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Every country, by continent
All countries and territoriesAfrica 46
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Algeria
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Angola
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Benin
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Botswana
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Burkina Faso
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Burundi
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Cabo Verde
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Cameroon
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Central African Republic
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Chad
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Côte d'Ivoire
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Djibouti
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Egypt
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Eritrea
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Ethiopia
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Gabon
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Ghana
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Guinea
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Guinea-Bissau
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Kenya
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Liberia
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Libya
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Madagascar
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Malawi
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Mali
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Mauritania
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Morocco
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Mozambique
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Namibia
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Niger
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Nigeria
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Republic of the Congo
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Rwanda
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Senegal
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Sierra Leone
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Somalia
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South Africa
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Sudan
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Tanzania
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The Gambia
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Togo
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Tunisia
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Uganda
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
Asia 45
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Afghanistan
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Armenia
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Azerbaijan
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Bahrain
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Bangladesh
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Bhutan
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Brunei
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Cambodia
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China
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Cyprus
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Georgia
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India
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Indonesia
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Iran
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Iraq
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Japan
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Jordan
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Kazakhstan
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Kuwait
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Kyrgyzstan
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Laos
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Lebanon
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Malaysia
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Mongolia
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Myanmar
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Nepal
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North Korea
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Oman
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Pakistan
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Philippines
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Qatar
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Saudi Arabia
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Singapore
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South Korea
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Sri Lanka
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Syria
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Taiwan
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Tajikistan
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Thailand
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Türkiye (Turkey)
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Turkmenistan
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United Arab Emirates
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Uzbekistan
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Vietnam
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Yemen
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Albania
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Andorra
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Austria
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Belarus
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Belgium
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bulgaria
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Croatia
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Czechia
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Denmark
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Estonia
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Finland
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France
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Germany
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Greece
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Hungary
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Iceland
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Ireland
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Italy
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Latvia
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Liechtenstein
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Lithuania
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Luxembourg
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Malta
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Moldova
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Monaco
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Montenegro
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Netherlands
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North Macedonia
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Norway
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Poland
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Portugal
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Romania
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Russia
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San Marino
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Serbia
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Slovakia
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Slovenia
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Spain
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Ukraine
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United Kingdom
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Vatican City
North America 8
Australia and Oceania 2
South America 10
Famous landmarks
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Giza pyramid complex
The Giza pyramid complex is a group of ancient tombs on a rocky plateau beside the Nile River in Egypt. Three kings from one family, Khufu, his son Khafre and his grandson Menkaure, built huge pyramids there about 4,500 years ago. Around them are temples, small pyramids for queens, rows of tombs for nobles, the Great Sphinx and even the town where the builders lived.
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Forbidden City
The Forbidden City in Beijing was built between 1406 and 1420 as the palace of China's emperors. Over about 500 years, 24 emperors came to the throne there. High walls and a wide moat surround it. Since 1925 it has been the Palace Museum, and it became a World Heritage Site in 1987.
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Chichén Itzá
Chichén Itzá is the ruin of a great Maya city on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its people built pyramids, a huge ball court and a round building for watching the sky. Its most famous pyramid, El Castillo, has 365 steps, as many as the days in a year.
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Empire State Building
The Empire State Building rises 1,454 feet (443 meters) over Fifth Avenue in New York City. Its steel frame went up at about four and a half floors a week, and the whole building was finished in one year and 45 days, opening on May 1, 1931.
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Mohenjo-daro
Mohenjo-daro was the largest city of the Indus civilization, which UNESCO calls one of the world's three great ancient civilizations. Built of baked brick and flourishing by about 2500 BCE beside the Indus River, it had streets in a neat grid, houses with bathrooms and covered drains. Its ruins were found in 1922.
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Fatehpur Sikri
Fatehpur Sikri, the "City of Victory," was built on a ridge near Agra, India, by the Mughal emperor Akbar from 1571. It was his capital until 1585. Its red sandstone palaces, halls and great mosque still stand, and its gateway, the Buland Darwaza, is 40 meters tall.
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Pantheon
The Pantheon in Rome was rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian almost 1,900 years ago, as a temple of ancient Roman religion. Its concrete dome, about 43 meters across, was the largest ever built until modern times. Since 609 it has been a church, and it still stands almost exactly as it was built.
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Persepolis
Persepolis was a royal city of the Persian kings. King Darius I began it around 518 BCE on a huge terrace at the foot of a mountain in southwestern Iran. Its palaces had very tall, slender columns and walls carved with long parades of people bringing gifts. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Natural wonders
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K'gari
K'gari, off the coast of Queensland in Australia, is the largest sand island in the world. Sand dunes rise up to about 250 meters, rainforest grows right on the sand, and about half of the world's perched dune lakes sparkle among the dunes. Once called Fraser Island, it was officially renamed K'gari, the Butchulla people's name for it, in 2023.
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Nile
The Nile flows north through northeastern Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, and its basin is shared by 11 countries. Its length is usually given as about 6,650 kilometers. Two great branches, the White Nile and the Blue Nile, meet at Khartoum in Sudan, and the green strip of farmland along its banks made it the lifeline of ancient Egypt.
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Gobi Desert
The Gobi is a giant desert stretching across Mongolia and China. Britannica says its name comes from a Mongolian word meaning waterless place. Much of it is bare rock and gravel rather than sand, winters are bitterly cold and summers hot, and its rocks hold remarkable dinosaur fossils, including the first dinosaur eggs known to science.
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K2
K2 is the world's second highest mountain, 8,611 meters tall, in the Karakoram Range of Asia. It got its short name in 1856, when a surveyor marked it as the second peak he measured in the Karakoram. It is one of the hardest mountains to climb, and its summit was first reached in 1954.
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Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji, 3,776 meters high, is the highest mountain in Japan and an active volcano that last erupted in 1707. Its almost perfect cone was built by three volcanoes, one on top of another, and it has inspired artists for hundreds of years.
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Mount Etna
Mount Etna is a huge, active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, in Italy. UNESCO calls it the most active stratovolcano in the world, and people have written about its eruptions for at least 2,700 years. Its height changes as eruptions build it up and crater rims collapse. Vineyards and orchards grow on its rich lower slopes, and scientists watch it every day.
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Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa, 5,199 meters tall, standing just south of the Equator in central Kenya. It is an old volcano that stopped erupting millions of years ago and has been carved by glaciers into sharp rocky peaks. Its slopes climb through farms, forests, bamboo and strange giant plants up to small, shrinking glaciers.
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Mount Nyiragongo
Mount Nyiragongo is a steep volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the border with Rwanda and just north of Lake Kivu. It is 3,470 meters high, and its deep summit crater often holds a lake of bubbling lava. Its lava is very runny, and eruptions in 1977, 2002 and 2021 sent lava flowing down its sides toward the city of Goma.
A day around the world
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A day at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
McMurdo Station, on Ross Island, is the largest research station in Antarctica. In summer up to 1,100 people a week live and work there in about 146 buildings, with dormitories, a cafeteria, a library, labs and two airfields. It supplies science across the continent.
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The 800 languages of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country: Ethnologue lists 840 living indigenous languages there in 2026. Most have small communities of speakers. To talk across languages, many people use Tok Pisin, an official language, as well as English and Hiri Motu.
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River boats from Manaus, Brazil
Manaus, a city of about 2.3 million people, sits where the dark Rio Negro meets the muddy Solimões. Rivers are the main way to reach most towns in Amazonas state. Big wooden boats called recreios carry passengers and cargo for a day or more, with hooks for hammocks, while fast boats called expressos cut the time.
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Water buses of Venice, Italy
Venice is spread over 118 small islands in a lagoon in northern Italy. Cars cannot drive into the old city, so people walk over its 400 or so bridges or take a vaporetto, a public water bus. The canals also carry water taxis, gondolas, and boats for fruit, garbage, ambulances and police.
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Six months of night at the South Pole
At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the Sun sets once a year, around 20 March, and does not rise again for about six months. Up to 42 people spend the dark, freezing winter there with no flights in or out, sharing chores, meals and science.
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Corn and chocolate in Oaxaca, Mexico
In Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, corn has a very long history: maize cobs from a cave in the Valley of Oaxaca were the oldest known in the Americas when they were dated in 2001. Corn is cooked with lime, ground into masa dough and made into tortillas. Oaxaca also has many cacao drinks, including chocolate whisked until foamy with a wooden molinillo.
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School of the Air in Alice Springs, Australia
Alice Springs School of the Air teaches about 100 children who live on cattle stations, in remote communities and in other far-off places across Central Australia. Lessons began over two-way radio in 1951. Today students see their teachers on video over satellite internet.
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Breakfast noodles in Hanoi
Pho is a soup of rice noodles, meat and a fragrant broth, and in Vietnam it is mostly eaten for breakfast. In Hanoi, near where pho is thought to have begun, cooks focus on a clear broth simmered with bones, meat, ginger, shallots and spices, served at street stalls from early morning.
Journeys with Olly
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Building the Panama Canal
Before the Panama Canal, ships going between the Atlantic and Pacific had to sail around the tip of South America. A French company tried to dig a canal across Panama in the 1880s but failed. The United States took over in 1904, defeated dangerous diseases spread by mosquitoes, cut through mountains and built huge locks. The 80-kilometer canal opened in 1914.
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The Silk Road
The Silk Road was not one road but a web of trade routes, about 6,400 kilometers long, linking China with Central Asia and the Mediterranean. For more than 1,500 years, caravans carried silk, tea, spices and glass, and travelers shared ideas, beliefs and inventions.
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The first flights across the Atlantic
In 1919, airplanes crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. A US Navy flying boat, NC-4, crossed in stages, and then John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew nonstop from Newfoundland to Ireland in about 16 hours. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew alone and nonstop from New York to Paris in 33 and a half hours.
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The spice routes by sea
For centuries, ships crossed the Indian Ocean between East Africa, Arabia, India, Sri Lanka and the islands of Southeast Asia, carrying spices such as pepper, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Sailors used the monsoon winds, which blow one way for half the year and the other way for the rest, to make their voyages.
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The first voyagers of the Pacific
Over thousands of years, the ancestors of today's Pacific Islanders sailed double-hulled canoes across the Pacific and settled islands from Samoa and Tonga to Hawaiʻi, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa New Zealand. They had no compasses or maps: navigators read the stars, the ocean swells, the clouds and the birds.
Great cities
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Mumbai
Mumbai, once called Bombay, is a giant port city on India's west coast, by the Arabian Sea. It grew on seven small islands that were joined into one, and it is India's main center of business and banking. At the 2011 census, more than 12 million people lived in the city and more than 18 million in its urban area.
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Cairo
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, has stood on the banks of the Nile for more than 1,000 years, where the river spreads out into its delta. Founded in 969, it has a medieval old city full of historic mosques and markets, the Egyptian Museum and, at its edge, the Pyramids of Giza. It is one of the largest cities in Africa.
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Berlin
Berlin, the capital of Germany, grew from two small trading towns on the Spree River. From 1961 to 1989 the Berlin Wall divided it. Today about 3.7 million people live there (2025), among lakes, forests, museums and the Brandenburg Gate.
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Moscow
Moscow, the capital of Russia, grew up on the Moscow River around a fortress called the Kremlin. About 13.3 million people lived there in 2025. Its rings of roads, snowy winters and palace-like subway stations make it like no other city.
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Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Türkiye, in the interior of Anatolia, about 200 kilometers from the Black Sea. People have lived here since the Stone Age, and Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks and Ottomans all left buildings behind. It became the capital in 1923, and today it is a city of government, universities and museums.
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Munich
Munich is the capital of Bavaria, a state in southern Germany, and the country's third-biggest city. It began in 1158 as a market by a bridge over the Isar River, and its name means "Home of the Monks." Today it is famous for its palaces, art museums, the huge Deutsches Museum and its autumn Oktoberfest.
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Athens
Athens is the capital of Greece and one of the oldest cities in the world. Above it rises the Acropolis, a rocky hill crowned by the marble Parthenon, built about 2,500 years ago. Ancient Athens was home to early democracy, great thinkers and theater.
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Vienna
Vienna is the capital of Austria, on the Danube River. For centuries it was the home of emperors, and composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven lived and worked there. About 2 million people lived in the city at the start of 2026.