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States and territories established in 1971

  • QatarThe Qatari peninsula juts into the Persian Gulf, a flat, low-lying plain of sand that stretches between latitudes 24 and 27 degrees north.
  • United Arab EmiratesThe United Arab Emirates stretches across 83,600 square kilometers of the Arabian Peninsula. Its landscape shifts from salt pans along the Persian Gulf to…
  • BangladeshThe word Bangladesh first appeared in a political song by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905. Kazi Nazrul Islam used the term again in his own patriotic composition…