It hangs in every government and party office in the enclave: the Kurds' official map of Iraqi Kurdistan.

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If it were to appear on an official map, it would look like a sardine sandwiched between Ukraine in the east and Moldova to the west.

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That covered an area far beyond the official 30km restriction zone (see map).

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The Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK (Hero) site is the official portal to higher education, with a clickable map and profiles of all universities and higher education colleges.

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"I do not want to be a UEFA president who, during his term of office, sees prestigious clubs that form part of our sport's heritage disappear from the football map due to bankruptcy, " he said on UEFA's official Web site.

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Experiments at the University of Essex, he said, showed subjects using his map for route planning up to 25% faster than those using the official version.

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He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.

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"They are all over the map, depending on whom you talk on any given day, " said the senior U.S. official.

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