The earliest of the city states of the ancient Near East appeared at the southern end of the Mesopotamian plain, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq.

古代近东地区最早的城邦出现在美索不达米亚平原的南端，该地区位于底格里斯河和幼发拉底河之间，也就是现在的伊拉克境内。

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And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

他们往东边迁移的时候，在示拿地遇见一片平原，就住在那里。

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The river has irrigated the vast land east of Songnen Plain and nourished local people in the past hundreds of years.

这条古老的河流，千百年来滋润着松嫩平原东部广袤的土地，养育着这里的居民。

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Beneath it, stretching all the way to the feet of Ubirr, lies a huge and perfectly flat, lettuce-green flood plain, through which the lazy curves of the East Alligator River meander.

BBC: Australia��s Top End

The worst-affected areas are the fertile Hauran plain, south of Damascus, and the wheat-belt east of the Euphrates river.

ECONOMIST: Syria

General Description Bordered to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, this biosphere reserve is situated in the lower coastal plain in the Carolinian-South Atlantic region close to the city of Charleston.

UNESCO: Biosphere Reserve Information