Sentence examples for inland borders from inspiring English sources

On his recommendation, the Brazilian military closed off thousands of miles of inland borders and assumed control of vast disputed territories; consequently, other South American nations yielded to Brazil some 342,000 square miles (886,000 square km) of land an area larger than France.

Brazil faces the Atlantic Ocean along 4,600 miles (7,400 km) of coastline and shares more than 9,750 miles (15,700 km) of inland borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador specifically, Uruguay to the south; Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia to the southwest; Peru to the west; Colombia to the northwest; and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana to the north.

The coastal plain's inland border is generally marked by canals that separate the plain from interior swamps.

In 1927, the Privy Council fixed Labrador's inland border on the watershed (or the highest point of land) between the Atlantic Ocean and the Hudson Bay.

Since 1998, Ethiopia and Eritrea have battled sporadically over inland border territory at a cost of tens of thousands of lives.

It's possible to save a couple of hundred thousand dollars by living on the side of the island that faces inland, bordering the Indian River.

In Brooks County, just seventy miles north of the Rio Grande, the sheriff's department doesn't qualify for border-specific federal funds, despite the large number of migrants who have died there in recent years while trying to circumvent an inland Border Patrol checkpoint.

Let's meet in California and jump up and down on its inland border until it slips into the sea, which would really save us some money, and when we've done it we can raise their tax refund IOUs high in the air.

The first study site is 50 km inland and borders the Great Dismal Swamp in Chesapeake, Virginia.

However, China is a multi-ethnic country without colonies, and is divided into inland areas, border and ethnic minority areas instead of suzerain and colonies.

Most of these ethnic minority groups live in inland or border districts in the less-developed western regions [ 8].