I'm particularly impressed by the vote in the central counties.

The agricultural central counties have some of the highest poverty rates in the state.

Mandarin Chinese - spoken throughout the state, most prominently in the northern and central counties.

They said the state should put the baseball stadium in a central or southern county to give residents there a better opportunity to attend games.

Analysts with the Labor Department suggested that much of the growth in the central counties would turn out to have been fueled by immigrants.

After 1541 the central and southern counties were effectively annexed by the Ottomans for 150 years.

The employment gains that resulted from that strong economy, the report said, settled in the six central counties.

"Every developable site is pretty well spoken for, at least in the central and south county."

Moving east, there are some areas (mostly in the northern and central county) of higher ground with much better drainage.

Population growth in Arkansas's central counties meant that the 2nd district had to shrink in the new map.