Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures

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by  DK

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O U R W O R L D I N P I C T U R E S
COUNTRIES
OF THE WORLD
WRITTEN BY ANDREA MILLS
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SWORLD MAP 6
NORTH AMERICA 8
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DK LONDON
Senior Editor Carron Brown
Senior Designer Sheila Collins Canada 10
Editors Georgina Palffy, Anna Streiffert Limerick, United States of America 12
Selina Wood, Sam Kennedy, Vicky Richards, Kelsie Besaw N
US Editors Jennette ElNaggar, Heather Wilcox Mexico, Guatemala, Belize 14
US Executive Editor Lori Cates Hand El Salvador, Honduras,
Senior Cartographic Editor Simon Mumford
Costa Rica, Nicaragua 16
Cartography Leanne Kelman, Ed Merritt, Martin Sanders
3-D Illustrators Adam Benton, Adam Brackenbury, Simon Mumford Panama, Cuba, The Bahamas 18
Managing Editor Francesca Baines EJamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic 20
Managing Art Editor Philip Letsu
Production Editor Kavita Varma St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica,
Senior Production Controller Jude Crozier Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia 22
Jacket Design Development Manager Sophia MTT T
Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent
Publisher Andrew Macintyre
Associate Publishing Director Liz Wheeler and the Grenadines, Trinidad
Art Director Karen Self
and Tobago 24
Publishing Director Jonathan Metcalf
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DK DELHI
Senior Editor Sreshtha Bhattacharya SOUTH AMERICA 26
Senior Art Editor Shreya Anand
Editors Upamanyu Das, Shambhavi Thatte
Art Editors Noopur Dalal, Sifat Fatima, Baibhav Parida
Assistant Art Editor Bhavnoor Kaur OVenezuela, Suriname, Guyana 28
Cartographic Editor Parnika Bagla Colombia, Ecuador 30
Senior Cartographers Subhashree Bharati,
Mohammad Hassan, Zafar-ul-Islam Khan Brazil 32
Cartographer Ashif Bolivia, Peru, Chile 34
Manager Cartography Suresh Kumar
CArgentina, Paraguay, Uruguay 36
Project Picture Researcher Deepak Negi
Assistant Picture Researcher Geetika Bhandari
Picture Research Manager Taiyaba Khatoon
Managing Editor Kingshuk Ghoshal AFRICA 38
Managing Art Editor Govind Mittal
Senior DTP Designers Pawan Kumar, Jagtar Singh
DTP Designers Mohd Rizwan, Ashok Kumar
Pre-production Manager Balwant Singh Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya 40
Production Manager Pankaj Sharma Egypt 42
Jacket Designers Suhita Dharamjit, Tanya Mehrotra
Mali, Mauritania, Niger 44
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EUROPE 80 AUSTRALIA
and OCEANIA 170
United Kingdom 82 Blue and yellow
Ireland, Iceland 84 macaw, Brazil
Australia 172
Norway, Denmark 86
Papua New Guinea, New Zealand 174
Sweden, Finland 88
Pacific islands 176
Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia 90
Poland 92
Germany 94 POLAR REGIONS
The Netherlands, Belgium 96
France 98
Antarctica, The Arctic 178
Spain 100
Portugal 102
Malta, Luxembourg, Andorra, Monaco 104 REFERENCE 180
Italy 106
Vatican City, San Marino, Liechtenstein 108
Overseas territories 181
Switzerland, Slovenia 110
Glossary 186
Austria, Czechia 112
Index 188
Slovakia, Hungary 114
Acknowledgments 191
Serbia, Croatia 116
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Baseball,
Montenegro, Kosovo 118 Cuba
Cyprus, North Macedonia, Albania 120
Greece 122
Bulgaria, Romania 124
Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova 126
Russia 128 MAP FEATURES
0 0 5 0 k m 50 km City
ASIA 130 0 0 5 0 m i l e 5s0 miles National capital
Chihuahua,
(approx(iampaptreo xsicmalaet)e scale)
Mexico
N N
Map scale
Turkey 132
North pointer
Azerbaijan, Syria, Georgia, Armenia 134
Lebanon, Israel, Jordan 136 Place locator
Iraq, Iran 138
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait 140
The United Arab Emirates, Qatar,
Oman, Yemen 142
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Olive oil,
Kazakhstan 144 Spain
Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan 146
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives 148
India 150
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal 152
Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia 154
Thailand, Vietnam 156
Philippines, Mongolia 158
China 160 Toubou camel
racers, Chad
Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea 162
Japan 164
Malaysia, Indonesia 166
Singapore, Brunei, East Timor 168
Traditional Curanto, Pahela Baisakh mask,
copperware, Cyprus Chile Bangladesh
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(UK) Macquarie Island
(Australia)
of our planet are made up of many landscapes, including South
Sandwich
Islands
mountains, plains, grasslands, forests, deserts, and (UK)
tundra. The continents are divided into 196 countries,
inhabited by 7.7 billion people. The people in each country
have different ways to work, enjoy, and celebrate life.
A N TA R CT I C A
Area covered by land: North America South America Africa
57.5 million sq miles
(148.94 million sq km)
Total area: Total area: Total area:
Area covered by water:
9.54 million sq miles 17.84 million sq km 11.73 million sq miles
139.4 million sq miles
(24.71 million sq km) (6.9 million sq miles) (30.37 million sq km)
(361.13 million sq km)
Population: 592 million Population: 430 million Population: 1.3 billion
World population:
7.7 billion Countries: 23 Countries: 12 Countries: 54
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R P(rSionIucstelha E nAddfwrsiacrad) C(Frroaznecte I)slandsKerguelen COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS C(hNaethwa Zme aIslalanndd)s
A Falkland (France) Auckland Islands
Islands (New Zealand)
(UK) BEL. Belgium NZ New Zealand
South
Georgia BOS. & HERZ. Bosnia SM San Marino
(UK) The icy continent of Antarctica has no and Herzegovina SLVN. Slovenia M(Aaucsqtruaalriaie) Island
South
Sandwich permanent human population. Instead, KOS. Kosovo (disputed) SWITZ. Switzerland
Is(lUaKn)ds researchers temporarily live and work LIECH. Liechtenstein UAE United Arab Emirates
at scientific research stations. LUX. Luxembourg UK United Kingdom
N. MAC. North Macedonia US United States of America
MON. Montenegro VAT. CITY Vatican City
NETH. Netherlands
A N TA R CT I C A
Europe Asia Australia Antarctica
and Oceania
Total area: Total area: Total area: Total area:
3.93 million sq miles 17.2 million sq miles 3.31 million sq miles 5,500,000 sq miles
(10.18 million sq km) (44.58 million sq km) (8.56 million sq km) (14,200,000 sq km)
Population: 747 million Population: 4.6 billion Population: 42 million Population: 1,000–5,000
Countries: 46 Countries: 47 Countries: 14 Countries: 0
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of all deer species. It lives Toronto
in large groups in forests. HamiltoLnondon FNaiallgsara
About 1 million elk live
Valley of the Ten Peaks
in North America.
Ten majestic mountain peaks tower
over Moraine Lake in this scenic spot
in Canada’s Alberta Province.
As the second-largest country on Earth, 3,855,103 sq miles
Canada stretches from the icy Arctic Circle (9,984,670 sq km)
through the snowcapped Rocky Mountains 37.7 million
to the grassy plains of the prairies. It has the Ottawa
world’s longest coastline and more lakes than English, French, other
any other nation. This vast expanse is divided languages (+7)
into 10 provinces and three territories.
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