Nigeria. Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of 923,769 square kilometres (356,669 sq mi). With a population of more than 230 million, it is the most populous country in Africa, and the world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the largest in Africa. Nigeria has been home to several indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms since the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization c. 1500 BC marking the first internal unification...
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Togo
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Togo. Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It is one of the least developed countries and extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital, Lom??, is located. It is a small, tropical country, spanning 57,000 square kilometres (22,000 square miles) with a population of approximately 8 million, and it has a width of less than 115 km (71 mi) between Ghana and its eastern neighbour Benin. Various peoples settled the boundaries of present day Togo between the 11th and 16th centuries. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the coastal region served primarily as a European slave trading outpost, earning Togo and the surrounding region the name "The Slave Coast". In 1884, Germany declared a region including a protectorate called Togoland. After World War I, rule over Togo was transferred to France. Togo gained independence from...
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Belarus. country in Eastern Europe
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Uruguay. sovereign state in South America
countryrepublicsecular_statesovereign_stateArgentinaBrazilSouth America
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Cameroon
ChadEquatorial GuineaGabonNigeria
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Cameroon. Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Cameroon's population of nearly 31 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French, or both. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camar??es (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in...
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Burundi. Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa, with population of over 14 million people. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The capital city is Gitega and the largest city is Bujumbura. The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent kingdom. In 1885, it became part of the German colony of German East Africa. After the First World War and Germany's defeat, the League of Nations mandated the territories of Burundi and neighboring Rwanda to Belgium in a combined territory called Rwanda-Urundi. After the Second World War, this transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory. Burundi...
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Burundi
Democratic Republic of the CongoRwandaTanzania
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Peru. sovereign state in South America
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Guyana. country in South America
countrysovereign_stateBrazilSurinameVenezuelaSouth America
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Paraguay. sovereign state in South America
countrylandlocked_countryrepublicsovereign_stateArgentinaBoliviaBrazilSouth America
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French Guiana. French overseas department and region in South America
BrazilSurinameSouth America
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Ecuador. sovereign state in South America
countrysovereign_stateColombiaSouth America
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Colombia. sovereign state in South America
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Chile. country in South America
countrysovereign_stateArgentinaBoliviaSouth America
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Bolivia. sovereign state in South America
countrylandlocked_countryrepublicsovereign_stateArgentinaBrazilSouth America
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Argentina. sovereign state in South America
countrysovereign_stateBrazilUnited KingdomSouth America
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The Bahamas. island sovereign state in the West Indies
countrysovereign_stateUnited KingdomUnited States of AmericaNorth America
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Trinidad and Tobago. island sovereign state in the Caribbean
countryisland_nationsovereign_stateunitary_stateVenezuelaNorth America
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
countryisland_nationsovereign_stateVenezuelaNorth America
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East Timor. sovereign state situated on several islands in Southeast Asia
countryisland_nationsovereign_stateAsiaIndonesia
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Taiwan. country in East Asia
countryisland_nationsovereign_stateAsiaPhilippines
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Saint Lucia. island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
countryisland_nationsovereign_stateVenezuelaNorth America
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