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|[[Afghanistan]]<br>[[File:Afghanistan flag 60px.gif|60px|link=Afghanistan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 01||??||Afghanistan is an Islamic country. An estimated 80% of the population is Sunni, following the Hanafi school of jurisprudence; the remainder of the population--and primarily the Hazara ethnic group--is predominantly Shi'a. Despite attempts during the years of communist rule to secularize Afghan society, Islamic practices pervade all aspects of life. -->[[Afghanistan|>>> Read More >>>]]
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|[[Akrotiri]]<br>[[File:United Kingdom flag.gif|60px|link=Akrotiri]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 01||??||Akrotiri was first constructed in the mid-1950s to relieve pressure on the main RAF station on the island, RAF Nicosia. In the aftermath of the Egyptian repudiation of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty, British forces had to be withdrawn from the Canal Zone in [[Egypt]].
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|[[Albania]]<br>[[File:Albania flag.gif|60px|link=Albania]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 02||??||Over 90% of Albania's people are ethnic Albanian, and Albanian is the official language. Religions include Muslim (Sunni and Bektashi), Albanian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic. Scholars believe the Albanian people are descended from a non-Slavic, non-Turkic group of tribes known as Illyrians, who arrived in the Balkans around 2000 BC.
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|[[Algeria]]<br>[[File:Algeria flag.gif|60px|link=Algeria]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 01||??||Algeria is Africa's second largest country, covering an area of nearly 2.5 million square miles. Algeria's indigenous Berber people has been under foreign rule for much of the last 3000 years. The Phoenicians (1000 BC) and the Romans (200 BC) were the most important of these.
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|[[American Samoa]]<br>[[File:American Samoa Flag.gif|60px|link=American Samoa]]||??||??||American Samoa, officially Territory of American Samoa, unincorporated territory of the United States consisting of the eastern part of the Samoan archipelago, located in the south-central Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand and 2,200 miles (3,500 km) southwest of the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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|[[Andorra]]<br>[[File:Andorra flag.gif|60px|link=Andorra]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 03||??||Andorrans live in seven valleys that form Andorra's political districts. Andorrans are a minority in their own country; they make up only approximately 37% of the population or about 31,500 native Andorrans. Spanish, French, and Portuguese residents make up the other 63% of the population.
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|[[Angola]]<br>[[File:Angola flag 60px.gif|link=Angola]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 02||??||Angola has substantial mineral resources and hydroelectric power. Most large-scale industries are nationalized. Oil, chiefly from reserves offshore, is the most lucrative product, providing about 50% of the country's GDP and 90% of its exports.
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|[[Anguilla]]<br>[[File:Anguilla flag.gif|60px|link=Anguilla]]||??||??||Anguilla, island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, a British overseas territory. It is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles and lies about 12 miles (19 km) north of the island of Saint Martin and 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Saint Kitts.
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|[[Antigua and Barbuda]]<br>[[File:Antigua and Barbuda flag.gif|60px|link=Antigua and Barbuda]]||??||??||Antigua, the larger of the two main islands, is 108 sq mi (280 sq km). The island dependencies of Redonda (an uninhabited rocky islet) and Barbuda (a coral island formerly known as Dulcina) are 0.5 sq mi (1.30 sq km) and 62 sq mi (161 sq km), respectively.
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|[[Argentina]]<br>[[File:Argentina flag.gif|60px|link=Argentina]]||??||??||Argentina, country of South America, covering most of the southern portion of the continent. The world’s eighth largest country, Argentina occupies an area more extensive than Mexico and the U.S. state of Texas combined.
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|[[Armenia]]<BR>[[File:Armenia flag .gif|60px|link=Armenia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 02||??||Armenia, country of Transcaucasia, lying just south of the great mountain range of the Caucasus and fronting the northwestern extremity of Asia. To the north and east Armenia is bounded by Georgia and Azerbaijan, while its neighbours to the southeast and west are, respectively, Iran and Turkey. Naxçıvan, an exclave of Azerbaijan, borders Armenia to the southwest.
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|[[Aruba]]<br>[[File:Aruba flag.gif|60px|link=Aruba]]||??||??||Discovered and claimed for Spain in 1499, Aruba was acquired by the Dutch in 1636. The island's economy has been dominated by three main industries. A 19th century gold rush was followed by prosperity brought on by the opening in 1924 of an oil refinery. 
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|[[Ashmore|Ashmore and Cartier Islands]]<br>[[File:Ashmore and Cartier Islands flag.gif|60px|link=Ashmore]]<font size=1>uses Australia's Flag</font>||??||??||Ashmore and Cartier Islands, officially Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands, external territory of Australia, in the Indian Ocean. The islands lie 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Western Australia state and some 105 miles (170 km) southwest of the island of Roti, Indonesia.
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|[[Australia]]||??||??||??
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|[[Austria]]<br>[[File:Austria flag.gif|60px|link=Austria]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 04||??||Austria has a well-developed social market economy with a high standard of living and close ties to other EU economies, especially Germany's.
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|[[Azerbaijan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 03||??||??
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|[[Bahamas, The]]||??||??||??
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|[[Bahrain]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 04||??||??
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|[[Bangladesh]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 05||??||??
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|[[Barbados]]||??||??||??
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|[[Belarus]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 05||??||??
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|[[Belgium]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 06||??||??
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|[[Belize]]<br>[[File:Flag of Belize.svg|60px|link=Belize]]||??||??||Belize was the site of several Mayan city states until their decline at the end of the first millennium A.D. The British and Spanish disputed the region in the 17th and 18th centuries; it formally became the colony of British Honduras in 1854. Territorial disputes between the UK and Guatemala delayed the independence of Belize until 1981.
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|[[Benin]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 03||??||??
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|[[Bermuda]]||??||??||??
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|[[Bhutan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 06||??||??
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|[[Bolivia]]||??||??||??
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|[[Bosnia Herzegovina]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 07||??||??
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|[[Botswana]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 04||??||??
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|[[Brazil]]||??||??||??
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|[[Brunei]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 07||??||??
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|[[Bulgaria]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 08||??||??
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|[[Burkina Faso]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 05||??||??
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|[[Burma]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 08||??||??
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|[[Burundi]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 06||??||??
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|[[Cambodia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 09||??||??
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|[[Cameroon]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 07||??||??
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|[[Canada]]<br>[[File:Canada flag.gif|60px|link=Canada]]||??||??||Canada's forests supply the country's building and paper products industries and contribute one fifth of all the nation's exports. In the 1990s the national forest inventory recorded a total of 1.3 million square miles (3.4 million square kilometers) of forest land, of which 83 percent had been surveyed and almost 60 percent was in production.
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|[[Cape Verde]] - [[Cabo Verde]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 08||??||??
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|[[Cayman Islands]]||??||??||??
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|[[Central African Republic]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 09||??||??
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|[[Chad]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 10||??||??
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|[[Chile]]||??||??||??
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|[[China]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 10||??||??
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|[[Colombia]]||??||??||??
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|[[Comoros]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 11||??||??
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|[[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo, Democratic Republic of the]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 12||??||??
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|[[Congo, Republic of the]]<br>[[File:Flag of the Republic of the Congo (WFB 2004).gif|60px|link=Congo, Republic of the]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 13||??||Republic of the Congo, country situated astride the Equator in west-central Africa. Officially known as the Republic of the Congo, the country is often called Congo (Brazzaville), with its capital added parenthetically, to distinguish it from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is often referred to by its acronym, the DRC, or called Congo (Kinshasa).
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|[[Costa Rica]]||??||??||??
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|[[Cote D'Ivoire]] Ivory Coast||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 14||??||??
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|[[Croatia]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 09||??||The Croats are believed to be a Slavic people who migrated from Ukraine and settled in present-day Croatia during the 6th century. After a period of self-rule, Croatians agreed to the Pacta Conventa in 1091, submitting themselves to Hungarian authority.
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|[[Cuba]]||??||??||??
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|[[Cyprus]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 10||??||??
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|[[Czech Republic]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 11||??||??
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|[[Denmark]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 12||??||??
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|[[Djibouti]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 15||??||??
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|[[Dominica]]||??||??||??
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|[[Dominican Republic]]||??||??||??
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|[[Ecuador]]||??||??||??
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|[[Egypt]]<br>[[File:Flag of Egypt (WFB 2004).gif|60px|link=Egypt]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 16||??||
Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate societies.
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|[[Egypt]] - Sinai<br>[[File:Flag of Egypt (WFB 2004).gif|60px|link=Egypt#About_Egypt-Sinai]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 11||??||
Mount Sinai, also called Mountain of Moses or Mount Hareh, Hebrew Har Sinai, Arabic Jabal Mūsā, granitic peak of the south-central Sinai Peninsula, Janūb Sīnāʾ (South Sinai) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt. Mount Sinai is renowned as the principal site of divine revelation in Jewish history, where God is purported to have appeared to Moses and given him the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5). 
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|[[El Salvador]]||??||??||??
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|[[Equatorial Guinea]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 17||??||??
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|[[Eritrea]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 18||??||??
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|[[Estonia]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 13||??||??
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|[[Ethiopia]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 19||??||??
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|[[Falkland Islands]]||??||??||??
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|[[Faroe Islands]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 14||??||??
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|[[Fiji]]||??||??||??
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|[[Finland]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 15||??||??
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|[[France]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 16||??||??
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|[[Gabon]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 20||??||??
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|[[Gambia, The]]<br>[[File:Gambia, The flag.gif|60px|Link=Gambia, The]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 21||??||The Gambia gained its independence from the UK in 1965. Geographically surrounded by Senegal, it formed a short-lived federation of Senegambia between 1982 and 1989. In 1991 the two nations signed a friendship and cooperation treaty, but tensions have flared up intermittently since then.
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|[[Gaza Strip]]||??||??||??
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|[[Georgia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 12||??||??
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|[[Germany]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 17||??||??
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|[[Ghana]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 22||??||??
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|[[Gibraltar]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 18||??||??
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|[[Greece]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 19||??||??
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|[[Greenland]]||??||??||??
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|[[Grenada]]||??||??||??
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|[[Guam]]||??||??||??
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|[[Guatemala]]||??||??||??
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|[[Guernsey]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 20||??||??
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|[[Guinea]]<br>[[File:Guinea flag.gif|60px|link=Guinea]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 23||??||Guinea is bordered by Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to the northeast, Côte d’Ivoire to the southeast, and Liberia and Sierra Leone to the south. The Atlantic Ocean lies to the west.
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|[[Guinea-Bissau]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 24||??||??
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|[[Guyana]]||??||??||??
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|[[Haiti]]||??||??||??
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|[[Honduras]]||??||??||??
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|[[Hong Kong]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 13||??||??
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|[[Hungary]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 21||??||??
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|[[Iceland]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 22||??||??
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|[[India]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 14||??||??
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|[[Indonesia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 15||??||??
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|[[Iran]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 16||??||??
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|[[Iraq]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 17||??||??
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|[[Ireland]]<br>[[File:Ireland flag.gif|60px|link=Ireland]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 23||??||Celtic tribes arrived on the island between 600 and 150 B.C. Invasions by Norsemen that began in the late 8th century were finally ended when King Brian BORU defeated the Danes in 1014. Norman invasions began in the 12th century and set off more than seven centuries of Anglo-Irish struggle marked by fierce rebellions and harsh repressions.
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|[[Isle of Man]]||??||??||??
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|[[Israel]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 18||??||??
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|[[Italy]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 24||??||??
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|[[Jamaica]]||??||??||??
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|[[Japan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 19||??||??
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|[[Jersey]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 25||??||??
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|[[Jordan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 20||??||??
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|[[Kazakhstan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 21||??||??
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|[[Kenya]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 25||??||??
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|[[Korea, North]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 22||??||??
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|[[Korea, South]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 23||??||??
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|[[Kosovo]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 26||??||??
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|[[Kuwait]]<br>[[File:Kuwait_flag_60px.gif|link=Kuwait]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 24||??||A small emirate nestled between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is situated in a section of one of the driest, least-hospitable deserts on earth. Its shore, however, includes Kuwait Bay, a deep harbour on the Persian Gulf.
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|[[Kyrgyzstan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 25||??||??
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|[[Laos]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 26||??||??
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|[[Latvia]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 27||??||??
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|[[Lebanon]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 27||??||??
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|[[Lesotho]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 26||??||??
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|[[Liberia]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 27||??||??
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|[[Libya]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 28||??||??
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|[[Liechtenstein]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 28||??||??
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|[[Lithuania]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 29||??||??
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|[[Luxembourg]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 30||??||??
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|[[Macau]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 28||??||??
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|[[Macedonia]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 31||??||??
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|[[Madagascar]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 29||??||??
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|[[Malawi]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 30||??||??
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|[[Malaysia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 29||??||??
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|[[Maldives]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 30||??||??
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|[[Mali]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 31||??||??
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|[[Malta]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 32||??||??
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|[[Marshall Islands]]||??||??||??
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|[[Mauritania]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 32||??||??
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|[[Mauritius]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 33||??||??
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|[[Mayotte]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 34||??||??
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|[[Mexico]]||??||??||??
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|[[Moldova]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 33||??||??
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|[[Monaco]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 34||??||??
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|[[Mongolia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 31||??||??
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|[[Montenegro]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 35||??||??
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|[[Montserrat]]||??||??||??
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|[[Morocco]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 35||??||??
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|[[Mozambique]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 36||??||??
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|[[Namibia]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 37||??||??
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|[[Nauru]]||??||??||??
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|[[Nepal]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 32||??||??
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|[[Netherlands]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 36||??||??
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|[[Netherlands Antilles]]||??||??||??
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|[[New Caledonia]]||??||??||??
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|[[New Zealand]]<br>[[File:New zealand flag.gif|60px|link=New Zealand]]||??||??||The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. That same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement.
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|[[Nicaragua]]||??||??||??
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|[[Niger]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 38||??||??
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|[[Nigeria]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 39||??||??
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|[[Niue]]||??||??||??
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|[[Norfolk Island]]||??||??||??
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|[[Norway]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 37||??||??
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|[[Oman]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 33||??||??
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|[[Pakistan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 34||??||??
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|[[Palau]]||??||??||??
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|[[Panama]]||??||??||??
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|[[Papua New Guinea]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 35||??||??
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|[[Peru]]<br>[[File:Peru flag.gif|60px|link=Peru]]||??||??||Peru, country in western South America. Except for the Lake Titicaca basin in the southeast, its borders lie in sparsely populated zones. The boundaries with Colombia to the northeast and Brazil to the east traverse lower ranges or tropical forests, whereas the borders with Bolivia to the southeast, Chile to the south, and Ecuador to the northwest run across the high Andes.
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|[[Philippines]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 36||??||??
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|[[Poland]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 38||??||??
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|[[Portugal]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 39||??||??
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|[[Puerto Rico]]||??||??||??
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|[[Qatar]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 37||??||??
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|[[Romania]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 40||??||??
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|[[Russia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 38||??||??
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|[[Rwanda]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 40||??||??
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|[[Saint Barthelemy]]||??||??||??
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|[[Saint Helena]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 41||??||??
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|[[Saint Kitts]]||??||??||??
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|[[Saint Lucia]]||??||??||??
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|[[Saint Martin]]||??||??||??
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|[[Saint Pierre Miquelon]]||??||??||??
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|[[Saint Vincent and Grenadines]]||??||??||??
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|[[Samoa]]<br>[[File:Samoa flag.gif|60px|link=Samoa]]||??||??||Samoa, country in the central South Pacific Ocean, among the westernmost of the island nations of Polynesia. According to legend, Samoa is known as the “Cradle of Polynesia” because Savai’i island is said to be Hawaiki, the Polynesian homeland.
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|[[American Samoa|Samoa, American]]<br>[[File:American Samoa Flag.gif|60px|link=American Samoa]]||??||??||American Samoa, officially Territory of American Samoa, unincorporated territory of the United States consisting of the eastern part of the Samoan archipelago, located in the south-central Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand and 2,200 miles (3,500 km) southwest of the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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|[[San Marino]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 41||??||??
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|[[Sau Tome and Princepe]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 42||??||??
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|[[Saudi Arabia]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 39||??||??
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|[[Senegal]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 43||??||??
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|[[Serbia]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 42||??||??
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|[[Seychelles]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 44||??||??
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|[[Sierra Leone]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 45||??||??
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|[[Singapore]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 40||??||??
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|[[Slovakia]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 43||??||??
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|[[Slovenia]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 44||??||??
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|[[Somalia]]<br>[[File:Somalia flag.gif|60px|link=Somalia]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 46||??||Britain withdrew from British Somaliland in 1960 to allow its protectorate to join with Italian Somaliland and form the new nation of Somalia. In 1969, a coup headed by Mohamed SIAD Barre ushered in an authoritarian socialist rule characterized by the persecution, jailing, and torture of political opponents and dissidents.
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|[[South Africa]]<br>[[File:Flag s africa.gif|60px|link=South Africa]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 47||??||South Africa, the southernmost country on the African continent, renowned for its varied topography, great natural beauty, and cultural diversity, all of which have made the country a favoured destination for travelers since the legal ending of apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness,” or racial separation) in 1994.
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|[[South Georgia]]||??||??||??
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|[[Spain]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 45||??||??
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|[[Sri Lanka]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 41||??||??
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|[[Sudan]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 48||??||??
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|[[Suriname]]||??||??||??
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|[[Swaziland]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 49||??||??
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|[[Sweden]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 46||??||??
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|[[Switzerland]]||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 47||??||??
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|[[Syria]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 42||??||??
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|[[Taiwan]]<br>[[File:Taiwan Flag.gif|60px|link=Taiwan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 43||??||Taiwan, Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) T’ai-wan or (Pinyin) Taiwan, Portuguese Formosa, island, located about 100 miles (161 km) off the southeast coast of the China mainland. It is approximately 245 miles (394 km) long (north-south) and 90 miles across at its widest point. The largest city, Taipei, is the seat of the government of the Republic of China (ROC; Nationalist China).
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|[[Tajikistan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 44||??||??
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|[[Tanzania]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 50||??||??
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|[[Thailand]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 45||??||??
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|[[Timor-Leste]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 46||??||??
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|[[Togo]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 51||??||??
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|[[Tonga]]||??||??||??
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|[[Trinidad and Tobago]]||??||??||??
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|[[Tunisia]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 52||??||??
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|[[Turkey]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 47||??||??
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|[[Turkmenistan]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 48||??||??
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|[[Vanuatu]]<br>[[File:Vanuatu flag 60.gif|link=Vanuatu]]||??||??||Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, consisting of a chain of 13 principal and many smaller islands located about 500 miles (800 km) west of Fiji and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) east of Australia.
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|[[Vatican City State]]-Holy See||[[List of Countries in Europe|Europe]] 50||??||??
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|[[Vietnam]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 51||??||??
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|[[West Bank]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 52||??||From the early 16th century through 1917, the area now known as the West Bank fell under Ottoman rule. Following World War I, the Allied powers (France, UK, Russia) allocated the area to the British Mandate of Palestine. After World War II, the UN passed a resolution to establish two states within the Mandate, and designated a territory including what is now known as the West Bank as part of the proposed Arab state. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the area was captured by Transjordan (later renamed Jordan). [[West Bank|>>>Read More...]]
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|[[Western Sahara]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 54||??||Western Sahara is a disputed territory on the northwest coast of Africa bordered by Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria. After Spain withdrew from its former colony of Spanish Sahara in 1976, Morocco annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara and claimed the rest of the territory in 1979, [[Western Sahara|>>>Read More...]]
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|[[Yemen]]||[[List of Countries in Asia|Asia]] 53||??||Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Between the 12th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, and Himyarite kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade, and later came under Ethiopian and Persian rule. >>> [[Yemen|Read More....]]
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|[[Zambia]]<br>[[File:Zambia Flag of (WFB 2004).gif|60px|link=Zambia]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 55||??||About two-thirds of Zambians live in poverty. Per capita annual incomes are well below their levels at independence and, at $1,500, place the country among the world's poorest nations.
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|[[Zimbabwe]]||[[List of Countries in Africa|Africa]] 56||??||Zimbabwe's wide range of natural resources makes agriculture and mining the main pillars of the economy. In 2009 agriculture and industry accounted for about 19% and 24% of gross domestic product (GDP), respectively. Zimbabwe has an important percentage of the world's known reserves of metallurgical-grade chromite.
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==How many Countries in the world?==
The US State Department recognizes 194 independent countries around the world, but that list of countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America. As an example, it includes Kosovo, but does not include Taiwan, as China claims that Taiwan (the ROC) is simply a province of China.
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