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Iraq
Iraq sits across ancient Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the birthplace of writing, the wheel and the first cities of human history, and remains the cultural heart of the Arab world.
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Ireland
Ireland occupies most of the island of the same name in the North Atlantic, with a green Atlantic coastline, a literary tradition stretching from Joyce to Heaney, and a booming tech-driven economy in Dublin.
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Israel
Israel is a small Middle Eastern country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, founded in 1948, with deep religious significance for Judaism, Christianity and Islam centred on Jerusalem.
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Italy
Italy is the boot-shaped Mediterranean republic that gave the world the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, opera and pasta, with cultural treasures from Venice and Florence to Pompeii and the Sicilian coast.
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Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) is a West African country on the Gulf of Guinea, the world's largest cocoa producer, with the cosmopolitan economic capital Abidjan and the political capital Yamoussoukro.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is the third-largest Caribbean island, the birthplace of reggae and Rastafari movement, with the lush Blue Mountains, world-record sprinters and an outsize cultural footprint for its size.
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Japan
Japan is an East Asian archipelago of 14,000 islands stretching across the Pacific, blending ancient Shinto and Buddhist tradition with high-tech megacities like Tokyo, Osaka and the megacity-spanning Tōkaidō corridor.
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Jordan
Jordan is a Middle Eastern monarchy on the East Bank of the Jordan River, hosting the rose-stone city of Petra, the Dead Sea — Earth's lowest land surface — and the desert wadis of Wadi Rum.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is the world's ninth-largest country, a vast Central Asian steppe nation rich in oil, gas and minerals, with a futuristic purpose-built capital, Astana, on the northern plains.