...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...27 Requesters outside the US Government may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service ... ...strative divisions: 4 divisions, 21 regions, 64 districts, 495 thanas (rural townships consisting of 4,472 unions or village groupings) Legal system: ... ...n population) and seven states (based on ethnic minorities), subdivided into townships, village-tracts (rural), and wards (urban) Legal system: People... ...ibuted internal system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and most townships; services in interior and border regions limited; nearly 4 mill... ...0 km 2 ; land area: 50,660 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than West Virginia Land boundaries: 670 km total Coastline: 1,290 km Maritime claim... ...: 108,330 km 2 ; land area: 105,980 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Virginia Land boundaries: 2,309 km total Coastline: 901 km Maritime claim... ...: 103,000 km 2 ; land area: 100,250 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Virginia Coastline: 4,988 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: edge of ...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ... that they lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used sm... ...plored a great extent of the coast from Hudson Bay on the north, and as far as Virginia on the south. Like his father, he was compelled to return to E... ...they found the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level lands over which they had before passed... ...ble distance from the city, and it was necessary to pass through several large towns which lay in the Mexican valley. He accordingly marched through t... ...wn expense, and in 1585 accompanied Sir Richard Greenville on an expedition to Virginia, with the intention of planting a colony; but the venture was ... ...mong the unknown regions of the earth; and in six months after his return from Virginia, with the part of his fortune which still remained to him he e...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...