Countries and territories
Every country and territory, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with flags, maps, facts and a narrated adventure.
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Country United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, is a country of seven emirates on the Arabian Peninsula, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Most of it is desert, and its cities, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, line the coast. Dubai has the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.
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Country United Kingdom The United Kingdom, or UK, lies on islands off the northwest coast of Europe. It is made up of four parts, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and about 69.5 million people live there. Its capital is London.
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Country United States The United States is a large country in North America made of 50 states, from icy Alaska to the warm islands of Hawaii. It has the Grand Canyon, the Mississippi River and Yellowstone, and about 342 million people live there.
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Country Uruguay Uruguay is the second-smallest country in South America, between Brazil and Argentina. Its gently rolling grasslands are grazed by cattle and sheep, and almost half of its 3.5 million people live in and around the capital, Montevideo.
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Country Uzbekistan Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, between two great rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. Most of it is dry desert, but its oases and valleys hold famous Silk Road cities such as Samarkand and Bukhara. It became independent in 1991, and about 37.1 million people lived there in 2025.
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Country Vatican City Vatican City is the smallest independent country in the world, just 0.44 square kilometers in the middle of Rome, Italy. It is the home of the Pope, who leads the Catholic Church, and it holds famous buildings and art such as St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel.
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Country Venezuela Venezuela is a country on the north coast of South America. It has high Andes mountains, huge grassy plains called the Llanos, the great Orinoco River and flat-topped mountains called tepuis, where Angel Falls drops 979 meters.
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Country Vietnam Vietnam stretches about 1,650 kilometers along the coast of Southeast Asia, with mountains in the west and two great river deltas, the Red River in the north and the Mekong in the south. About 102.3 million people lived there in 2025. Its capital is Hanoi, and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City.
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Country Yemen Yemen sits at the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, between the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. Its green, terraced highlands are unlike anywhere else in Arabia, its old towns have tall houses of stone and mud brick, and it was the first place where coffee was grown as a crop to sell.
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Country Zambia Zambia is a landlocked country on a high plateau in south-central Africa, named after the Zambezi River. On its southern border the Zambezi thunders over Victoria Falls. About 22 million people live there, and its copper mines have long made it one of Africa's great copper producers.
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Country Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa, high on a wide plateau between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It shares Victoria Falls with Zambia, and its name is a Shona word meaning "stone houses", the name of the great stone city of Great Zimbabwe.