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Facts about Burkina Faso for Kids

Burkina Faso, also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a landlocked country in West Africa around 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) in size. Formerly called the Republic of ... The post...

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Facts about Benin for Kids

Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, by Nigeria to the east and by Burkina Faso and ... The post Facts about Benin for Kids appeared...

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Facts about Cameroon for Kids

It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to ... The post Facts about Cameroon...

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Facts about Equatorial Guinea for Kids

Equatorial Guinea is a small country located in Central Africa, with an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). The insular region consists of the islands of Bioko (formerly ... The post Facts...

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Facts about Gabon for Kids

Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, Gabon is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon ... The post...

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Facts about Eritrea for Kids

Eritrea is the Italian form of the Greek name Ἐρυθραία, meaning “red [land]“. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by Sudan to the west, Ethiopia in the south, ... The post Facts about Eritrea...

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Facts about Mauritania for Kids

It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and ... The post Facts about...

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Facts about Tanzania for Kids

Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, is in northeastern Tanzania. The country is divided into 30 administrative regions: five on the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar and 25 on the mainland in the...

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Facts about Uganda for Kids

It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the southwest by Rwanda, and ... The post Facts about Uganda for Kids appeared...

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Facts abotu Somalia for Kids

Somalia is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the ... The post Facts abotu Somalia for Kids...

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Facts about Taiwan for Kids

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China , is a state in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China now governs the island of Taiwan (formerly known as Formosa), which makes...

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Norway: Fun Interesting Facts and Resources

Fun Facts about Norway Norway is located in northern Europe and is part of Scandinavia. Its land is rich with vast fjords, thousands of tiny islands and lakes and dramatically cascading waterfalls. The...

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Facts about Scandinavia for Kids

  Scandinavia is a historical cultural-linguistic region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethno-cultural Germanic heritage and related languages that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark,...

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Facts about Luxembourg for Kids

Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the north as...

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Facts about Thailand for Kids

  Thailand, formerly known as Siam, is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to...

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Facts about Yugoslavia for Kids

  Yugoslavia was a country in the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which before 3 October 1929 was known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and...

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Facts about Panama for Kids

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the west,...

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Facts about Nunavut for Kids

The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada’s political map since the incorporation of the new province of Newfoundland in 1949. Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern...

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Facts about Belize for Kids

Belize is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Kriol and Spanish are more commonly...

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Facts about the Philippines for Kids

To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the...

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