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(Encyclopedia) Eastern Cape, province, 65,238 sq mi (168,966 sq km), S central South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. In 1994, under South Africa's post-apartheid constitu...

(Encyclopedia) Puducherry pôNdēshārēˈ [key], union territory (2001 provisional pop. 973,829), 183 sq mi (474 sq km), India. It comprises the noncontiguous enclaves of former French India: Puducherry (formerly P...

(Encyclopedia) Great Rift Valley, geological fault system of SW Asia and E Africa. It extends c.3,000 mi (4,830 km) from N Syria to central Mozambique. The northernmost extension runs S through Syria and Lebanon, th...

(Encyclopedia) trench: see ocean.

(Encyclopedia) gyre: see ocean.

(Encyclopedia) littoral zone: see ocean.

(Encyclopedia) pelagic zone: see ocean.

(Encyclopedia) abyssal plain: see ocean.

(Encyclopedia) aphotic zone: see ocean.

(Encyclopedia) continental shelf: see ocean.