The area of land encompasses 11 million hectares, or just over 101,000 sq km and only 150 people live on the land.
Meanwhile, a change in state law last year gave Suffolk authority to supervise the leasing of 110,000 acres of state-owned underwater land, encompassing most of the bottoms of Peconic Bay and Gardiners Bay.
President John Adams named Harrison secretary of the Northwest Territory, a vast tract of land encompassing most of the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, in 1798, and he was sent to Congress as a territorial delegate the following year.
If a UN resolution reaffirmed support for two states broadly along the 1967 border, those who reject Israel's existence, calling for a single state on all the land encompassing Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, would be wrong-footed.This is not to give Mr Abbas carte blanche.
Thirdly, from a daily-life angle, land encompasses the private livelihood of individuals, which is oppressed by the state and the market.
The complex covers 5445 ha of land encompassing the entire Makiling Forest Reserve (MFR) and surrounding areas.
This vast pristine ecosystem is the centerpiece of what has been referred to as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem", a region of protected land encompassing.
Netanyahu will not accept limits in what the Israelis have unilaterally termed "East Jerusalem"—but which is, in fact, an extensive swatch of land encompassing about 10% of the West Bank and 22 Palestinian villages.
You won't find many people besides work crews and tourists in the Chernobyl "exclusion zone"—an irradiated, roughly 4,300 square kilometre swath of land encompassing the site of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe.
I love the extraordinary lands encompassed in America's Red Rock Wilderness Act.
