borders
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For now, the immediate test lies outside Iran's borders.
From BBC
Ethiopia currently has rail and road access to the docks in Djibouti, near the tip of the Horn of Africa, and has provoked the ire of Somalia by making a play for a port in Somaliland, an independence-minded region inside of Somalia’s internationally recognized borders.
Convoys of Ethiopian military trucks have been moving into positions along Tigray’s mountainous borders.
Population centers and major lines of communication are spread out within the interior of the country, beyond borders ringed by rugged mountain ranges, making enemy supply lines vulnerable to interdiction.
AFP photographs and video emerging from Tehran, taken together with testimony from witnesses inside the country or crossing the borders, also provide a window into the destruction.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.