Driving Directions St Vincent and the Grenadines
ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES achieved its independence from Britain in 1979. St Vincent is one of the Lesser Antilles Islands situated in the eastern Caribbean between St Lucia and Grenada.
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Sudan
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SUDAN is the largest country in Africa, lying just south of the Tropic of Cancer in northeast Africa. The Republic of Sudan divides naturally into three central regions: the desert in the north, dry grasslands and steppe in the center, and marshland, giving way to tropical forest and mountains in the south. Cutting through the country and forming a fourth significant and life-sustaining feature is the great river system of the Nile.
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Swaziland
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SWAZILAND is a landlocked hilly country almost entirely within the Republic of South Africa’s borders but with a short border in the east with Mozambique. The mountains in the west of the country rise to almost 2,000 meters or 6,562 feet, then descend in savanna steps toward the hilly country in the east.
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Sweden
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Sweden is less mountainous than neighboring Norway, although the high mountain ranges that are such a dominant feature of the Scandinavian Peninsula extend across much of Sweden’s western boundary.
The highest mountains are north of the country, with Mount Kebhekaise (2,111 meters or 6,926 feet) reaching the most significant elevation. Glaciers occur at some of the higher levels.
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Switzerland
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SWITZERLAND is a landlocked country in central Europe, sharing its borders with France, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Germany. It is dominated by the Alps, which occupy over 60 percent of the total land area.
A second lower mountain range, the Jura Mountains, occurs in the west of the country. These two leading east-west mountain chains are divided by the Rhine and Rhone rivers, and between them lies a plateau region at the height of about 396 meters or 1,300 feet above sea level.
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Syria
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SYRIA is a country in southwest Asia which borders the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Much of the country consists of arid plateau lands and plains, which grade into the southeast desert.
There is a narrow, fertile coastal plain alongside the Mediterranean shore, but this soon gives way to a belt of hills running north to south, which rises to form the higher Anti-Lebanon Mountains extending across the border with Lebanon. The River Euphrates enters the country from Turkey in the northwest and flows southeastwards into Iraq. In contrast, a second major river, the Orontes, flows northwards from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains across western Syria.
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Taiwan
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TAIWAN was formerly known to the West by its Portuguese name of Formosa, “Beautiful Island.” It is the largest group of islands located in the Pacific Ocean, about 161-kilometers or 100 miles off mainland China’s southeast coast, across the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan’s independence, resulting from the island’s seizure by nationalists in 1949, is not entirely accepted internationally, and China lays claim to the territory. An additional 78 islands make up Taiwan province, including those called the Pescadores (“Fishermen’s Islands”) by the Portuguese but known as Penghu to the Chinese. Other islands, such as Quemoy (Jinmen) and Maju, lie closer to the coast of the mainland.
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Tajikistan
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TAJIKISTAN is a republic of the former USSR, which declared itself | independent in 1991. China bounds this central Asian country in the east, Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, and Kyrgyzstan to the north. It also includes the autonomous region of Gorno-Badakh Shan.
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Tanzania
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TANZANIA, a republic on the east coast of central southern Africa, comprises a large mainland area and Pemba and Zanzibar’s islands. Tanzania lies east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, south of Kenya, and north of Mozambique, with the Indian Ocean in the east.