| LANGUEDOC | Historical region of France between the foothills of the Pyrenees and the river Rhone (9) |
| PROVENCE | Historic region of France, between the Italian border and the River Rhone (8) |
| PERPIGNAN | French town in the foothills of the Pyrenees (9) |
| PAMPLONA | City in North Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for its annual bull runs (8) |
| AQUITAINE | Historical region of France which comprised the departments of Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne and Pyrenees-Atlantiques (9) |
| MARRAKESH | Moroccan city at the foothills of the Atlas Mountains noted for bustling souks in its ancient walled medina (9) |
| KARLSRUHE | German city at the foothills of the Black Forest (9) |
| COTEDAZUR | Mediterranean area east of the River Rhone whose resorts include Nice and Cannes (4,5) |
| ALSACE | Former region of France between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine (6) |
| THIRDREPUBLIC | Governmental system of France between the fall of Napoleon III in 1870 and the German occupation of 1940 (5,8) |
| CAMARGUE | Region of southern France between the Mediterranean and the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhone |
| PENNSTATE | University at the foothills of Mount Nittany |
| ADOUR | River of south-west France, rising in the Pyrenees and flowing 200 miles into the Bay of Biscay (5) |
| COMO | Y-shaped lake in the foothills of the Rhaetian Alps of Lombardy, site of the town Bellagio on the water's edge (4) |
| GENEVA | Lake ?, body of water between Switzerland and France fed and drained by the River Rhone |
| GARONNE | River in south-west France, rising in the Pyrenees, and flowing 329 miles into the Bay of Biscay (7) |
| INDIAN | - Summers ; set in the foothills of the Himalayas but filmed in Penang, a television drama based on the final days of the British Empire's colonial rule (6) |
| BHUTAN | Meaning "land of the thunder dragon", landlocked kingdom in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas with the capital Thimphu (6) |
| TERAI | Region of subtropical lowlands in the foothills of the Himalayas (5) |
| TEHRAN | Capital of Iran, in the NW in the foothills of the Elburz Mountains (6) |
