Category: Geography
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Myanmar (Burma)
Burma or Myanmar, officially called the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia. It borders India and Bangladesh to the west, Thailand and Laos to the east, China to the north and northeast, and the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea to the south. It has an area…
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Philippines
The Philippines (Tagalog: Republika ng Pilipinas) is an island country located in Southeast Asia, on the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Manila and its most populous city is Quezon City. To the north it is separated from the island of Taiwan by the Luzon Strait; to the west is the South China Sea, also known…
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Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland), in long form the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden), sometimes called Holland by metonymy, is a transcontinental country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe (or, according to some interpretations, Northern Europe). Bordering Belgium to the south and Germany to the east, the Netherlands also has a border…
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Japan
Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nihon, or Nippon) is an island country in East Asia, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of China, South Korea, North Korea and Russia, and northern Taiwan. Japan (ja) 日本/Nihon or Nippon Hymn in Japanese: 君が代 (Kimi ga yo, “Your reign”) National day February 23 Commemorated event Birthday…
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India
India (proper name also Hindi Bhārat Gaṇarājya) is a country in South Asia. India covers most of the Indian subcontinent. The Himalayas form the natural northern border of India, in the south, the Indian Ocean encloses the national territory. India borders Pakistan, the Chinese Tibet Autonomous Region, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Other neighboring countries…
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman دولت علیه İA Devlet-i ʿAlīye and official from 1876 دولت عثمانيه / Devlet-i ʿOs̲mānīye / ‘the Ottoman State‘, Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was the empire of the Ottoman dynasty from c. 1299 to 1922. The term Ottoman Empire, which is obsolete in German-speaking countries, is still found in English and French-language literature,…
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Maori Aotearoa) is a geographically isolated island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of a North and a South Island as well as numerous smaller islands. The nearest larger land masses are located in the west with the Australian continent (the west coasts of the two main islands of New Zealand…
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Pompeii
Pompeii (Pompeii in Latin and Pompei in Italian) is a city and ancient city located in the Italian region of Campania. It is famous for having been buried in the autumn of 79 during an eruption of Vesuvius, a volcano located 9 km to the northwest. Coordinates 40° 45′ 04″ North, 14° 29′ 24″ East…
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Turkey
Turkey, in long form the Republic of Turkey, in Turkish: Türkiye and TürkiyeCumhuriyeti, is a transcontinental country located on the borders of Asia and Europe. It borders Greece and Bulgaria to the west-northwest, Georgia and Armenia to the east-northeast, Azerbaijan (Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east, Iraq (Kurdistan Regional Government ) and Syria to the…
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Iran
Iran, also the Islamic Republic of Iran, colloquially and before 1935 on an international level (exonymous) also Persia, is a country in the Near East. It is bordered to the north by the Caspian Sea and to the south by the Persian Gulf. With around 85 million inhabitants (as of 2021) and an area of…