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Countries With No Political Parties
Countries with no political parties include some monarchies and restricted systems, such as Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Vatican City, and Eswatini, plus…
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Authoritarian Countries
Authoritarian countries are countries where rulers limit real political competition, restrict civil liberties, control courts or media, and make it difficult for citizens to…
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Communist Countries: Current List & Meaning
Communist countries usually means five present-day states: China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and North Korea. The label refers mainly to communist-party rule and socialist constitutional…
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Andorra · Countries & regions
Andorra: Country Profile
Andorra is an independent country in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France. It is a parliamentary co-principality with Catalan as its official language,…
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Cities & capitals
World Capital Cities: Full List by Country
Here is the complete alphabetical list of world capital cities by country, built for fast lookup on a phone or desktop. It follows the…
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Algeria · Countries & regions
Algeria: Country Profile
Algeria is a major North African country on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the largest country in Africa by area, but most of its…
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Iran · Borders
The Geography of Iran Explained Simply
Iran is easiest to understand as a high interior “roof” (the Iranian Plateau) with strong edges: mountains that act like walls, deserts that act…
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Iran · Countries & regions
Iran Country Profile
This profile covers the modern state of Iran (the Islamic Republic of Iran) in West Asia. “Persia” is a historical and cultural label that…
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Countries & regions
Countries That Still Use the Death Penalty
Countries “still using” the death penalty are not one clean group. Some actively execute, some sentence people to death but rarely carry it out,…
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Borders
Countries With One Land Neighbor
Most countries touch several others, but a small group has exactly one land neighbor. These “single-border” states can be tiny enclaves inside one country,…
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Azerbaijan · Countries & regions
Azerbaijan: Country Profile
Key data sources for this Azerbaijan country profile include the World Bank, UNDP Human Development Reports, the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of…
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Albania · Countries & regions
Albania: Country Profile
Albania is a country in southeastern Europe on the western Balkan Peninsula, between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. Tirana is its capital, but the…
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