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Austria

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Driving Directions Austria

AUSTRIA is a landlocked country in central Europe surrounded by seven nations: Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, and Slovenia. The wall of mountains that runs across the center of the country dominates the scenery. With their intervening valleys, the mountain chains run in a generally west-east direction, and the highest peak, Grossglockner (3,798 meters or 12,457 feet), is located centrally in the Tauern range. The mountains’ presence means that the average height of land in Austria is 914 meters or 3,000 feet above sea level.

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Australia

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Driving Directions Australia

AUSTRALIA, the world’s smallest continental landmass, is a vast and sparsely populated country in the southern hemisphere, whose head of state is the British Sovereign. It consists of seven self-governing states: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia. The capital, Canberra, is situ­ated in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

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Aruba

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Driving Directions Aruba

ARUBA is one of the islands in the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, and it has been a self-governing Dutch territory since 1986. The island rises to 189 meters or 620 feet at Jamanota in the southeast of the island.

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Armenia

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Driving Directions Armenia

ARMENIA is the smallest republic of the former USSR and part of Armenia’s former kingdom divided between Turkey, Iran, and the former USSR. It declared independence from the USSR in 1991. It is a mountainous country dominated by the rugged peaks of the Southern Caucasus Mountains, with high plateaux and steep-sided valleys inter­spersed with numerous lakes. Many of the peaks are over 3,000 meters or 9,900 feet, and Lake Sevan is the largest lake. Lowland areas occur mainly in the river valleys and on the Ararat Plain in the west. Mount Ararat, now in eastern Turkey, has traditionally been essential to the people of Armenia.

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Argentina

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Driving Directions Argentina

ARGENTINA, the world’s eighth-largest country, stretches from the Tropic of Capricorn to Cape Horn on the southern tip of the South American continent. It is 3,331 kilometers or 2,070 miles long and nowhere exceeds 1,384 kilometers or 860 miles in width, and it also includes the eastern part of Tierra del Fuego.

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Antigua and Barbuda

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Antigua and Barbuda Driving Directions

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA is a tiny state comprising three islands – Antigua, Barbuda, and Redonda, an uninhabited rocky islet located on the eastern side of the Leeward Islands.

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Anguilla

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Anguilla Driving Directions

ANGUILLA is a British Overseas Territory. It was formerly part of St Kitts and Nevis and became a British dependency in 1980. The country’s main source of revenue is tourism and lobsters account for half of the island’s exports.

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Angola

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Driving Directions Angola

ANGOLA is situated on the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and Namibia to the south. Cabinda, a small enclave of Angola, is enclosed by the two Congos a few kilometers north.

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Andorra

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Driving Directions Andorra

ANDORRA is a tiny state situated high in the eastern Pyrenees between France and Spain. The state consists of deep valleys and high mountain peaks, which reach heights of 3,000 meters or 9,843 feet. However, only 20 kilometers or 12 miles wide and 30 kilometers or 19 miles long, the country’s spectacular scenery and the climate attract many tourists.

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