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Use for: Birunga Mountains, Mufumbiro Mountains

• A volcanic range north of Lake Kivu in east-central Africa, extending about 50 miles (80 km) along the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. The range runs east-west, perpendicular to the rift valley in which lie Lakes Kivu and Edward.

Use for: VC, Vice-county, vice county, vice-counties, Watsonian vice-county

• a geographical division of the British Isles. It is also called biological vice-county as it is used for purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering, or sometimes called a Watsonian vice-county as vice-counties were introduced by Hewett Cottrell Watson in the third volume of his Cybele Britannica, published in 1852.

Use for: vice county 81, vice-county 81

• Vice County 81 - Berwickshire, as defined by Hewitt Cottrell Watson in his biological recording system

Use for: vice county 83, vice-county 83

• Vice County 83 - Midlothian, as defined by Hewitt Cottrell Watson in his biological recording system

Use for: Canton of Vaud (Switzerland), Vôd (Switzerland), Waadt (Switzerland)

Use for: Vancouver, Canada

• A city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the major urban centre of western Canada and the focus of one of the country’s most populous metropolitan regions. Vancouver lies between Burrard Inlet (an arm of the Strait of Georgia) to the north and the Fraser River delta to the south, opposite Vancouver Island. The city is just north of the U.S. state of Washington.

Use for: USA, United States

• one of the ancient provinces of Ireland and subsequently the northernmost of Ireland’s four traditional provinces (the others being Leinster, Munster, and Connaught [Connacht]). Because of the Ulster cycle of Irish literature, which recounts the exploits of Cú Chulainn and many other Ulster heroes, Ulster has a place of great prominence in Irish literature. The name Ulster is now used by many to refer to Northern Ireland.