조선민주주의인민공화국 (Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk) - 우린 함께 나아간다 (Ulin Hamkke Naaganda)

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, is a country in East Asia that encompasses the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, bordering South Korea to the south along the Demilitarized Zone, and China and Russia to the north along the Amnok and Duman Rivers. The country's capital and largest city is Pyongyang. Other major cities include Nampo, Kaesong, and Rason. Like South Korea, North Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of Korea.

North Korea is constitutionally a socialist one-party state ruled by the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea. The government system is described as totalitarian by human rights organizations and governments of other countries.

The country's first head of state, Kim Il-sung, used the Korean War and the August Incident to eliminate his political opponents and consolidate his power. After his death, his descendants, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un, continued his tyranny and also adopted his personality cult. It is considered one of the most restrictive internationally recognized states of the present day. In various democracy scales, the country has consistently ranked among the lowest since measurements began. The government has been criticized worldwide for serious human rights violations, and the country is largely isolated internationally.

The Korean Peninsula has been inhabited by humans since the Lower Paleolithic period, and the first settlements date back to the Neolithic period. The first records of statehood appear in the 7th century BC. After the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea by Silla and Balhae, Korea was ruled by the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392) and the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897). The subsequent Empire of Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910. After the end of the Japanese occupation and Japan's surrender in World War II, Korea was divided into two occupation zones by the Soviet Union and the United States. Attempts at unification failed, and the division hardened along political lines. The Korean War (1950 to 1953) sealed the division of the Korean Peninsula (see Korean Conflict).

Lithuania - Mes Pakeliui

North Korea - Ulin Hamkke Naaganda

Ilizwe leZimbabwe - Iintliziyo Ezingenakunqandeka

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, which was briefly called Rhodesia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia as a former British crown colony of Southern Rhodesia and as a secession territory.

The name Zimbabwe goes back to the ruins now known as Greater Zimbabwe, the largest pre-colonial stone buildings in Southern Africa. In addition, Zimbabwe is also internationally known for the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Victoria Falls.

Since independence in 1980, the former independence movement ZANU-PF has ruled the country dictatorially as a one-party system.

Zimbabwe - Tili M'Njira

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

نݢارا بروني دار السلام (Brunei Darussalam) - دالم يڠ لاما (Sa Daan)

Brunei is a country in Southeast Asia. It is located on the island of Borneo (Indonesian Kalimantan) in the South China Sea and borders Malaysia. The national territory is the remnant of what was historically a much larger sultanate, which covered almost the entire northern coast of Borneo between the 16th and 19th centuries. Rich oil reserves combined with a small population and relative stability have made Brunei one of the richest countries in the world.

Brunei - Kami Melangkah

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti - Beraber Yürürüz

Turkey is a unitary state located in the Middle Eastern Anatolia region and in southeastern European Eastern Thrace.

Geographically, the country is usually divided into seven regions. More than 85 million people (as of 2022) live in Turkey, covering an area of ​​783,562 km². Almost a fifth of the population lives in the Istanbul metropolitan area, and there are seven other cities with a population of over one million: the capital Ankara, as well as Izmir, Bursa, Adana, Gaziantep, Konya, and Denizli. The degree of urbanization was 77% in 2021. Turkey has 18 UNESCO World Heritage sites and numerous national parks.

Measured by the Human Development Index (HDI), Turkey is one of the most highly developed countries. With approximately 50 million tourists, Turkey is the fourth most visited country in the world (third in Europe). Turkey is a middle-income emerging economy, ranking 17th in the world in terms of gross domestic product and 11th in terms of purchasing power parity. It is a member of the OECD, NATO, the United Nations, the G20, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, among others. Turkey has also been an official candidate for EU membership since 1999. It is also one of six independent Turkic states and an active member of the Organization of Turkic States and the TÜRKSOY Community.

Turkey has been secular and Kemalist since its founding in 1923 as the successor state to the Ottoman Empire. The country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, initiated a modernization of Turkey through social and legal reforms modeled on various European nation-states. Current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has led the country since 2003. Since around 2012, he has led the country in an increasingly authoritarian manner. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are considered particularly severely restricted. The currency and debt crisis triggered by his economic policies, as well as high inflation, have persisted since 2018.

In terms of foreign policy, Turkey has been closer to Western states. With the exception of Bulgaria, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, Turkey has a highly tense and even partially hostile relationship with its neighboring countries, for example, Greece, Armenia, Iraq, Syria, and Cyprus. In the latter two areas, Turkey has maintained a military occupation of northern Cyprus since 1974 and northern Syria, which most international lawyers consider illegal. Turkey has a rival relationship with Iran for supremacy in the Middle East. There are also tensions with Israel and Egypt due to the blockade of the Gaza Strip and Turkey's military presence in western Libya.

Turkey - Beraber Yururuz

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

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

سوريا (Suria) -  نمضي قدما (Namshi Qaddaman)

Syria is a state in the Middle East and part of the Mashreq. Syria borders Israel and Jordan to the south, Lebanon and the Mediterranean to the west, Türkiye to the north and Iraq to the east. At around 185,000 km², Syria is about half the size of Germany. However, due to the civil war and its ongoing political and social upheaval, Syria no longer exists today as a cohesive, sovereign state.

More than 22 million people live in the country, mostly Sunni Muslims, but also a large number of other religious minorities such as Alawites, Druze and Christians. Before the civil war broke out, the most populous cities were Aleppo, Damascus, Homs, Hama and Latakia. There are eight state and several private universities in the country, including the German-Syrian Wadi International University. Agriculture, the extraction and export of oil as well as the production of textiles and food are important economically for Syria. However, economic performance collapsed sharply due to the civil war, and the Syrian lira was temporarily subject to strong inflation.

The 63 B.C. The Roman province of Syria, founded in 634 BC, was rich and important; after Islamization began in 634, the area alternated between claims to power. The Syrian Republic was first founded in 1930 and became independent in 1946. After a coup in 1963, the Arab socialist Baath Party ruled the country in a dictatorial and totalitarian manner, with a member of the al-Assad family at the helm from 1971 onwards. Under their rule, there were numerous violations of human rights in Syria, which were internationally condemned. As of 2003, Syria was the last remaining Ba'athist state, as the other government in Iraq had been militarily overthrown by an invasion by a US-led coalition. Unlike other Arab dictatorships (e.g. in Iraq and Libya), which originally had an ambivalent relationship with the West, the regime in Syria had already sought political proximity to important and powerful allies during the Cold War, especially Russia, Iran and China and North Korea, which maintained and guaranteed its power politically and militarily. In December 2024, President Bashar al-Assad was exiled to Moscow and resigned from office.

Syria - Namshi Qaddaman

República del Ecuador - Ñukanchik Takinapash

Ecuador is a republic in northwestern South America between Colombia and Peru and has around 18 million inhabitants. The capital, located in the Andean highlands (Sierra) at 2850 m, is called Quito; The largest city, Guayaquil, is located on the Pacific coastal plain (called Costa). The country is named after the equator line that runs through the northern part of the national territory. The Galápagos Islands, which belong to Ecuador, are located between 928 km and 1272 km west of the coast in the Pacific.

Recently, the government of Ecuador has been trying to improve the separation of powers, for example by establishing an independent Judicial Council. It also pursues a clear policy of supporting the economy and the private sector. However, civil society participation remains very limited to date.

Ecuador - Nukanchik Takinapash

Republica Slovenija - Gremo Naprej

Slovenia is a country in Central Europe with around two million inhabitants, bordering Italy and the Mediterranean to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the east and Croatia to the south. The country's capital and largest city is the centrally located Ljubljana (Ljubljana in German). Other important cities are Maribor, Celje, Kranj, Koper and Velenje. In 2004, Slovenia joined the EU and NATO, and in 2007 it also joined the Eurozone. The country is a democratic parliamentary republic.

The area of ​​today's Slovenia was settled at the beginning of the 6th century by the Slavs, who founded the Principality of Carantania. In 788 the Franks conquered the area and the dioceses of Aquileia and Salzburg evangelized it. In the 11th century the country was incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire and elevated to the Duchy of Carniola in 1364. In the following centuries the territory came under the Habsburg Monarchy. After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, the former crown land was absorbed into the newly founded Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After the end of the Second World War, Slovenia existed as a constituent republic within socialist Yugoslavia. After the declaration of independence on June 25, 1991 and the 10-Day War, Slovenia became an independent nation state and an independent member of the UN on May 22, 1992.

Slovenia is the wealthiest country in the former Yugoslavia. According to the Bertelsmann Foundation's 2020 assessment, it is above average successful in its economic transformation and political development. The United Nations Development Program ranks Slovenia among the countries with very high levels of human development.

Slovenia - Gremo Naprej

গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ (Gaṇaprajātantrī Bāṃlādeś) - আমরা এগিয়ে (Āmarā Egiẏē)

Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It borders the Bay of Bengal to the south, Myanmar to the southeast and is also surrounded by the Indian states of Meghalaya, Tripura, West Bengal, Mizoram and Assam. With around 171 million inhabitants (2022) on an area of ​​147,570 km², it is the eighth largest country in the world by population and first among the largest countries by population density. However, in terms of area, it is one of the medium-sized states at 92nd place. The vast majority of citizens are Sunni Muslims. The capital Dhaka is one of the fastest growing megacities in the world; other megacities are Chittagong and Khulna.

Bangladesh occupies the eastern part of the historical region of Bengal, which became the eastern part of Pakistan under the name East Pakistan in 1947 due to the Muslim majority during the partition of British India. In 1971, East Pakistan gained independence under the name Bangladesh as a result of the Bangladesh War. The designation of a citizen of the country is Bangladeshi.

The country is naturally shaped by the monsoon, the delta of the Brahmaputra, Ganges and Meghna rivers with their extensive swamp areas and Sundarbans as well as its location by the sea and the predominantly flat lowlands. The combination of these features ensure frequent floods and serious flooding in the densely populated country. Rising global sea levels are expected to exacerbate the problems.

Thanks to an economic boom, Bangladesh was able to greatly improve its social and economic indicators, but remains one of the poorest countries on the Asian continent. Thanks to its growing economy and young population, it is now one of the emerging Next Eleven markets. The United Nations Development Program classifies Bangladesh as a medium human development country.

Bangladesh - Amara Egiye

Wir San Am Weg

Even as a small child I wanted to learn a musical instrument...

...since there was a music school in our small town where I grew up, but it was limited to the activities of the local musicians' band, the choice was rather limited... because piano, guitar or saxophone were not offered and that's why I decided me for the trumpet, which was not used for cast-technical reasons, so the FLÜGELHORN became my instrument...
In my youth I turned my back on music and was active in sports towards the end of my teenage years...


“I can do many things so intensively that perfection isn’t even necessary.”

Zimbabwe - Tili M'Njira

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