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(Encyclopedia) South Island or Te Waipounamu [Maori,=the waters of greenstone] (1996 pop. 900,114), 58,093 sq mi (150,461 sq km), New Zealand. It is the larger but less populous of the two principal islands of the c...

(Encyclopedia) Corn Belt, major agricultural region of the U.S. Midwest where corn acreage once exceeded that of any other crop. It is now commonly called the Feed Grains and Livestock Belt. Located in the north cen...

(Encyclopedia) Prairie Pothole Region, large geographic area of central North America consisting of grass-covered wetlands. Stretching northwest from N Iowa through SW Minnesota, E South Dakota, E and N North Dakota...

(Encyclopedia) South Farmingdale, uninc. town (1990 pop. 15,377), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island. It is chiefly residential.

(Encyclopedia) South Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Sheffield conurbation and comprised four metropolitan distr...

(Encyclopedia) South River, borough (1990 pop. 13,692), Middlesex co., E N.J.; settled 1720, inc. 1898. Manufactures include clothing, furniture, and handkerchiefs. ...

(Encyclopedia) South Ossetia: see Ossetia.

(Encyclopedia) South Vietnam: see Vietnam.

(Encyclopedia) South Korea: see under Korea.

(Encyclopedia) South Saskatchewan: see Saskatchewan, river. ...