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Sicilia - No Senza

Schwiiz - Mir Sind Am Wäg

Switzerland is a federal, democratic state in Central Europe. It borders Germany to the north, Austria and Liechtenstein to the east, Italy to the south and France to the west.

Switzerland has a population of just over 9 million people living in an area of ​​just under 41,300 square kilometers. The state is one of the most densely populated states in Europe, with the population concentrated in the Mittelland, the basin between the Jura and the Alps, and in southern Ticino. The eight largest cities and economic centers are Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne, Bern, Winterthur, Lucerne and St. Gallen.

The state has a share in three large language areas: German in German-speaking Switzerland, French in French-speaking Switzerland (Suisse romande, Western Switzerland, Welschschweiz) and Italian in Italian-speaking Switzerland; the fourth language area is Romansh (in parts of the canton of Graubünden). German, French, Italian and Romansh are the official languages ​​of Switzerland, the first three being the official languages ​​of the federal government. In order not to favor any one language, the country code is "CH", the abbreviation of the Latin term Confoederatio Helvetica.

Switzerland - Mir Sind Am Weg

Republiki ya Kongó - Nazali Pembeni

Congo is a republic in Central Africa. Its capital and largest metropolitan area, located off the port city of Pointe-Noire, is Brazzaville; the country is also known as Congo-Brazzaville.

The country borders Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly the Belgian Congo or Zaire), the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and the Atlantic Ocean. The United Nations Development Programme classifies the Republic of the Congo as a country with medium human development.

Congo - Nazali Pembeni

دولة إرتريا (Daulat Iritriyā) - نحن نسير معًا (Nahn Nasir Mean)

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Eritrea is a country in northeastern Africa. It borders Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the south, Djibouti to the southeast, and the Red Sea to the northeast. A quarter of Eritrea's population of almost four million is concentrated in the capital region of Asmara; the other cities are significantly smaller.

The Kingdom of Medri Bahri, with its capital Debarwa and ruled by Baher Negash, was formerly located in the Eritrean highlands. The Eritrean lowlands were an Ottoman and Egyptian colony for more than 300 years, with Massawa as their capital. In 1890, Eritrea became an Italian colony. From 1941, the country was under British administration and, from 1952, was federally united with the then Empire of Abyssinia, before being centrally incorporated into Haile Selassie's Ethiopian Empire as the Province of Eritrea in 1961. After a thirty-year war of independence, Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia in 1993.

Since the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (PFDJ) won its independence, President Isaias Afewerki has ruled the country in an authoritarian one-party system, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), which emerged from the independence movement. Parties other than the PFDJ are banned, and freedom of expression and the press are severely restricted. Eritrea has neither a parliament nor independent courts. As a result, there have been no national elections in the past 33 years. The country is the only one in the world without a constitution. A strict system of military conscription and forced labor prevails. Serious human rights violations occur regularly. Eritrea is often referred to as "Africa's North Korea." Large numbers of people have fled abroad to escape the regime in the past and continue to do so.

Eritrea - Nahn Nasir Mean

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Sāmoa Amelika/American Samoa - Matou

As part of American Oceania, American Samoa is a territory of the United States in the South Pacific. American Samoa is part of the Samoan Islands and borders the independent state of Samoa to the southeast. The largest and most populous island of American Samoa is Tutuila, with its capital city, Pago Pago.

A special cultural feature of the entire archipelago is the coexistence of a modern American lifestyle and Samoan traditions.

During World War II, American Samoa temporarily gained greater strategic importance for the United States between 1942 and 1945, when the construction of a naval base and an airport (Pago Pago International Airport) was decided upon.

Critics describe American Samoa's lack of self-determination and its control by the US government as a colonial relationship. The territory has been on the UN list of non-self-governing territories since 1946.

American Samoa - Matou

Nihon - Watashitachi

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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

Republic of The Gambia - Ka Jamaa Be Taa

Gambia is a republic in West Africa, located on the banks of the Gambia River. Except for a short stretch of coastline at the mouth of the river into the Atlantic Ocean, Gambia is completely surrounded by the state of Senegal. With a total area of ​​approximately 11,000 square kilometers, the country is the smallest country on the African mainland. The capital is Banjul.

Gambia is best known for its diverse ecosystems along the river of the same name, which flows through the center of the country. The diverse native wildlife in Kiang West National Park and the Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve includes monkeys, leopards, hippos, hyenas, and rare birds. Beaches can be found in the capital, Banjul, and nearby Serrekunda.

Gambia - Ka Jamaa Be Taa

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Islas Canarias - Diverso

Mallorca - Nos Ta Na Kaminda

Mallorca is a Spanish island in the western Mediterranean Sea, approximately 170 kilometers from the Spanish mainland near Barcelona.

Mallorca is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, consisting of the Gymnesian and Pitiusan islands, which form an autonomous community within Spain. The capital of the Balearic Islands, Palma, is located on Mallorca. The official languages ​​are Catalan and Spanish. Mallorca is also the largest Spanish island and the seventh-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Mallorca - Nos Ta Na Kaminda

Kòrsou - Kaminda

Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi - Yo'ldamiz Biz

Uzbekistan is a 448,978 km² landlocked country in Central Asia with 37 million inhabitants. It borders on Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south and Turkmenistan to the southwest. The capital and, with around 2.5 million inhabitants, the largest city of the former Soviet republic is Tashkent. Other important cities in the Islamic country are Samarkand and Bukhara on the historic Silk Road.

After the founding of the state, the country was ruled authoritarianly by Islom Karimov. After Shavkat Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency in 2016, many repressions were relaxed, but serious human rights violations still occur regularly.

Uzbekistan - Yo'ldamiz Biz

République de Côte d’Ivoire - Notre Fête

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 - Notre Fete

República de Cabo Verde - Nôs Ta Bai

Cape Verde is an African island nation consisting of the ten Cape Verde Islands in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometers off the west coast of the African continent. The archipelago has a land area of ​​4,033 km² and a population of approximately 480,000. The capital is Praia.

The former Portuguese colony is now one of the most stable and prosperous countries in Africa.

Cape Verde - Nos Ta Bai

Umbuso weSwatini - Siyaya

Eswatini Until 2018, officially Swaziland, traditionally also known as kaNgwane, is a landlocked country in southern Africa with approximately 1.2 million inhabitants. It borders South Africa and Mozambique. Its national holiday is September 6, the anniversary of its independence in 1968. The government is effectively an absolute monarchy. The country's two largest cities are the administrative capital, Mbabane, and the economic center, Manzini. The seat of government is Lobamba.

Eswatini - Siyaya

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Originaltitle: Barbados - Forever Blaze

Barbados is an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean and part of the Lesser Antilles. Barbados is located northeast of Venezuela in the Caribbean and is geographically considered part of Central America. The former British colony gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966, but remained a sovereign member state of the Commonwealth of Nations as a Commonwealth realm and was in personal union with the British Crown until 2021. Since November 30, 2021, it has been a republic with President Sandra Mason.

The capital, Bridgetown, with its colonial-era buildings and the Nidhe Israel Jewish synagogue dating back to 1654, is a popular destination for cruise ships. The island boasts numerous beaches, a botanical garden, the Harrison's Cave, and 17th-century plantation estates such as St. Nicholas Abbey. Local traditions include afternoon tea and the national sport of cricket.

Barbados - Forever Blaze

Repiblik d Ayiti - Nou Sou Wout La

Haiti is an island nation located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles. It comprises the western part of the Caribbean island, the eastern part of which is occupied by the Dominican Republic. Haiti's approximately eleven million inhabitants are mostly of sub-Saharan African descent. The country's capital is Port-au-Prince.

Haiti was the first independent state in the Caribbean after the French colonial period. Independence, achieved in 1804 after long conflicts in the Haitian Revolution, led to an economic decline of the formerly prosperous country. The world's first Black republic not only lost the knowledge and networks of colonial structures but was also forced to pay compensation to the expropriated and expelled landowners for a good 20 years. This resulted in a national debt that burdened the country, as did the refusal of France and other nations, which continued until 1838, to recognize Haiti as a sovereign country. From the very beginning, internal tensions and conflicts, divisions and power struggles, as well as wars against the eastern part of the island, made real economic and social development impossible. Ultimately, corruption and internal political blockades took hold, all of which contributed to Haiti's current status as an underdeveloped country.

Haiti is the only country in the Western Hemisphere ranked among the world's least developed countries. Its weak domestic economy, coupled with its unstable political situation with frequent unrest, has turned it into a failed state, from which more than three million citizens have emigrated since the mid-1990s.

On July 7, 2021, incumbent President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated without the perpetrators being apprehended. Since then, the long-fragile state structures have largely collapsed again. Moïse's de facto successor, Ariel Henry, attempted to rule the country authoritatively until his resignation in March 2024 and did not allow free elections. However, the state now controls only about half of the country; the rest is in the hands of armed gangs.

Haiti - Nou Sou Wout La

United States of America - Voices

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The United States of America is a democratic, federal republic in North America and, with some islands, in Oceania. It consists of 50 states, the capital Washington, D.C., which is its own federal district, as well as five major territories and nine island territories.

The 48 contiguous states, the so-called Lower 48, together with Alaska, from which they are separated by Canadian territory, form the Continental United States. The state of Hawaii and some smaller outlying areas are located in the Pacific and Caribbean. The country has a very high geographical and climatic diversity with a large variety of animal and plant species.

The United States of America is the third largest country in the world both in terms of area and population. Its area of ​​9.83 million square kilometers is exceeded only by Russia and Canada and its population of more than 334 million inhabitants is exceeded only by India and China. The most populous city in the USA is New York City, a global metropolis and one of the most important cultural, media, economic, trade and financial centers in the world. Important metropolitan areas are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington, Miami, Atlanta, Boston and San Francisco, each with over 5 million inhabitants. The degree of urbanization is 83 percent. A well-known national myth is that the United States is one of the most multicultural countries in the world; However, empirical studies show that the United States performs only averagely in global comparisons of ethnic and cultural diversity.

On July 4, 1776, delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence of the United States and thus the founding of the USA. The American War of Independence, which ended with the recognition of independence in the Peace of Paris (1783), was the first successful war of independence against a European colonial power. The current constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787. 27 additional articles were added. The first ten amendments, collectively called the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and guarantee a variety of unalienable rights.

Driven by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, the United States expanded its territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific throughout the 19th century. This included the violent expulsion of indigenous Indian tribes, the acquisition of new territories, etc. in the Mexican-American War and the founding of new states. The American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the United States in 1865 and to the fact that it finally embarked on the path to becoming an industrial state. By the end of the 19th century, the United States was the preeminent power in the Americas, and its economy had become the largest of the time.

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