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Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus — The Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus is an informal legislative organization created in 2007 by leaders of the Senates of the U.S. states of Alaska and Hawai i and the United States territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern… … Wikipedia
Outlying Islands — may refer to: Outlying Islands, Hong Kong, islands outside mainland New Territories, Kowloon and Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong Islands District, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong district Outlying Islands (play) United States Minor Outlying Islands Islands… … Wikipedia
Area code 919 — is a telephone area code serving all or parts of 11 counties in the north central area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It serves the primary cities of Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, and the surrounding suburban areas of the Research… … Wikipedia
outlying — [adj] in rural area; remote afar, backwoods, distant, external, faraway, far flung*, far off, off lying, outer, out of the way*, peripheral, provincial, removed; concept 583 Ant. central, inner, middle … New thesaurus
Outlying territory — An outlying territory or separate area is a state territory geographically separated from its parent territory and lies beyond Exclusive Economic Zone of its parent territory. The tables below are lists of outlying territories which are marked by … Wikipedia
Outlying Islands, Hong Kong — In Hong Kong, the Outlying Islands (Chinese: 離島) are the groups of islands that surround Hong Kong Island as well as Kowloon and the New Territories on the mainland. There are 236 islands in Hong Kong, the majority of which are part of Islands… … Wikipedia
area — noun 1 part of place ADJECTIVE ▪ huge, large, vast, wide ▪ small ▪ immediate, local ▪ … Collocations dictionary
outlying — adj. Outlying is used with these nouns: ↑area, ↑district, ↑farm, ↑island, ↑region, ↑settlement, ↑suburb, ↑village … Collocations dictionary
Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area — Map of Illinois highlighting the Champaign Urbana MSA The Champaign Urbana metropolitan area, also known as Champaign Urbana, is a metropolitan area in east central Illinois. It is the 191st largest metropolitan area in the U.S. It is composed of … Wikipedia
Insular area — For the region within an animal brain sometimes known as insular area , see Insular cortex. An insular area is a United States territory, that is neither a part of one of the fifty U.S. states nor the District of Columbia, the federal district of … Wikipedia
