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Explore the world, one country at a time.
Country profiles, flag guides, US states, capitals, currencies and travel inspiration — researched and written for curious travellers.
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Peru
Peru is a Pacific-coast South American country with the most enduring Andean cultures, the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu, the desert Nazca Lines, and the source of the Amazon River.
- Capital
- Lima
- Population
- 34M
- Currency
- Peruvian Sol (PEN)
- Continent
- South America
Every flag, every nation.
A wall of national flags from across the world. Click any flag to read its design history, adoption date, and the symbolism of its colours. Showing 24 of 198.
Cities and landmarks worth the trip.
United States of America
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States of the union.
Twenty-eight at random from all fifty states plus the District of Columbia and the territories — capitals, statehoods, mottoes, populations and flags.
- Jarvis Island
- Wake Island
- Washington, D.C.
- Tennessee
- Louisiana
- South Dakota
- North Carolina
- Johnston Atoll
- Alaska
- Texas
- Vermont
- Midway Atoll
- Iowa
- Guam
- Navassa Island
- Maryland
- Illinois
- Colorado
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- American Samoa
- Arizona
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Pennsylvania
- Utah
- New Hampshire
