Antelope Valley | ... Boron is north of Palmdale, east of Bakersfield, and west of Barstow in the | region of California's Mojave Desert |
Willamette Valley | Several Oregon Trail branches and route variations led to the | . The most popular was the Barlow Road, which was carved though the forest ... |
Cayman Trough | ... er ridge, known as the Cayman Ridge (or Cayman Rise). This ridge flanks the | , deep which lies to the south. The islands lie in the northwest of the Ca ... |
Little Cottonwood Canyon | ... mpics. In Salt Lake County there are four ski resorts; Snowbird and Alta in | and Solitude and Brighton in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Hiking and camping are ... |
Beqaa Valley | Baalbek (; / ALA-LC: Ba‘albak) is a town in the | of Lebanon situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisi ... |
Yosemite Valley | ... o a valley after the glacier has receded or melted. The large waterfalls in | are examples of this phenomenon, which is referred to as a hanging valley. ... |
Desolation | ... that "boating is not recommended". The rapids of the Green River's Gray and | Canyons and the less difficult "Goosenecks" section of the lower San Juan ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... ll of Madera County, and Metropolitan Fresno. It is located in California's | . As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 61,416, up from 43,207 ... |
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes | ... ous as the local myths described. In Alaska, a river which runs through the | is called River Lethe |
Stilson Canyon | ... flood control channel and Doe Mill neighborhood and bordered to the east by | . Prior to it's development in the late 1980's and early 90's, Little Chic ... |
Grand Canyon | ... rks in the world; Other sites include the Taj Mahal, Great Pyramids and the | in the United States |
Yellow House Canyon | The town of Ransom Canyon is located within | , at the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado. Yellow House Canyon was carve ... |
Blackstone Valley | ... n thirteen textile mills. Daniel Day established a wool carding mill in the | at Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1809, the third woollen mill established in ... |
Pioneer Valley | ... leges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other | institutions. These include Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshir ... |
Shenandoah Valley | ... along the German migration route that led down through the "Great Valley" ( | , etc.) to the western Piedmont in North Carolina |
Puerto Rico Trench | ... ; without them it is . The greatest depth, Milwaukee Deep with , is in the | . The Atlantic's width varies from between Brazil and Sierra Leone to over ... |
Stjørdalen | ... råker is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the | region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mi ... |
Upper Rhine Plain | ... ed by maritime air masses coming from the west. In comparison to the nearby | , Heidelberg's position in the valley leads to more frequent easterly wind ... |
Unterwalden | ... the empire direct control over the mountain pass. Most of the territory of | at this time belonged to monasteries which had previously become reichsfre ... |
Sacramento Valley | Chico and the | have a typically Mediterranean climate |
San Gabriel Valley | Foothill Transit and the Metro provide bus transit services throughout the | . The main Metro Bus Terminal is in El Monte. In addition, the Metrolink c ... |
Uri | ... e latter especially became an important direct route through the mountains. | (in 1231) and Schwyz (in 1240) were accorded the Reichsfreiheit to grant t ... |
Willamette Valley | ... und Agricultural Company farms. Instead he encouraged them to settle in the | , with the American settlers, where they could get free land |
Østerdalen | ... cipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of | . The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Elverum. Th ... |
San Fernando Valley | ... eles, California. According to a 1994 article in the Los Angeles Times, the | house was built in 1959 and selected as the Brady residence because series ... |
Grand Canyon | ... nia, during which over time it has carved out natural phenomena such as the | and created phenomena such as the Salton Sea. The Columbia is a large rive ... |
Silicon Valley | ... offerings. Microsoft offered to acquire WebTV, build a Microsoft campus in | around WebTV, and establish WebTV as a Microsoft division to develop telev ... |
Ötztal | ... man the name given to the 5,300 year old frozen remains of a man in Tirol's | valley was the inspiration for Friedle's stage name |
Blackstone Valley | ... er, Manchaug, Wilkinsonville, West Sutton, and South Sutton. Located in the | , Sutton shares its borders with the towns of Millbury, Grafton, Northbrid ... |
Perth Canyon | ... oing so, it carved a gorge about the size of the Grand Canyon. Now known as | , this feature still exists as a submarine canyon near the edge of the con ... |
Glen Tilt | At | in the Cairngorm mountains in the Scottish Highlands in 1785, Hutton found ... |
Farmington Valley | Avon is a town in the | region of Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. , the town had a po ... |
Shenandoah Valley | ... consecutive terms. Virginia's economy has many sectors: agriculture in the | ; federal agencies in Northern Virginia, including the headquarters of the ... |
Snoqualmie Valley | ... e Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad including a line up into the upper | , in an attempt to build a line over the Cascade range. The land claim hol ... |
Great Glen | ... t some 20 years. It included the building of the Caledonian Canal along the | and redesign of sections of the Crinan Canal, some of new roads, over a th ... |
Coachella Valley | ... io is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the | of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. It lies east of Palm Spri ... |
Weardale | ... nergetic particles. The most outstanding examples of this originated around | and adjacent parts of northern England; it was the fluorite found here tha ... |
Antelope Valley | ... le Owl's Clover (Castilleja exserta) which can still be seen, especially in | in the Tehachapi hills. Riverside trees include willows, western sycamore ... |
Kali Gandaki Gorge | ... ons and above the biogeography of the Himalayas is generally divided by the | in central Nepal, one of the deepest canyons in the world |
Fresh Kills Landfill | ... rkers trucked most of the building materials and debris from Ground Zero to | in Staten Island. Some people, such as those affiliated with World Trade C ... |
Snake River Plain | ... xico, spread widely via native trade networks, reaching the Shoshone of the | by 1700. The Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Flathead people acquired their first h ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... S) church to lead the LDS settlers west. He chose to lead his people to the | in present day Utah. In 1847 Young led a small, especially picked fast-mov ... |
Rhine | Wiesbaden is situated on the right (northern) bank of the | River, below the confluence of the Main, where the Rhine's main direction ... |
Valley of Mexico | ... or areas, usually identified as located within or even coterminous with the | . It can also refer to the former lake basins around Mexico City, often in ... |
Silicon Valley | ... s corporate logo until early 1998. The earliest Apple IIs were assembled in | , and later in Texas; printed circuit boards were manufactured in Ireland ... |
Pioneer Valley | Westfield is a city in Hampden County, in the | of western Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Springfield, Ma ... |
San Andreas Fault | ... s situated in a moderate seismic risk zone, the principal threats being the | , which is approximately thirty miles northeast, and the Palo Colorado Fau ... |
Grand Canyon | ... owell Expedition, whose members were the first to run the river through the | . American settlers did not establish a large permanent presence in the wa ... |
Utah Valley | ... ern Shoshone to the north, the Timpanogots band of the Utes to the south in | , and the Goshutes to the west in Tooele Valley |
Grand Canyon | ... and west of Rottnest. In doing so, it carved a gorge about the size of the | . Now known as Perth Canyon, this feature still exists as a submarine cany ... |
Rhine | The district is located in the lower valley of the | , in the region where that river flows into the Netherlands |
Cumberland Valley | ... st Virginia as the Shenandoah Valley and northward into Pennsylvania as the | |
Yellow House Canyon | ... ated within Yellow House Canyon, at the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado. | was carved by the North Fork of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos Riv ... |
San Luis Valley | ... Taos Valley established several small villages along the Rio Culebra in the | and officially took possession of this portion of the Sangre de Cristo Lan ... |
Aar | ... aters at the city's spa; he died at his country house of Blumenhalde on the | |
Tualatin Valley | ... lmost entirely within the county. The county is nearly coterminous with the | and is bordered on the west and north by the Northern Oregon Coast Range, ... |
Schwyz | ... y became an important direct route through the mountains. Uri (in 1231) and | (in 1240) were accorded the Reichsfreiheit to grant the empire direct cont ... |
Mahoning Valley | Niles' location in the | , a center of steel production, ensured that the community would become a ... |
Romsdal | ... auma is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the | region. The administrative centre is the village of Åndalsnes. Other villa ... |
Rogue Valley | ... nt day Gold Hill. They were charged with finding the best route through the | for the Oregon and California Railroad. Citizens of neighboring Jacksonvil ... |
Willamette Valley | ... d by a British explorer, who navigated past the Oregon Coast Range into the | . In the following decades, fur trading companies used the Columbia as a k ... |
San Ramon Valley | ... a mix of the rolling hills of the Diablo Range and the flatter basin of the | . The city is predominantly urban and residential; however much of the lan ... |
Snake River Plain | ... ains to Island Park. For more info, see, “Effects on Climate” in article, “ | . |
Vikos Gorge | ... numerous canyons and a variety of other karstic landscapes. The spectacular | , part of the Vikos-Aoos National Park in the Pindus range, is listed by t ... |
Columbia River Gorge | ... nd Portland, the river cuts through the Cascade Range, forming the dramatic | . No other river except for the Klamath completely breaches the Cascades—t ... |
Rhine | ... . A narrow deeper channel along the middle of the strait was the bed of the | in the last Ice Age. In East Anglia there is a geological deposit that mar ... |
Black Canyon of the Gunnison | Eleven U.S. national parks – Arches, | , Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Petri ... |
Rhine | Mainz, on the opposite side of the | river, is Wiesbaden's archrival – the two cities are the capitals of their ... |
Shenandoah Valley | ... hian Valley that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the | and northward into Pennsylvania as the Cumberland Valley |
San Fernando Valley | ... urgery scene with New Jersey was shot at the Lakeview Medical Center in the | . The jet car sequences were shot in October on a dry lake north of the Sa ... |
Rhine | ... st the Persian threat. The western provinces, those facing the limes of the | seceded, forming a third, autonomous state within the territories of the R ... |
Great Appalachian Valley | ... broad Hagerstown Valley between these two zones; the valley is part of the | that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the Shenandoah ... |
Rhine | ... recently in the area predating the Roman castle. The city's position on the | long emphasised its importance: Basel for many centuries possessed the onl ... |
Gudbrandsdal | ... years, the folks of the district met to trade and to celebrate. People from | , Oslo, Trøndelag, and Sweden also regularly came to Grundsetmart'n. The G ... |
Humboldt River | ... S. Route 50 goes today) and was about 280 miles shorter than the 'standard' | California trail route |
Willamette Valley | ... f the Oregon Trail route as well as Fort Vancouver near its terminus in the | . With minor exceptions they all gave substantial and often desperately ne ... |
Pongo de Manseriche | ... r as far as Achual Point. Beyond that, small boats frequently ascend to the | , just above Achual Point |
San Gabriel Valley | ... ty located on the southern end of the San Jose Hills, which forms a part of | |
Hagerstown Valley | ... ich is an extension of the Blue Ridge. Much of the county lies in the broad | between these two zones; the valley is part of the Great Appalachian Valle ... |
Pine Creek Gorge | ... sociation is working on a connection needed at Smethport to allow access to | to Allegheny National Forest trail |
Rhine | ... re commanded one of the largest Roman armies, stationed along the important | frontier. After his promotion to emperor, Constantine remained in Britain, ... |
Rhine | ... k 4). This Veerpoort has protected Schoonhoven from the floods of the river | and from the sea during the North Sea flood of 1953 and is still fully fun ... |
Cataract Canyon | ... . Carving its way southwest across the Colorado Plateau, the Colorado forms | and other gorges and receives its principal tributary, the Green River, be ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... he same spot where Captain Weber built the first permanent residence in the | |
Humboldt River | ... sheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, | , and Great Salt Lake. The associated triple divide points are Commissary ... |
Derbyshire Dales | ... s considerably throughout the county with the lowest being in the region of | at 0.88, and highest outside of the main cities in the region of Erewash w ... |
Valley of Flowers National Park | ... ty of rhododendrons. They also possess a remarkable variety of wildflowers: | in the western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows contains hundreds of spe ... |
San Fernando Valley | ... st general aviation airport in the world, close to his home in Los Angeles' | |
Columbia River Gorge | ... rafts for a trip down the Columbia River. Once they transited the Cascade's | with its multiple rapids and treacherous winds they would have to make the ... |
Shenandoah Valley | ... r Sherman's overall direction, General Sheridan followed this policy in the | of Virginia and subsequently in the Indian Wars of the Great Plains |
Rivendell | ... nto the wild, where Gandalf saves the company from trolls and leads them to | , where Elrond reveals more secrets from the map. Passing over the Misty M ... |
San Fernando Valley | ... iver to the east, and the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) to the south. Or, the | : lying north-northwest of downtown ("The Valley") is a wide basin ringed ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... er-day Saints (LDS Church), fleeing persecution in the East, arrived in the | after traveling through Emigration Canyon. Brigham Young, their leader, de ... |
Blackstone River | ... t derives from "thunder mist," in reference to the largest waterfall on the | , which lies at the center of the city. Yet another theory proposes the ci ... |
Rhine | ... for 2000 years. In the Roman era, the Oude Rijn was the main branch of the | River and formed the north border of the Roman Empire. Since the rule of E ... |
Salmon River | ... f Warm Springs live along the U.S. stretch. Along the upper Snake River and | , the Shoshone Bannock tribes are present. The Chinook tribe, which is not ... |
Columbia River Gorge | ... he river. Broughton got as far as the Sandy River at the western end of the | , about upstream, sighting and naming Mount Hood. Broughton formally claim ... |
Silicon Valley | In September 2010, 75 | CEOs drafted and signed a letter to Bud Selig urging a timely approval of ... |
San Luis Valley | The town of San Luis lies within the | at (37.201988, -105.422360) |
San Fernando Valley | ... ilmer is of German, Swedish, Irish, and Cherokee descent. He grew up in the | with his two siblings, older brother Mark and younger brother Wesley (who ... |
Numedal | ... unicipality is located at the top of the valley and traditional district of | , with a widely spread area of . The municipality’s highest point is the B ... |
Black Canyon | ... he Mohave have lived along the rich bottomlands of the lower Colorado below | since 1200 A.D. They were fishermen – navigating the river on rafts made o ... |
Blackstone Valley | ... ricultural businesses, has a growing small business population. Part of the | , many of the businesses are affiliated with groups like the Blackstone Va ... |
Willamette Valley | ... epression, a geologic formation extending south from the Puget Sound to the | in Oregon. Nestled up against the Cascade Mountains, many of the county’s ... |
Rhine | ... ming a semicircular recess, whose numerous torrents are all poured into the | through the Val Russein below Disentis. Two glacier passes lead over this ... |
Rhine | ... diplomacy and a dispatch of an auxiliary Russian corps of 30,000 men to the | , greatly accelerated the peace negotiations, leading to the treaty of Aix ... |
Beqaa Valley | ... esence in the area dates to 1895 when the first immigrants arrived from the | in today's Lebanon and Syria. Islamic Services of America (I.S.A.) was est ... |
Great Appalachian Valley | ... at . The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains, and includes the | . The region is carbonate rock based, and includes Massanutten Mountain. T ... |
Rhine | ... ry and created a reserve army positioned to support campaigns either on the | or in Italy. On all fronts, French advances caught the Austrians off guard ... |
Rhine | ... higher educational establishments in the districts beyond the Alps and the | which had been annexed to France, and to report upon the means by which th ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... ith the much smaller Traverse Mountains to the south of the valley, delimit | , which is also flanked on the northwest by the Great Salt Lake, and the n ... |
Tennessee Valley | ... the Holston River known as King's Boat Yard, the head of navigation for the | . Kingsport is the largest city in the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Me ... |
Planica | ... up, for the slalom and giant slalom events. The well-known ski jumping hill | is located in the nearby Tamar Valley |
Rhine | Located in northwest Switzerland on the river | , Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharma ... |
Santa Ana Canyon | ... name from the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County, the Santa Ana River or | , along which the winds are particularly strong. The original form may hav ... |
Victoria Falls | Classes of other well-known waterfalls include | and Kaieteur Falls (Class 9); Rhine Falls and Gullfoss (Class 8); Angel Fa ... |
Snake River Plain | ... the Big Lost River, disappear from the surface to flow underground into the | aquifer in Butte County |
Fergana Valley | ... , Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan from the | (in modern day Uzbekistan), invaded India and defeated the last Lodhi sult ... |
Conejo Valley | ... the 2010 census, down from 20,537 at the 2000 census. It is in the eastern | between the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains. This city on the Ve ... |
Rhine | ... om the North Sea to the Mediterranean, essentially along the valleys of the | and the Rhone. He soon ceded Italy to his eldest son, Louis, and remained ... |
Unterwalden | ... eum Sułkowskich - Zabytkowy Witraż.jpg|Swiss armourial glass of the Arms of | , 1564, with typical painted details, extensive silver stain, Cousin's ros ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... in the discovery party of nine riders that first rode on horseback into the | in July 1847. He was not officially recognized as one of the nine riders. ... |
San Ramon Valley | ... tates. It is a suburban city of the San Francisco Bay Area, and lies in the | . San Ramon's population was 72,148 as of the 2010 U.S. Census making it 4 ... |
Antelope Valley | ... orated in 1965, is a city in the Mojave Desert's Fremont Valley of northern | , in Kern County, north of nearby Mojave, California. The population was 1 ... |
Jackson Hole | ... to what is now Wyoming and in the process passed across Union Pass and into | , Wyoming. From there they went over the Teton Range via Teton Pass and th ... |
Willamette Valley | In 1843, settlers of the | drafted the Organic Laws of Oregon organizing land claims within the Orego ... |
Inner Terai valleys | The | are open valleys north of Shiwalik Hills or nestled between Shiwalik subra ... |
Canyonlands National Park | ... regions of the watershed, such as the upper Green River valley in Wyoming, | in Utah and the San Pedro River valley in Arizona and Sonora, supported ex ... |
Namdalen | ... dals- was added around 1550. It is the genitive case of the old region name | |
Rhine | Mannheim is in the Duchy of Baden and situated at the confluence of the | and Neckar over both of which there is a bridge of boats. This is the thir ... |
Rhine | There are small container port operations nearby on the | and Main rivers |
Death Valley | ... points in the contiguous 48 states of the United States (Mount Whitney and | ), the world's oldest tree (the Bristlecone Pine), and the cities of both ... |
Blackfoot River | ... e Clearwater River over Lolo pass again. They then traveled overland up the | and crossed the Continental Divide at Lewis and Clark Pass and on to the h ... |
South Park | ... of Clear Creek in the mountains west of Golden City, at Breckenridge and in | at Como, Fairplay, and Alma. By 1860, Denver City, Golden City, and Boulde ... |
Shenandoah Valley | After early service in the | , Stuart led his regiment in the First Battle of Bull Run, and participate ... |
Cascade Canyon | ... peaks are over above sea level. Eight of these peaks between Avalanche and | s make up the often-photographed Cathedral Group. The most prominent peak ... |
Rhine | ... in the Dornbirn district. It lies in the middle of the Austrian part of the | valley. With a population of 15,200 it is the fifth largest municipality i ... |
Silicon Valley | ... r Anthony B. Perkins and technical writer Rich Karlgaard as a magazine "for | about Silicon Valley." Venture capitalist Tim Draper was the main initial ... |
Utah Valley | ... s first utilized as pastures for the immense herds of cattle that came from | . Among the first settlers of this region were S. J. Harkness, T. H. Thoma ... |
Silicon Valley | The prosperity that benefited the | during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s largely bypassed East Palo Alto. ... |
Tyropoeon Valley | ... e the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the | , rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill. Since t ... |
Rhine | ... of evidence for fortified settlements at Linearbandkeramik sites along the | , as at least some villages were fortified for some time with a palisade a ... |
Niles Canyon | ... pened the Essanay-West studio in Niles, California, in 1908, at the foot of | , where many Broncho Billy westerns were shot, along with The Tramp featur ... |
Glarus | By 1353, the three original cantons had been joined by the cantons of | and Zug and the city states of Lucerne, Zürich, and Bern, forming the "Old ... |
Hells Canyon | ... o National Park, Glacier National Park, and Mount Revelstoke National Park. | , the deepest gorge in North America, and the Columbia Gorge are in the wa ... |
Royal Gorge | ... bitant $1.4 million for the trackage extending through the Arkansas River's | . The D&RG's possession of this route allowed quick access to the booming ... |
Upper Engadine | ... him by a "pyramidal block of stone" on the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the | , a high alpine region whose valley floor is at 6,000 ft. Nietzsche planne ... |
Rhine | ... mall ferry boat connects Westervoort to the town of Huissen by crossing the | |
Cheakamus | ... n Vancouver and Whistler. The birds primarily gather along the Squamish and | Rivers, attracted by the salmon spawning in the area |
Sacramento Valley | ... inly in the southern half of the San Joaquin Valley but occasionally to the | . The northern half of the Central Valley receives greater precipitation t ... |
Porta Westfalica gorge | ... n the right bank of the Weser (except for the Barkhausen quarter), near the | , where the river runs through the passage between the mountain chains of ... |
Owens Valley | Olancha is an unincorporated community located in the | on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range at the elevation ... |
Monterey submarine canyon | ... Ocean – possibly Monterey Bay on the Central California coast, forming the | . The uplift of the Sierra Nevada mountains began about 4.5 million years ... |
Stargate | ... joining the Stargate Program. He then joins a suicidal mission through the | with a couple of airmen and Dr. Daniel Jackson who deciphers the Stargate. ... |
Spearfish Canyon | ... eral man made lakes, including Sheridan Lake, provide fishing and swimming. | to the north has many places to rock climb. In early June the Mickelson Tr ... |
Snake River Plain | ... elevation. Island Park is different from almost anywhere in the world. The | that was also formed by the Yellowstone hotspot is in line with the gap be ... |
San Fernando Valley | ... United Service Organization (U.S.O.) programs at a military hospital in the | . Discovering the first thing the wounded soldiers requested was a glass o ... |
Val d'Aran | ... he Indiketes in Empordà, the Ceretans in Cerdanya and the Airenosins in the | . The influx of Celtic peoples led to a characteristic blend of cultures k ... |
Panamint Valley | ... bserved from the Panamint Range on the west side of Death Valley, above the | |
Romsdal | ... nd Rødvenfjorden, and it is south of the Langfjorden. It also surrounds the | valley and the Rauma River from the mouth to the Oppland county border |
Grand Canyon | ... nd Lower Colorado River Basins, before swinging south then west through the | . Below Lake Mead – the largest man-made lake in the U.S., formed by Hoove ... |
San Luis Valley | ... , is in diameter. Large beds of lava, some extending under the floor of the | , are characteristic of the eastern slope of the San Juans |
Paradox Valley | ... aphic features in the watershed, including the Dolores River's bisection of | in Colorado and the Green River carving its way through the Uinta Mountain ... |
Rhine | ... y cargo port, through which goods pass along the navigable stretches of the | and connect to ocean-going ships at the port of Rotterdam |
Black Canyon | ... and reached Gunnison on August 6, 1881. From Gunnison the line entered the | of the Gunnison River passing the famous Curecanti Needle seen in their fa ... |
Cynon | ... aff Vale Railway. Cardiff became the main port for exports of coal from the | , Rhondda, and Rhymney valleys, and grew at a rate of nearly 80% per decad ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... would take the faithful to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, then to the | . Young arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, a date now recog ... |
Big Cottonwood Canyon | ... Snowbird and Alta in Little Cottonwood Canyon and Solitude and Brighton in | . Hiking and camping are especially popular summer activities. Marking the ... |
Grand Canyon | ... Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, Escalante and his companions passed by the | and were among the first white men to enter Utah |
Cañada del Oro | ... asas Adobes area predates the arrival of Sam Nanini. The area bordering the | in the north, and the Rillito River in the south was primarily inhabited a ... |
Aosta Valley | ... rts of Friuli and the Julian March, Francoprovençal-speaking peoples in the | , as well as Greeks, Turks and Jews on the Dodecanese islands |
Hells Canyon | ... hat has dwindled to several thousand in recent years. Idaho Power Company's | dams have no fish ladders (and do not pass juvenile salmon downstream), an ... |
Romsdal | ... pastor of Kvikne, was transferred to the parish of Nesset, outside Molde in | . It was in this scenic district that Bjørnson spent his childhood |
Clear Creek | ... ed along the South Platte River at the base of the mountains, the canyon of | in the mountains west of Golden City, at Breckenridge and in South Park at ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... bring thunderstorms of tropical origin, mainly in the southern half of the | but occasionally to the Sacramento Valley. The northern half of the Centra ... |
Snoqualmie Valley | ... used for transporting goods. In the early 1870s the first local mill in the | was opened at the mouth of Tokul Creek, just downstream from Snoqualmie Fa ... |
Jackson Hole | ... Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as | . Only south of Yellowstone National Park, the two parks are connected by ... |
Pioneer Valley | ... ring services. Hampden County and Hampshire County together are part of the | Planning Commission |
Jesmond Dene | The wooded gorge of the Ouseburn in the east of the city is known as | and forms another popular recreation area, linked by Armstrong Park and He ... |
Zion National Park | ... proximity to the ghost town of Silver Reef, the Pine Valley Mountains, and | have changed the local economy base from agriculture to tourism |
Unterwalden | ... rd, the Helvetic executive directory sent him as government commissioner to | for the purpose of restoring tranquility. His authority was ultimately ext ... |
Owens Valley | Located in the | next to the now mostly dry Owens Lake, the arid settlement is home to a ma ... |
Blackstone Valley | ... the John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. The | is the oldest industrialized region in the U.S. A local North Smithfield i ... |
Star Valley | Grover is located at (42.793051, -110.931862). It located in | , a grassland valley surrounded by forested mountains |
Sacramento Valley | ... arallel to the Pacific Ocean coast. Its northern half is referred to as the | , and its southern half as the San Joaquin Valley. The Sacramento valley r ... |
Lower Colorado River Valley | ... Arizona, Nevada and Utah – the river turns sharply south. As it enters the | , the Colorado delineates the Arizona–Nevada and Arizona–California border ... |
Grand Valley | ... ore, Glenwood, and De Beque. The Colorado emerges from the mountains at the | , where it is joined by the Gunnison River before arcing northwest into de ... |
Cumberland Valley | ... Walker unsuccessfully attempted to halt the Federal army's advance into the | . The war correspondents' memorial can be found at Gathland State Park at ... |
Payette River | ... County to Horseshoe Bend in Boise County, and climbs the whitewater of the | to Cascade and McCall. The route turns west at Payette Lake in McCall and ... |
Sacramento Valley | Chico sits on the | floor close to the foothills of the Cascade range and the Sierra Nevada ra ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... half is referred to as the Sacramento Valley, and its southern half as the | . The Sacramento valley receives about 20 inches of rain annually, but the ... |
Applegate Valley | Josephine County shares the Rogue Valley and | wine appellations with Jackson County. The U.S. government owns the majori ... |
Palo Duro Canyon | ... livelihood and demoralized, the Comanche and Kiowa abandoned the area (see | ) |
Panjshir Valley | ... ation of the lion in Persian literature, and finally, the place name of the | , where Massoud was born. The place name of "Panjshir" Valley in Persian m ... |
Longdendale | ... of Stockport in Greater Manchester. However, Derbyshire gained part of the | valley and Tintwistle from Cheshire in 1974 |
Gudbrandsdal | ... g's Road) between Oslo and Trondheim in the 16th century passed through the | valley. After leaving the valley of the Lågen (downriver from present day ... |
San Joaquin Valley | McFarland (formerly, Hunt and Lone Pine) is a city in the | , in Kern County, California, United States. McFarland is located south of ... |
Puster Valley | ... ncluded territories of modern Styria, most of today's East Tyrol and of the | , the Lungau and Ennspongau regions of Salzburg, and parts of southern Upp ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... southern Sierra Nevada. San Joaquin County is also home to the site of the | 's first permanent residence |
Star Valley | Smoot is located at (42.620784, -110.912454). It located in | , a grassland valley surrounded by forested mountains |
Owens Valley | ... nce is bisected by U.S. Route 395, the main north-south highway through the | |
Verdon Gorge | ... utcrops and islands. Examples include the Burren in Co. Clare, Ireland; the | in France; Malham Cove in North Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, England; ... |
Badwater Basin | ... United States, is on Inyo County's western border (with Tulare County). The | , in Death Valley National Park, the lowest place in North America, is in ... |
Grand Canyon | ... ock were lost. In locales exhibiting fantastic rock formations, such as the | , tourists often construct simple cairns in reverence of the larger counte ... |
Humboldt River | ... pplegate Trail (established 1846) cutting off the California Trail from the | in Nevada crossed part of California before cutting north to the south end ... |
San Andreas Fault | ... 2201 and 92203 north of Interstate 10. About north and east of Indio is the | , a major tectonic plate boundary of the Pacific and North American plates |
Great Divide Basin | ... divide forks in the south central part of the state in an area known as the | where the waters that flow or precipitate into this area remain there and ... |
Sacramento Valley | Chico is located at the northeast edge of the | , one of the richest agricultural areas in the world. The Sierra Nevada mo ... |
Chitral | ... They include Shina (spoken in Gilgit, Chilas and Diamar), Khowar (spoken in | , Ghizer and the Kalam Valley of upper Swat), Kalasha (spoken by Kalash tr ... |
Fergana Valley | ... he Great's empire into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the | in Tajikistan he founded the city of Alexandria Eschate or "Alexandria The ... |
Central Valley | ... pography, and can last for several days in calm conditions. In California's | , valley fog is often referred to as Tule fog |
San Fernando Valley | ... with regard to their ocean side. San Fernando in the northern corner of the | is also an incorporated city entirely surrounded by L.A. territory |
Helm's Deep | ... ddition, sends the Huorns to attack Saruman's Orcs who were retreating from | . In a deleted scene, Treebeard mentions to the hobbits about the Entwives ... |
Rhine | ... nto a university. The academy was closed in 1798 after the left bank of the | was occupied by France during the French Revolutionary Wars |
Spring Mill State Park | The Virgil I. Gus Grissom Memorial, located just inside of | near Mitchell, contains many mementos of Grissom's career, including the s ... |
Silicon Valley | ... e industry sectors. The metro Austin area has much lower housing costs than | , but much higher housing costs than many parts of rural Texas. As a resul ... |
Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park | ... erdido (3,355 m), Perdiguero (3,221 m), Cotiella (2,912 m) and many others. | , near the border with France, boasts some of the most spectacular scenery ... |
Shenandoah Valley | ... e state of Virginia seceded, he served first under Stonewall Jackson in the | , but then in increasingly important cavalry commands of the Army of North ... |
Puster Valley | ... l was granted to the Bishopric of Brixen, followed in 1091 by the county of | . Since the Bishops were nominated directly by the Emperor and their offic ... |
Salmon River | ... f the few counties in the United States with two time zones, divided by the | . Most of the county is in the Pacific Time Zone, but those areas south of ... |
Rhine | About 70% of Württemberg belongs to the basin of the | , and about 30% to that of the Danube. The main river, the Neckar, flows n ... |
Willamette Valley | ... re cleared further and further west, eventually reaching all the way to the | in Oregon. What became called the Oregon Trail was complete even as improv ... |
Mahoning Valley | ... ss code, it was antiseptic and wholly removed from the dirt and grit of the | farther north |
Black Canyon | ... oat, the shallow-draft U.S.S. Explorer, and traveled up the river as far as | on the present Arizona–Nevada border. After experiencing numerous groundin ... |
Central Valley | The Miwok Indians lived in the | among the delta's waterways, using them for food and transportation. The n ... |
Jezreel Valley | ... he passage over the ridge of hills which shuts in on the south of the great | was blocked by the Judean army led by Josiah, who may have considered that ... |
Valtellina | ... ederacy, were involved in the war from 1620, which led to their loss of the | in 1623 |
Lower Engadine | ... Alps, encompassing South and East Tyrol, Trentino north of Rovereto and the | ; the northern part of Tyrol came under the influence of the Urnfield cult ... |
Shangri-La | ... ling their abductor. The group is rescued by Chang and his men and taken to | , an idyllic valley sheltered from the bitter cold. The contented inhabita ... |
Salt Lake Valley | South Jordan is a city in the U.S. state of Utah. The city lies in the | between the peaks of the Oquirrh Mountains and the peaks of the Wasatch Mo ... |
Glen Coe | Glencoe Village (Gaelic: A’ Chàrnaich) is the main settlement near | , Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It lies at the north-west end of the glen, ... |
Monument Valley | ... l location among surrounding attractions, such as Mesa Verde National Park, | , and the Four Corners |
Haukadalur | ... the Icelandic interior or Highlands of Iceland and can be seen clearly from | |
Upper Sava Valley | The municipality of Kranjska Gora is situated in the | , a typical Alpine valley |
Vale of Evesham | ... is carried out on a commercial scale in the surrounding area, known as the | , which is known for its production of fruit and vegetables. A decline in ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... rcent, is water. South Jordan is located in the southwestern portion of the | . The city lies between the Oquirrh Mountains to the west, West Jordan to ... |
Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor | ... onnecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.) The John H. Chafee | retraces the history of "America's Hardest-Working River', the Blackstone. ... |
Aosta Valley | ... began the push northwest into new territories. In the same year he granted | the "Carta delle Franchigie", recognising the right to administrative and ... |
Hutt Valley | ... s at the southern end of these ranges that the cities of Wellington and the | are located |
San Lorenzo Valley | Bus service from Scotts Valley to Santa Cruz, California, the | , and San Jose, California is provided by the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Tran ... |
Fremont Valley | California City, incorporated in 1965, is a city in the Mojave Desert's | of northern Antelope Valley, in Kern County, north of nearby Mojave, Calif ... |
Tualatin Valley | Most of the county is in the | , which is surrounded by the Tualatin Mountains to the east and north, the ... |
valley | ... ation and Northern California's local history, natural resources, seacoast, | , and surrounding foothills and mountains |
Rhine | ... elung dwarf Alberich from gold he stole from the Rhine maidens in the river | . With the assistance of Loge, Wotan — the chief of the Gods — steals the ... |
Fresh Kills Landfill | ... stations in New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens) since the 2001 closure of the | on Staten Island. A small amount of trash processed at transfer sites in N ... |
Annapolis Valley | Wolfville is a small town in the | , Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada, located about northwest of the provin ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... because of the availability of land in the less crowded southern end of the | . The original plat was essentially one square mile, situated on an alluvi ... |
Østerdalen | ... n was born at the farmstead of Bjørgan in Kvikne, a secluded village in the | district, some sixty miles south of Trondheim. In 1837 Bjørnson's father, ... |
Rhine | ... e population of the Southwest German town of Kehl, on the right bank of the | right bank opposite Strasbourg, fled and were evacuated in the course of t ... |
Liébana | ... e great variety of legumes, fruits and vegetables produced in the region of | , as well as tables of different kinds of quality cheeses that produce Can ... |
Payette River | ... lished in 1917, it was named after the Long Valley of the North Fork of the | , which extends over 30 miles from Payette Lake at McCall south to Cascade ... |
Rhine | ... the Bagaudae. From 285 to 288, he fought against Germanic tribes along the | frontier. Together with Diocletian, he launched a scorched earth campaign ... |
Columbia Valley | ... ough Windermere Lake and the town of Invermere, a region known in BC as the | , then northwest to Golden and into Kinbasket Lake. Rounding the northern ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... ber Two) is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the | , in Kern County, California. Taft is located west-southwest of Bakersfiel ... |
Royal Gorge | ... RG built west from Pueblo reaching Cañon City in 1874. The line through the | reached Salida on May 20, 1880 and was pushed to Leadville later that same ... |
Lake Hula | The river drops rapidly in a 75 kilometre run to swampy | , which is slightly above sea level. Exiting the lake, it drops much more ... |
Royal Gorge | ... ee Pass in Colorado, and the famed routes through the Moffat Tunnel and the | . At its height, around 1890, the D&RG had the largest operating narrow ga ... |
Lucerne Valley | ... overtime expenses. Many exteriors were filmed on location in Palm Springs, | , the Ojai Valley, the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and in ... |
Williston Basin | ... th Dakota counties with significant exposure to the Bakken Formation in the | |
Valley of Oaxaca | ... (the next oldest ballcourts discovered, after Paso de la Amada), and in the | , as well as ceramic ballgame tableaus from Western Mexico (see photo ) |
Parley's Canyon | ... s through only four geographic features, all of which are narrow. These are | leading to Summit County to the east (as well as to Morgan County to the n ... |
Little Cottonwood Canyon | ... mining that shaped Sandy's first four decades. When silver mining began in | , entrepreneurs recognized Sandy's value as a supply station; soon its mai ... |
Middle America Trench | ... rica, the ocean floor is forced down under the land mass, creating the deep | that lies off the coast of El Salvador. The subduction of the Cocos Plate ... |
Canton of Glarus | ... n, is the highest mountain in the Glarus Alps and the highest summit in the | , Switzerland. It is located on the border between the cantons of Graubünd ... |
Gulf of Corinth | ... ntain of limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the | , and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. ... |
Romsdal | The municipality is named after the Rauma River, which flows through the | valley |
Little Pamir | ... ering the British Captain Francis Younghusband to leave Bozai Gumbaz in the | . This incident, and the report of an incursion by Russian Cossacks south ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... (Ohio) and Nauvoo (Illinois) Temples. Just four days after arriving in the | , Young, who was now church president, designated the location for the Sal ... |
Loudoun Valley | ... ns and Catoctin Mountain bisect the county. To the west of the range is the | . Bisecting the Loudoun Valley from Hillsboro to the Potomac River is Shor ... |
Rhine | ... of the treaty of Lunéville for the territory ceded on the left bank of the | , should be carried out at the expense of the Empire in the manner most ag ... |
Conejo Valley | ... estern edges of the city moving to the San Fernando Valley and out into the | in eastern Ventura County. Much of the working class whites migrated to th ... |
Central Valley | ... nia. The fort was the first non-Native American community in the California | . The fort is famous for its association with the Donner Party, the Califo ... |
Amazon Basin | ... ite flat. Similarly, the north-east of South America is covered by the flat | . The Brazilian Highlands on the east coast are fairly smooth but show som ... |
Farmington Valley | ... limb of U.S. Route 44. As the most direct path to Hartford from much of the | and Litchfield County, rush hour on the mountain is notoriously dangerous. ... |
Sacramento Valley | ... ern end of the Siskiyou Trail, a centuries-old footpath leading through the | , over the Cascades, and onward to Oregon |
Valley of Mexico | ... n deity Tlaloc, the war god of the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan in the | . The hieroglyphic inscription on the lintel is unusual, being reversed as ... |
Valley of Elah | ... muel, chapter 17. Saul and the Israelites are facing the Philistines at the | . Twice a day for 40 days, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, comes ... |
Gausdal | Bjørnson settled on his estate of Aulestad in | . In 1877 he published another novel, Magnhild, in which his ideas on soci ... |
Kings Canyon | ... e exploring the area in 1872, Giles sighted Kata Tjuta from a location near | and called it Mount Olga, while the following year Gosse observed Uluru an ... |
Central Valley | ... 0% of the of precipitation falls from October through April. Located in the | , the temperatures range is much greater than in the nearby Bay Area. Tule ... |
Badwater | ... st point in the Western Hemisphere and the lowest point in North America at | , which is below sea level. It is home to many species of plants and anima ... |
Columbia River Gorge | ... o). Cutting through the uplifting mountains, the Columbia River created the | |
Central Valley | ... lifornia, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the | of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 ... |
Rhine | ... tes that the rivers of the southern part of eastern England flowed into the | , hence through the English Channel. From the Fens northward along the mod ... |
Valdres | Adams Lutheran Church, ELCA, was formed by Norwegian immigrants from the | and Hadeland areas of Norway and was originally served by clergy of the Ch ... |
Valtellina | ... of his displeasure with how they handled the diplomatic situation over the | with Spain. Valtellina was an area with Catholic inhabitants under the suz ... |
Vale of Tempe | Initially the 'congress' agreed to defend the narrow | , on the borders of Thessaly, and thereby block Xerxes's advance. However, ... |
Hallingdal | ... n Sweden, including finds in Lesja, in Vang in Valdres and in Hol and Ål in | . Proponents of the Sami interpretations of these finds assume a mixed pop ... |
Parley's Canyon | ... ntinues west past the Salt Lake City International Airport and east through | and into the Wasatch Range. I-15 traverses the valley north-to-south, prov ... |
Rhine | ... throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commanded French forces in the | land, (although the Dauphin held honorific command). De Lorge was opposed ... |
Kishacoquillas Valley | Reedsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the | of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 858 at ... |
Payette River | ... County to Horseshoe Bend in Boise County, and climbs the whitewater of the | to Cascade and McCall. The route turns west at Payette Lake in McCall and ... |
Yasin | Burushaski is a language isolate, spoken by Burusho people in Hunza, Nagar, | , and parts of the Gilgit valleys in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakist ... |
Rhine | ... rest"). The Vorderwald, with its hills and low mountains, is closest to the | valley. The Hinterwald has the higher mountains, with altitudes of up to 2 ... |
Illinois Basin | ... down from 92% in 1880), Lima-Indiana (90%, down from 95% in 1906), and the | (83%, down from 100% in 1906), its share was much lower in the rapidly exp ... |
Star Valley | ... another pass on the Salt River Range of mountains and then descending into | Wyoming. It exited the mountains near the present Smith Fork road about so ... |
Urubamba Valley | ... , often spelled Cuzco (, or ; , ), is a city in southeastern Peru, near the | of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well ... |
Uri | ... ring tranquility. His authority was ultimately extended over the cantons of | , Schwyz and Zug. Zschokke distinguished himself by the vigour of his admi ... |
Sacramento Valley | ... s. The city is a cultural, economic, and educational center of the northern | and home to both Chico State University and Bidwell Park, one of the count ... |
San Gabriel Valley | ... County, California, United States, located in the southwestern area of the | on east of downtown Los Angeles. It is considered part of the Gateway Citi ... |
Lower Colorado River Valley | ... e geologic Salton Sink and within the site of historic Lake Cahuilla of the | . Indio is an official National Bird Sanctuary, because of the seasonal bi ... |
Setesdal | ... ia E39 west to Mandal and Stavanger, and National Road 9 north to Vennesla, | , Hovden and Haukeli. The railway has station in downtown Kristiansand whi ... |
Humboldt River | ... Springs Valley, West Brush Creek, and Willow Creek, before arriving at the | in northeastern Nevada near present-day Wells. The California Trail procee ... |
Numedal | ... ipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of | . The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rødberg |
Amazon Basin | In the Peruvian | and north coastal regions of the country, the healer shamans are known as ... |
Rhine | ... , where we do not find roads. They reach the Wall in Britain; run along the | , the Danube, and the Euphrates; and cover, as with a network, the interio ... |
Snake River Plain | ... r. Smaller buttes called the East Butte and the Middle Butte located in the | are visible south of US Route 20 |
Rogue Valley | ... nd David was founded in 1910 to market the harvest from the orchards of the | |
Sacramento Valley | The city of Chico, being in the | , sits amid some of the most fertile soil on earth. The region is an agric ... |
San Geronimo Valley | ... onimo (formerly, Nicasio) is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the | in Marin County, California in the United States. San Geronimo is located ... |
Rhine | ... ude, the Fly River, the Cauvery, the Niger River, the Tigris-Euphrates, the | , the Po, the Rhône, the Danube, the Ebro, the Volga, the Lena, the Indus, ... |
Rhine | The | flowed northwards into the North Sea as the sea level fell during the star ... |
Rhine | ... in the eastern Netherlands. The town has two rivers inside its borders, the | and the IJssel. It is a forensic town closely linked to Arnhem, the capita ... |
Little Cottonwood Canyon | ... n using left-over materials brought from the granite quarry at the mouth of | . The upper story was made of over-sized adobe bricks. The main hall had c ... |
Hope Valley | ... rea. They settled throughout the county with forts built near Brough in the | and near Glossop. Later they settled around Buxton, famed for its warm spr ... |
Rhine | ... s against the Germanic Quadi tribes, but soon left the defence of the Upper | to his legates and returned to Rome, where the surviving accounts, which d ... |
Willamette Valley | ... s in the territory. He left the company in 1846 to found Oregon City in the | |
Amazon Basin | ... CE, when potatoes, chilies and beans began to be cultivated for food in the | . Pottery evidence further suggests that manioc, which remains a staple fo ... |
Columbia River Gorge | ... explorers entered the Willamette Valley through the scenic but treacherous | , and pioneers began to settle the valley in increasing numbers, following ... |
San Fernando Valley | ... ta Monica Mountains range that overlooks North Hollywood and Burbank in the | from its southeast. The Los Angeles River courses from west to east immedi ... |
Longdendale | ... rough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies in the valley of | , on the border with Derbyshire and close to the Peak District neighbourin ... |
San Gabriel Valley | ... rporated city of Los Angeles include the South Bay, the Gateway Cities, the | and the Foothills. The San Pedro/Harbor City area was annexed by the city ... |
Rhine | ... d, but he failed to make headway against the French, and had to recross the | |
Silicon Valley | 6.6%, just ahead of | |
Rhine | ... to Pannonia when the Lentienses (part of the Alamanni) attacked across the | . Gratian recalled his army and defeated the Lentienses near Argentaria (n ... |
Great Appalachian Valley | ... is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long | that stretches from Canada to Alabama |
Coverdale | He was born probably in the district known as | , in that district of the North Riding of Yorkshire called Richmondshire, ... |
Panamint Valley | ... n Nye County. The park covers , encompassing Saline Valley, a large part of | , almost all of Death Valley, and parts of several mountain ranges. Death ... |
Romsdal | ... s, and Mittet. The municipality surrounds part of the Romsdalsfjord and the | valley |
Farmington Valley | Farmington is a town located in Hartford County in the | area of central Connecticut in the United States. The population was 25,34 ... |
Central Valley | ... fornia Theatre in downtown Stockton, is one of several movie palaces in the | . Bob Hope often came to Stockton to visit close friend and billionaire ty ... |
San Fernando Valley | ... a large growth in population on the western edges of the city moving to the | and out into the Conejo Valley in eastern Ventura County. Much of the work ... |
Rhine | ... ic such as mule trains passed through it. Hanover was thus a gateway to the | , Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the ... |
Granite Canyon | ... of Jenny Lake. North to south, Webb, Moran, Paintbrush, Cascade, Death and | s slice through Teton Range |
Jezreel Valley | ... prepared to cross the ridge of hills which shuts in on the south the great | , but here he found his passage blocked by the Judean army. Their king, Jo ... |
Rhine | ... ore than anyone else, to the successful retreat of the French army over the | after its defeat by the Archduke Charles of Austria. In 1797 he brought re ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... , of which is land and (4.76%) is water. The city lies at the nadir of the | |
Rhine | ... y due to the broad variety of job opportunities in the nearby region of the | Valley |
Salt Lake Valley | ... irrh Mountains in the Tooele Valley, the next valley west of the well-known | . Many popular camping and picnic areas surround the city |
San Gabriel Valley | ... unincorporated community of , located in and below the Puente Hills in the | , in Los Angeles County, California. The population of the census-designat ... |
Rocky Mountain Trench | The Columbia begins its journey in the southern | in British Columbia (BC). Columbia Lake – above sea level – and the adjoin ... |
Yellow House Canyon | Ransom Canyon lies in the south eastern part of famed | , which is in the upper tributary of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazo ... |
Hallingdal | ... ities of names have led to appointing homelands for the Vandals in Norway ( | ), Sweden (Vendel), or Denmark (Vendsyssel). The Vandals are assumed to ha ... |
Red River Valley | The county is located in the | region of Minnesota |
Rhine | ... overruled him and ordered Luxembourg to reinforce the Dauphin’s army on the | and forego any major siege. The Allies, meanwhile, withdrew to Brussels to ... |
Harney Basin | ... at Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include | , Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake. The associated triple divide points ... |
Rhine shift | Mannheim is located in Germany's warmest region, the " | ". In summer, temperatures sometimes rise up to 35 C° and higher. The high ... |
Death Valley | ... encompassing Saline Valley, a large part of Panamint Valley, almost all of | , and parts of several mountain ranges. Death Valley National Monument was ... |
Vale of Evesham | ... ween Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon. Evesham lies within the | , an area comprising the flood plain of the River Avon, which was once a m ... |
Rhine | ... e of the Teutoburg Forest the Romans abandoned the area and withdrew to the | border |
Oak Creek | The first settlers in the Lower | area were Captain Andrew Jackson, a retired Confederate officer from Virgi ... |
Rhine | Clockwise, the Westerwald is bordered by the following river valleys: the | between Koblenz and Linz, the Sieg as far as Betzdorf, the Heller, the Dil ... |
Rhine | ... g. The Westerwaldsteig crosses the Westerwald from east (Herborn) to west ( | ) |
San Gabriel Valley | ... ated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It lies in the | , near Puente Hills. On the northern border lies the unincorporated commun ... |
Grand Canyon | ... rks in the world; Other sites include the Taj Mahal, Great Pyramids and the | in the United States |
Namdalen | ... lage and a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the | region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Na ... |
Western Cwm | From Camp I, climbers make their way up the | to the base of the Lhotse face, where Camp II or Advanced Base Camp (ABC) ... |
Fergana Valley | ... an) and Balkh (Afghanistan), while the other traveled through Kokand in the | (in present-day eastern Uzbekistan) and then west across the Karakum Deser ... |
Rivendell | In 3018 the nine companions of the Fellowship of the Ring left | as the "Nine Walkers", in opposition to the Nazgûl, the "Nine Riders". The ... |
Rogue Valley | ... weather shadow between the Cascade Range and Siskiyou Mountains called the | . As such, most of the rain associated with the Pacific Northwest and Oreg ... |
Engadin | ... m mid May until end of October. The remote side valleys heading towards the | area are worth long hikes towards the passes of Sertig or Scalettapass, to ... |
Rhine | ... a Tarraconensis, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against a revolt on the | led by Antonius Saturninus |
Saline Valley | ... clave (Devil's Hole) in southern Nye County. The park covers , encompassing | , a large part of Panamint Valley, almost all of Death Valley, and parts o ... |
Willamette Valley | ... nd Oregon in particular skips Medford, making it drier and sunnier than the | . Medford's climate is considerably warmer, both in summer and winter, tha ... |
Valdres | ... the Middle Ages, and Southern Sweden, including finds in Lesja, in Vang in | and in Hol and Ål in Hallingdal. Proponents of the Sami interpretations of ... |
San Fernando Valley | It is located in the westernmost | . Besides being one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, it also ... |
Glenwood Canyon | ... o Midland, could build a line reaching there. The D&RG built a line through | to Glenwood Springs, reaching Aspen in October 1887. The D&RG then joined ... |
Salt Lake Valley | ... seat and largest city is Salt Lake City, the state capital. It occupies the | , as well as parts of the surrounding mountains, the Oquirrh Mountains to ... |
Aghmat | ... ohads swept aside an Almoravid column that had come out to meet them before | , and then chased their remnant all the way to Marrakesh. They laid siege ... |
Østerdalen | ... aded Norway in a number of locations, including a number of incursions into | . In 1563, Norwegian troops stopped the Swedish advance at Elverum, which ... |
San Joaquin Valley | ... the delta's waterways, using them for food and transportation. The northern | was also the southern end of the Siskiyou Trail, a centuries-old footpath ... |
Napa Valley | The default wallpaper, Bliss, is a BMP photograph of a landscape in the | outside Napa, California, with rolling green hills and a blue sky with str ... |
Rhine | ... e north from the range that divides the basin of the Linth from that of the | . There are three principal peaks. The lowest, and northernmost, which is ... |