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Denmark: History, Culture & Economy

By on July 31, 2010 in Denmark, Europe, Photos
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Denmark (ˈdɛnmɑrk/; Danish: Danmark, pronounced ), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark) together with Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the...
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Faroe Islands: History, Culture & Economy

By on July 31, 2010 in Europe, Faroe Islands, Photos
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The Faroe Islands (Faroese: Føroyar, Danish: Færøerne) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Great Britain and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland.The Faroe Islands...
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Tuvalu: History, Culture and Economy

By on July 31, 2010 in Pacific, Photos, Tuvalu
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Tuvalu (/tuːˈvɑːluː/ (help·info) too-VAH-loo or /ˈtuːvəluː/ TOO-və-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nationlocated in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. It comprises four reef islands and...
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Turkmenistan: History, Culture and Economy

By on July 31, 2010 in Asia, Photos, Turkmenistan
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The Republic of Turkmenistan, also known as Turkmenia (Russian: Туркмения) is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR).Turkmenistan is one of the six...
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Tonga: History, Culture and Economy

By on July 31, 2010 in Pacific, Photos, Tonga
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Tonga (pronounced [ˈtoŋa]) - officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga) - an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprises 169 islands, 36 of them inhabited. The Kingdom stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 miles)...
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Northern Mariana Islands: History, Culture and Economy

By on July 31, 2010 in Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific, Photos
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The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean.It consists of fifteen islands about three-quarters of the way...
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Armenia: History, Culture & Economy

By on July 31, 2010 in Armenia, Asia, Caucasus, Photos
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Armenia /ɑrˈmiːniə/ (Armenian: Հայաստան, transliterated : Hayastan, IPA: [hɑjɑsˈtɑn]), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto...
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