mountainous

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Drones struggle to count items that are covered or hiding, such as cattle in mountainous terrains, and are largely ineffective indoors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The Americans were believed to be in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, in a mountainous province of steep ridgelines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Videos on social media appeared to show hundreds of people heading to a mountainous area in south-western Iran to search for the missing US airman.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

The area's mountainous geography makes it doubly vulnerable.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“The mountains” meant the mountainous region about seventy miles to the west.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis