31.   The region includes northeast Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan, Miller said.

32.   The region includes a heavy population of senior citizens, who vote in greater numbers than most demographic groups.

33.   The region also includes wealthy Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, considered potentially lucrative cocaine markets.

34.   The region includes East, South and Central Asia as well as the Pacific Islands.

35.   The region includes the key ports of Vladivostok and Nakhodka.

36.   The region includes the Mayan ruins of Tikal.

37.   The region includes the Taliban headquarters at Kandahar, and is dominated by ethnic Pashtuns, as are the Taliban forces.

38.   The western regions include Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces and the Xinjiang Uygur, Tibet and Ningxia Hui autonomous regions.

39.   The region includes the town of Miliana which the most radical organisation, the Armed Islamic Group, had chosen as the capital of its fundamentalist government.

40.   The region includes Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.