Islands of North America
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English,
Creole
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Bahamian
Dollar
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Senate
& the House of Assembly
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Baptist,
Anglican, Roman Catholic
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Spanish
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Cuban
Peso
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National
Assembly of People's Power;
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Roman
Catholic
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English,
Creole
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Jamaican
Dollar
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Democratic
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Christian
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French,
Creole
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Haitian
Gourde
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bicameral
National Assembly consists of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies
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Roman
Catholic
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Spanish
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Dominican
Peso
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bicameral
National Congress – Senate & the Chamber of Deputies
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Roman
Catholic
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Antigua
& Barbuda
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English
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Constitutional
Monarchy;
bicameral
- consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives
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Anglican,
Roman Catholic
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St.
Kitts-Nevis
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English
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National
Assembly
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Anglican
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English
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House
of Assembly; Democracy
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Roman
Catholic
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English
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Senate
& the House of Assembly
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Roman
Catholic
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English
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Senate
& the House of Assembly
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Protestant
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The
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English
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House
of Assembly
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Christian
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English
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Senate
& the House of Representatives
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Roman
Catholic, Protestant
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Trinidad
& Tobago
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Port-of-Spain
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English,
Hindi
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Senate
& the House of Representatives
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Roman
Catholic, Hindu
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Geography Facts
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Islands of North America
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Asian Countries continued...
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Countries
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Area
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Location & Borders
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Coast Line
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Geography - note
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647,500
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landlocked
|
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665
|
|
161
|
|
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144,000
|
|
580
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most
of the country is situated on deltas of large rivers flowing from the
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47,000
|
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landlocked
|
|
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5,770
|
South-eastern
|
161
|
two
parts of the country are physically separated by
|
|
181,040
|
South-eastern
|
443
|
|
|
9,596,960
|
Eastern
Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China
Sea;
Afghanistan,
Bhutan, Burma, India 3,380 km, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos,
Mongolia 4,677 km, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia (northeast) 3,605 km, Tajikistan,
Vietnam
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14,500
|
Autonomous Territories:
Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia Hui, Guangxi Zhuang and Xinjiang
Special Administrative Regions:
|
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15,007
|
South-eastern
|
|
|
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3,287,263
|
|
7,000
|
|
|
1,919,440
|
South-eastern
|
54,716
|
archipelago
of more than 17,000 islands (6,000 inhabited); straddles Equator
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1,648,000
|
|
2,440
|
strategic
location on the
|
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437,072
|
West
Asia bordering the Persian Gulf, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
Turkey
|
58
|
Rivers
Tigris & Euphrates
|
|
20,770
|
|
273
|
|
|
377,835
|
Eastern
Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east
of the Korean Peninsula
|
29,751
|
highest point: Mount
|
|
92,300
|
Iraq,
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, West Bank
|
26
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strategic
location at the head of the
|
|
2,717,300
|
|
landlocked
|
|
|
17,820
|
bordering
the
|
499
|
sudden
cloudbursts are common from October to April and bring heavy rain; sandstorms
and dust storms occur throughout the year, but are most common between March
and August
|
|
198,500
|
|
landlocked
|
|
|
236,800
|
South-eastern
|
landlocked
|
the
|
|
10,400
|
bordering
the
|
225
|
|
|
329,750
|
South-eastern
|
4,675
|
|
|
300
|
|
644
|
1,190
coral islands grouped into 26 atolls (200 inhabited islands, plus 80 islands
with tourist resorts)
|
|
1,565,000
|
|
landlocked
|
|
|
678,500
|
South-eastern
|
1,930
|
|
|
140,800
|
|
landlocked
|
contains
eight of world's 10 highest peaks, including
|
|
120,540
|
Eastern
Asia, northern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Korea Bay and the
Sea of Japan, between China, Russia (19 km) and South Korea
|
2,495
|
|
|
212,460
|
bordering
the
|
2,092
|
adjacent
to
|
|
803,940
|
|
1,046
|
controls
|
|
462,840
|
the
eastern half of the island of New Guinea and a group of islands between the
Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia
|
5,152
|
one
of world's largest swamps along southwest coast
|
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300,000
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South-eastern
|
36,289
|
It
comprises over 7,000 islands and rocks, of which about 400 are permanently
inhabited
|
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11,437
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peninsula
bordering the
|
563
|
|
|
1,960,582
|
bordering
the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea; Iraq 814 km, Jordan 744 km, Kuwait 222 km,
Oman 676 km, Qatar 60 km, UAE 457 km, Yemen
|
2,640
|
great
leverage on shipping (especially crude oil) through
|
|
692
|
South-eastern
|
193
|
separated
from
|
|
98,480
|
|
2,413
|
|
|
65,610
|
|
1,340
|
|
|
185,180
|
bordering
the
Iraq
605 km, Israel 76 km, Jordan 375 km, Lebanon 375 km, Turkey
|
193
|
there
are 42 Israeli settlements and civilian land use sites in the
Israeli-occupied
|
|
35,980
|
Eastern
Asia, island bordering the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea,
and Taiwan Strait
|
1,566
|
|
|
143,100
|
|
landlocked
|
mountainous
region dominated by the
|
|
514,000
|
South-eastern
|
3,219
|
controls
only land route from
|
|
780,580
|
south-eastern
|
7,200
|
that
portion of
|
|
488,100
|
|
landlocked
|
|
|
82,880
|
bordering
the
|
1,318
|
strategic
location along southern approaches to
|
|
447,400
|
|
landlocked
|
a
420 km shoreline with
|
|
329,560
|
South-eastern
Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea,
alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia
|
3,444
|
|
|
527,970
|
bordering
the
|
1,906
|
strategic
location on
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