The Azores, officially known as the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is an archipelago located in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, one of the two Portuguese autonomous regions, whose administrative capital is Punta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel. The archipelago consists of nine main islands, located approximately 1,360 km west from …
The Kingdom of Morocco, commonly known as Morocco, is a constitutional monarchy in the Maghreb at the western tip of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the east, Mauritania to the south in the region of Western Sahara under its de facto control, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and Portugal and Spain …
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly known as Algeria, is a semi-presidential republic in the Maghreb region of North Africa, with Algiers as its capital and largest city. Algeria is the largest country in Africa in terms of land area, the largest in the Mediterranean and Arab countries, and the 10th largest in the …
The Republic of Tunisia, commonly known as Tunis, is located in North Africa, part of the Maghreb region and bordered by the Mediterranean Sea in the northeast. Tunisia has two neighbors, Algeria to the west (965 km of public border) and Libya to the southeast (460 km of public border), with Italy a short distance …
The Republic of Sudan, or Sudan for short, sometimes called North Sudan after the independence of South Sudan, is located in northeastern Africa, along the Red Sea and at the eastern end of the Sahara Desert. It has an area of 1,886,068 square kilometers, making it the third largest country in Africa and the 16th …
The State of Libya, commonly known as Libya, is an Arab country in North Africa, located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt, the Republic of Sudan, Chad, Niger, Algeria and Tunisia. It covers an area of 1.76 million square kilometers. The Libyan region has belonged to the Roman Empire, the Arab …
The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, is the most populous country in Northeast Africa, with an area of 1,001,450 square kilometers and a population that surpassed 100 million in February 2020. Ancient Egypt, which originally existed in the region, was one of the world’s ancient civilizations and had some degree of interaction …
The Principality of Andorra is often translated as the Principality of Andorra, commonly known as Andorra. It is a micro-state with an area of 468 square kilometers and is the only remaining cognate bishopric in continental Europe, located in the southeast of the Pyrenees, near France and Spain. The capital is the city of Andorra. …
The Republic of Portugal, commonly known as Portugal or Portugal, is a republic on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, with a unitary and semi-presidential system of government and a capital at Lisbon. Cape Roca, west of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, is the westernmost point of the European continent. In addition to the mainland of …
The Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as Spain, is a constitutional monarchy located in southwestern Europe, along with Portugal and Andorra, on the Iberian Peninsula, bordering France and Andorra in the northeast, and covering about five-sixths of the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish is now spoken by 500 million people worldwide, making it the third most spoken …
