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  • Namibia [r]: Southern African country independent from South Africa since 1990; capital Windhoek. [e]
  • Nauru [r]: Republic in the Pacific Ocean, 300 kilometres west of Banaba Island in Kiribati, within Micronesia. [e]
  • Nepal [r]: Landlocked country in South Asia, bordered by Tibet and India. [e]
  • Netherlands [r]: Constitutional monarchy (population c. 16.6 million; capital Amsterdam) located at the delta of three major rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde) in north-western Europe; situated between Germany and Belgium, and bordering the North Sea to the north and west; founding member of the European Union. [e]
  • New Zealand [r]: Country in the South Pacific; constitutional monarchy and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. [e]
  • Nicaragua [r]: Country of Latin America, formerly a British colony. [e]
  • Niger [r]: A country in Western Africa, with one of the worst qualities of life in the world. [e]
  • Nigeria [r]: Country on the coast of West Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean in the south, Niger to the north, Benin to the west, and Cameroon to the east. [e]
  • North Korea [r]: State comprising the northern Korean peninsula; officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with Pyongyang its capital. [e]
  • Norway [r]: A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula. [e]

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  • Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. [e]
  • Palau [r]: Independent republic in the Pacific Ocean, an archipelago consisting of more than 350 islets. [e]
  • Panama [r]: Republic in Central America, bounded by Colombia to the east, Costa Rica to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. [e]
  • Papua New Guinea [r]: A developing nation in Oceania, part of the Commonwealth of Nations, on whose islands and in whose waters were fought many major battles of the Second World War [e]
  • Paraguay [r]: Country in Central South America, northeast of Argentina, which also has boundaries with Bolivia and Brazil. [e]
  • Peru [r]: A South American nation bordering Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia. [e]
  • Philipines [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Poland [r]: Central European republic (population c. 38.5 million; capital Warsaw) extending from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Tatry Mountains on its southern borders with the Czech Republic and Slovakia; also borders Germany to the west, the Russian Federation and Lithuania to the north-east, and Belorussia and Ukraine to the east. [e]
  • Portugal [r]: South-west European republic (population c. 10.7 million; capital Lisbon) on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula, with a long Atlantic coastline to its west and bordering Spain to the north and east. [e]

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  • Qatar [r]: A small oil-rich state in the Persian Gulf [e]

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  • Republic of Macedonia [r]: Former Yugoslav republic (population c. 2.1 million; capital Skopje), landlocked in south-eastern Europe between Kosovo and Serbia to the north and Greece to the south, Albania to the west and Bulgaria to the east. [e]
  • Romania [r]: South-east European republic (population c. 22.2 million; capital Bucharest) on the western shore of the Black Sea, and divided by the arc of the Carpathian Mountains, which enclose the Transylvanian basin in the north-west; borders Ukraine, Moldavia, Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria. [e]
  • Russia [r]: A country in northern Eurasia, with an area of 17 million km², currently the largest on our planet. [e]
  • Rwanda [r]: A small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. [e]

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