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| The oldest surviving sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world, as the continuation of the monastic community founded in 301 by Marinus of Arbe. | |
| (Country) has the highest per-capita immigration rate in the world, and is aiming for between 240,000 and 265,000 new permanent residents in 2010. | |
| It is the only sovereign state completely on the island of Borneo, with the remainder of the island belonging to Malaysia and Indonesia. | |
| The name (Country) derives from the names of the two states Tanganyika and Zanzibar that united in 1964. | |
| It is one of two doubly landlocked countries in the world, i.e., a country completely surrounded by landlocked countries – the other being Liechtenstein. | |
| The secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia has been beneficial to (Country), as the Port of (Country) is now serving as landlocked Ethiopia's primary link to the sea. | |
| (Country) became a founding member and the first President of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and maintains close ties with other Lusophone states. | |
| (Country) is the only state in the Arabian Peninsula to have a purely republican form of government. | |
| (Country) is the most populous country in Africa, the 8th most populous in the world, and the most populous country in the world in which the majority of the population is black. | |
| (Country) consists of 17,508 islands, about 6,000 of which are inhabited. These are scattered over both sides of the equator. | |
| In recent years, the country has been plagued by the effects of the drug trade, guerrilla insurgencies like FARC, and paramilitary groups. | |
| Despite European pressure, (Country) is the only Southeast Asian nation that has never been colonized. | |
| (Country) is a very small and narrow country whose borders mirror the meandering (Country) River. The country is less than 30 miles wide at its widest point. | |
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| The quality of public healthcare offered to citizens is regarded as the 'greatest triumph' of (Country)'s socialist system. | |
| (Country) is a parliamentary representative democracy with a constitutional monarch; it is ruled by a Grand Duke. It is the world's only remaining sovereign Grand Duchy. | |
| About half a million refugees sought refuge in the country following the series of Yugoslav wars; (Country) has the largest refugee population in Europe. | |
| Over one million people, 10% of the population, then fled the country for France and in just a few months in mid-1962. | |
| In 1936, it became a province of Italian East Africa, along with Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland. | |
| In 1892, with the slave trade banned and regional power diminishing, France took over the area and renamed it French Dahomey. | |
| (Country) is one of the most diverse countries on Earth, with over 850 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies, out of a population of just under 7 million. | |
| The country's name in most Western European languages adopts the Italian term; other languages, particularly nearby, use their own direct translation of 'black mountain'. | |
| After the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, the name of (Country) became the object of a dispute between Greece and the newly independent Republic of (Country). | |
| The shape of (Country) is a distinctive ribbon of land 4,300 kilometres (2,700 mi) long and on average 175 kilometres (109 mi) wide. | |
| The indigenous name for (Country) is Aotearoa, commonly translated as 'land of the long white cloud'. | |
| Serbia does not recognise the unilateral secession of (Country) and considers it a UN-governed entity within its sovereign territory. | |
| With US backing, (Country) seceded from Colombia in 1903. | |
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| (Country) has the highest life expectancy of any country in the world (according to both the UN and WHO estimates) and the third lowest infant mortality rate. | |
| The country sits at an important geostrategic location, connecting East, South, Western and Central Asia, and has been home to various peoples through the ages. | |
| Its per capita GDP is 49% of the EU average in 2009, making it the third poorest member-state. | |
| Spanish for 'ancient' and 'bearded'. | |
| (Country), with an estimated population of 84,000, has the smallest population of any African state. | |
| Throughout its history, (Country) has experienced successive waves of invasion and migration, involving in turn Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, and French Huguenots. | |
| The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is identified as the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of writing and the wheel. | |
| (Country) is the 19th largest and the most sparsely populated independent country in the world, with a population of around 2.9 million people. | |
| (Country's language) is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic. It has substantial borrowing from Sicilian, Italian, a little French, and more recently, English. | |
| Formerly known as Western (Country) and German (Country), it became independent from New Zealand in 1962. | |
| (Country) is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments. | |
| (Country) together with Slovenia are the only former Communist nations to be part of the European Union, Eurozone, Schengen Area and NATO simultaneously. | |
| (Country) exhibits aspects found in other Asian countries with a Malay heritage, yet its culture also displays a significant amount of Spanish and American influences. | |
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