The Phewa lake adjoins the main tourism area housing mainly hotels and restaurants.

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Sabi Sand, which adjoins Kruger National Park, is widely considered to be the best place in Africa for spotting animals.

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The mill's proposed site adjoins a habitat for three endangered marsupials: the Tasmanian devil, the spot-tailed quoll and the eastern barred bandicoot.

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Dagestan adjoins Chechnya, lies at the eastern extremity of the Caucasus mountain range, and the Dagestani capital, Makhachkala, sits on the Caspian coast.

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Kris Hedstrom, the director of CHEP's Innovation Center, which adjoins the plant, is wearing earplugs, protective glasses and hard plastic shoe covers over his toes.

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Geraldo Quintao, the defence minister, is pushing for funds to build two new barracks, one on the Colombian border and another close to where Brazil adjoins Venezuela and Guyana.

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