Malawi
Malawi is a landlocked country, located in southeast Africa. Lake Malawi, formerly Lake Nyasa, occupies most of the country’s eastern border.
Madagascar
Madagascar lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa opposite Mozambique. The world’s fourth-largest island.
Macedonia
Macedonia is a landlocked state in the heart of the Balkans and is a mountainous country with small basins of agricultural land. The Vardar is the largest and most important river.
Luxembourg
The Ardennes Mountains extend from Belgium into the northern section of Luxembourg. The rolling plateau of the fertile Bon Pays is in the south.
Lithuania
Lithuania is situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and borders Latvia on the north, Belarus on the east and south, and Poland and the Kaliningrad region of Russia on the southwest.It is a country of gently rolling hills, many forests, rivers and streams, and lakes.
Liechtenstein
Tiny Liechtenstein, lies on the east bank of the Rhine River south of Lake Constance between Austria and Switzerland. It consists of low valley land and Alpine peaks.
Libya
Libya stretches along the northeast coast of Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east; to the south are the Sudan, Chad, and Niger. A greater part of the country lies within the Sahara. Along the Mediterranean coast and farther inland is arable plateau land.
Liberia
Lying on the Atlantic in the southern part of West Africa. Most of the country is a plateau covered by dense tropical forests, which thrive under an annual rainfall of about 160 in. a year.
Lesotho
Mountainous Lesotho, the size of Maryland, is surrounded by the Republic of South Africa.
Lebanon
Lebanon lies at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea north of Israel and west of Syria. The Lebanon Mountains, which parallel the coast on the west, cover most of the country, while on the eastern border is the Anti- Lebanon range.
Latvia
Latvia borders Estonia on the north, Lithuania in the south, the Baltic Sea with the Gulf of Riga in the west, Russia in the east, and Belarus in the southeast. Latvia is largely a fertile lowland with numerous lakes and hills to the east.
Laos
A landlocked nation in Southeast Asia occupying the northwest portion of the Indochinese peninsula, Laos is surrounded by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma. Laos is a mountainous country, especially in the north, where peaks rise above 9,000 ft (2,800 m).
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan (formerly Kirghizia) is a rugged country with the Tien Shan mountain range covering approximately 95% of the whole territory. The mountaintops are perennially covered with snow and glaciers.
Kuwait
Kuwait is situated northeast of Saudi Arabia at the northern end of the Persian Gulf, south of Iraq. The low-lying desert land is mainly sandy and barren.
Kosovo
The first inhabitants on the Balkan Peninsula were the ancient people known as the Illyrians. The Slavs followed in the 6th and 7th centuries.
Korea South
South Korea lies below the 38th parallel on the Korean peninsula. It is mountainous in the east; in the west and south are many harbors on the mainland and offshore islands.
Korea North
Korea is a 600-mile (966 km) peninsula jutting out from Manchuria and China. The country is almost completely covered by a series of north-south mountain ranges separated by narrow valleys.
Kiribati
Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands, consists of three widely separated main groups of southwest Pacific islands: the Gilberts on the equator, the Phoenix Islands to the east, and the Line Islands farther east.
Kenya
Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. In the north, the land is arid; the southwest corner is in the fertile Lake Victoria Basin; and a length of the eastern depression of the Great Rift Valley separates western highlands from those that rise from the lowland coastal strip.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan lies in the north of the central Asian republics and is bounded by Russia in the north, China in the east, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in the south, and the Caspian Sea and part of Turkmenistan in the west. It has almost 1,177 mi (1,894 km) of coastline on the Caspian Sea.
Jordan
The Middle East kingdom of Jordan is bordered on the west by Israel and the Dead Sea, on the north by Syria, on the east by Iraq, and on the south by Saudi Arabia. Arid hills and mountains make up most of the country.
Japan
An archipelago in the Pacific, Japan is separated from the east coast of Asia by the Sea of Japan. Japan’s four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island in the West Indies, 145 km south of Cuba and 161 km west of Haiti. The island is made up of coastal lowlands, a limestone plateau, and the Blue Mountains, a group of volcanic hills, in the east.
Italy
Italy, is a long peninsula shaped like a boot, surrounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the east by the Adriatic. It is bounded by France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia to the north.
Israel
Israel, lies at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Its maritime plain is extremely fertile.
Ireland
Ireland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean and separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea. The mountains are low, with the highest peak, Carrantuohill in County Kerry, rising to 1,041 m.
Iraq
The dictatorship of Saddam Hussein collapsed on April 9, 2003, after U.S. and British forces invaded the country. Sovereignty was returned to Iraq on June 28, 2004.
IRAN
Iran has been an Islamic theocracy since the Pahlavi monarchy regime was overthrown on Feb. 11, 1979.
Indonesia
Indonesia is an archipelago in Southeast Asia consisting of 17,000 islands (6,000 inhabited) and straddling the equator.
Iceland
Iceland, lies in the north Atlantic Ocean east of Greenland and just touches the Arctic Circle
