One third of Myanmar’s total perimeter of 1,930 kilometres (1,200 miles) forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. It is the world’s 40th largest country and the second largest in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is a country rich in jade and gems, oil, natural gas and other mineral resources. As […]
Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d’Ivoire to the south west. Gold is Burkina Faso’s main export, followed by cotton and animal products. Burkina Faso […]
Human activity in the land that is Bulgaria was present during the Paleolithic era. Animal bones carved with man-made markings have been discovered in the Korarnika cave that are assumed to be some of the earliest examples of humans’ symbolic behavior. The Hamangia, Vinča, Varna cultures were all prehistoric societies organized and living in Bulgarian […]
This country is one of the smallest nations on earth that is located on the island of Borneo in South East Asia. Besides sharing its border with the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, it also faces the South China Sea in the North. Blessed with vast reserves of oil in the region, the country’s countries economy […]
Brazil’s official name is República Federativa do Brasil (Federative Republic of Brazil). The word “Brazil,” meaning “red like an ember,” comes from pau brasil (brazilwood), a tree that once grew abundantly along the Brazilian coast that produced a deep, red dye. Brazilwood was valued by European traders who came from the Portuguese coasts in the […]
Botswana is a wealthy country by African standards. It contains extensive mineral resources such as the Jwaneng Diamond Mine, the richest in the world, which was found when termites pushed specks of diamond to the surface. The Okavango Delta is known as the jewel in the Kalahari, a semi-arid sandy expanse which covers 85% of […]
Located in the Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina has borders with Croatia in the west and north, Serbia in the east, Montenegro in the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea very close in the southwest, with a small border or Croatia separating the two. Bosnia and Herzegovina is nicknamed the “Heart Shaped Land” due to the country’s […]