coastal provinces
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcoastalandprovince
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coastal
adjective
uk/ˈkəʊ.stəl/us/ˈkoʊ.stəl/
positioned on, or relating to ...
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province
noun
uk/ˈprɒv.ɪns/us/ˈprɑː.vɪns/
one of the areas that a country or empire is divided into as part of the organization of its government, which often has some control over its own ...
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(Definition ofcoastalandprovincefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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During the colonial period many of this community moved to the coastal provinces to engage in trade and businesses, after losing the traditional vocations of military and governance.
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Private finance grew, stimulating the development of a country-wide market network which linked thecoastalprovincewith the interior.
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Thus, evil people in the coastal provinces regard minting coin as a lucrative enterprise, mixing lead and copper with fine silver to mint foreign coin.
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They looked at the wave in more specific contexts to identify its local causes, but these studies concentrated only on the coastal provinces.
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The ship's movements were reported to the throne in memorials from the governors and governors-general of the coastal provinces.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, the coastal provinces were only slowly recovering from this crisis.
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The regional dimension is important since people in the coastal provinces earn up to ten times more than people in poor inland provinces.
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Zhao successfully sought to establish a series of special economic zones in coastal provinces in order to attract foreign investment and create export hubs.
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Coastal provinces may also construct ports to increase trade.
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Bandits controlled many of the towns in the coastal provinces.
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In other coastal provinces, various smaller fleets and squadrons under "droungarioi" and other officers were tasked with local defence.
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Some governors have been rotated from other provinces from poorer provinces to richer coastal provinces.
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Its geographic location limits it participation in international trade, which involves mostly eastern coastal provinces.
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Economic development has generally been more rapid in coastal provinces than in the interior, and there are large disparities in per capita income between regions.
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The truly coastal provinces have active fisheries.
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The central government further established special economic zones within the coastal provinces, which the relevant subnational governments have operated and expanded upon, even establishing sister city relations internationally.
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