He currently represents District 17, a compact block of counties surrounding Abilene, his home.

These districts each comprised a number of counties surrounding a significant town.

The 14 counties surrounding the city are sometimes referred to as suburban even though some contain their own urban areas.

The rural counties surrounding Changzhou are noted for the production of rice, fish, tea, silk, bamboo and fruit.

It consists of the counties surrounding a city designated as the basic trading center.

It currently serves a horseshoe-shaped region of 20 counties surrounding the Indianapolis area, which is served by area code 317.

The three counties surrounding Dublin also ranked in the top 5.

In the past eight years, the population of the six counties surrounding the park increased 23.7 percent, to one million.

The campus and most of the county surrounding it are dry.

Since its inception in 1900, the organization has provided services to over one million people in need throughout the counties surrounding Atlanta, Georgia.