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The term "Low Country" originally referred to all of the states below the Fall Line, or the Sandhills, which run the width of the states from Aiken County to Chesterfield County. The Sandhills, or Carolina Sandhills, is a 15–60 km wide region within the Atlantic Coastal Plain province, along the inland margin of this province.
Low country is a large lowland. Specific uses are: Predominantly, South Carolina Lowcountry in the United States of America; Low Countries, a historical region in Europe, although rarely used in this context see also Netherlands (terminology) Low Country, and old term for the Scottish Borders plus far Northern England region; Low Country
The Low Countries as seen from NASA space satellite. The Low Countries (Dutch: de Lage Landen; French: les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the ...
The percentage of the population living below national poverty line (%) – poverty line deemed appropriate for a country by its authorities (however definitions of the poverty line vary considerably among nations). Sorting is alphabetical by country code, according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.
Lowcountry cuisine is the cooking traditionally associated with the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Georgia coast. While it shares features with Southern cooking, its geography, economics, demographics, and culture pushed its culinary identity in a different direction from regions above the Fall Line.
Lonely Planet has unveiled its best-in-class travel list for 2025, with trending Toulouse, France, taking the top spot for a city break. In the 15th edition of Lonely Planet’s “Best in Travel ...
Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) is a digital library project hosted by the College of Charleston in the U.S. state of South Carolina.Part of the Digital Library of America network, the Lowcountry Digital Library hosts about 200 collections of primary sources [1] drawn from organizations including the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston Library Society, Avery Research Center for ...
The Low Countries in 1786 with the Austrian Netherlands highlighted. Apart from its topographic usage for the then multi-government area of the Low Countries, the 15th century saw the first attested use of Nederlandsch as a term for the Dutch language, by extension hinting at a common ethnonym for people living in different fiefdoms.