Search results for "List of countries by population" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by hydropower—that is, ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- lies on the River Scheldt, which is linked by the Westerschelde to the North ... Antwerp has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country ... quot; was applied to the Ndebele territory of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was then ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... Dynasty in China. It is home to a number of Turkic ethnic groups, the largest ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the ... Brazzaville was founded in 1880, on the site of a village named Nkuna ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
- , located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue ... and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not founded until ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... Tunis was founded by Berbers during the second millennium B.C.E.. ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country ... noting it as "an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- 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
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
- Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... in the United States with a population of 5.6 million. Houston was ...38 KB (5,412 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... Thailand. Many were resettled in Western countries, including the United States ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Sucre, which is located in the south-central part of Bolivia, is the ... Sucre is also called “The City of Four Names.” Charcas was the ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- China is one of the countries which had the most advanced mathematics ... which was designed to constantly point south by the use of differential gears ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 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
- Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... with Amsterdam at the center. The use of soft drugs was tolerated, making ...29 KB (4,176 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation ... Gaborone was founded in 1965, as the capital of Botswana. It is notable ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... " in the tenth century the city of Copenhagen was officially founded ...28 KB (4,058 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
- Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast of Tokyo and 6,000 miles (9656 ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... the only European country whose bordering countries are also landlocked. The ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 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
- Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... together in a community that is created out of the village, clan, and region ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda ... center during the Belgian colonial period of 1919–1962. When Rwanda gained ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 23:00, 3 March 2023
- ; lit. "Valley of Nine Villages;" Tibetan: Sicadêgu) designates ... The Giant Panda population in Jiuzhaigou Valley, which numbers around ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
- , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. ... Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Swaziland (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), or the Kingdom ... Swaziland consists mostly of high plateaus and mountains with an array ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... The geological process and study of the movement, collision and division ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- 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
- but has spread onto the mainland west of the lagoon. The metropolitan ... The original settlers of Lagos Island were Yoruba fishermen, who founded ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- , similar to the elk and characterized by being the only deer in which ... There are several recognized subspecies of caribou. Caribou offer innumerable ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or ... It is separated from Sweden in the west by the Baltic Sea. ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- 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
- Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens ... are important to the society and economies of local people in the high elevation ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 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
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- African-Americans, or Black Americans, are citizens of the United ... in those states that were still in a state of rebellion, having seceded from ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... systems that developed in other Asian and Western countries. ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... back to the mid nineteenth century as part of a British development of the ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally ... Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by a Roman Catholic British ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 2023
- in North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. Goa had been under Portuguese ... as long as the religion has existed, founded by the Apostle Thomas shortly ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:24, 31 December 2023
