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Indigenous leaders say its return highlights the importance of demarcating their ancestral lands to keep their traditions alive.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024

Families eat and enjoy music by a historic obelisk, the first monument demarcating the border, from the mid-1800s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023

Recognizing and demarcating Indigenous lands leads to reduced deforestation and increased reforestation.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2023

Lebanon hopes that demarcating maritime borders will pave the way for gas exploration to help lift it out of its crippling economic crisis.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2022

The light flickered over the paper as the old woman crouched down and stared at the lines demarcating the Great Wood, the river Nir, the Kell.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo