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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0732.00026.] This paper investigates the regional segregation of competing species in a homogeneous environment. Consider \(n\) species competing with each other and moving by diffusion. Let \(u_ i(t,x)\) be the population density of the \(i\)-th species at time \(t\) and position \(x\) for \(i=1,\dots,n\). Then the dynamics of \(u=(u_ 1,\dots,u_ n)\) is described by \[ (\partial/\partial t)u_ i=d_ i\Delta u_ i+\left(r_ i-\sum^ n_{j=1} a_{ij}u_ j\right)u_ i,\quad (t,x)\in(0,\infty)\times\Omega,\quad i=1,\dots,n, \] where \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian in \(\mathbb{R}^ N\) and \(\Omega\) is bounded in \(\mathbb{R}^ N\). Furthermore, the author assumes that \(r_ i\), \(a_{ij}\) and \(d_ i\) \((i,j=1,\dots,n)\) are positive constants. The boundary condition is of zero flux. The main purpose of this report is to study the so-called domain-shape problem for two equations in dimension two, where the habitat \(\Omega\) is specified to be a dumbbell-shape domain \(\Omega_ \varepsilon\) with a small parameter \(\varepsilon>0\) which consists of three disjoint sets, i.e., \(\Omega_ \varepsilon=\Omega^ L_ 0\cup\Omega^ R_ 0\cup R_ \varepsilon\), where the first two are convex sets and \(R_ \varepsilon\) is a handle satisfying \(| R_ \varepsilon|\to 0\) as \(\varepsilon\to 0\). In addition, the author supposes that both diffusion coefficients are very large.