Liberia
Liberia is a West African country settled in 1822 by freed African-American slaves, becoming Africa's first republic in 1847, and named for liberty.
Liberia is a West African country settled in 1822 by freed African-American slaves, becoming Africa's first republic in 1847, and named for liberty.
Libya is a vast North African country dominated by the Sahara Desert, with a Mediterranean coastline, ancient Roman ruins at Leptis Magna, and substantial oil reserves.
Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked Alpine principality between Switzerland and Austria, smaller than Manhattan, and one of the world's wealthiest countries by GDP per capita.
Lithuania is the southernmost Baltic state, with a baroque Vilnius old town, an amber-rich Curonian Spit on the Baltic, and a language regarded as one of the most archaic Indo-European tongues still spoken.
Luxembourg is a tiny landlocked grand duchy between Belgium, France and Germany, hosting major European Union institutions and consistently ranking near the top globally for income per capita.
Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island, off the south-east coast of Africa, isolated for 88 million years and home to lemurs, baobabs and a unique flora and fauna found nowhere else.
Malawi is a small landlocked East African country dominated by Lake Malawi, the world's ninth-largest lake, which contains more freshwater fish species than any other.
Malaysia is a Southeast Asian federation split between the Malay Peninsula and the northern third of Borneo island, with rainforests, beach resorts, KL's Petronas skyline and a multicultural Malay-Chinese-Indian society.
The Maldives is a chain of 1,200 low-lying coral islands south-west of Sri Lanka, the lowest country on Earth by elevation, world-famous for over-water bungalows and a rapidly threatened reef ecosystem.