Description
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Country
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Includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
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Spain
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Has over 2,000,000 lakes—563 greater than 100 km2 (39 sq mi)—which is more than any other country, containing much of the world's fresh water
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Canada
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Temperatures vary less in the southern plains around Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta, ranging from between 21 and 35 °C (69.8 and 95.0 °F) over the year
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Vietnam
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The Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north
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Japan
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The rivers Ob, Yenisey, Lena and Amur are among the longest rivers in the world
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Russia
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The capital lies on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of continental Africa.
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Senegal
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A well known as a region of distinct fauna, famous as the place of birth of Darwin's Theory of Evolution and a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Ecuador
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The Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests is an ecoregion which covers most of the Pontic Mountains
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Turkey
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Among well-known animals are the monotremes (the platypus and echidna)
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Australia
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Found in northern Transdanubia. Lake Balaton and Lake Hévíz, the largest lake in Central Europe and the largest thermal lake in the world
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Hungary
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The southern lowland plains or Terai bordering India are part of the northern rim of the Indo-Gangetic Plain
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Nepal
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A nearly impenetrable jungle forms the Darién Gap
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Panama
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Stretches over 4,300 km (2,670 mi) north to south, but only 350 km (217 mi) at its widest point east to west
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Chile
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The highlands are bisected by the Great Rift Valley, with a fertile plateau lying to the east
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Kenya
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The peninsula of Musandam (Musandem) exclave, which has a strategic location on the Strait of Hormuz
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Oman
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In the southwest, around Bantry Bay and the mountains of MacGillycuddy's Reeks,
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Ireland
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The most mountainous nation in the Caribbean
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Haiti
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The Little Karoo is historically, and still, famous for its ostrich farming around the town of Oudtshoorn
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South Africa
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Home to a variety of geographic features, from the Negev desert in the south to the inland fertile Jezreel Valley, mountain ranges of the Galilee, Carmel and toward the Golan in the north
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Israel
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At 385,207 square kilometres (148,729 sq mi) (including Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
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Norway
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The tectonic interaction at this tripoint has created the lowest elevation of any place in Africa
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Djibouti
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A 21 km^2 (8.1 sq mi), oval-shaped island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
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Nauru
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