Take, for example, the province of Bamiyan, a mountainous region in the center of the country.
The epicenter: Wenchuan County, a lush, mountainous region with a population of more than 111, 000 people.
Mr Maillaud added that such vehicles were common during the tourist season in a mountainous region.
At least 3, 000 people were injured, and some 20 villages in the mountainous region were destroyed.
Last year it shifted Myanmar's capital from the port of Yangon to Naypyidaw, in a remote mountainous region.
And by no means must it have origins in Kashmir, the mountainous region from which it takes its name.
They have reasserted control in isolated areas of Afghanistan such as Nuristan Province, a mountainous region north of Kabul and adjacent to Pakistan.
The deaths, damage and recovery efforts came after a total of three quakes struck the region in rapid succession in a mountainous region.
Only after 42 years did the czarist army finally subdue the mountainous region and make it part of the expanding Russian empire, in 1859.
Others had made a "tactical withdrawal to the Adrar des Ifoghas", the mountainous region east of Kidal covering some 250, 000 sq km (96, 525 sq miles), he said.
If it is a little more basic, such as a margherita, he recommends a Montepulciano, a wild, robust red wine from Abruzzo, the mountainous region in central Italy.
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According to the BBC's Ian MacWilliam in Kabul, Baghran lies in a poor, remote and mountainous region, which would have difficulty supporting large numbers of fighters at the best of times.
The world's largest mountain gorilla population, thought to number fewer than 500 animals, is found in a mountainous region known as the Virungas, incorporating Uganda's Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and Virunga National Park.
The news out of Tunisia in the past week has been depressingly familiar for the Middle East: roadside bombs badly wounding soldiers and police as they comb a cave-filled mountainous region for al-Qaida linked militants.
The world's largest mountain gorilla population, thought to number less than 500 animals, is found in a mountainous region known as the Virungas, incorporating Volcanoes, Uganda's Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
His mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, told the AP that her son greatly enjoyed his time with her relatives, but never traveled to her native village in a mountainous region of Dagestan, which is a hotbed of an ultraconservative strain of Islam known as Wahabbism.
Modern cowboys should head for Mongolia to explore the mountainous Arhangay region by horseback.
Another 12, 000 hectares are grown legally in the mountainous Yungas region.
Hakura said the Turkish military wanted to conduct a surprise attack against the PKK prior to the springtime, when violent attacks tend to escalate, and when the snow in the mountainous border region leaves the fighters' footprints.
U.S. troops and anti-Taliban Afghan fighters are searching hundreds of caves and tunnels in the mountainous Tora Bora region of eastern Afghanistan for any remaining al Qaeda or Taliban forces.
It accuses the PKK of launching attacks on Turkish targets from secret bases in the mountainous and semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Five thousand inhabitants of Nanhua country in Yunnan Province had no choice but to leave their homes in mountainous areas and set up camp near streams in a lowland region.
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