This year much more limited fires have raged, mainly in Riau, a province in central Sumatra of 6m people and about 90, 000 sq km-roughly the size of Portugal.

廖内是苏门答腊中部的一个省份，人口600万，面积约9万平方公里，与葡萄牙的国土面积几乎相当。今年东南亚小规模林火的次数骤增，主要肆虐在廖内省。

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For example, only three universities are designated as key institutions in Hunan, although the province is about the size of Britain.

以湖南为例，只有三几所大学被定为重点大学，虽然这个省份的面积犹如英属不列颠那么大。

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In Sichuan province, for example, there are 1, 171 registered U.S. companies, although there is no accounting for their size or whether they are joint ventures with Chinese firms.

以在四川省为例，有1171家注册的美国公司，但是没有对他们的规模以及他们是否是中外合资公司的统计。

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Bergeron also pointed to smaller producers and exploration companies in the province who do not have the same size portfolio as Goldcorp.

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He found that a Canadian province in 1996 was 12 times more likely to trade merchandise and 40 times more likely to trade services with another Canadian province than with an American state of similar size and distance.

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