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| According to the 2009 Failed States Index, (Country) is ranked the 53rd least failed state in the world and the second least failed state in Africa after Mauritius. | |
| From 1983 to 2009, there was an on-and-off civil war against the government by the LTTE, a separatist militant organisation. | |
| (Country) officially became an Islamic Republic on 1 April 1979, when (Country's citizens) overwhelmingly approved a national referendum to make it so. | |
| (Country)'s location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia makes it a country of significant geostrategic importance. | |
| Transparency International, in its 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked (Country) the most corrupt country in the world, tied with Somalia. | |
| It is the second-largest petroleum and diamond producer in sub-Saharan Africa; however, its life expectancy and infant mortality rates are both among the worst ranked in the world. | |
| (Country) was the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion in the early years of the 4th century (the traditional date is 301). | |
| Under (Country's) law, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen are enemy countries, and citizens may not visit them without permission from the Ministry of the Interior. | |
| (Country) has the highest HIV infection rate in the world (26% of all adults) and also the lowest life expectancy at 32 years, 6 years lower than the next lowest average of Angola. | |
| On 15 July 2010 (Country) became the first country in Latin America and the second country in the Southern Hemisphere to legalize same-sex marriage. | |
| Along with Estonia, Nordic countries, France and the Netherlands, it has one of the least religious populations. 59% of the country is agnostic, atheist or non-believer. | |
| It is known as Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE. | |
| (Country) is more prosperous than most nearby countries, with a per capita income of four times the average for Sub-Saharan Africa. | |
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| With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union. | |
| Birthplace of calypso music and the steelpan, which is widely claimed in (Country) to be the only acoustic musical instrument invented during the 20th century. | |
| (Country) was the poorest republic of the Soviet Union and is the poorest country in Central Asia, as well as in the former Soviet Union today. | |
| At the time of independence (1960), the country was easily French West Africa's most prosperous, contributing over 40% of the region's total exports. | |
| (Country) borders 14 nations, more than any other country (shared with Russia). | |
| In the 1980s, more than 30% of residents had HIV; this had fallen to 6.4% 2008, the most effective national response to AIDS of any African country. | |
| It has the lowest per capita GDP of any nation in the world, largely due to civil wars, corruption, poor access to education, and the effects of HIV/AIDS. | |
| In the 1880s France and the UK claimed parts of the country, and in 1906 they agreed to jointly manage the archipelago as the New Hebrides through a British-French Condominium. | |
| The capital is located at the westernmost tip of the country on the Cap-Vert peninsula. About 500 kilometres (300 mi) off the coast, in the Atlantic, lie the Cape Verde Islands. | |
| (Country) ranks first in the Happy Planet Index and is the 'greenest' country in the world. | |
| Since most of the territory locates in the Ubangi and Shari river basins, France called the colony it carved out in this region Ubangi-Shari. | |
| From 2006 to 2008, surveys ranked (Country) as 'the happiest place in the world', based on standards of health, welfare and education. | |
| In 1990, (Country) became the first country in the Americas to democratically elect a female head of state and the second country in the Western Hemisphere, after Iceland. | |
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| (Country) was part of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years, until 1918 when the area became a part of the French Mandate following World War I. | |
| (Country) was gradually captured and occupied by the British as protectorate of Northern Rhodesia towards the end of the nineteenth century. | |
| (Country) applied to become a member of the European Union in 2003 and gained candidate status in 2004. It is expected to become an EU state around 2012. | |
| Rare for the Arab world, women hold more than 20% of seats in parliament. Moreover, it is the only country in the Arab world where polygamy is forbidden by law. | |
| Drug traffickers in Latin America began to use (Country), along with several West African nations, as a transshipment point to Europe for cocaine. | |
| It is the most visited country in the world, receiving 82 million foreign tourists annually. | |
| It is officially called the Oriental Republic of (Country), even though (Country) is situated in the Western Hemisphere. | |
| With 2.8 million people, it is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada. | |
| In 1862, Great Britain formally declared it a British Crown Colony, subordinate to Jamaica, and named it British Honduras. | |
| The island of Yap is notable for its 'stone money' (Rai stones), large disks usually of calcite, up to 12 feet (4 m) in diameter, with a hole in the middle. | |
| The capital is located in the south of the country, immediately across the river from Kinshasa. | |
| (Country) has the youngest population of any country in Asia with a median age of 19.3 years. | |
| (Country) is almost landlocked, except for 26 kilometres (16 miles) of Adriatic Sea coastline. | |
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