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Christian states
- TuvaluTuvalu sits roughly midway between Hawaii and Australia, a scattering of nine islands so flat that the highest point anywhere in the country rises just 4.6…
- MaltaMalta sits in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and North Africa, an archipelago 80 km south of Italy, 284 km east of Tunisia, and 333 km north of Libya.
- GreenlandGreenland holds the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere: -69.6 C, measured near the topographic summit of its ice sheet on the 22nd…
- Georgia (country)Georgia sits at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and West Asia, a country of 3.9 million people whose language bears no relation to any other language family…
- FinlandFinland sits between latitudes 60 and 70 degrees north, making it one of the world's northernmost countries. Of all world capitals, only Reykjavik lies…
- Vatican CityVatican City sits on a marshy patch of ground that the ancient Romans considered cursed. Long before popes built their palaces here, the area was known as…
- ArgentinaArgentina covers 2,780,085 square kilometres, making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil and the eighth-largest in the world.
- DenmarkDenmark sits at the southern tip of Scandinavia, a country made up of a single peninsula and 406 islands, yet its reach extends far beyond that modest…
- Faroe IslandsTórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, receives only 840 hours of sunshine a year, the fewest recorded of any city in the world.
- MoldaviaMoldavia was once a principality that sat between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River, and its name may owe itself to a hunting dog.
- EnglandEngland covers roughly 62% of the island of Great Britain, yet its reach across history stretches far beyond those shores.
- GreeceGreece, officially the Hellenic Republic, has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean. It is a country of 10 million people on the southern tip of the…
- IcelandIceland sits on a rift where two of the planet's great tectonic plates, the Eurasian and the North American, are slowly pulling apart.