Gabon straddles the Equator and rises from Africa's west coast in a river-laced patchwork of savannah, deep forest and mountains.
The Ossetians, who number about 60,000, are part of the patchwork of ethnic groups that inhabit the mountains of the Caucasus.
The map of government land concessions is a patchwork of geometric boxes overlaying southern Ecuador's mountains and rivers.
Elsewhere he spoke of "mountains of trash".
The center core would represent the mountain of stone, a patchwork of blues and grays.
The mountain sides are a patchwork of terraced farmland, forests, and traditional villages, populated with a variety of ethnic groups, including Newars (mostly in the Kathmandu Valley), Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Chhetri and Brahmin.
And the land they work is a patchwork of small fields, nestled in valleys between the mountains and dotted with homes and convenience stores.
A patchwork of lush meadows, glacial lakes and heather-topped mountains, the Ring of Kerry includes highlights like the rugged Beara Peninsula and the Kerry Way - Ireland's longest and oldest walking route.
The three survivors rolled down mountain roads and onto a patchwork of fields until we again hit the Mekong River and found, nestled against it, the mythical town of Luang Prabang, Laos' religious and cultural center.
Here, where the northwestern Lake District mountains slide toward the Irish Sea, the patchwork of electoral outcomes offered a microcosm of the mixed signals that underpin the new coalition assembled over four fraught days of seesawing negotiation.
