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Surajpur district is located in northern Chhattisgarh, in the Surguja region. The district is bordered by Koriya district to the west, Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh to the north, Balrampur district to the northeast, Surguja district to the southeast and Korba district to the south.
This is a list of some of the regions of Indonesia.Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. At different times of Indonesia's history, the nation has been designated as having regions that do not necessarily correlate to the current administrative or physical geography of the territory of the nation.
The term Southeast Asian Massif [1] was proposed in 1997 by anthropologist Jean Michaud [2] to discuss the human societies inhabiting the lands above an elevation of approximately 300 metres (1,000 ft) in the southeastern portion of the Asian landmass, thus not merely in the uplands of conventional Mainland Southeast Asia.
The geographer, Claudius Ptolemaeus, distinguishes between geography, which is "a representation in picture of the whole known world," and chorography ("study of places"), which "treats more fully the particulars." [12] The idea of the continents is geography and is presented as such. A chorographer in Ptolemy's view was the expert in a ...
Each district is governed by a District Magistrate, who is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer appointed Government of Uttar Pradesh and reports to Divisional Commissioner of the division in which his district falls. [106] The Divisional Commissioner is an IAS officer of high seniority.
In 2004, the IUCN–World Conservation Union identified 81 IAS in South Africa, 49 in Mauritius, 37 in Algeria and Madagascar, 35 in Kenya, 28 in Egypt, 26 in Ghana and Zimbabwe, and 22 in Ethiopia. [47] However, very little is known about IAS in Nigeria, with most technical reports and literature reporting fewer than 10 invasive plants in the ...
Aurangabad district occupies an area of 3,389 square kilometres (1,309 sq mi), [6] comparatively equivalent to Russia's Vaygach Island. [7] Aurangabad town is the administrative headquarters of this district.
3.1 Geography. 3.2 Geology. 3.3 ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... It was the only South Asian city to be ranked among National Geographic's "Top 10 food ...