TLDR: How Many Countries Are in North Africa? By the UN’s definition, six: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia. Add the disputed territory of Western Sahara and you get…
TLDR Estado de México (the State of México — not Mexico City) is the most populous entity in the country, and it isn’t close. It logged 16,992,418 people in the…
TLDR Suriname has no real road network past the coast, so its rivers do the work highways do everywhere else. The Courantyne is the longest at 724 kilometers and forms…
TLDR Bolivia shares a border with five countries. Ranked longest to shortest: That’s it — five neighbors, zero coastline. Keep reading for the terrain, the history, and which crossings actually…
TLDR Niger shares borders with seven countries: Algeria, Libya, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Mali. That ties it with Sudan and a handful of other African states for the…
TLDR Tajikistan has roughly 947 rivers, and nearly all of them trace back to two systems: the Amu Darya (fed by the Panj) and the Syr Darya. The country generates…
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s poverty isn’t evenly spread, and it isn’t a mystery to anyone who’s driven the back roads between Sarajevo and the Republika Srpska border. It’s concentrated in specific…
Africa has 54 recognized countries, and 16 of them never touch open water. That’s roughly a third of the continent — more landlocked nations than any other continent on earth,…
Table of Contents TLDR There are more than 40 landlocked countries in the world — the exact number shifts between 43 and 45 depending on whether a source counts Kosovo…
Most lists on this topic stop at ten and call it a day. That leaves out Namibia, the Central African Republic, Egypt, Libya, and a handful of others whose renaming…