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The smallest country whose territory includes a portion of Mount Everest
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Nepal
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Asian country whose monarch is known as the "Dragon King"
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and Bhutan
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The Khmer name for Cambodia
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Kampuchea
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A Southeast Asian country split into two similarly sized regions
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Malaysia
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Formerly a part of Pakistan until 1971 when it gained independence
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then Bangladesh
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The largest continent
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Asia
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The most populated country in the world
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and China
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A peninsula that contains two countries who are technically still at war
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Korea
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Island country known as "The Land of the Rising Sun"
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Japan
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A country that once had the largest contiguous empire in all of history
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Mongolia
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Landlocked country in Indochina
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Laos
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Mountainous autonomous region in China
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and Tibet
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World's largest island country
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Indonesia
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Predominantly Catholic Asian island country
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the Philippine Islands
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Island country which is claimed by China but has de facto independence
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Taiwan
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Island country formerly known as Ceylon
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Sri Lanka
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Island split between two countries on the continent of Australia
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New Guinea
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Westernmost major Indonesian island
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Sumatra
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Has the world's southernmost capital city
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New Zealand
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Island shared by three countries
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then Borneo
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A country that was divided in two and after a war, which had heavy intervention from the United States, ended in a victory for the North
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and Vietnam
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The only country to successfully transition to a democracy after the Arab Spring
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Tunisia
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African country that has land borders with Spain
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Morocco
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The smallest country to have territory on Lake Victoria
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Uganda
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Oil rich African country, formerly a Portuguese colony
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Angola
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African country whose dictator was removed from power during a military coup in 2017
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Zimbabwe
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A small country on the Horn of Africa, formerly a French colony
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Djibouti
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African country with one of the highest rates of HIV and lowest levels of corruption on the continent
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Botswana
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The only African country to feature a firearm on its flag
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Mozambique
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The northernmost country that made up the general region of Rhodesia
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Zambia
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A small absolute monarchy in southern Africa
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Swaziland
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The smallest country on mainland Africa
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Gambia
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African country named after a gulf
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Guinea
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The largest country in Africa
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Algeria
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An African country with vast reserves of gold
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Ghana
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Ranked as the least happiest country in the 2018 Global Happiness Report
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Burundi
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Small country completely surrounded by South Africa
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Lesotho
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African country that contains a lake of the same name which takes up a third of the country's territory
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and Malawi
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A narrow and small African country
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Togo
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The name for the land claimed by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic when it was a colonial holding of a European empire
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the Spanish Sahara is gone
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Landlocked African country, 80% of its territory lying in the Sahara Desert
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Niger
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The most populated country in Africa
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Nigeria
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Landlocked African country named after a lake
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Chad
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An African country whose population is primarily descended from freed American slaves
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and Liberia
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Country famous for its pyramids
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Egypt
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A very poor but politically stable African democracy, one of the Africa's largest cotton producers
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Benin
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Oil rich country in equatorial Africa, formerly a French colony
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and Gabon
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A country formed when Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged
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Tanzania
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Country on the Horn of Africa that has been embroiled in a civil war since the 1980s and produces a large number of pirates
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Somalia
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East African country known for its world class track ans field athletes
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Kenya
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An African country named for a gold rich empire that was twice the size of France at its height
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and Mali
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Small, religiously tolerant African nation which has been devastated by a civil war lasting from 1991-2002 and more recently the 2014 Ebola outbreak
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Sierra Leone
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Capital of Algeria
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Algeirs
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The former name of Benin
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Dahomey
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One of the least densley populated countries in the world, previously part of South Africa
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Namibia
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The westernmost country on mainland Afro-Eurasia
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Senegal
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National flag was one solid color until it was replaced in 2011
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Libya
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The only African country to have French and English as official languages
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Cameroon
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A river which two tropical African countries get their names
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Congo
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Former name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Zaire
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Its capital seats the headquarters of the African Union
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Ethiopia
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African country named after a gulf, has a regional qualifier in its name
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Guinea-Bissau
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Largest island in Africa
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Madagascar
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African country that experienced a brutal genocide of one ethnic group in 1994
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Rwanda
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An alternate name for the island of Mayotte, a French Overseas Department claimed by the Comoros
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Maore
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A British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean consisting of three islands
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and Cayman
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A former British city in China
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Hong Kong
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Capital of the United Arab Emirates
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Abu Dhabi
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Middle Eastern country with the highest per capita income in the world
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Qatar
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A country in the Balkans that split into seven different countries
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Yugoslavia
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Largest of Greece's islands
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Crete
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An African country, the last country to legally abolish slavery
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Mauritania
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Region of Romania commonly associated with vampires
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then Transylvania
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A European microstate, famous for its casinos
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Monaco
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A doubly landlocked microstate
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Liechtenstein
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A tiny island country in the Mediterranean Sea
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Malta
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A de jure country in the Middle East, often in direct conflict with Israel
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and Palestine
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A Pacific island nation which was experienced a military coup in 2006
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Fiji
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The largest country in Oceania
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Australia
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The largest country in Africa before 2011
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Sudan
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