Gun-control advocates have long viewed Hartford, the capital, as hospitable terrain, because Connecticut is a relatively liberal state and already has more gun restrictions than most.
Old San Juan is like the Greenwich Village of the Puerto Rican capital, except its terrain is steeper and its buildings are awash in pastel pinks, blues, yellows and greens.
Drawn up for missions over the Iraqi capital's complicated terrain, the rules are intended to prevent additional deaths of allied forces or civilians.
The North Korean 239th Regiment had subsequently established defensive positions on a line of hills extending southwest to northeast across the highway at Yongju and the railway at Opa-ri, on ground which offered the best defensive terrain between capital and the Chongchon River.
The abundance of maps today obscures the fact that in 1861, even just a few miles from the capital, written knowledge of the terrain was often severely limited.
Territorial conflict is more likely in sparsely populated regions near the state border, at a distance from the capital, and without significant rough terrain.
Nasir al-Wahishi, the new "emir of the Arabian Peninsula", a Yemeni, to whom they have sworn loyalty, was himself one of 23 al-Qaeda suspects who escaped from a prison in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, in 2006.With its rough terrain, weak central state and gun-slinging tribal culture, Yemen may prove a fairly secure redoubt for al-Qaeda.
More recent residential and commercial buildings and family rice fields occupy lower terrain throughout the capital.
Washington is fresh terrain.
It follows a trail through hellish terrain between Whitehorse, the capital of Canada's Yukon territory, and Fairbanks, the hub of Alaska's interior.
