Known for its mountains, the area is near a well-known preserve for pandas.
If revenues do not flow in, investors may look for a quick exit, and Google could provide that, with its mountains of cash.
We will not police its streets or patrol its mountains indefinitely.
In Lebanon, violence, war and other forms of strife are as permanent a part of the terrain as its breathtaking mountains.
Historically, the area was so isolated by its ring of mountains that until 1895 only a footpath connected it to the rest of Slovenia.
Morocco is trying to entice more western filmmakers to its fabulous landscapes of mountains, sea and sand, and it recently won the right to continue to subsidise its fledgling film industry in a trade deal with America.
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The wild geography and topography around Killary, with its gorse-covered mountains, sweeping valleys and white sand beaches, presents both stark beauty and physical challenges.
Thanks to its proximity to the mountains, Lake Placid offers "just what the Adirondacks offer, " said Kim Rielly, spokeswoman at the Lake Placid Convention and Visitors Bureau.
From Pakistan's northern mountains to its southern plains, the floods have washed away roads, bridges and railway, while entire villages have been rubbed out and countless livestock drowned.
With its comparably haunting scenery, including rice fields in the south and misty mountains in the north, its temples, some of which predate Angkor Wat, and its relative lack of crowds, Laos, ready or not, may just be it.
Welsh Abergavenny for its recently Michelin-starred Walnut Tree and Black Mountains lamb, and Manchester-neighbour Ramsbottom for its wild garlic and South Indian cuisine.
Lantau's relatively few residents, as well as its swaths of undeveloped verdant mountains and clean beaches, mean that it's an ideal and accessible getaway.
Thanks to its position between sea and mountains, Catalonia is marked by dozens of microclimates, each producing ingredients and plates that are tied indelibly to their terroir.
The Geopark extends roughly from Durness to Ullapool, and the landscape it contains has inspired many who have explored its 480 square miles of mountains, peatland, beaches, forest and coast.
Local lore has it that Buddha looked at this location between the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers with its ring of lushly forested mountains and predicted that a great city would someday be built here.
Its size gives it access to mountains of data and to economies of scale that others cannot match.
But among hikers, it is known for its 27 hiking routes through pristine mountains said to be millions of years old.
Wineries are clustered along the length of the 132-mile long Okanagan Valley, which has a string of lakes running through its middle and is surrounded by mountains on either side.
And sat atop the range like a rocky prong is the peak of Naranjo de Bulnes, its shape more akin to the mountains in the windy wilds of Patagonia than the northern coast of Spain.
Canada followed in 1885, founding its first national park in the Rocky Mountains, now Banff National Park.
Tata Tea (now Tata Global Beverages) has sold its vast plantation in the Western Ghat mountains where it was the biggest employer for more than a century.
Despite the mountains of documents released since its publication, and a mountain of criticism of his conclusions, Posner says there is no plan to update it, other than perhaps including a new foreword.
The San Fernando Valley, which makes up the northern third of the city and is separated from most of it by the Santa Monica mountains, feels poorly served by its parent.
After Fireman's Fund was sold, Mr. Byrne held on to its holding company, known today as White Mountains Insurance Group, and used it to do deals for smaller, often troubled, insurance companies before retiring in 2007.
Its 24m people are scattered over deserts and craggy mountains in 150, 000 settlements.
The energy, support and expectations surrounding this Buffaloes program are as high as the mountains that surround the western edge of its campus.
That has made Ireland, with its large tracts of sparsely populated moorland, rugged mountains and windswept valleys, a perfect setting for many of these challenging, unusual sports.
The brainchild of American biologist Theron Morgan-Brown, it's based in Tanzania's East Usambara Mountains -- a region known for its biodiversity, but where forests are being cleared to produce charcoal and to open up farmland.
Hemmed in by the sea and mountains, Aberdeen is 65 miles north of its nearest city, Dundee.
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