Countries and regions
Brief description of countries and regions, background information, interesting facts.
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Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. Over 90 percent of its territory is m...
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Borneo is the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea, shared by Indonesia in the south and center (Kalimantan provinces), Mala...
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Chile is a unitary presidential republic in western South America, stretching about 4,300 km north to south along the Pacific. It borders Peru, Bol...
Madagascar is an island country in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa, separated from Mozambique by the Mozambique Channel. It i...
Mongolia is a vast, landlocked country in north central Asia, wedged between Russia to the north and China to the south. Much of its territory is g...
Finland is a Nordic republic spanning 338,455 km² on the Fennoscandian Peninsula. Its name, derived from the Finnish word Suomi, reflects the ancie...
Uzbekistan is a large, doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, roughly the size of California, sandwiched between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajiki...
Niger is a vast landlocked nation in West Africa, stretching over 1.27 million square kilometers between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Sah...
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country in central South America bordered by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, C...
The Falkland Islands, also known in Spanish as Islas Malvinas, are a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 480 km ea...
Kamchatka refers to both the peninsula and Kamchatka Krai, a federal subject of Russia whose capital is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The krai also inc...
Indonesia is a unitary presidential republic with a directly elected president and legislature. The president is the head of state and government, ...
Georgia spans coastal lowlands, fertile valleys, and the Greater and Lesser Caucasus ranges. The highest peak is Mount Shkhara at 5,193 m, with Mou...
Armenia lies on the Armenian Highlands with rugged relief, fast rivers, and wide elevation bands. The highest point is Mount Aragats at 4,090 m. La...
A resort peninsula connecting the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea and the Kherson region. Arabat Spit is about 112 km long and from roughly 0.27 to 8 km ...
Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea, composed of the main island and over 4,000 smaller islets. It spans about 110,860 km² and lies betwe...
Kakhovka is a small port city on the east bank of the Dnieper River. The city covers roughly thirty square kilometers and had an estimated thirty-f...
Irkutsk is a major city in Eastern Siberia, Russia, located on the banks of the Angara River. It stands approximately 70 kilometers from the southe...
Normandy is a region in northwest France, bordering the English Channel and encompassing five departments: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne and Seine-M...
Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis in Southern California on the Pacific coast, covering more than 1 200 square kilometers in Los Angeles County...
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Brief description of countries and regions, background information, interesting facts.