11.   Shootings, abductions and other violence have remained widespread in the impoverished mountainous nation.

12.   The armed groups are de facto in control over large swaths of this mountainous nation.

13.   The five-year conflict left the mountainous nation with a ruined economy and serious security problems.

14.   The mountainous nation just north of Afghanistan is now an important corridor for providing humanitarian aid to its southern neighbor.

15.   The mountainous Central Asian nation is prone to earthquakes.

16.   The opposition in this mountainous nation warned the minority communist government Thursday it may not support the ministry because it is becoming totalitarian.