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Lower & Middle Salween

Lower & Middle Salween, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 722, spans the middle and lower Salween basin in Myanmar, China, and Thailand plus the Tenasserim River; 45 endemic fish species, threatened by proposed dams.

Oct 20, 2026

Lower & Middle Syr Darya

Lower & Middle Syr Darya, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 626, a temperate upland-river ecoregion of the Syr Darya, Chu, and Sarysu drainages across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, draining to the Aral Sea.

Lower Amur

Lower Amur: lowland reach of the Amur River in the Russian Far East and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 616, with the Ussuri and Khanka Lake basin; wide floodplains, high mollusc endemism, Lower Amur grayling, and Lake Bolon Ramsar wetland.

Lower Austria

Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) is a federal state of Austria surrounding Vienna. It is the nation's largest state by area, with St. Pölten serving as its capital since 1986.

Lower Bavaria

Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern) is a Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, 10,325 km², about 1.25 million people, seat Landshut, named in 1255; rural district with BMW Dingolfing, Bavarian Forest tourism, and the Gäuboden farmland.

Sep 29, 2026

Lower blepharoplasty

Lower blepharoplasty is a surgical procedure that removes or repositions fat, skin, and muscle of the lower eyelid to reduce under-eye bags, wrinkles, and other aging changes.

Sep 29, 2026

Lower body negative pressure

Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) encloses the lower body in a sealed chamber below atmospheric pressure, pooling blood in the legs to simulate hemorrhage and test countermeasures for orthostatic intolerance.

Lower Canada

Lower Canada (Bas-Canada), British colony 1791-1840 created by the Constitutional Act dividing Quebec; mostly French-speaking, became Canada East under the 1841 Act of Union after the 1837-38 Patriote rebellions.

Lower Centaurus Crux

Lower Centaurus Crux is one of three subgroups of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association, the nearest site of recent massive star formation, about 118 parsecs away and roughly 17 million years old.

Lower Church at Banganarti

Lower Church at Banganarti, Sudan: sequence of three churches (LCH1-3) beneath the Upper Church (Raphaelion), built from the late 6th/7th century, a Makurian pilgrimage site with healing tombs, leveled circa 1070 AD.

Lower Colorado River Authority

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is a publicly owned Texas utility created in 1934 to manage the lower Colorado River and generate electric power for Central Texas.

Lower Congo

Lower Congo: the ~350 km lower course of the Congo River from Pool Malebo to the Atlantic, dropping 280 m through rapids; also two FEOW freshwater ecoregions and the offshore Lower Congo sedimentary basin, noted for endemic, convergently evolved fish.

Lower Dīr District

Lower Dir District (Dir Lower), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: district headquartered at Timergara, created 1996 from the old Dir district. 1,650,183 people (2023 census), 1,583 sq km, 2.9% urban, 57.4% literacy.

Lower Dock Street drill hall, Newport

Former military drill hall at 58 Lower Dock Street, Newport, Wales; Grade II listed castellated building built 1902 for the 4th Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers, decommissioned 1967, fire-damaged 2018.

Lower East Side

The Lower East Side is a Manhattan neighborhood bounded by 14th Street, the Bowery, and the East River, best known as the first American home for successive waves of immigrants.

Lower Egypt

Lower Egypt (Miṣr Baḥr, the Nile Delta) is northern Egypt, bounded by the 30th parallel and the Mediterranean; symbolized by the Red Crown, united with Upper Egypt under Menes around 3100 BCE.

Lower envelope of functions

The lower envelope of functions is the pointwise minimum of a collection of functions, together with the subdivision showing which function is lowest in each region; it describes Voronoi diagrams in computational geometry.

Lower Granite Dam

Lower Granite Dam is a dam on the lower Snake River in Washington state, completed in 1975 and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, generating 810 megawatts.

Lower Greys Oil Field

Lower Greys Oil Field is an onshore oil field in southern Barbados, discovered in 1985 and operated by the state-owned Barbados National Oil Company Limited.

Lower Heterobranchia

Lower Heterobranchia, or Allogastropoda, is a paraphyletic basal grade of small, mostly marine gastropods within Heterobranchia, including Valvatoidea, Architectonicoidea, Omalogyroidea, Rissoelloidea, and Pyramidelloidea, sister-graded to Euthyneura.

Lower house

Lower house: the popularly elected, usually larger chamber of a bicameral legislature, counterpart to the upper house. Examples include the House of Commons, Bundestag, and House of Representatives; it typically holds budget prerogative and government confidence.