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This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories. All 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states are given a rank ...
Taiwan historically had a serious problem with the illegal dumping of household and industrial waste which became so severe that Taiwan was known as "garbage island". This high level of pollution led to civil and government action, by 2022 the recycling rate was one of the highest in the world at 55%.
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] [j] is a country [27] in East Asia. [m] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
Below is a list of countries in Asia by area. [1] Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia.
The United States officially takes no position on Taiwan's sovereignty under Washington's "One China" policy. China says it will not renounce the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...
Country in North America. Includes the 50 states and District of Columbia with Indian Reservations. Includes inland water area of 78,797 mi 2 (204,083 km 2) and Great Lakes water of 60,251 mi 2 (156,049 km 2); excludes coastal water area of 42,225 mi 2 (109,362 km 2) and territorial water area of 75,372 mi 2 (195,213 km 2) [2] Sahara: 9,200,000