Encompasses

A million years encompasses a thousand millennia.

With an area of seventy-five hectares, our botanic garden encompasses about four thousand plant species.

The Southern California Bight is the curved coastline between Point Conception and San Diego, and encompasses the Channel Islands.

Jealousy, the green-eyed monster, encompasses even the best of us.

The Heaven is wheeled about and encompasses the Earth, standing in the middle.

North Africa encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.

The Maghreb region encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya.

The developing world is home to some densely populated megacities that may be tinderboxes of viral transmission. But it also encompasses large rural areas where social distancing is not a public health recommendation, it's a way of life.

Russia's vast territory encompasses diverse landscapes, from the majestic Ural Mountains to the stunning Lake Baikal, the deepest freshwater lake in the world.

The sprawling watershed, where the Potomac and several other great rivers merge on their way to the Atlantic Ocean, stretches over 166,000 square kilometers and encompasses six Atlantic coast states and the nation's capital. It nourishes a multitude of marine and terrestrial wildlife. It's the source of fresh drinking water, food and recreation for 17 million people. But in recent decades, rapid population growth, farm chemical runoff and industrial activity have polluted the bay and upset the watershed's delicate ecology.