Search results for "List of countries by Human Development Index " - New World Encyclopedia
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- ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- #039;ing) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...30 KB (3,987 words) - 17:18, 10 December 2023
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Greenhouse gases (GHGs) is the name given to a number of gases present ... vapor which creates clouds. The vast bulk of this is produced by the natural ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 17:16, 16 February 2023
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... could have a profound impact on the future of Cambodia's economy. ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental ... to its citizens and the duties of the citizens to the State. Those ...44 KB (6,390 words) - 07:20, 15 April 2024
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil located on ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... For many decades, coffee was the mainspring of the Salvadoran economy ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...42 KB (5,904 words) - 22:53, 20 November 2023
- is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible ... Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
- quot;), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked, mountainous ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... in the nation, based largely on the value of slaves, who were counted as ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... over a thousand years the island was ruled by independent kingdoms, and at ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan ... Although the country is the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... The region was once inhabited by the ancient Thracians, and was later ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... abrasives because they can be scratched only by other diamonds, Borazon, ultrahard ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- ) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous ... Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
- Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. It is the second ... it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods ...75 KB (11,270 words) - 17:52, 8 February 2024
- The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's major economic ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022
- in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia ... ) or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
