Curated category
Federal constitutional republics
- Federated States of MicronesiaThe Federated States of Micronesia spreads across the western Pacific just north of the equator, its 607 islands strung over almost 2700 km.
- Confederate States of AmericaOn the 12th of April 1861, artillery shells arced over Charleston Harbor and slammed into the walls of Fort Sumter. The Confederate States of America had…
- 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.
- VenezuelaVenezuela sits on the northern edge of South America, officially known as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and it holds something that much of the world…
- NepalNepal holds eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point above mean sea level on Earth.
- United StatesThe United States of America first received its name in a letter dated the 2nd of January, 1776. Stephen Moylan, an aide to General George Washington, wrote…
- BrazilBrazil borders every country on the South American continent except two, Ecuador and Chile, and its coastline along the Atlantic Ocean stretches for 7,491…
- MexicoMexico domesticated maize, the tomato, and beans, three plants that would feed much of the world. Human presence on this land reaches back at least to 8,000…
- IndiaIndia, officially the Republic of India, holds a distinction that no other country on earth can claim: it is simultaneously the world's most populous nation…
- AustriaAustria sits at the geographic heart of Europe, a landlocked country of 83,879 square kilometres where the Eastern Alps give way to the Pannonian Plain.