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| (Country), Libya, and Seychelles are the only three African nations with a 'high' Human Development Index rating. | |
| (Country) is the world's smallest island nation, covering just 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi). | |
| (Country) has the greatest number of reptiles of any country, with 755 species. | |
| With the establishment of the Kingdom recognized in 1143 and the stabilization of its borders by 1249, (Country) claims to be the oldest European nation-state. | |
| (Country)'s flag is the only national flag in the world that is non-quadrilateral in shape. | |
| (Country) is the 107th largest country by population. The population shows a strong growth: from 1961 (the year after independence) to 2003, it quintupled. | |
| (Country) contains two de facto independent regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. (Country) considers the regions to be occupied by Russia. | |
| (Country) is famous for beer, chocolate, waffles and french fries. | |
| National Congress established themselves as the sole political party and has supported the use of recruited Arab militias in guerrilla warfare, such as in the conflict in Darfur. | |
| Spiritual homeland of the Rastafari religious movement, that is influenced by Pan-Africanism and has globalized the flag's tricolors with the spread of Reggae music. | |
| It has a total area of 8,123 square miles (21,040 km; about the size of Massachusetts or Wales); it is the smallest country in continental America. | |
| (Country) won several medals during the Beijing Olympics, 5 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze, making it Africa's most successful Nation in the 2008 Olympics. | |
| A strip of (Country)'s territory on the east bank of the river Dniester has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990. | |
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| Over the centuries, (Country) was subjected to Danish, Teutonic, Swedish and Russian rule. | |
| (Country) has the seventh largest standing armed force and is the only Muslim-majority nation to possess nuclear weapons. | |
| Saw a rise in suicides in post-soviet years, and now records the 3rd highest suicide rate in the world, down from 1st in 1995 when it had the highest rate in recorded world history | |
| Unemployment and depletion of oil and water resources are major economic problems. In 2008, the jobless figure was 4%, but women are over-represented at 85% of the total. | |
| In 1902, La Soufrière volcano erupted, killing 2,000 people. Much farmland was damaged, and the economy deteriorated. | |
| Sranan Tongo, a local creole language originally spoken by the Creole population, is the most widely used language in the streets and often interchangeably with Dutch. | |
| With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. | |
| In 1947, the United Nations decided the United States would administer (Country) as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. | |
| (Country) has four exclaves, all in territory that belongs to the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia. | |
| In addition to the mainland, (Country) owns the Galapagos Islands, for which the country is most well known. | |
| It was reached by Columbus in 1492 and became the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, namely (Capital), also Spain's first New World capital. | |
| One theory about the name '(Country)' is that it comes from the Nahuatl expression 'Cuauhtitlan', meaning 'between the trees'. | |
| As of November 2008, unofficial figures put (Country)'s annual inflation rate at 516 quintillion per cent, with prices doubling every 1.3 days. | |
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| It is the eighth largest country in Europe in terms of area and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. | |
| On 2 July 1976, North and South were merged to form the Socialist Republic of (Country). | |
| According to Transparency International, (Country) is the least corrupt country in Africa and ranks similarly close to Portugal and South Korea. | |
| (Country) was ranked highest of all countries in human development from 2001 to 2007, and then again in 2009. | |
| It is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama. | |
| The last war (Country) was directly involved was in 1814. Since then, (Country) has been at peace, adopting a non-aligned foreign policy in peacetime and neutrality in wartime. | |
| It is one of the few territories in mainland Africa where Spanish is an official language, besides the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla. | |
| Oil and gas have made (Country) the second highest per-capita income country – following Liechtenstein – and one of the world's fastest growing. | |
| (Country) is one of the two former Soviet republics in Central Asia to retain Russian as an official language (Kazakhstan is the other). | |
| A consequence of the governmental collapse that accompanied the civil war has been the emergence of a significant problem with piracy in waters off of the coast of (Country). | |
| The revolutionary leader Che Guevara was executed by a team of CIA officers and (Country's) Army on 9 October 1967 in (Country). | |
| Russia, which has a similar population, is spread over a land area that is 120 times larger than (Country). | |
| (Country) is one of the most developed countries that lies solely within the western hemisphere (others being Canada, Ireland, Portugal and Iceland). | |
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