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  • Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages ... crime-free environment, and for being one of the cleanest cities of Africa ...
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  • communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is the capital ... situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is Burundi ...
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  • New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...
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  • Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula ... An administrative center, Dakar is home to the National Assembly of ...
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  • Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... Despite the beauty of the land, poverty is on the increase, closely ...
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  • "Sheep Islands," are a group of islands in Northern Europe ... represented in the Nordic Council as a part of the Danish delegation. ...
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  • can also refer to proficiency in a number of fields, such as art or physical ... Literacy rates are a crucial measure of a region's human capital ...
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  • in Iran, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from ... September 22, 1980, following a long history of border disputes. The conflict ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... colony, the island nation has been hindered by political, social, and economic ...
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  • A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...
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  • South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...
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  • Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques ... Afonso I left his mark on the map of Europe. The impetus created by ...
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  • Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...
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  • and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after helping lead ... world leaders to see to the realization of such. His diplomatic skills ...
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  • linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government ... has been applied inconsistently to a variety of non-Han peoples, often with ...
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  • is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Though the city ... At the same time, it maintains the charm of a Central Asian city, with ...
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  • Baky, or Baki, located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, is the capital ... The city entered a period of decline after the break-up of the Soviet ...
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  • The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for ... According to tradition, the Coptic Orthodox Church was established ...
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  • is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture and, with a population of 3 ... Yokohama was nearly destroyed by the Kanto Earthquake in 1923, and ...
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  • Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...
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  • The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... could have a profound impact on the future of Cambodia's economy. ...
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  • Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...
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  • country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...
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  • activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit ... Organized crime takes advantage of social conditions or laws, such ...
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  • London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...
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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 ...
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  • In other words, it is the unequal access by some members of society to ... quot;) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a number of ...
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  • An allergy is an abnormally high or misguided reaction by the immune ... The immune system is the system of specialized cells and organs that ...
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  • Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...
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  • islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface ... the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree ...
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  • IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes.] ... Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical ...
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  • Oslo is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality ... According to the Norse legends, Oslo was founded around 1049, by King ...
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  • the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...
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  • Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội, Hán Tự: 河内), estimated population ... The city is located on the right bank of the Red River. Hanoi is located ...
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  • Bass fishing is one of the most popular recreational types of fishing ... a popular game sport in the Eastern regions of the United States. Although ...
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  • to a traditional Korean fermented dish made of seasoned vegetables. The most ... Kimchi has been a mainstay of Korean culture for over 2,000 years ...
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  • , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...
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  • Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... #039;s interior. The organic composition of Barbados is thought to be of ...
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  • Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...
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  • Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New ... early colonial times. Its Fundamental Orders of 1639 are considered to be the ...
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  • ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...
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  • Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...
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  • The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ...
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  • Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and ... A large influx of economic and political migrants and refugees from ...
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  • Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... Occupied by both Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania lost over ...
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  • ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District ... was both a provincial capital and a center of the world-wide muslin trade ...
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  • Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... creeks, and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes ...
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  • Sichuan, the home of ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, sits ... The general territory of the province and its neighboring areas were ...
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  • The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community ... 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake ...
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  • country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...
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  • strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
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  • Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica ... rule, Kingston became the prosperous center of Jamaica's trade, and a ...
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  • Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...
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  • Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...
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  • Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... a wealthy nation. With a per capita GDP of $25,300 in 2006, Bahrain was ...
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  • ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...
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  • California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along ... changed California, sparking a large influx of people and a sustained economic ...
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  • ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... . Santa Fe (literally "holy faith" in Spanish) had a population ...
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  • Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras ... The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest ...
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  • Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the seventh largest ... Located in the southeast of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast ...
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  • and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest ... Jakarta faces many of the challenges of large cities in developing ...
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  • The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family ... the southwestern United States) across much of Central America and south to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • terraces, had been carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ... The rice culture of the Ifugao people requires tremendous skill and ...
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  • The City of Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the ... On April 1, 1996, the government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the four ...
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  • Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...
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  • The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...
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  • East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... Korean history has long included elements of Shamanism, Confucianism ...
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  • is a gaseous material consisting primarily of methane and deriving from one ... and coal beds. "Biogas" is created by methanogenic microbes in marshes ...
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  • The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...
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  • Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest ... Located at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi ...
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  • 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...
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  • Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...
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  • The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...
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  • Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland ... Founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III of the ...
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  • 1973) was the first and third prime minister of Israel. A tough and uncompromising ... His compassion and respect for the rights of the Arab residents of Israel ...
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  • It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...
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  • center, as well as the administrative heart of the European Union (EU). All ... Brussels has grown from a seventh century chapel into a metropolis ...
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  • abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...
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  • designates the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh, with its main hub ... Biman Bangladesh Airlines has a history that mirrors the formation ...
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  • in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...
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  • Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the ... in the United States. The citizens of Los Angeles speak more than ...
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  • The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...
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  • St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...
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  • 039;at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...
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  • Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... past and are centuries old. However, its population is urban and coastal and ...
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  • in an agricultural setting for the purposes of profit or subsistence, whether ... Raising animals (animal husbandry) is an important component of modern ...
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  • , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...
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  • Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... Guayana highlands, it plunges off the edge of a "tepui," or table ...
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  • found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ... Petroleum is used mostly, by volume, for producing fuel oil and gasoline ...
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  • ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...
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  • ("lucky place"), is the capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan ... Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture ...
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  • Dromaius novaehollandiae, characterized by long legs with three-toed feet ... The emu is common over most of mainland Australia, although it avoids ...
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  • Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples ...
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  • Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...
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  • Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...
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  • Bangladesh and in other developing countries, and advocated community ... for his leading role in the establishment of a comprehensive project for ...
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  • June 17, 2021) served as the first president of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991. ... economic policies. Eventually because of mounting international pressure ...
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  • #039;s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...
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  • Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...
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