Curated category
Least developed countries
- TanzaniaTanzania does not have an official language by law, yet over 100 languages are spoken inside its borders, more than any other country in East Africa.
- 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…
- DjiboutiDjibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, and it carries the smallest population in mainland Africa. The 2024 census counted 1,066,809 people, recorded on…
- Burkina FasoBurkina Faso sits at the heart of West Africa, entirely landlocked, ringed by six countries and a history that refuses to be still.
- SenegalSenegal occupies a singular position on the map of Africa: it is the westernmost country on the entire mainland of the Old World, the very edge of…
- HaitiHaiti is the only country in history established by a slave revolt. On the 1st of January 1804, in the town of Gonaives, the leaders of the Haitian…
- CambodiaCambodia sits at a crossroads where ancient empire and modern catastrophe meet, a country of 17 million people whose story spans from one of the largest…
- Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo holds enough cobalt to power the world's electric cars, yet ranks 171 out of 193 countries on the Human Development…
- LaosBetween 1964 and 1973, American aircraft dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos. That is more than all the bombs dropped by American planes during…
- SudanAround 11500 BC, near Jebel Sahaba, people fought what scholars call the earliest known war in the world. That ground now sits inside Sudan, a country in…
- EthiopiaEthiopia holds a fossil named Dinkinesh, found in the Awash Valley of the Afar Region in 1974 by Donald Johanson. The world knows her as Lucy.
- AfghanistanAfghanistan has been called the graveyard of empires, and that nickname was not chosen lightly. Persians, Macedonians, Mongols, British, Soviets, and…
- Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands sits at one of the most contested crossroads on Earth, a scatter of more than a thousand islands in Melanesia where some of the bloodiest…
- NepalNepal holds eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point above mean sea level on Earth.
- BangladeshBangladesh holds almost 176 million people inside just 148,460 square kilometres of land. That makes it the eighth-most populous country on Earth, and one of…
- MyanmarMyanmar covers more land than any other country in Mainland Southeast Asia, and roughly 55 million people live inside its borders.