1.   Catholics and Protestants will jointly govern through a new assembly, while new cross-border bodies will link the province with Ireland.

2.   In addition, the province is linked to New England through a shared border with Maine.

3.   In Northern Ireland, republicans are those, largely from the Catholic minority, who wish to see the British province linked more closely with Ireland.

4.   Its oil-rich eastern province is linked to the island nation of Bahrain by a causeway.

5.   The Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle links Riau province, including Batam, with Singapore and the Johor state in Malaysia.

6.   Travelers have reported that the road through the Khash desert linking the province with other provinces is often rife with bandits.

7.   He said public buses linking three provinces on Sulawesi island via Poso have begun plying their business.

8.   The sole remaining highway linking the province to Manila was obstructed by fallen trees, forcing the government to make clearing the road a priority.

9.   The torrential rains washed out the only two highways linking Limon province to San Jose.

10.   It said hundreds of coalition troops had been combing mountains and caves linking the provinces of Ghor, Helmand and Uruzgan for the past three days.