Curated playlist
G20 members
- JapanCountry in East Asia
- Saudi ArabiaCountry in West Asia
- United KingdomCountry in northwestern Europe
- 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. Its average elevation is just 325 metres, against 870 metres for the continents as a…
- 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 largest being Sicily and Sardinia. Inside its boundaries sit two other countries…
- 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. About 80 percent of Canadians live within 150 kilometres of the border with the contiguous United…
- 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. Yet its name was never Spanish. The word Argentina first appeared on a Venetian map in…
- FranceFrance received 102 million foreign visitors in 2025, more than any other country on Earth. Behind that number sits a stranger fact. The name itself means free. It comes from the Latin Francia, the realm of the Franks, and the Frankish…
- 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 member. In a valley near Dusseldorf, the first Neanderthal fossil ever identified…
- IndonesiaIndonesia stretches more than 5,120 kilometres from east to west, scattered across over 17,000 islands between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is the world's largest archipelagic state, the 14th-largest country by area, and home to over…
- 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 it while requesting permission to seek Spanish assistance for the Revolutionary…
- 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 the second-most populous country after India and the third-largest by area.…
- 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 product of around 18.802 trillion euros in 2025. That figure accounts for roughly…
- South KoreaSouth Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands. About 52 million people live here, and half of them are packed into the Seoul metropolitan…
- 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 mercury once reached 51.7 degrees Celsius in 1948. South Africa holds both extremes…
- 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 kilometers. Inside those borders sit more than 213 million people, most of the…
- 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 BC, and the earliest stone tool chips found in the Valley of Mexico date to…
- 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 37,653 kilometres, and by landmass it covers the same surface area as the dwarf planet…
- 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, the largest city, anchors the economy across two continents. The country occupies…
- 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 and its most populous democracy. More than 1.4 billion people live within its…