Cameroon · Countries & regions
Cameroon: Country Profile, Map and Geography
A coastal port, an upland royal city and a settlement beside the Logone River reveal different sides of Cameroon. Understanding the country means connecting…
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Portugal · Landforms
Douro River Map: Duero, the Border and the Wine Valley
The Douro and Duero are the same river: Douro is its Portuguese name and Duero its Spanish name. It rises in Spain, crosses the…
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Environment
Environmental Geography Quiz: 24 Questions on People and Nature
Take this environmental geography quiz to test how people, resources and environmental change affect one another. Answer 24 questions, then use the explanations to…
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Culture
Cultural Geography Quiz: 20 Questions on Place and Society
Take this cultural geography quiz to test how places gain meaning, how practices spread and how people experience everyday spaces. Work through 20 scenarios,…
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Population
Population Geography Quiz: 20 Questions on People and Migration
This population geography quiz tests how well you interpret population change and migration, not how many country rankings you remember. Work through 20 questions…
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Culture
Abkhazia: Map, Geography, People and Conflict
Abkhazia is a mountainous Black Sea region of about 3,340 square miles (8,660 square kilometers), internationally recognized by most states as part of Georgia…
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Cities & capitals
How Many People Live Closer to Another Country’s Capital?
About 3.15 billion people—40.2% of the population represented in the 2020 grid—live closer in straight-line distance to another state’s reference capital than to their…
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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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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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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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Iceland · Culture
Is Iceland in North America or Europe?
Iceland looks simple on a map and complicated the moment you ask what continent it belongs to. The confusion comes from mixing geology with…
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