51.   In villages like Manshiet Nasser, the last government representative was most likely a soldier behind a gun.

52.   In villages like Koncul, just outside of Dobrosin, only stray dogs, and guerrillas with Kalashnikov rifles wander freely on the streets.

53.   In villages like Tozawamura, where there are three unmarried men for every single woman, trying to counter depopulation has meant some radical measures for this homogeneous society.

54.   Most of the young have left Shirazabad and dozens of villages like it in the hardest hit areas in the south, east and northeast.

55.   Most remote Afghan villages like this one have no hospital or emergency services.

56.   Most of the wounded have streamed to clinics and hospitals in outlying villages like Urus-Martan.

57.   Nowhere in Japan can you find a gorgeous residential village like Forbes Park.

58.   Once-booming poppy villages like Shawali have fallen on hard times, with abandoned houses, hungry people and soil bereft of life.

59.   The capital can be reached only by air or sea and villages like Siacualaya are accessible only by small boat and, in some cases, by helicopter.

60.   The families seen in this picture are mostly from the coastal villages like Pusat and Pekan in the Sri Aman Division.