The Boundary Commission has chosen to cross the Cornwall-Devon border in the shallow upper reaches of the Tamar.

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They volunteered to work on a pig farm at a kibbutz called Dafna, in the Upper Galilee, near the Lebanese border.

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Geographically speaking Alsace is located in the upper eastern edge of France along the German border.

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It covers an area roughly half the size of France within the Upper Paraguay River Basin, extending over the border into Paraguay and Bolivia.

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The UK Border Agency raided the company's HQ in Upper Mulgrave Road, Sutton on 15 January as part of an investigation into suspected assistance of illegal workers and fraud.

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Against that, the Sewel Convention (named after Lord (John) Sewel who piloted the 1998 Act through the Upper house as a minister) is designed to elide cross-border arguments.

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Mr McCausland said that the outcome of the development by cross-border funding of a 12km stretch of canal between Clones and Upper Lough Erne would be clearer when it was completed in 2013.

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Requena is a very small city in the Upper Amazon region of Peru (population 25, 000), near a tri-border area with Colombia and Brazil.

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Jamam is one of three Upper Nile camps sheltering at least 113, 000 refugees who have crossed the frequently unmarked border to escape a counter-insurgency campaign in neighbouring Blue Nile state conducted by heavily armed Sudanese government troops.

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