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Hungary

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HUNGARY is a landlocked country sharing borders with Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, and Ukraine. It is a region of plains ringed by the high mountain ranges of neighboring countries.

The main topographical feature is the Great Plain or Great Alföld, which is sit­uated east of the River Danube and extends southwards and eastwards across Hungary’s borders. North of the Great Plain, near the Hungarian border, there are several upland areas. A smaller Little Plain or Little Alföld occurs in the northwest and continues into southern Slovakia.

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Hong Kong

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HONG KONG is a Special Autonomous Province of China. It is locat­ed in the South China Sea and consists of Hong Kong Island (once a bar­ren rock), the peninsula of Kowloon, and about 1,000 square kilometers or 386 square miles of adjacent land known as the New Territories.

Hong Kong situated at the mouth of the Pearl River about 130 kilometers or 81 miles southeast of Guangzhou (Canton).

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Honduras

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HONDURAS is a fan-shaped country in Central America that spreads out toward the Caribbean Sea at the Gulf of Honduras.

Four-fifths of the country covered in mountains which indented with river valleys run­ning toward the very short Pacific coast. The highlands are covered with forests, mainly oak and pine, while palms and mangroves grow in the coastal areas.

There is little change in temperatures throughout the year, and rainfall is heavy, especially on the Caribbean coast, where tempera­tures are higher than inland.

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Haiti

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HAITI occupies the western third of the large island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean. It is a mountainous country consisting of five different ranges, the highest point being 2,680 meters or 8,793 feet at Pic La Selle. Deep valleys and plains separate the mountain ranges.

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Guyana

Driving Directions Guyana

GUYANA, the only English-speaking country in South America, is situ­ated on the northeast coast of the continent on the Atlantic Ocean. Guyana was formerly called British Guiana, but it achieved its indepen­dence in 1966. Before becoming a Crown colony, it was largely under the control of the Dutch West India Company.

The Dutch were responsi­ble for beginning an extensive land reclamation program along the coast, and, to this day, there is a narrow belt of fertile land with rich allu­vial soils, protected from the sea by dikes and dams.

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Guinea-Bissau

Driving Directions Guinea-Bissau

GUINEA-BISSAU, formerly a Portuguese territory but granted inde­pendence in 1974, is located south of Senegal on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. The republic’s territory includes over 60 coastal islands, including the archipelago of Bijagós.

It is a stunning country with a deeply indented and island-fringed coastline and a low, marshy plain, rising slightly to a plateau and hills on the border with neighbor­ing Guinea. Mangrove swamps and tropical jungles cover the land near the coast, giving way to savannah-type grassland on the plateau.

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Guinea

Driving Directions Guinea

GUINEA, formerly a French west African territory, is located at the “bulge” in Africa’s coastline. It is a lush, green, beautiful country about the same size as the United Kingdom. The Republic of Guinea is a country of varied topography crossed by many rivers, including the upper reach­es of Senegal, Gambia, and Niger. Its principal rivers are the Gambia and the Bating. The coastal plain is about 50 kilometers or 30 miles wide before the land rises inland to form the central massif of the Fouta Djallon

Highlands, a sandstone plateau dissected by deep valleys. The Guinea Highlands occupies the south of the country, and between the two upland areas lies an area of the Sahel savannah grasslands extending northeastwards into Mali.

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Guatemala

Driving Directions Guatemala

GUATEMALA is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, where North America meets Central America. It is a mountainous country with a ridge of volcanoes running parallel to the Pacific coast.

Three of the volcanoes are still active, and the country is also subject to earthquakes. In the northwest, there is a large, low-lying forested area called El Peten, which is located many archaeological remains of the Maya civilization.

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Guam

Driving Directions Guam

GUAM is the most southerly and the largest of the Mariana Islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It consists mainly of a high coralline limestone plateau with some low volcanic mountains in the south of the island.

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Guadeloupe

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GUADELOUPE consists of a small group of islands in the Caribbean lying in the middle of the Lesser Antilles islands, with some islands in the Leeward Islands and some in the Windward Islands.

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