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Mosquitia

(Encyclopedia) Mosquitia, region, Central America: see Mosquito Coast.

Hakone, Mount

(Encyclopedia) Hakone, Mount: see under Hakone, region, Japan.

Seistan

(Encyclopedia) Seistan, region, Afghanistan and Iran: see Sistan.

Futa Jallon

(Encyclopedia) Futa Jallon: see Fouta Djallon, region, Guinea.

Greer

(Encyclopedia) Greer, town (2020 pop. 35,308), Greenville and Spartanburg counties, NW S.C., in a farm region noted for its peaches. Textiles, foods,…

Sudetenland

(Encyclopedia) Sudetenland, former region, Czechoslovakia: see under Sudetes.

Mongolian languages

(Encyclopedia) Mongolian languages, group of languages forming a subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages). The Mongolian languages…

Komi Republic

(Encyclopedia) Komi Republic, constituent republic (1990 pop. 1,270,000), c.160,000 sq mi (414,400 sq km), NE European Russia. Syktyvkar is the capital. The region is a wooded lowland, stretching…

Dzungaria

(Encyclopedia) DzungariaDzungariaz&oobreve;n-gârˈēə [key] or JunggarDzungariaj&oobreve;ngˈgärˈ [key], physical region (c.300,000 sq mi/777,000 sq km) of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW…

Banat

(Encyclopedia) BanatBanatbäˈnät [key], region extending across W Romania, NE Serbia, and S Hungary. The term banat originally referred to any of several frontier provinces of Hungary and Croatia that…