By comparison, Brazilians may dance the forró in the north and the samba in the south, but theirs is a pretty homogeneous and monolingual country of 190m, all on one land mass.

相比之下，虽然巴西人会在北部跳弗乐，在南部跳森巴，但他们的种族分布均匀，同说一种语言，1.9亿人口生活在同一片广阔的大地上。

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If Mr Karzai does win, many in the relatively peaceful north of the country, where voters turned out in large Numbers, may feel cheated.

阿富汗北部地区相对和平，这里有大批选民参与了投票。倘若卡尔扎伊先生果真当选，许多北方人会觉得受到了欺骗。

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In May 1998, the expressway system was augmented by the completion of the Ting Kau Bridge and the Route 3 (Country Park Section), which provided easy access to the North-West New Territories.

汀九桥及三号干线郊野公园段也于1998年五月通车，将快速公路连接至新界西北部。

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In May, 15 people were killed when a plane crashed trying to land at an airport in the north of the country.

BBC: Darren Kelly

"This may be the most severe natural disaster that we've faced in this country, " says Carol North, a psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine.

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Yet Russia's new national-security strategy, published in May, talks about the country's ambitions as a world power, but, except for North Korea, signally fails to mention the Asia-Pacific region.

ECONOMIST: Russia does not exactly soar in its Asian backyard