Mali's March 22 coup precipitated the fall of the country's north to a mix of secular and Islamist rebels, who now control a desert region the size of France at the heart of the Sahara.
Ms. JENDAYI FRAZIER (Assistant Secretary of State): Darfur is a region the size of Texas, and so we need at least 14, 000 troops, which we'll have to turn to the United Nations to get other countries involved.
Pakistani forces have established a forceful presence in Swat, a Delaware-size region that many Pakistanis remember as a vacation spot filled with apple orchards and trout streams.
Pentagon officials say they don't have enough drones to meet existing commitments, let alone cover the Sahara, a region about the size of Europe but with only 4 million inhabitants.
Not only did Clinton's numbers sail higher from a poll taken just one month earlier (before the scandal broke), but he picked up support from every category measured in the poll -- whether measured by age, education, income, region or community size.
Firstly, Asia is the only region where the market size continues to grow.
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Potential trouble spots include medical equipment and hospitals, Internet service providers and small- to medium-size businesses throughout the region.
The organisation divides its awards into four categories: best airport by region, best airport by size, best small airport and best improvement.
The euro bond market has overtaken the dollar bond market in size, and given the region's industry a huge boost.
It now has 48 people real-estate professionals in the region, a staff roughly the same size as it has in Europe.
The source of most of the recent storms, a sunspot known as active region 9393 that is 13 times the size of Earth.
Shell's local subsidiary is the top foreign oil producer in the Niger Delta, an oil-rich region of mangroves and swamps about the size of Portugal.
The forensics team tested more than 35 deal characteristics that influenced its past track record, including how the deal was sourced, the investment size, and the sector and region in which the company operated.
For the first time, astronomers have determined the size and shape of the highly-charged region of radio emission surrounding the black hole.
In particular, we observe gender, age, education, occupation, household income, household size, presence of children in the household and region of residence.
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Shadow minister Stephen Twigg told the Commons there was no "one-size-fits-all" approach for the volatile region.
Chiang Mai, in the northern region, surrounded by mountains and filled with Buddhist temples, is second in size to Bangkok, considerably less expensive and more serene.
Its size means it could be a hazard to shipping and offshore development in the region.
And I just -- there is not a one-size-fits-all response here because, as you know, the region is very diverse.
The deal digs Mr Albanese out of a hole the size of Tom Price, the huge iron-ore complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in which Chinalco stands to take a stake.
They said the size and geography of the Highlands was a challenge to achieving a similar network in the region.
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