Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island Caribbean state in the Leeward Islands, famous for 365 white-sand beaches — locals say one for every day of the year.
Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island Caribbean state in the Leeward Islands, famous for 365 white-sand beaches — locals say one for every day of the year.
Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, stretching from the Andes to Patagonia and the Atlantic, with the cosmopolitan capital Buenos Aires and a culture rooted in tango and gaucho heritage.
Armenia is a small landlocked South Caucasus country with an ancient Christian heritage — it was the first nation in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion in 301 CE.
Australia is both a country and a continent, the world's sixth-largest by area, with the Outback's red interior, the Great Barrier Reef on its north-eastern coast, and over 80% of its plant and animal species found nowhere else.
Austria is an Alpine federal republic in Central Europe whose capital, Vienna, served as the seat of the Habsburg Empire for centuries and remains a global capital of classical music.
Azerbaijan is a South Caucasus country on the Caspian Sea, blending Soviet, Persian and Turkic influences with vast oil and gas wealth that funded Baku's striking modern skyline.
The Bahamas is a Caribbean archipelago of 700 islands and 2,400 cays just off Florida's coast, famous for turquoise shallows, the swimming pigs of Big Major Cay, and offshore finance.
Bahrain is a small archipelago kingdom in the Persian Gulf, connected to Saudi Arabia by a 25 km causeway, and one of the most liberal of the Gulf states with a strong banking and pearl-diving heritage.
Bangladesh occupies the densely-populated Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in South Asia, a low-lying, river-laced country defined by monsoon rains, rice fields and the world's largest mangrove forest.