  Measuring the anisotropy of the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays
provides important information on the propagation mechanisms and the
identification of their sources. In fact, the flux of cosmic rays is thought to
be dependent on the arrival direction only due to the presence of nearby cosmic
ray sources or particular magnetic-field structures. Recently, the observation
of unexpected excesses at TeV energy down to angular scale as narrow as
$\sim10\deg$ raised the possibility that the problem of the origin of galactic
cosmic rays may be addressed by studying the anisotropy.
  The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a full-coverage EAS array, sensitive to cosmic
rays with energy threshold of a few hundred GeV. Searching for small-size
deviations from the isotropy, the ARGO-YBJ collaboration explored the
declination region $\delta\sim-20^{\circ}\div 80^{\circ}$, making use of about
3.7$\cdot10^{11}$ events collected from November 2007 to May 2012.
  In this paper the detection of different significant (up to 13 standard
deviations) medium-scale anisotropy regions in the arrival directions of CRs is
reported. The observation was performed with unprecedented detail. The relative
excess intensity with respect to the isotropic flux extends up to 10$^{-3}$.
The maximum excess occurs for proton energies of 10-20 TeV, suggesting the
presence of unknown features of the magnetic fields the charged cosmic rays
propagate through, or some contribution of nearby sources never considered so
far.
  The observation of new weaker few-degree excesses throughout the sky region
$195^{\circ}\leq$ \ra $\leq 290^{\circ}$ is reported for the first time.
