Except for the mountainous north, it's an exceptionally easy island to drive around.

Instead, Iran joined Kurdish rebels to carry out a limited push into Iraq's mountainous north.

But a week's journey through Malawi's dry and mountainous north suggests that her escape is the exception.

The source of most of the violence was the mountainous north, where tribal sheiks still resented central government.

Even more intriguing, the list of creatures included some from the cold, mountainous north and others from the temperate south.

Much of the mountainous north is sparsely inhabited.

Support for the Republicans came from the 44% of the state's population that was African-American, along with whites from the mountainous north.

Croatia's regions are diverse, from the glorious Dalmatian coastline and its 1,000-plus islands to the mountainous north.

The majority of the island's population is the central plain between the mountainous north and the barren, arid south.

Only a handful of small Christian states survived in the mountainous north of the peninsula.