The most pronounced regional cleavage is between Kyongsang in the south-east and the Cholla region in the south-west.
AK's case has not been helped by the lacklustre candidates it is fielding in the south-east.
They have caused uproar among county councils in the south-east by ordering big increases in housebuilding.
Agriculture seems to have arrived fully formed in what is now Kent, in the south-east, around 4050BC.
But top public-sector management jobs are probably more concentrated in the south-east than the rest of the country.
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In contrast, the fewest low-earners are to be found in the south-east, the east and the south west.
Most Kurdish voters in the south-east complied with the wishes of the largest Kurdish party to boycott the referendum.
The most crucial region, however, is the Detroit area in the south-east, home to almost half the state's population.
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Measures to keep down prices in the south-east will diminish the tendency for growth to spin out from the south-east.
Yet the Cabinet Office report says that educational attainment levels are much lower in the north-east than in the south-east.
In the past few years, they have made steady progress, confining Labour to their traditional strongholds in the south-east of the city.
And in the south-east Ogaden region are Muslim Somalis, who have more in common with neighbouring Somalia than with the remote Tigrayans.
Even a new runway will not remove capacity constraints in the south-east.
MPs in safer areas, by cutting back Labour's representation in its own heartlands while helping Labour win new seats in the south-east.
But prices in the South-East are still racing, prices elsewhere are beginning to pick up and the market has been gathering force.
Later this year, the Competition Commission will almost certainly insist that BAA surrender its airport monopoly in the south-east by selling Gatwick and Stansted.
In Diyarbakir and elsewhere in the south-east, new efforts are being made to protect vulnerable women through emergency hotlines and shelters for abused women.
The soldiers who were killed on Thursday had left their Warrior armoured vehicle in the south-east of Basra when an improvised explosive device was detonated.
Since population growth in London tends to spill over into the surrounding region, the furious debate over house-building in the south-east is likely to intensify.
As a direct follow-up, the UNESCO Venice Office is seeking now to support training and capacity-building seminars at national levels, in the South-East European region.
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott last week confirmed proposals for 1.1 million new homes to be built in the south-east over the next 11 years.
Whereas similarly well-placed cities in the south-east such as Oxford or Guildford are restrained by green belts and Byzantine planning processes, these places embrace developers.
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Others argue that the house-price rises in the south-east are necessary.
The regional breakdown showed the most net closures in the south-east of England, where 1, 654 closures and 1, 278 openings resulted in the loss of 376 shops.
He gained most votes in the capital, Nouakchott and his home Trarza region in the south-east, officials say, while Mr Abdallahi won Mauritania's other 11 regions.
"The costs in terms of traffic delays as a result of piecemeal maintenance will be badly felt by road users in the south-east Dorset conurbation, " he added.
Squatting groups say there has been a rise in the practice since the mid-2000s due to a lack of affordable housing, particularly in the South-East of England.
In his two-page letter about rejecting the honour, published in Nigerian newspapers, Achebe was most scathing about the situation in his home state of Anambra in the south-east.
As part of the trial cull, researchers have trapped and euthanised sick animals two to five times a year from an isolated population in the south-east of Tasmania.
The discoveries are part of an on-going project started last year when scientists unearthed hundreds of dodo bones at Mare aux Songes in the south-east of the island.
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