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Indonesia is the world's largest island country by area (1,904,569 km 2), and by total number of islands (17,504 islands). [4] It is also the world's most populous island country, with a population of over 270 million (the fourth most populous country in the world, after India, China, and the United States).
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
For each country or territory, the number and identity of other countries and territories that neighbor it are listed. Land borders and maritime boundaries are included and are tabulated separately and in combination.
Countries by land border length Antarctica and countries in purple are those without any land border. This list gives the number of distinct land borders of each country or territory, as well as the neighbouring countries and territories. The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [1]
9,984,670 km 2 (3,855,103 sq mi) Canadian dollar: Costa Rica [n 2] Republic of Costa Rica CRI Spanish: Costa Rica — República de Costa Rica: San José: 5,153,957 51,100 km 2 (19,730 sq mi) Costa Rican colón: Cuba Republic of Cuba CUB Spanish: Cuba — República de Cuba: Havana: 11,256,372 110,860 km 2 (42,803 sq mi) Cuban peso Cuban ...
Great Swan Island, Swan Islands Puerto Castilla (mainland) 17°24′N 16°01′N Cape Verde: Ponta do Sol, Santo Antão Island: 17°12′N Montserrat (United Kingdom) Point Brades: 16°49′N Senegal: Podor, Morfil Island: 16°41′N Guadeloupe Anse-Bertrand: 16°29′N Colombia: Serranilla Bank Punta Gallinas (mainland) 15°52′N 12°27′N
United States – United States of America Capital: Washington, DC: Widely recognized UN member state. The United States was a federation of 50 states, one federal district, and one incorporated territory. It asserted sovereignty over the following inhabited insular areas: American Samoa (including Swains Island, which was disputed by Tokelau) Guam
Perestroika (/ ˌ p ɛr ə ˈ s t r ɔɪ k ə / PERR-ə-STROY-kə; Russian: перестройка, IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə] ⓘ) [1] was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.