The Baltic coastal area is fringed by a region characterized by geographers as the maritime depression, which rises gradually eastward.
At the same time, it lies within a region characterized by a high degree of seismic activity.
The Ozark region, characterized by many underground streams and springs, is drained by the Osage, Gasconade, White, and Black rivers.
It was inconceivable that Pope John Paul II, as he glided serenely though the Holy Land on a personal pilgrimage and a secondary mission of interfaith healing, would transform a region characterized by divisiveness and hatred.
From 1997 to 2002, Yanukovych was the appointed governor of Donetsk province, a Russian-leaning industrial region characterized by a particularly violent and unreformed variety of post-Soviet patronage politics.
Families live on the base and in relatively new housing scattered on the surrounding landscape of onetime farmland, in a region characterized by flat, austere terrain and brutal winters.
The almost inaccessible region, characterized by high peaks, deep valleys, wide plateaus, and glaciers, is drained by Rapa River, which empties into Lake Laitaure.
Most of France lies within the Holarctic biogeographic vegetational region, characterized by northern species, and it can be divided into three parts.
Música y Más Vel France - Galaxia Vel France is one of the newest talents to come out of eastern Venezuela, a region characterized by alternative rock bands, but this time bringing a more melodious voice than has been heard in recent years.
East of the city are Lassen Volcanic National Park and Ishi Wilderness Area, a more than 40,000-acre (16,000-hectare) region characterized by rugged canyons, caves, wildlife, and rapids.
Coral Triangle, also called Amazon of the Seas, large, roughly triangular-shaped marine region characterized by tremendous biodiversity and spanning approximately 6 million square km (2.3 million square miles) of the western Pacific Ocean.
