With 67 berths and extensive dry-dock facilities, it is the largest man-made port in the world and the largest port in the Gulf region and in the Middle East.
Three state Chinese oil companies now have interests in nearly 20 African countries, from Libya in the north, to Nigeria in the west, Angola in the south and Ethiopia in the east.
Their journeys and settlements stretch from South East Asia and Melanesia in the West, to Hawaii in the north, Rapanui or Easter Island in the East and Aotearoa New Zealand in the South.
They first appear in the fossil record hundreds of thousand of years ago and, at their peak, dominated a wide range, spanning Britain and Iberia in the west to Israel in the south and Uzbekistan in the east.
There is a broad pattern repeated across these tables, with a cluster of Asian, Pacific Rim, countries at the top, European and western countries in the upper and middle ranks, with countries in North Africa and the Middle East in the lower ranks.
Among baby girls, Lily was the most popular name in five regions including the North East, South West and Wales, Olivia in two regions - North West and Yorkshire and The Humber - Amelia in East and West Midlands, and Isabella proving the most popular in London.
The Northern Irish are most likely to be teetotal and people living in the east Midlands drink more milk than anyone else in Britain and people in the north east are more likely to play the National Lottery.
And the peace process in Sudan, particularly in the south and in the east of the country, is intimately tied to the relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and war between them would enormously complicate that relationship and probably destabilize the peace process in Sudan.
Networks of exiles dominate trade in many parts of the world: the Indians in east Africa and parts of the Caribbean, the Chinese in South-East Asia, and so on.
The new figures also showed the rate of under-age conceptions is highest in north east England and lowest in the south east and eastern region.
Right-wing analysts herald the ballooning population of the Republican-leaning states in the South and West and the relative stagnation of the Democratic bastions in the Midwest and north-east as proof of the superiority of Republican policies.
Monday's arrests were made during raids on a small farm and rest house in the capital Riyadh as well as hideouts in the central province of Qassim and in the east of the country.
As a result of consolidation since the industry was deregulated in 1980, America has four big firms, two in the west and two in the east.
Mr Kuchma won a clear victory against the incumbent, receiving strong support from the industrial and comparatively "Russified" areas in the east and south, and his worst results in the nationalist west.
Panama's famous canal links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the UAE is home to the Jebel Ali port -- the biggest in the Middle East and the largest man-made harbor in the world.
That was the situation in Europe in the 1950s and in East Asia in the 1970s.
Although it is conceivable that there will be no new nuclear powers in 2020, it is also quite possible that there might be half a dozen or more, some in East Asia and others in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
The emergence of leaders such as Tony Blair and George W Bush and the continuing instability in the Middle East and regional politics of Iraq, Iran and the former Soviet states remain a blindspot from the curriculum.
And because of the importance of building stability and countering violent extremism in the Middle East and South Asia, we are increasing the number of Foreign Office staff in those regions by 30 per cent.
She helped investigate war crimes in Kosovo, was involved in identifying bodies from the tsunami in the Far East and worked with the FBI in relation to political deaths in Grenada.
He said the biggest challenge on the horizon for the London Underground map would be the forthcoming Crossrail line linking Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west and Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.
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Dylan usually tours in the spring and is already booked for much of April for shows in the East and Midwest, none of them in the New York City area.
Among staff affected are 350 based in Tiverton in south-west England, another 65 in Edinburgh in Scotland, as well as a further 600 or so in New York and White Plains in the US, Singapore in East Asia, and in several other offices around the world.
Today Europe faces many challenges, among them the euro's stability and turmoil in neighboring North Africa and in the Middle East.
In Yorkshire and the Humber the figure is nearly 15, 000 and in the North East it is nearly 8, 000.
The seats in the assembly are divided among the country's three main regions -- Tripolitania in the west, Cyrenica in the east and Fezzan in the south.
Its potential lies at the intersection of Socially Responsible Investing(SRI) in the West and Islamic Finance in the East.
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To cope with the influx, the bureau is expanding its centres in the northern Jaffna peninsula and Welikanda in the east.
Obama said the soldiers and Marines "will take the fight to the Taliban in the south and east" and will work with Afghan troops along the border.
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