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(21){13957629} <noun.state>[26] S: (n) environment#1 (environment%1:26:00::) (the totality of surrounding conditions) "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room"
{08585959} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) scenario#2 (scenario%1:15:00::) (a setting for a work of art or literature) "the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror"
{08586108} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) element#4 (element%1:15:00::) (the most favorable environment for a plant or animal) "water is the element of fishes"
{08523368} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) semidesert#1 (semidesert%1:15:00::) (a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions)
{08530489} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) narco-state#1 (narco-state%1:15:00::) (an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent) "this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day"
{08595702} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) dust bowl#1 (dust_bowl%1:15:00::) (a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s)
{08631932} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) panhandle#1 (panhandle%1:15:00::) (a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area) "Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia"
{08677077} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) field#14 (field%1:15:05::) (a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found) "the diamond fields of South Africa"
{08708217} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) killing field#1 (killing_field%1:15:00::) ((usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance))
{09070916} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Colony#3 (colony%1:15:00::) (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)
{08510503} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Appalachia#1 (appalachia%1:15:00::) (an impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina))
{08520259} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Barbary#1 (barbary%1:15:00::) (a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries)
{08520942} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Bithynia#1 (bithynia%1:15:00::) (an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BC)
{08521396} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Nubia#1 (nubia%1:15:00::) (an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile; much of Nubia is now under Lake Nasser)
{08537099} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Transcaucasia#1 (transcaucasia%1:15:00::) (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)
{08585129} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Finger Lakes#1 (finger_lakes%1:15:00::) (a geographical area in central New York State that is named for a series of narrow glacial lakes that lie parallel in a north-south direction)
{08620206} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Big Bend#1 (big_bend%1:15:00::) (a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande)
{08699926} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Wilkes Land#1 (wilkes_land%1:15:00::) (a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia; most of the territory is claimed by Australia)
{08719533} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Pontus#2 (pontus%1:15:00::) (an ancient region of northern Asia Minor on the Black Sea; it reached its height under Mithridates VI but was later incorporated into the Roman Empire)
{08722479} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Illyria#1 (illyria%1:15:00::) (an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived)
{08728368} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Bengal#1 (bengal%1:15:00::) (a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India)
{08776512} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Moravia#1 (moravia%1:15:00::) (a region in the central and eastern part of the Czech Republic; it lies to the east of Bohemia and to the west of the Carpathians)
{08778343} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Scandinavia#2 (scandinavia%1:15:00::) (a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian)
{08793430} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Brandenburg#1 (brandenburg%1:15:00::) (the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701)
{08793617} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Prussia#1 (prussia%1:15:00::), Preussen#1 (preussen%1:15:00::) (a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland) "in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states"
{08797682} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Karelia#1 (karelia%1:15:00::) (a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea)
{08805318} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Epirus#1 (epirus%1:15:00::) (an ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC; located in northwestern Greece and southern Albania)
{08805547} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Laconia#1 (laconia%1:15:00::) (an ancient region of southern Greece in the southeastern Peloponnesus; dominated by Sparta)
{08805856} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Lydia#1 (lydia%1:15:00::) (an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC)
{08809019} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Middle East#1 (middle_east%1:15:00::), Mideast#1 (mideast%1:15:00::), Near East#1 (near_east%1:15:00::) (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century) "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"
{08809935} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Fertile Crescent#1 (fertile_crescent%1:15:00::) (a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates)
{08811341} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) West Bank#1 (west_bank%1:15:00::) (an area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river; populated largely by Palestinians)
{08811766} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Galilee#1 (galilee%1:15:00::) (an area of northern Israel; formerly the northern part of Palestine and the ancient kingdom of Israel; the scene of Jesus's ministry)
{08817558} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Philistia#1 (philistia%1:15:00::) (an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt; important in biblical times)
{08837075} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Dalmatia#1 (dalmatia%1:15:00::) (a historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea; mountainous with many islands)
{08837735} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Labrador#1 (labrador%1:15:00::) (the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada)
{08849712} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Klondike#1 (klondike%1:15:00::) (a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910)
{08876674} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) British Empire#1 (british_empire%1:15:00::) (a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand) "the sun never sets on the British Empire"
{08901901} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Cumbria#1 (cumbria%1:15:01::) (a former Celtic kingdom in northwestern England; the name continued to be used for the hilly northwestern region of England including the Lake District and the northern Pennines)
{08902757} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) New Forest#1 (new_forest%1:15:00::) (an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in 1079; originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland; noted for its ponies)
{08905438} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Yorkshire#1 (yorkshire%1:15:00::) (a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties)
{08906863} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Wessex#1 (wessex%1:15:00::) (a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century)
{08908408} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Ulster#1 (ulster%1:15:00::) (a historic division of Ireland located in the northeastern part of the island; six of Ulster's nine counties are in Northern Ireland)
{08911642} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Caledonia#1 (caledonia%1:15:00::) (the geographical area (in Roman times) to the north of the Antonine Wall; now a poetic name for Scotland)
{08934932} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Levant#2 (levant%1:15:00::) (the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel)
{08935557} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Thrace#1 (thrace%1:15:00::) (an ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey)
{08936089} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Mesopotamia#1 (mesopotamia%1:15:00::) (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)
{08937654} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Chaldea#1 (chaldea%1:15:00::), Chaldaea#1 (chaldaea%1:15:00::) (an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II)
{08938021} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Sumer#1 (sumer%1:15:00::) (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)
{08949495} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Gaul#3 (gaul%1:15:00::), Gallia#1 (gallia%1:15:00::) (an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands)
{08958974} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Riviera#1 (riviera%1:15:00::) (a coastal area between La Spezia in Italy and Cannes in France) "the Riviera contains some of Europe's most popular resorts"
{08965050} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Savoy#1 (savoy%1:15:00::) (a geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy)
{08967928} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Guiana#1 (guiana%1:15:00::) (a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam)
{08971286} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Friesland#1 (friesland%1:15:01::) (the western part of the ancient region of Frisia in northern Europe on the North Sea between the Scheldt river and the Weser river; part of this region is now a province in the Netherlands)
{08971550} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Frisia#1 (frisia%1:15:00::) (an ancient region of northwestern Europe including the Frisian Islands)
{08990741} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Tartary#1 (tartary%1:15:00::), Tatary#1 (tatary%1:15:00::) (the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries) "under Genghis Khan Tartary extended as far east as the Pacific Ocean"
{08991028} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Mongolia#2 (mongolia%1:15:01::) (a vast region in Asia including the Mongolian People's Republic and China's Inner Mongolia)
{09001191} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Parthia#1 (parthia%1:15:00::) (an ancient kingdom in Asia to the southeast of the Caspian Sea; it dominated southwestern Asia from about 250 BC to AD 226)
{09017612} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Nejd#1 (nejd%1:15:00::), Najd#1 (najd%1:15:00::) (a central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula; formerly an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
{09035268} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Livonia#1 (livonia%1:15:00::) (a region on the Baltic that is divided between northern Estonia and southern Latvia)
{09038023} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Colchis#1 (colchis%1:15:00::) ((Greek mythology) a region on the Black Sea to the south of the Caucasus that was the site of an ancient country where (according to Greek mythology) Jason sought the Golden Fleece)
{09041017} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Iberia#1 (iberia%1:15:01::) (an ancient geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains that corresponded approximately to the present-day Georgia)
{09045201} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Latin America#1 (latin_america%1:15:00::) (the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken)
{09050574} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Galicia#1 (galicia%1:15:00::) (a region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay)
{09050737} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Leon#1 (leon%1:15:02::) (a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain)
{09070583} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) East Coast#1 (east_coast%1:15:00::) (the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.))
{09071336} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) New England#1 (new_england%1:15:00::) (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)
{09072055} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Gulf States#1 (gulf_states%1:15:00::) (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)
{09073186} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) South#1 (south%1:15:01::) (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
{09073691} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Deep South#1 (deep_south%1:15:00::) (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)
{09074182} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Sunbelt#1 (sunbelt%1:15:00::) (states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative)
{09074556} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Piedmont#1 (piedmont%1:15:01::) (the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama)
{09075108} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) North#1 (north%1:15:02::) (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line)
{09189097} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Lusitania#1 (lusitania%1:15:00::) (ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain)
{09189695} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Silicon Valley#1 (silicon_valley%1:15:00::) (a region in California to the south of San Francisco that is noted for its concentration of high-technology industries)
{09200544} <noun.location>[15] S: (n) Scythia#1 (scythia%1:15:00::) (an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC)