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Within Maryland the county is the default unit of local government. Under Maryland law, counties exercise powers reserved in most other states at the municipal or state levels, so there is little incentive for a community to incorporate. Many of the state's most populous and economically important communities, such as Bethesda, Silver Spring ...
Upper Nubia is the southernmost part of Nubia, upstream on the Nile from Lower Nubia. It is so called because the Nile flows north, so it is further upstream and of higher elevation in relation to Lower Nubia. The extension of Upper Nubia is rather ill-defined and depends on the researchers’ approach.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... GPX (secondary coordinates) in Category:Unincorporated communities in Maryland by county ...
Lower Nubia shown as a list of monuments at risk in the 1960 UNESCO Courier. Lower Nubia (also called Wawat) [1] [2] is the northernmost part of Nubia, roughly contiguous with the modern Lake Nasser, which submerged the historical region in the 1960s with the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Maryland has no natural lakes, mostly due to the lack of glacial history in the area. [7] All lakes in the state today were constructed, mostly via dams. [8] Buckel's Bog is believed by geologists to have been a remnant of a former natural lake. [9] Maryland has shale formations containing natural gas, where fracking is theoretically possible. [10]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Lower Nubia was apparently reoccupied by the Kushites, to whom Hugronaphor turned for aid. Despite Kushite aid, in August 186 BC, the Ptolemaic army defeated the forces of Hugronaphor's successor Chaonnophris and his Kushite allies, and Ptolemaic rule was re-established over Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia. [ 5 ]
Greater Upper Marlboro is located at 1]. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Greater Upper Marlboro (red area on this map) had a total area of 37.5 square miles (97 km 2), of which 37.2 square miles (96 km 2) was land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2), or 0.75%, was water.