The hardest-hit region in Zimbabwe is the southeast, where sugar cane fields look like hay and more than half the 7,000 sugar workers have been laid off.

Few of those psychiatrists speak Tamil, the language of victims in the hardest-hit regions of the east and north.

Generally, beyond the priority services and industries, repair work for other customers proceeds from the least damaged areas toward the hardest-hit regions.

It sickens hundreds of millions more, and imposes $12 billion a year in economic costs on sub-Saharan Africa, the hardest-hit region.

Hendry County, a farming area with a population of 38,000, was one of the hardest-hit regions.

Aceh came to international attention as being the hardest-hit region of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake with 120,000 people dead.

Prosecutors in the hardest-hit region, Stavropol, said they might charge some officials with negligence.

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the hardest-hit region.

The lowland is the country's hardest-hit region.

In Latin America, one of the hardest-hit regions, stock prices rose despite concerns that a banking and currency crisis may be developing.