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East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesian: Nusa Tenggara Timur) is the southernmost province of Indonesia.It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the north.
Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies, CATA - Spanish & English [9]; CATA is the largest Chilean R&D facility that exists for the development of technologies useful for astronomy.
Studying Website Usability in Asia, Ather Nawaz and Torkil Clemmensen select Asian countries on the basis of United Nations statistical divisions, and Taiwan is also included. [ 5 ] Taiwan is also included in the UN Geoscheme of Eastern Asia in one systematic review on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
In 1958, the Soviet Geographical Society formally recommended that the boundary between Asia and Europe be drawn in textbooks from Baydaratskaya Bay, on the Kara Sea, along the eastern foot of the Ural Mountains, then following the Ural River until the Mugodzhar Hills, and then the Emba River; and Kuma–Manych Depression, [82] thus placing the ...
Russia, or "the Russian Federation," is a nation of Europe. The "Northern Asia" name is unofficially recognized; for example, the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names includes an Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division. "Northern Asia" comes from traditional usage, which divides Europe from Asia at the Ural Mountains.
Satellite Image of Hong Kong Location of Hong Kong with respect to the Pearl River Delta Map showing Hong Kong and surrounding cities Hong Kong borders the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong Province (1954) Map including Hong Kong and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (1955) Map including Hong Kong and surrounding region (DMA, 1984) Enlargeable, detailed map of the Hong ...
Obelisk of the Geographical Center of Asia, Kyzyl, Tuva, Russia The location of the geographical centre of Asia (Russian: Центр Азии; Tuvan: Азияның Төвү; Chinese: 亚洲地理中心) depends on the definition of the borders of Asia, mainly whether remote islands are included to define the extreme points of Asia, and on the method of calculating the final result.
Miangas means "exposed to piracy", because pirates from Mindanao used to visit the island. [1] In the Sasahara language, [a] the island is called Tinonda (Minahasan: Poilaten), meaning "people who live separated from the main archipelago" and "our island", respectively. [2]