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This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This ...

A United States National Monument is a protected area that is similar ... Another difference between a national monument and national park is ...

of forest formed from a patchwork of public lands in the northwestern ... The forest is located in one of the largest and most rugged wilderness ...

to Find Out. is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency ... The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. government ...

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 ...

American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... It is a destination spot of many vacationers due to its seasonally ...

Lake Erie is the eleventh largest lake on Earth by surface area. ... Of the five Great Lakes of North America, it is the fourth largest ...

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...

The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...

The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles ... The Oslo Accords were a culmination of a series of secret and public ...

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...

The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting ... The primary natural resources are spiny lobster, conch, and other ...

discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...

Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, ... The species was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United ...

an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native ... This represented one-fifth of the North American continent. His great ...

Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Japanese empire, referred ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... The area's fertile soil and warm climate gave rise to the early ...

South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...

The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...

The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ...

Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast of Tokyo and 6,000 miles (9656 ...

New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples ...

The State of Maine is a state in the northernmost portion of the New ... The original inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine were Algonquian ...

which prohibit anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices ... The history of competition law reaches back further than the Roman ...

Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America ... The centers of all three branches of the U.S. federal government are ...

Central America is the region of North America located between the ... ==Countries of the region== The area considered Central America comprises ...

Ontario is a province located in the east-central part of Canada, ... The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa ...

The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...

The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... First occupied by American Indians, the region was explored by the ...

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...

resembles a small wolf or medium-sized dog and is characterized by a narrow ... supplement their diet with some plant matter and scavenge as well. As top carnivores ...

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... Once a battleground between slave owners and abolitionists, Missouri ...

Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...

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; ...

|order=5th Prime Minister of Israel |term_start =July 13, 1992 ... |birth_place =Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) ...

large white-colored obelisk at the west end of the National Mall in Washington ... The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed ...

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Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... Originally, home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that ...

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 ...

Bobcat is the common name for a medium-sized wild cat of North America ... areas, as well as semi-desert, urban edge, and swampland environments. It ...

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the ... The city is also an important contributor of popular music legacies, celebrated ...

North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... The Missouri River flows through the western part of the state and ...

New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's ... (1760-1820) who was descended from the House of Brunswick." ...

The United States House of Representatives is the larger of the two ... The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol. The ...

ranking as the second-smallest in area after Goa. The thumb-shaped ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...

Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the ... over the globe, including the largest Latino and Asian populations in the United ...

Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division ... Villa and his supporters, known as Villistas, employed tactics such ...

Katyn Forest Massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order ... The massacre is of note for a number of reasons, but primarily due ...

Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...

Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... Despite the beauty of the land, poverty is on the increase, closely ...

established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region including the ... countries which includes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. In linguistic ...

The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...

16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Canadian government, the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870 and the North-West ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for political ...

Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...

English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

]]/) is a state in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains regions ... The state ranks fourth in area, but 44th in population with 944,632 ...

In 1794, the Qajar family took full control of Iran as they had eliminated ... Britain and Iran fought a war in 1856 over territory between Iran ...

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 ...

Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...

Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...

Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica ... rule, Kingston became the prosperous center of Jamaica's trade, and a ...

αι Αθήναι in Greek until recently, and η Αθήνα now (IPA ... : singular see below: Origin of the name ) is both the largest and ...

Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ... east of the Canadian Rockies. Calgary is well-known as a destination ...

‎; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...

Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest ... Andorra was created by Charlemagne to serve as a buffer state in order ...

Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...

The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located ... is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and 14th largest ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...

– May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...

The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...

The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... are Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, and San Marino. ...

The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... Some 12,000 years ago it was occupied by Native American populations ...

Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... work reached beyond a narrow understanding of Christianity, embracing people ...

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the ...

Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the fifth largest metropolitian ... Toronto is heralded as one of the most multicultural cities in the ...

(b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...

was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan ... full-scale war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender ...

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...

wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender body, long hind legs ... New World habitat type. A capable stalk-and-ambush predator, the cougar ...

, formerly known as Madras, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ... developing it into a major urban center and naval base. By the twentieth ...

Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... non-conformists (later called Pilgrims) and Puritans from England seeking ...

The marathon is a long-distance running event of 42.195 km (26 miles ... called marathon the same term to name the area where it grew; "marathon ...

the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the Dirty War in France and ... African, Laotian, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Vietnamese ethnic minorities ...

for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during World War ... Lawrence's public image was due in part to U.S. traveler and ...

Hangugin) denotes Russians citizens and/or residents of Korean descent ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...

The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...

; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital of numerous dynasties and governments ...

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... Algerian society has considerable historical depth and has been subjected ...

Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... |image=[[Image:Anishinabe.svg|200px]] Crest of the Ojibwa people ...

Belarus (Belarusian and Russian: Беларусь, transliteration: ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth ... Its name derives from the Latin argentum, meaning silver, and was ...

The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...

Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... Barbados' total land area is about 430 square kilometers, (166 ...

Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...

The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly fifth ...

, Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...

quot;), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked, mountainous ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...

War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 ... was increasingly seen as a civilizational and religious clash. Some Chechens ...

Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... ranges from Costa Rica through most areas of South America east of the Andes ...

The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... 'two-nation' thesis that Muslims and Hindus in India were both ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the ...

group with populations primarily in eastern and southern Afghanistan and in ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... The region was once inhabited by the ancient Thracians, and was later ...

), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich Europe, approximately between Germany, Italy and Hungary. ...

Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...

North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...

jurisdiction based in Austin, the capital of Texas, in the United States ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... Croatia borders the country on the north, west, and south, Serbia ...

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. ...

, was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces by creating ...

country bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon to the west, Israel ... Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ...

The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia, and was twice recast by local ...

The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...

island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ... that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as 35,000 B ...

Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan ... Although the country is the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...

Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known ... Reich," the same name used by the German monarchy before ...

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... stated mission is to protect human life and health, to ensure respect ...

territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...

in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...

Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...

Diamond is the hardest known natural material and the third-hardest ... abrasives because they can be scratched only by other diamonds, Borazon, ultrahard ...

west Balkans, bordering Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania ... Periodically independent since the late Middle Ages, and an internationally ...

The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with its global empire ...

Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...

), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe bordering Hungary and ... Romance people, completely surrounded by non-Latin peoples ("a ...

transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...

power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union between 1928 ... agricultural nation into a global superpower and did not see the elimination ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...