His latest mistake was to say that he would buy a presidential helicopter, to whisk him around a large and mountainous country more safely.

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Get a decent mining operation going, and the country's mountainous liabilities will soon be a thing of the past.

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Take, for example, the province of Bamiyan, a mountainous region in the center of the country.

NEWYORKER: After America

The only glimmer of hope is a new road to China, just opened through the country's mountainous east.

ECONOMIST: Tajikistan

Mountainous country, dominated by old Spanish families, socially conservative but a Democratic stronghold, largely for historical reasons.

ECONOMIST: Swing states

For over 50 years, the highway connecting mountainous Caracas to the nearby Caribbean has been a lifeline linking the capital to the country's primary port and principle airport.

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