Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Below is a list of countries in Africa by area. [1] Algeria has been the largest country in Africa and the Arab world since the division of Sudan in 2011. The largest African country not located in the Arab world is the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in Central Africa, which is also the second largest in the continent.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. 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.
English short, formal names, and ISO Ruling power Status [20] Domestic short name and formal name Capital Population Area [14] Currency cool country United Kingdom: British Overseas Territory: English: Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Jamestown: 5,633 420 km 2 (162 sq mi) Saint Helena pound (Saint Helena & Ascension)
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
List of countries by share of income of the richest one percent; List of countries by share of population with access to financial services; List of countries by wealth per adult; List of countries without a stock exchange; List of sovereign states by economic freedom; List of sovereign states by male to female income ratio
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
Some of the world’s highest and biggest sand dunes are the centerpiece of western Namibia’s Namib Naukluft National Park, Africa’s largest at 49,768 square kilometers (19,216 square miles).
At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire was the wealthiest country in Africa [20] with its 14th-century emperor Mansa Musa believed to be one of the wealthiest individuals in history. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Besides being a hub of trade and mining, medieval Mali was a centre of Islam , culture and knowledge, with Timbuktu becoming a renowned place of ...