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... miles ( 147,181 square kilometres ) , extends roughly 500 miles ( 800 kilometres ) from east to west and 90 to 150 miles from north to south . Nepal , long under the rule of hereditary prime ministers favouring a policy of isolation ...
... miles ( 147,181 square kilometres ) , extends roughly 500 miles ( 800 kilometres ) from east to west and 90 to 150 miles from north to south . Nepal , long under the rule of hereditary prime ministers favouring a policy of isolation ...
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... miles long and 20 to 60 miles wide that rises 11,000 feet above the seafloor . Separating the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean , the archipelago stretches in a 1,100 - mile- long arc from the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island at the ...
... miles long and 20 to 60 miles wide that rises 11,000 feet above the seafloor . Separating the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean , the archipelago stretches in a 1,100 - mile- long arc from the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island at the ...
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... miles north of the village of Carmacks , four small , rocky islands split the river into the Five Fin- ger Rapids area , and the current flows swiftly past these islands . At the village of Selkirk , the junction of the Pelly River ...
... miles north of the village of Carmacks , four small , rocky islands split the river into the Five Fin- ger Rapids area , and the current flows swiftly past these islands . At the village of Selkirk , the junction of the Pelly River ...
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