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G20 members
- JapanJapan sits at the edge of the Pacific, a chain of 14,125 islands stretching more than 3,000 kilometers from the frigid Sea of Okhotsk to the warm East China…
- Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia is the only country on Earth with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf. It covers roughly 2,150,000 square kilometers, the…
- United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland sits off the northwestern coast of continental Europe, home to over 69 million people in 2024.
- AustraliaAustralia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent, a land area of 7,688,287 square kilometres that ranks sixth-largest among all countries.
- ItalyItaly is a peninsula that reaches out into the Mediterranean Sea, anchored by the Alps along its northern border and trailed by nearly 800 islands, the…
- CanadaCanada is the second-largest country in the world by total area, yet most of its people cluster in a thin band near a single neighbour.
- 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.
- FranceFrance received 102 million foreign visitors in 2025, more than any other country on Earth. Behind that number sits a stranger fact.
- GermanyGermany sits at the geographic heart of Europe, touching nine countries and two seas, and its 82 million people make it the European Union's most populous…
- IndonesiaIndonesia stretches more than 5,120 kilometres from east to west, scattered across over 17,000 islands between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
- 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…
- ChinaChina sits in East Asia, home to more than 1.4 billion people, roughly 17 percent of everyone alive. Spread across about 9.6 million square kilometers, it is…
- European UnionThe European Union spans 4,233,255 square kilometres and holds more than 450 million people as of 2025. Its member states produced a nominal gross domestic…
- South KoreaSouth Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands.
- South AfricaA temperature of -20.1 degrees Celsius was recorded at Buffelsfontein in the Eastern Cape in 2013. Far to the north, near Upington in the Kalahari, the…
- 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…
- RussiaRussia spans eleven time zones. No other country on Earth does. Its borders touch fourteen nations, its coastline is the world's fourth-longest at over…
- TurkeyTurkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is home to over 86 million people. Its capital, Ankara, sits inland on the high central plateau, while Istanbul…
- 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…