He said it was time to re-consider the effects of creating a "cross-border sub-region" of north-east Wales and north-west England which sets the framework in which councils and the Welsh Government operate.
North-east England is the only region to have fewer than Scotland.
The Procession of Queens is performed by the young girls of the village of Gorjani in the Slavonia region of north-east Croatia every spring.
In the Uruzgan incident on Tuesday afternoon, Australian officials said an Afghan soldier fired on colleagues with an automatic weapon and a grenade launcher at a patrol base in the Charmestan region, north-east of Tarin Kot.
Recent revised dates for other hominid occupation sites in North-East Asia show that human habitation of the region began about 1.3 million years ago.
In 2006-09 the region's GDP (excluding Inner Mongolia, which extends into the north-east, but is not part of its industrial heartland) grew faster than that of the country's other three main economic regions, in the east, centre and west.
He is adored in the Chukotka region that occupies the barren far north-east of Russia where he has been governor since 2000.
And as we have said throughout the unrest that has affected the region -- North Africa and the Middle East -- every country and every circumstance is different.
John Tomaney, a lecturer at Newcastle University who is a leading light in the North-Eastern Constitutional Convention, which is campaigning for an elected assembly for the region, sees strong parallels between the North-East and Scotland.
Newcastle University, for example, which draws around four-fifths of its students from outside the north-east, says that the proportion of its British graduates staying in the region has risen from 39% to 45% over the past four years.
The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.
Dr Taylor credits this system with preventing another big blackout in his region, and says his counterparts in America's north-east could have avoided last year's blackout if they had had such a system.
Dubai, a small and young city-state of less than 2 million people, is now considered a safe-haven for many families across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region that are facing political instability on their home turf.
The new figures also showed the rate of under-age conceptions is highest in north east England and lowest in the south east and eastern region.
Some schools in north-east England will be closed again on Tuesday as the Met Office forecasts more icy conditions for the region.
As a traditional car centre, the north-east has some advantages, including labour costs that are lower than those of the more developed coastal region to the south.
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