Today, most of the people of Nauru live along a narrow and fertile coastal strip of the island.

From there the numbering progressed downriver in an orderly fashion along the narrow fertile strip of land that was the Nile valley.

There are now 56 million Egyptians, crammed into the narrow fertile strip along the Nile and its delta.

Most people live in the Euphrates River valley and along the coastal plain, a fertile strip between the coastal mountains and the desert.

Levantine Arabic is spoken in the fertile strip on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.

The only way to subdue the Plains is to control both fertile strips, to the east and to the west.

Beyond the green fertile strip along the bank of the stream lay the dun-colored flatlands where the Yezda ruled.

There is a fertile strip five kilometers wide along the northern coast on which date, almond, fig, and pomegranate trees grow.

Before Europeans settled in the area around the 1870s, numerous Aboriginal clans occupied the fertile coastal strip.

Potato growing (due to a fertile strip of red volcanic soil), grazing and tourism later became the mainstays of the town's economy.