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Republics in the Commonwealth of Nations
- 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.
- DominicaDominica is the only eastern Caribbean island that still has a population of pre-Columbian native Kalinago, the people who once called the island Wai'tu…
- MauritiusMauritius sits roughly 1100 nautical miles off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar, an island country in the Indian Ocean.
- KenyaIn 1984, at Lake Turkana, the palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey was assisted by Kamoya Kimeu when they uncovered the Turkana Boy, a 1.6-million-year-old…
- 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.
- GuyanaGuyana sits on the northern coast of South America, the only country on the mainland that holds English as its official language.
- PakistanPakistan takes its name from an acronym a student activist coined in a pamphlet. In January 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali published the word, first spelling it…
- SingaporeSingapore sits about one degree of latitude north of the equator, roughly 137 kilometres of sea between it and the line that divides the globe.
- 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…
- NigeriaNigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with more than 242 million people, making it the sixth-most populous country in the world.
- 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…
- 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…
- Sri LankaSri Lanka sits at the southern tip of India, separated from the subcontinent by just a narrow channel of water. It is one of the most ancient inhabited…
- MaldivesThe Maldives sits an average of just 1.5 metres above the sea that surrounds it. Its highest natural point reaches only 2.4 metres, which makes it the…