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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.
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Kenya
Kenya is an East African republic on the equator, with a Rift Valley, Mount Kenya, the Maasai Mara savannah and the historic Swahili coast on the Indian Ocean.
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Kiribati
Kiribati is a Pacific island nation of 33 widely-scattered atolls and reefs, the only country to straddle the equator and the international date line, with all 33 islands sitting only a few metres above sea level.
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Kosovo
Kosovo is a small landlocked Balkan country that declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and is recognised by more than 100 UN member states. Its young population sits among Europe's median ages.
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Kuwait
Kuwait is a small Persian Gulf monarchy with one of the world's largest oil reserves per capita, a constitutional system of government and an iconic skyline along Kuwait Bay.
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous Central Asian republic where the Tien Shan range covers more than 80% of the country, dotted with high-altitude lakes and a strong nomadic equestrian tradition.
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Laos
Laos is a landlocked Southeast Asian country threaded by the Mekong River, dominated by forested highlands, sleepy riverside towns like Luang Prabang, and one of the world's last remaining communist states.