desert region

collocation in English

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desert
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdez.ət/us
/ˈdez.ɚt/
an area, often covered with sand or rocks, where there is very little rain and not ...
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region
noun[C]
uk
/ˈriː.dʒən/us
/ˈriː.dʒən/
a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country ...
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(Definition ofdesertandregionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Throughout that decade extensive and only semi-secret nuclear testing was going on in adesertregionof the south of the state.
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This strange city is in adesertregionand is built almost entirely below ground.
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The park is a green, irrigated area in an otherwisedesertregion.
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Oases is also a source of water in thedesertregionof the country.
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Tjaru, being a frontier town in an inhospitabledesertregion, was a place of banishment for criminals.
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Its strategic value came from the nearby oasis, the only water source in a vastdesertregion.
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The boulders are affected more deeply by the extreme temperature differences between day and night in the ariddesertregionwhere the reserve is located.
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A number of rivers flow through the highdesertregion.
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The pirrang (large tiger cat or fishing cat) of the easterndesertregionis also disappearing.
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There are few local tree species suitable for planting in thedesertregionand these are slow growing.
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The city maintains a highly educated and skilled population, as the city has modernized and become an important population center in thedesertregion.
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Thatta was mostly adesertregion, hot and humid.
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The sanctuary lies in the ecological zone of the semidesertregion.
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In a semidesertregionit supports dense vegetation watered by waterfalls emanating from groundwater emerging from the upper cliff faces.
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The dry,desertregionis home to forty-two mammal species.
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The lower bound of the montane zone may be a lower timberline that separates the montane forest from drier steppe ordesertregion.
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He became instrumental in starting hundreds of schools in thedesertregion.
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The river provided the water and fertile land needed for agricultural production in adesertregion.
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It is unlikely to regain its former strength because of severe water shortages in thisdesertregion as well as ongoing weakness in the local economy.
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The land there is mostlydesertregion.
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