areas decreased from 31.6 percent of the global landmass to 30.6 percent between 1990 and 2015.
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I kind of knew, but honestly thought it might also be a landmass, in which case one of the eight points of contact wasn't going to be a KNEE.
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It now appears likely that the worst of the cold will occur over the Eurasian landmass, while temperatures will be normal or above normal over most of North America.
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Unlike the previous two, Automatron and Wasteland Workshop, Far Harbor (which came out on May 19) presents a brand new landmass, a murky, fog-shrouded island, ripe for exploration.
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Against a sky of jammy violets and scorching oranges that stretches above emerald waters, a boyish figure rests on a landmass bisected by the stream of a rushing waterfall.
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But soon, the island will feature 266 luxury homes as part of a multi-billion-dollar redevelopment project that also includes Yerba Buena's neighbor, the man-made landmass Treasure Island.
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The former Loot Lake, which had turned into the home of the cube and its floating island, now has a new landmass made up of a series of smaller islands.
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In May this year Sputnik, a Russian publication aligned with the Kremlin, claimed the missile could carry a payload capable of wiping a landmass "the size of Texas or France".
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Nestled in the armpit between Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, the formerly separate, but now conjoined islands are probably best known as the landmass over which the Triborough Bridge passes.
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Only about 4 percent of Pakistan's landmass has been explored, and the success rate, with one out of three wells making a find, is above the international average, he said.
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"Over the South Asian landmass, we've seen that extreme rainfall events have become more frequent," said Amit Tandon, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who studies ocean systems.
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Access to alcohol has been a longstanding point of contention in Nunavut, a vast region that represents one-fifth of Canada's landmass with just 32,000 inhabitants, most of them Inuit.
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The family probably arrived at these disparate locations by spreading across the ancient supercontinent Pangea, the researchers wrote, becoming forever divided when that giant landmass broke up 200 million years ago.
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Second, its sheer landmass means it could better absorb the devastation: NATO could wipe out every single structure hundreds of miles into its adversary's territory, and Moscow wouldn't even be scratched.
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Nuclear weapons of all kinds were abandoned across a staggering landmass roughly the size of Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, leaving a thriving black market in Eastern Europe.
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This ancient landmass broke free from the supercontinent Gondwana more than 200 million years ago and roamed for another 100 million years before it gradually plunged underneath the Northern Mediterranean basin.
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The Chinese requested a 2000-year lease of a 256,2400-square-mile area — 240 percent of the country's landmass — and demanded tax exemptions for their companies that would last three decades.
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The project&aposs developer also has had to shore up the island for seismic activity and for a rising sea level — the landmass was found to be sinking into the bay.
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It adopted four decrees in September 2015 that redefined the external limits of its continental shelf (the seabed and the soil under the seabed that can be included in a country's landmass).
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Britain must inoculate itself by getting out of the EU (or as Mr Hannan calls it: "the elderly, creaking, sclerotic economies on the western tip of the Eurasian landmass") while it can.
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The experience is considered the end of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, which included international competitions to reach the South Pole, and work across country borders to research the unexplored landmass.
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In just six years, the war claimed nearly 80 percent of Paraguay's men and ended with a pair of treaties that ceded about a quarter of the nation's landmass to its opponents.
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Where Pam sees a little Italian garden with roses and a fountain, like the one in the mural at a nearby restaurant, Diane plans the restoration of the entire North American landmass.
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The barren wilderness close to the border with China stands near the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility, meaning that nowhere on the landmass of Europe and Asia is more distant from the sea.
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But given that the federal Bureau of Land Management administers roughly one-eighth of the nation's landmass, its decisions confront the question in a very concrete way: What, fundamentally, is our land for?
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"Far Harbor" introduces a brand-new location — which developer Bethesda claims is the "largest landmass" it has ever added to a game — and a new case for everyone's favorite synthetic detective Nick Valentine.
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Many South Sudanese had said they were hoping that their government would allow more peacekeepers to supplement the United Nations force already in the country, which has a landmass slightly smaller than Texas.
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Situated on the edge of the empire, almost half of China's landmass stretches out to the west of the imperial capital that is now Xi'an and is fed with dairy, meat, and wheat.
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NATO and the EU already are experiencing fractures in their ability to defend the European landmass from Russian aggression — whether in the form of disinformation or annexation of Crimea and parts of Ukraine.
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Captured by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite, the before-and-after snapshots expose the rapid greening of Eagle Island, a landmass at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, over the course of nine days.
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As Green and others have noted, Washington became an offshore balancer, adopting the view that the United States had to prevent any one power from dominating the Asian landmass and its adjacent waters.
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They never talked about the past, he said, but early on they were so poor that they survived by foraging for food in the mountains that make up much of Hong Kong's landmass.
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Britain said it would double the area of ocean under marine protection around its overseas territories to about 2.5 million square miles (6.5 million square km), an area greater than the landmass of India.
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The discovery was possible because of the ongoing melting of perennial snow and ice in Greenland, a landmass that hosts some of the oldest rocks on Earth—including some of the oldest metamorphic rocks.
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Although the landmass of the country's breakaway territories is a fraction of the total size of sovereign Ukraine, Moscow has transformed the rebels' ramshackle administrations into regimes that have the semblance of functioning governments.
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Inspired by the constructivist art movement, the poster shows Yashin, wearing a knee brace and his signature cap, leaping across to get a hand on an oversized ball featuring Russia's landmass seen from space.
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A banner stretched across the main church features San Silverio, the island's patron saint, atop a world globe — except in this version of the earth there is only one landmass, and that is Ponza.
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Go deeper: In a new report on the landmass additions, the USGS explains that some lava deltas have a hard time solidifying and staying attached to land because there is a steep offshore slope.
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In the end, it's a very simple narrative: the tides are a physical manifestation of the shape of the earth and the landmass of the U.K., and we want to reveal this through light.
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And so I think that there's more of a lag, the un-immediacy of this, I guess, and the fact that it's sort of dispersed across a pretty large landmass—almost like the weather.
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Indeed, the idea that Beringia was a "land bridge" is a bit of a misnomer; it was a massive landmass unto itself, and no human at the time would have considered it a mere passageway.
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Henderson Island, a tiny landmass in the eastern South Pacific, has been found by marine scientists to have the highest density of anthropogenic debris recorded anywhere in the world, with 99.8% of the pollution plastic.
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Once home to house sparrows, chickadees, sunflowers, wild parsnip, and a section of the city's homeless, Rezkoville is now a stripped landmass with a 15-year plan to build expensive condos and high-end retail.
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It's a naturally formed landmass known for an expansive wildlife ecosystem, but it's also apart of a multi-billion-dollar redevelopment project that will transform it and the neighboring Treasure Island into a new neighborhood.
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The Arctic landmass holds an ice sheet that's two and a half times the size of sprawling Texas — and it's melting at rates that are unprecedented in at least centuries, if not thousands of years.
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You paint an empty landmass with roads, rail, police stations, and three types of zoning—residential, commercial, industrial—all the while staving off natural disasters, collecting taxes, and trying to keep building without going bankrupt.
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Beijing's "Belt and Road" initiative will accelerate the Middle Kingdom's plans to become a clean energy powerhouse, and China is also poised to construct a network of high-voltage power lines across the Eurasian landmass.
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But since China is a land power on the Eurasian landmass, it makes sense to develop rail links and other land-based freight corridors away from sea lanes patrolled and controlled by the United States.
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Chevron has said it will spend $4 billion on the Permian Basin next year, and ExxonMobil acquired more land there, bringing its total to about 400,000 acres (about two-thirds the landmass of Rhode Island).
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We already use a landmass about the size of South America to grow crops for human consumption, and we use an area nearly the size of Africa to graze and feed the animals we eat.
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The Faroe Islands, a mountainous archipelago two hundred miles north of Scotland, has a landmass of only five hundred and forty square miles, and is sparsely populated with fifty thousand people and seventy thousand sheep.
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But Martinique, which is 50 miles long and 22 miles across at its widest point (about the size of New York City), is also an island where nearly 40 percent of the landmass is forest.
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But it was also a time of Britain solidifying its hegemony over its Empire, which would, at its peak a century later, cover nearly a quarter of the world's landmass, and rule over 458 million people.
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The plan: to transform land covering more than 20153,22015 square kilometers of the central African nation - more than half the landmass of former colonial master Belgium - into use for industrial-scale agriculture to boost food production.
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So, too, did a company called Planet, which operates a huge fleet of satellites that image Earth's entire landmass every day, and DigitalGlobe, which sells imagery so high-def you could see a laptop from space.
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The city of Yinchuan, in northwestern China, is the capital of Ningxia, a tiny lozenge of land that accounts for just half a per cent of China's population and a similarly tiny proportion of its landmass.
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Canada is the second-largest country in the world by landmass, and US News says its "expansive wilderness to the north plays a large role in Canadian identity, as does the country's reputation of welcoming immigrants."
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Foreign fighters and guards including many from Sudan have been used by both sides in Libya, as they have struggled to control territory and strategic sites including oil ports and fields across the country's vast landmass.
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The size disparity India, with a landmass nearly four times that of Pakistan, can put military assets well back from tense border regions, where any Pakistani strikes against them would encounter multiple layers of air defenses.
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Developed by geoscientist Tomasz Stepinski and his team at the University of Cincinnati's Space Informatics Lab (SPI), the intricate visualizations reveal that 22 percent of Earth's total landmass was altered between 1992 and 2015, mostly by humans.
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When other Americans think of Texas they probably think of Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston, the cities where 75 percent of the state lives, though the triangle they form counts nearly 20 percent of its landmass.
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Treasure Island is a man-made landmass that was built in 1936 and named after a novel of the same name written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a writer who lived in San Francisco from 1879 to 1880.
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The phenomenon is known as the Sèvres Syndrome, harking back nearly 100 years to a treaty that was never carried out but that would have divided Anatolia, the Asian landmass that makes up the bulk of modern Turkey.
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The researchers believe the findings may provide insight into why these massive animals migrated from present-day South America into present-day Australia and Antarctica, back when the three were connected as a part of the landmass Gondwana.
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While fire in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to the capital city, has spread to more than 55,000 hectares (136,000 acres), close to a quarter of the territory's entire landmass, the heat fuelling the danger is subsiding.
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The Portland murderer praised "Vinland," a medieval Viking name for North America, in order to assert historical white ownership over the landmass: Vinlander racists like to claim that whites are "indigenous" here on the basis of medieval Scandinavian lore.
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With 11 percent of the landmass covered in ice, rapidly ebbing glaciers are threatening to reshape Iceland's landscape, and Haraldsson, 74, is part of a contingent of volunteer glacier monitors who are at the frontlines of tracking the retreat.
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The Razana seems to have roamed the area when Madagascar, which is now an island, was separating from the giant landmass of southern continents known as Gondwana, Simone Maganuco, a co-author of the study, said in a statement.
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Finding the purple frog in this particular region of India also provides some solid evidence that the islands of Madagascar and Seychelles broke off from the Indian landmass well after the breakup of Gondwana, a supercontinent that predates Pangaea.
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Snapshots of the rising missile memorial were possible because the Center for Nonproliferation Studies uses surveillance imagery from Planet, a company in San Francisco that has deployed swarms of tiny satellites that capture images of the Earth's landmass daily.
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From there, you board a little twin-propeller plane for another short flight south to Yakushima, which appears on maps as a near-perfect circle, the last piece of significant landmass before the Okinawa archipelago, another hour's flight south.
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Aside from the fact that the road, a mere gash in this ancient landmass, is now paved, the landscape looks much the same as it did in the 1880s when Alfred Barnard traversed it in a horse-drawn carriage.
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It isn't too late for America to help shape Eurasia's future in this direction, but it would require a meaningful grand strategy of promoting multipolarity across the world's largest landmass rather than posing a false choice between America and China.
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However, shortly thereafter, in 28500, the VA General Counsel's Office issued a precedential opinion limiting the definition of service "in the Republic of Vietnam" to service that involved "boots on the ground" within the landmass of Vietnam or its inland waterways.
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The Faroe Islands, an austere, mountainous archipelago marooned in the North Atlantic two hundred miles north of Scotland, has a landmass of only five hundred and forty square miles, and is sparsely populated with fifty thousand people and seventy thousand sheep.
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But a 2005 recording made public on Friday of Donald J. Trump speaking in extraordinarily vulgar terms about women became a new bridge too far across a seemingly endless landmass separating civil behavior and Mr. Trump's campaign for the presidency.
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If you're walking through the northern part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula—in what would be the fingertips of its mitten-shaped landmass and you find a giant pile of doughnuts and bacon, it's not the best kind of fever dream.
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And it's somewhat easier to embrace large-scale immigration if you're Canada (another case study Tepperman looks at), and you enjoy the world's second-largest state by landmass (after Russia) with something like one-tenth the population of the United States.
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No matter one's personal glories, for those who call New Jersey home, and especially those who reside in Northern New Jersey, it's difficult to forget that one is still not from "the city," as the landmass across the river is known.
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JOHOR, Malaysia/JAKARTA (Reuters) - On the southernmost edge of the Asian landmass and on the shores of the busy shipping lanes of the Singapore Strait, Malaysia's Petronas is starting up a state-of-the art petroleum processing hub, called RAPID.
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But they influenced my accessibility such that Canadian press stories went ahead without hearing from the Canadian researcher involved, and without learning how the story fit within the mission of my organization to inform Canadians about the geology of the Canadian landmass.
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And fears about the noise created by the sonic booms they create—the result of flying faster than the speed of sound—have led to regulations that restrict supersonic flights, most significantly in the United States, which bans them over its landmass.
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A United Nations convention, which Canada ratified in 2003, says signatories need to pay the International Seabed Authority (ISA) if companies drill on the "extended continental shelf," the seabed part of a country's landmass, but more than 200 nautical miles (230 miles) offshore.
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Their eventual goal was for all 28 percent of the American landmass currently managed by the federal government—including 47 percent of the contiguous West—to be "returned" to the people, and be governed by a frontier-era system of claimed property rights.
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Minister of Mining and Heavy Industry Ts. Dashdorj was said to have remarked that the landlocked country bordering China and Russia and among the top 20 countries by landmass needs to take the step to resolve economic woes that go back several years.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will plant new forests covering an area roughly the size of Ireland this year as it aims to increase forest coverage to 23 percent of its total landmass by the end of the decade, China Daily reported on Friday.
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"We are a little bit scared, we have had an earthquake last night and today it was quite a big one," said Wayan Rigault, communications manager at Hotel Nengone Village on the island of Mare, which is the closest landmass to the epicenter.
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Given the bizarre climate of the landmass at the center of the bloody disputes — and the series rejects no opportunity to showcase a beheading or to offer a slashed throat close-up — you have to wonder what all the fuss is about.
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And in District 21 and District 4—which, combined, cover a large portion of the landmass along Manhattan's East Side—one of the issues that matters most to voters will come in 2019, when the L train goes offline for 15 months.
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Absolute Humidity is crafted with a welcome sense of humility, as Maunder listens and the artists infuse the conversations with the great plurality of difference across a region that occupies almost a quarter of the earth's landmass and much more of its relational ocean surfaces.
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He draws comparisons between the groups that conquered and defined Great Britain and Ireland and the First Men, the Andals, and the Targaryens alluded to in his extensive exposition on Westeros' past, but the most straightforward and visually interesting comparison is the landmass itself.
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In the village of Uroa, on the eastern coast of Unguja, villager Shaame Mcha Chambo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the present beach line represents a loss of more than 40 meters of landmass "eaten by the encroaching sea" over the past five decades.
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Their computer simulation, which is available to the public, also shows the slow and fast phases for every landmass pair that broke up in the last 240 million years, such as India and Madagascar; Australia and Antarctica; Europe and Greenland; and South America and Africa.
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"The sheer size of the Australian landmass creates some significant challenges for inflight connectivity but the recent launch of [the National Broadband Network's] satellite has opened up new opportunities that we plan to take advantage of with ViaSat's help," Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said in the statement.
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They say the Australian bushes in the genus Leptospermum are so closely related to the New Zealand bush as to be nearly indistinguishable, noting that until about 65 million years ago, Australia and New Zealand were part of the same landmass and shared the same species.
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May's allies in Parliament: • Britain would remain in a temporary customs union with the E.U. with no agreed end date • Northern Ireland would remain part of the E.U.'s single market for a transition period, avoiding a hard trade barrier in the middle of the Irish landmass.
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Or they can be boldly assertive: You'll have to stand back to take in the full somatic force of "Penumbra" (1970), nearly 23 feet across, in which halos of North America and the Eurasian landmass glow in a spray-painted field of violet, navy and hunter green.
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This is true everywhere, but in a democratic country with a population the size of California spread across a gigantic landmass, influence runs in a geographic network that we describe in shorthand as the Laurentian Elite, after the St. Lawrence River that runs through eastern Canada.
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This as close as you get to a ticket to the Signal Room, an old wooden tower perched atop Yerba Buena Island (the natural, hilly landmass from which Treasure Island extends), temporarily transformed into a speakeasy-cum-clubhouse but destined to be demolished in about a month's time.
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India has maritime interests in all directions that are "strategic and significant", said Modi, whose country is the world's fourth-largest oil importer and juts southward from the Eurasian landmass into the strategic shipping lane running from the Middle East to the rising economies of the Asia-Pacific.
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Twenty-five hundred miles from the nearest continental landmass, adrift in oceanic isolation, the Hawaiian islands taken together are the most habitat-diverse place on the planet, according to Samuel M. ʻOhukaniʻōhiʻa Gon III, a scientist with the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and an adviser to the Garden's show.
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Having the largest country in the world by landmass (that also has the largest nuclear arsenal) working in concert with the second largest (soon to be the largest) economic power in the world to isolate the U.S. is exactly the scenario that Mackinder indicated is imperative to avoid.
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Yet, as Britain prepares for a referendum on June 23 on whether to remain in the European Union, it is perhaps worth recalling that its ties to the great landmass beyond the channel long predate the bloc's establishment as a huge trading zone, creating bonds that will not easily dissolve.
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Now that President Trump is in office, people here and in other parts of the 11 states where 47 percent of the landmass is publicly owned are watching to see what he will do on everything related to public lands, from coal mining and cattle grazing to national monuments and parks.
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However, according to Tropical Power, if organic material or crops from 1 percent of Kenya's landmass were deployed in anaerobic plants connected to the grid, it would produce the equivalent of the country's entire current effective installed electrical capacity of around 1,800 MW. There are further benefits, according to Tropical Power's Nolan.
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So even though Hawaii makes up less than 1% of U.S. landmass, it's now home to nearly 45% of all endangered and threatened plants in the U.S. Last year, Nyberg, the mapping and drone program coordinator at National Tropical Botanical Garden, used a drone to discover a plant thought to be extinct.
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With the largest landmass in the world that touches on most of the global hot spots, while also touching on Europe and China, and with the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world, as well as a vote on the United Nations Security Council, Putin does not need to reform his economy to be a player.
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For these reasons, mystery has long surrounded Tasmania, but recently, the very things that made the island seem inaccessible — its raw, lonely, tree-smothered landscapes, almost half of which are nature reserves; its sparse population (just 518,000-odd people on a landmass half the size of England) — have given it a new life as a destination for hikers and the food-obsessed.
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Named after Santa Catalina Island, a landmass off the coast of California that at one point used pigeons for communication with the mainland, the project entailed fixed-wing drones "closer in size to a sparrow than an eagle" that would use high-density solid-state drives to ferry data to users who might find it prohibitively time-consuming to stream it over slow connections.
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Hundreds of residents have already lived on Treasure Island in the past two decades, and in late January, dozens of residents filed a class-action lawsuit against several defendants — including the San Francisco Health Department, the Treasure Island Development Authority, and engineering firm Tetra Tech — saying that officials lied to them for years regarding the full scope of the contamination on the landmass and their subsequent exposure to it.
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Crutzen and a group of like-minded scientists set about grounding his improvised conceit with empirical findings drawn from various earth sciences: We have dammed half of the world's large rivers, subdued nearly 40 percent of the world's landmass for agricultural use, invented plastics, smelted metals and spread other novel particles of our own devising throughout the world; according to some estimates, 95 percent of the vertebrate biomass on land consists of ourselves, our pets and livestock bred to our specifications and raised mostly in enormous industrialized monocultures.
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