We're starting to do it in the Western Pacific as well.

But few in the Western Pacific see it that way.

It is located in the western part of the country, covering most of Costa Rica's Pacific Ocean coast, and it is the largest province in Costa Rica.

Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil.

The Western Mountain Range rises from an average of above sea level in the northern part of the city to approximately to the south.

None of this is meant to suggest that the Pacific region does not need America.

Geography Paraguay is divided by the Río Paraguay into the eastern region, called Eastern Paraguay (Paraguay Oriental) but also known as the Paraná region and the western region, officially called Western Paraguay (Paraguay Occidental) and also known as the Gran Chaco or Chaco.

The Caroline Islands (Islas Carolinas in Spanish, Karolinen in German) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea.

The situation near China, whether in the East China Sea, near Japan, or in the West Pacific, is completely different.

The western extent of the Mojave Desert begins in the Antelope Valley, in the northeastern part of the county.

Annual precipitation is in the eastern part of the plain and more than in the western part.

See also Hokuriku region Kōshin'etsu region Shin'etsu region Notes

I envisage a strategy whereby Australia, India, Japan, and the US state of Hawaii form a diamond to safeguard the maritime commons stretching from the Indian Ocean region to the western Pacific.

The oldest oceanic crust is located in the Western Pacific, and has an estimated age of about .

It is the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana island chain and is also the largest island in Micronesia.

As of 2005, over 4.4 million inhabitants live in the Pacific, Central and North regions, 2.7 in the Pacific region alone, while inhabitants in the Caribbean region only reach an estimated 700,000.

In Nashville, the Vanderbilt Commodores also compete in the Southeastern Conference.

This article was written by Fenton Lutunatabua for 350.org in March and is published on Global Voices as part of a content sharing agreement. It is no secret that the Pacific Region is on the frontline of climate change.

California () is a state located on the West Coast of the United States.

Clearly, the Asia Pacific region takes precedence in US calculations.

Western Visayas (Region VI) Western Visayas consists of the islands of Panay and the western half of Negros.

Millions of children in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Western Pacific are forced into extreme poverty when a parent gets sick or dies.

São José do Sabugi is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

has become a symbol of Western culture in the area... she was promoting Western culture in Pashtun areas.

Kromdraai is a protected conservancy in western Gauteng, South Africa in the Muldersdrift area not far from Krugersdorp.

It is one of only three states of the contiguous United States to have a coastline on the Pacific Ocean.

The use of this method, however, varies markedly from 4 in Europe to more than 50 in the Pacific region.

Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Republic of Kiribati, in the central Pacific Ocean.

Essequibo Islands West Demerara (Region 3) is a region of Guyana, split in two by the Essequibo River.

Várzea, Paraíba is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

The only significant fishing company left in the area has its fish shipped from the Baltic Sea, thousands of kilometers away.

Biologically, the river system is possibly the largest uncontaminated freshwater wetland system in the Asia Pacific region.

Over a period of 60 years, the city had become the financial, trade and cultural center of the West operated the busiest port on the West Coast and was the gateway to the Pacific , through which growing U.S. economic and military power was projected into the Pacific and Asia.

Duisburg () is a German city in the western part of the Ruhr Area ( Ruhrgebiet ) in North Rhine Westphalia.

In 2010, Vietnam was ranked as the 8th largest crude petroleum producers in the Asia and Pacific region.

Part of the Ring of Fire, a region of the world subject to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, Colombia is dominated by the Andes (which contain the majority of the country's urban centres).

Following Japan's defeat in World War II, the United States administered Okinawa until 1972.

There are five states in this division Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and, as its name suggests, they all have coastlines on the Pacific Ocean (and are the only American states that border that ocean).

In a move that has received little or no publicity, congressional Republicans added a clause to the Defense Appropriation Bill for next year requiring the Obama administration to consult with countries in the Western Pacific about stationing even more forces including tactical nuclear weapons in the region.

Many species are headed through this region, which is why there's been so much attention put into conservation of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape.

Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western or Occidental world.

100 come from Asia and the Pacific.

She came off sailing across the Pacific.

She left sailing across the Pacific Ocean.

He later added, Sei whales are the second most abundant species of whale in the western North Pacific, with an estimated population of over 28,000 animals.