Cash demands from Maoist rebels have become common in some parts of the mountainous country.
The mountainous country is rich in minerals, but the investment risk is only growing.
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Mountainous country, dominated by old Spanish families, socially conservative but a Democratic stronghold, largely for historical reasons.
Switzerland is really 23 countries under one flag--that's how many cantons (autonomous districts) there are in that mountainous country.
His latest mistake was to say that he would buy a presidential helicopter, to whisk him around a large and mountainous country more safely.
And today, the project snakes its way across the mountainous country.
He also served in Iraq after the Gulf War, directing relief efforts for Kurds in the northeastern mountainous area of the country.
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The only glimmer of hope is a new road to China, just opened through the country's mountainous east.
Get a decent mining operation going, and the country's mountainous liabilities will soon be a thing of the past.
It is the leading symbol of the mountainous abuses heaped upon that country's assorted and diverse minorities by its rulers.
They are currently fighting on two fronts, one just north of the capital Kabul the other in the country's mountainous north-east.
Our country is so mountainous and sometimes inaccessible.
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The commander of the opposition alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, is a doughty fighter, but he has been forced back to the mountainous north-east of the country, where he relies on tenuous supply lines.
Take, for example, the province of Bamiyan, a mountainous region in the center of the country.
Musharraf is popular in Chitral because he directed development money there while in office and oversaw the completion of an important tunnel that connects the remote, mountainous area to the rest of the country.
The country's unruly tribes and mountainous landscape make the place hard to pacify.
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.
Five thousand inhabitants of Nanhua country in Yunnan Province had no choice but to leave their homes in mountainous areas and set up camp near streams in a lowland region.
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