Thanks to satellite television, the long-suffering residents around the lake, which abutted Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria until it began to dry up and shrink over the past few decades (see map), have a rough understanding of what has happened recently in Iraq.
When Wyman Wilson moved on to the property in the 1970s, it was a pleasant enough spot, largely because it abutted a nicely weathered covered bridge where the local kids hung out.Nobody would have predicted that 25 years later, the world would literally be beating a path to Mr Wilson's door.
On the west the Dnieper Upland is abutted by the rugged Volyn-Podilsk Upland, which rises to 1,545 feet (471 metres) at its highest point, Mount Kamula.
In Asia, where taiga abutted directly on the steppe, hunters and gatherers of the forest were prone to migrate into the open grasslands.
Clark Air Base, a major U.S. Air Force base in the Philippines, also abutted the volcano.
Though that document exhorted its signatories to cooperate in instances in which conservation areas abutted one another, few efforts were actually made.
The parish abutted the Brontë's Howarth, but it was more the experience of working in a hilly, and ethnically mixed community, that struck the couple.
But others said questions would be raised about the performance of aerobatic stunts above areas such as busy thoroughfares, especially at sites such as Shoreham where the airfield is abutted by the built-up south coast and the North Downs with the A27 running along its north perimeter.
Secession, David Bouley's French-Italian bistro, used to be Danube, David Bouley's formal Viennese dining room, which abutted Bouley, David Bouley's flagship restaurant, which is now Bouley Bakery & Market, David Bouley's gourmet grocery store.
Checkpoints of plump sandbags abutted the majestic, ancient stones on either side of the gate.
It was right by Ganesh's house, and it, too, abutted the highway.
