The massive plant in Freeport, Texas, Dow's largest manufacturing facility and the biggest chemical complex in North America, was selected for the first "living laboratory" study because of its ecologically important location on the Gulf of Mexico, amid coastal marshes, the lower Brazos River basin, and a largely depleted hardwood forest ecosystem.
The geographical location of Dhaka with its network of inland waterways made it an important location both strategically and commercially.
Beyond its important geographic location, the city holds added significance for IS, because it's the location where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group's leader, announced the formation of a new caliphate in 2014.
He called the attacks the "great strikes that hit the United States in its most important locations.
While the Scottish monarchy remained a largely itinerant institution, Scone remained one of its most important locations, with Royal castles at Stirling and Perth becoming significant in the later Middle Ages before Edinburgh developed as a capital in the second half of the fifteenth century.
"We know that Libya is an important country, it has an important location and long coast on the Mediterranean sea which is facing Europe.
Renowned in ancient times for its frankincense and metalworking, Oman occupies a strategically important location, for which it has long been a prize for empire builders.
The material came from Tuwaitha, an important location in Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons development program until it was largely shut down after the Persian Gulf war of 1991.
"Long Island remains an important location, in the eyes of a Republican majority or a Democratic majority," he said.
Dotted with the ruins of ancient civilizations, Tunisia is an important location for the study of world archaeology and architecture.
