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Republic of Ghana - Mido Wò

Ghana is a country in West Africa bordering Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, and to the south, the Gulf of Guinea, part of the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is almost as large as that of the United Kingdom, with whose history it is closely linked through the colonial period. The name Ghana was intended to create a historical connection with the Empire of Ghana, the first documented great empire in West Africa. Ghana's capital is the metropolis of Accra, and its second city, with a population of over a million, is Kumasi.

The Volta Reservoir, with the Akosombo Dam, completed in 1966, is the largest inland lake in the country and, to this day, the largest artificial body of water in the world. With the construction of the dam, the Nkrumah government pursued the goal of securing the energy supply for Ghana's economic development and industrialization. Ghana is important to the global economy due to its wealth of natural resources. Gold, which also gave the former colony the name "Gold Coast," is Ghana's most important export. About one-third of export earnings and 93 percent of mining sector production are related to gold production.

Ghana - Mido Wò

საქართველო (Sakartwelo) - ერთთად მივდივართ (Ertad Mivdivart)

Georgia is a Eurasian state in the South Caucasus, located east of the Black Sea and south of the Greater Caucasus. It is bordered by Russia to the north, Turkey and Armenia to the south, and Azerbaijan to the east. The regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are occupied by Russian forces and are not under the control of the Georgian government. With around 3.7 million inhabitants (2020) in an area of ​​57,215 km² (excluding the occupied regions), Georgia is rather sparsely populated. About a third of the population lives in the capital region around Tbilisi; other major cities include Batumi, Kutaisi, and Rustavi.

The former Soviet republic encompasses mountain villages in the Caucasus as well as beaches on the Black Sea. Famous are the sprawling 12th-century Vardzia cave monastery and the ancient wine-growing region of Kakheti. The capital, Tbilisi, boasts diverse architecture and a labyrinthine old town with cobblestone streets.

The Georgians call their country "Sakartvelo" in Georgian, which roughly translates as "Land of the Kartvels." The word is said to originate from the god Kartlos, the progenitor of the Kartvels, who was worshipped in pre-Christian times.

The Kartvelians
The Georgians are one of the few peoples for whom no migration has been documented to date. It is certain that Georgia was already inhabited in the Paleolithic period. Recent archaeological excavations in eastern Georgia attest to cultivation 1.8 million years ago, long before the settlement of Central Europe. This includes the spectacular discovery of the oldest European humans in Dmanisi.

Slightly further south, in present-day Turkey, lies Mount Ararat, the legendary landing site of the Ark. According to historical sources from the 11th century, the Georgians trace their origins to the mythical ancestor Kartlos, the son of Targamos, who was a great-grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:1-2). The native name for Georgia is "Sakartvelo" (English: Sakartvelo), "Land of the Kartvelians."

Kartvelian tribes are mentioned as early as the 12th century BC. The first mention of the region dates back to the 2nd century BC in Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions. Urartian sources report the state structure "Diaochi" as their first unified union (Heinz Fähnrich, German cultural historian). The Greeks called the people Taochi (Xenophon, Anabasis, IV, 71); the territorial designation Tao persisted until the 20th century.

Georgia - Ertad Mivdivart

இலங்கை ஜனநாயக சமத்துவ குடியரசு (Ilaṅkai jaṉanāyaka camattuva kuṭiyaracu) - நடக்கின்றோம் (Natakkinrom)

Sri Lanka Ceylon (from 1796 to 1972) is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, 237 km (west coast of the island) east of the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, and had a population of approximately 22 million in 2021. The shortest distance between India (Kodiyakkarai) and Sri Lanka (Munasal) is 54.8 km.

From ancient times to modern times, the island was a strategic hub for maritime travel between the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The south and the areas around Anuradhapura were centers of ancient Buddhism; in the north and east there were Hindu temple complexes. Sri Lanka is today a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation, in which, alongside Buddhism and Hinduism, Christianity and Islam are important religions. The Sinhalese make up the majority of the population. The Tamils ​​are the largest minority. Other ethnic minorities include the Moors, Malays, Burghers and the indigenous people of Sri Lanka, the Veddas.

Sri Lanka is known for the production and export of tea (Ceylon), coffee, rubber, and coconuts. The island is a popular tourist destination due to its scenic beauty and rich cultural heritage (such as Ayurveda, a traditional healing art).

Sri Lanka was ruled by various local kingdoms for over two millennia until large parts of the island were colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and then by the Dutch. Only the Kingdom of Kandy in the island's highlands was able to hold out against the colonizers. In 1815, all of Sri Lanka became part of the British Empire. During World War II, Sri Lanka served as a strategically important base for the Allies in the fight against the Japanese Empire. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been growing movements for independence. In 1948, Sri Lanka gained independence from Great Britain after peaceful negotiations. Since independence, the country has been burdened by the conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. Between 1983 and 2009, there was a civil war in Sri Lanka between Tamil separatists and the Sinhalese-dominated central government. The human rights violations committed during the civil war have not yet been independently investigated. Between 2005 and 2015, Mahinda Rajapaksa was president of the country and ruled with an authoritarian stance. In 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mahinda's brother, was elected president, and Mahinda became prime minister. Under the brothers' rule, the economy collapsed in 2022. Popular demonstrations led to the ouster of the Rajapaksas and democratic constitutional reform in October 2022.

Sri Lanka - Natakkinrom

الجمهورية اليمنية (al-Dschumhūriyya al-Yamaniyya) - نبتسم (Nahn Namdi Ma'an)

Yemen is a country in the Middle East, in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea to the south, and the Red Sea to the west. The states of Djibouti and Eritrea are located across the Red Sea, about 20 and 30 kilometers apart, respectively. Yemen also includes the Socotra archipelago and numerous smaller islands in the Bab al-Mandab in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. However, the state of Yemen has collapsed due to the civil war; several de facto states currently exist on the former territory described above.

In 1990, the two former states, the Yemeni Arab Republic (JAR, "North Yemen"; capital: Sanaa) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (DPJ, "South Yemen", capital: Aden), united to form the current state. A civil war has raged since 2013. In this conflict, the Houthi militias succeeded in capturing the capital, Sanaa, and large parts of the country. On March 25, 2015, Saudi Arabia, with the military cooperation of eight other states (the Islamic Military Coalition), launched a military intervention called Operation Decisive Storm to support the central government under President Hadi and Prime Minister Khalid Bahah. This massively escalated the conflict and is considered a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. As of April 1, 2022, 4.3 million people are internally displaced due to the war in the country. Seventy percent of the population depends on international aid for survival.

Yemen - Nahn Namdi Ma'an

Co-operative Republic of Guyana - Bright And Bold

Guyana is a country on the Atlantic coast of South America. It borders Brazil to the south and west, Venezuela to the northwest, and Suriname to the east.

On the other side of Suriname lies the French overseas department of Guyane, or French Guiana. The South American Guianas are not to be confused with the three African countries of Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea.

Covered in dense rainforest and with a passion for cricket and calypso music, this English-speaking country has close cultural ties to the Caribbean. The capital, Georgetown, is known for its British colonial architecture, including the large, colorful wooden Anglican church, St. George's Cathedral. A large clock adorns the tower of Stabroek Market, where local produce is sold.

Guyana - Bright And Bold

República de Cuba - No Paramos

Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast, and the Caribbean Sea to the south. Cuba has a population of approximately 10 million, the majority of whom are Christians, making it the third-largest country in the Caribbean (after Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The country's capital is Havana, the second-largest metropolis in the Caribbean.

Cuba is a one-party dictatorship. The authoritarian government regularly commits serious human rights violations. The economy is weak, and the general standard of living is low. Large parts of the population live in poverty.

Upon his arrival, Columbus initially named the island Juana after Prince Don Juan. In 1515, his father, Fernando II, King of Spain, ordered the renaming to Fernandina, as only one island in the Bahamas (now Long Island) had been named after him.

The name "Cuba" likely comes from the Carib or Taíno language. The words coa (= place) and bana (= large) mean something like "large place." Columbus wrote that he landed at a place the indigenous people called Cubao, Cuban, or Cibao. These names evidently referred to a mountainous region near the landing site in eastern Cuba.

In 1964, the Cuban writer and etymologist José Juan Arrom described the following word origin: According to his account, the Arawak language contains the term kuba-annakan or cubanacán, which means "country or province in the middle." This makes it virtually certain that "Cuba" meant something like "country" or "province" in the local language.

Another naming theory focuses on the town of Cuba in Alentejo, Portugal; it is here that Columbus was born as an illegitimate offspring of the Portuguese royal family.

Cuba - No Paramos

République de Côte d’Ivoire - Yé Fo Yé Gnè

Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It borders Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.

The country, which gained independence from France on August 7, 1960, was politically stable for decades and was governed by the PDCI (Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire) unity party of then-President Houphouët-Boigny. Export revenues from cocoa and coffee guaranteed relative prosperity. To this day, Ivory Coast remains the world's largest exporter of cocoa. Internal tensions led to the end of PDCI rule in 1990. With increasing economic difficulties caused by the decline in cocoa prices, conflicts escalated and led to a civil war-like situation that tore the country in two in 2002. Since the 2007 peace agreement, efforts have been made to reconcile and reunify Ivory Coast. Since then, it has been one of Africa's fastest-growing economies.

Yamoussoukro has been the official capital since 1983. The seat of government is located in the former capital, Abidjan, which remains the economic and political center of the country.

Ivory Coast - Yé Fo Yé Gnè

République du Sénégal - Salam

Senegal is a country in Francophone Africa, Senegal lies at the western tip of continental Africa. Senegal stretches from the cool Atlantic coast in the west, between the Senegal River, which gives the country its name, on the northern border with Mauritania, from the foothills of the Sahara to the beginnings of the tropical humid forest on the southern border with Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, and extends in the eastern interior into the hot Sahel region on the border with Mali. Excluded from this area is the small, English-speaking state of Gambia in the southwest, which, starting from the mouth of the Gambia River, which gives the country its name, extends far to the east like a bridgehead on both sides of the river, thus reducing Senegal's land connections to southern Senegal, known as Casamance, to a single road bridge over the river beyond Gambia's eastern border.

The capital is Dakar, a city with a population of one million; other important cities are the pilgrimage metropolis of Touba, Kaolack and Thiès.

Parts of Senegal have been part of the Islamic world since the 11th century. More than 95 percent of the country's population is Muslim. There is a strong Christian minority in southern Senegal, as Portuguese sailors and members of other European colonial powers established trading posts and mission stations along the coast since 1445. The Europeans, whose dominance on the coast changed hands several times, traded—not least the slave trade—with the empires that alternately controlled the interior until France began to bring these empires under its sovereignty through diplomatic and military means in the 19th century (see here). Thus, Senegal became a French colony in 1895. On August 20, 1960, the Republic of Senegal was proclaimed, enshrined a multi-party system in its constitution, and became one of the few democratically governed states on the African continent.

From the 1980s onward, dependence on a few export goods such as peanuts, phosphates, and fish, rapid population growth, and national debt led to impoverishment and growing social tensions in the formerly prosperous Senegal, which, since 1982, were compounded by the secessionist efforts of the Casamance region. As a result, Senegal became dependent on loans from industrialized and oil-producing countries, as well as on development aid.

Senegal - Salam

ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ (Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao) - ພວກເຮົາໄປ (Phuak Hao Pai)

Laos is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. The state of Laos borders on China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar and has around 7.5 million inhabitants on an area of ​​236,800 km²; The capital and largest city is Vientiane.

The authoritarian government regularly commits serious violations of human rights.

Laos - Phuak Hao Pai

République du Bénin - Nous Avançons

Benin is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Burkina Faso and Niger to the north, Nigeria to the east and the Gulf of Guinea, more precisely the Bay of Benin, to the south.

Until 1975 the country was called Dahomey. The name is in keeping with the tradition of the historic Kingdom of Dahomey, which covered the southern part of the modern state and the neighboring state of Togo until it was conquered by the French at the end of the 19th century. From 1975 to 1990 it was called the People's Republic of Benin. The name refers to the Bay of Benin, which is named after the former Kingdom of Benin, located predominantly in what is now Nigeria.

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