Bangladesh
Bangladesh, on the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal, is surrounded by India, with a small common border with Myanmar in the southeast. The country is low-lying riverine land traversed by the many branches and tributaries of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.
Bahrain
Bahrain, which means “two seas,” is an archipelago in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia. The islands for the most part are level expanses of sand and rock. A causeway connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
Bahamas
The Bahamas are an archipelago of about 700 islands and 2,400 uninhabited islets and cays lying 80 Km off the east coast of Florida. They extend for about 1,223 km.
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea at the southeast extremity of the Caucasus. The region is a mountainous country, and only about 7% of it is arable land. The Kura River Valley is the area’s major agricultural zone.
Austria
Austria includes much of the mountainous territory of the eastern Alps (about 75% of the area). The country contains many snowfields, glaciers, and snowcapped peaks, the highest being the Grossglockner (3,819 m). The Danube is the principal river.
Australia
The continent of Australia, with the island state of Tasmania. Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast, reaching their highest point in Mount Kosciusko. The western half of the continent is occupied by a desert plateau that rises into barren, rolling hills near the west coast.
Armenia
Armenia is located in the southern Caucasus and is the smallest of the former Soviet republics. A land of rugged mountains and extinct volcanoes, its highest point is Mount Aragats, 4,095 m.
Argentina
Second in South America only to Brazil in size and population, Argentina is a plain, rising from the Atlantic to the Chilean border and the towering Andes peaks. Aconcagua (6,960 m) is the highest peak in the world outside Asia. The northern area is the swampy and partly wooded Gran Chaco, bordering on Bolivia and Paraguay.
Government Constitutional Monarchy
Antigua, the larger of the two main islands, is 280 sq km. The island dependencies of Redonda (an uninhabited rocky islet) and Barbuda (a coral island formerly known as Dulcina) are 1.30 sq km and 161 sq km, respectively.
Angola
Angola underwent a transition from a one party socialist state to a nominally multiparty democracy in 1992.
Angola, extends for more than 1,000 mi (1,609 km) along the South Atlantic in southwest Africa. Nearly all the land is desert or savanna, with hardwood forests in the northeast.
Andorra
A parliamentary coprincipality composed of the bishop of Urgel (Spain) and the president of France. Their representatives are listed above. The principality was internationally recognized as a sovereign state in 1993.
Algeria
Algeria is bordered on the west by Morocco and Western Sahara and on the east by Tunisia and Libya.
Albania
Albania is situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. Albania is composed of two major regions: a mountainous highland region constituting 70% of the land area, and a western coastal lowland region that contains nearly all of the country’s agricultural land and is the most densely populated part of Albania.
Afghanistan
In June 2002 a multiparty republic replaced an interim government following the fall of the Islamic Taliban government.
