While other African colonies threw off occupiers one by one, this desert expanse on the continent's north-western coast remains a disputed territory controlled primarily by next-door Morocco and locked in a nearly 40 year struggle for the right to choose its fate.
Here was an enormous expanse on the map but a small black hot place in reality.
This triangular expanse on the edge of Harlem River Drive was choked with weeds and trash and populated by feral cats.
Being new, St. Peter's Place occupies an airy, well-kept expanse on the plaza level of the church.
Nearly ten years after its launch, the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone is still a mostly desolate expanse on the edge of the city.
Later that day, Osama took me to Benghazi's main cemetery, a vast, dusty expanse on the western edge of town.
So earlier this year, I made the pilgrimage to this three million acre expanse on the California-Nevada border, following the footsteps of unknown numbers of old-time prospectors and oddballs.
The Paynes have deliberately maintained a sweeping grassy expanse on the south side of their house to emphasize the property's gentle undulations.
The strikes disrupted the output from the company, Kazmunaigaz, but did not spread to Western operations, like Chevron's Tengiz oil field, not far away in the same arid, flat expanse on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea that is the source of Kazakhstan's oil wealth.
In that lawless expanse on the Afghan border, security officials said, Lashkar could help other militant groups plan complex attacks against Afghan and international targets, possibly in exchange for reconnaissance on Indian targets from its militant allies who have operatives in Afghanistan.
