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Mexico is a country between the U.S. and Central America beaches on its Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coastlines and a diverse landscape of mountains, deserts and jungles. Fast Facts about Mexico 1. The official name of Mexico is Estados Únidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States). 2. Mexico is the 11th most populated country in the […]
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Haiti is a Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic to its east. Though it’s still recovering from a 2010 earthquake, many of Haiti’s landmarks dating to the early 19th century remain intact. Fast Facts about Haiti 1. Native Haitians were pre-Columbian Amerindians called Taíno, “the good people.” The Taíno
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Portugal occupies the western part of the Iberian Peninsula and is slightly smaller than Indiana. The country is crossed by three large rivers that rise in Spain, flow into the Atlantic, and divide the country into three geographic areas. Fast Facts about Portugal 1. The official name of Portugal is the Portuguese Republic. The capital city
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A landlocked nation in north central Africa, Chad consists of fertile lowlands in the south but is arid in the center. Its neighbors are Niger, Libya, the Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Lake Chad, from which the country gets its name, lies on the western border with Niger and Nigeria. In the
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Ethiopia is in east-central Africa, bordered on the west by the Sudan, the east by Somalia and Djibouti, the south by Kenya, and the northeast by Eritrea. Ethiopia is a landlocked country and is known as the Horn of Africa. The country has a high central plateau, with some mountains reaching more than 4,000 meters (13,000 feet).
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