Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is a small Portuguese-speaking West African coastal nation with the picturesque Bijagós Archipelago and a turbulent post-independence political history.
Guinea-Bissau is a small Portuguese-speaking West African coastal nation with the picturesque Bijagós Archipelago and a turbulent post-independence political history.
Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, on the north-east Atlantic coast, with vast Amazonian rainforest, the spectacular Kaieteur Falls and a recent oil-driven economic boom.
Haiti occupies the western third of Hispaniola Island, sharing its border with the Dominican Republic, and is the world's first independent black republic, founded by formerly enslaved people in 1804.
Honduras is a Central American country with both Caribbean and Pacific coasts, the spectacular Mayan ruins of Copán in its western highlands, and the Bay Islands' world-class diving offshore.
Hungary is a landlocked Central European nation famed for the Danube splitting Budapest into hilly Buda and flat Pest, and for thermal baths, paprika cuisine and a language unrelated to its neighbours.
Iceland is a North Atlantic island nation where active volcanoes, glaciers, geysers and black-sand beaches sit side by side, and Reykjavik is the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state.
India is the world's most populous country and largest democracy, a federal republic of 28 states stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, with thousands of languages and a deep civilisational heritage.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago — over 17,000 islands — and the fourth most populous country, where Java alone hosts more than half the population and active volcanoes loom over Bali, Sumatra and Sulawesi.
Iran is a large, mountainous Middle Eastern country with a Persian civilisation more than 2,500 years old, vast oil and gas reserves, and a population concentrated on the high Iranian Plateau.