Mali
Mali is a vast landlocked West African country, mostly Saharan, with the legendary Niger River and the medieval scholarship of Timbuktu, once one of the wealthiest empires in the world.
Mali is a vast landlocked West African country, mostly Saharan, with the legendary Niger River and the medieval scholarship of Timbuktu, once one of the wealthiest empires in the world.
Malta is a small Mediterranean archipelago south of Sicily, packed with Knights-of-St-John fortifications, Phoenician temples older than the Pyramids, and a unique Semitic-rooted European language.
The Marshall Islands is a Micronesian nation of 29 atolls and 5 islands in the central Pacific, with a Compact of Free Association with the United States, and the contaminated Bikini Atoll nuclear test site.
Mauritania occupies a vast Saharan stretch of north-west Africa, between Western Sahara and Senegal, with iron-ore wealth and a culture blending Arab-Berber and West African traditions.
Mauritius is a tropical Indian Ocean island nation east of Madagascar, famous for white-sand beaches, Creole culture, and being the only known home of the now-extinct dodo bird.
Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, bridging North and Central America, with a 3,000-year civilisational heritage from the Olmec and Maya through the Aztec to colonial Spanish New Spain.
The Federated States of Micronesia is a Pacific island federation of four states across 600 islands, with the ruined stone city of Nan Madol, sometimes called the 'Venice of the Pacific'.
Moldova is a landlocked Eastern European country between Romania and Ukraine, known for its rolling vineyards, wine-cellar networks and a strongly Romanian-rooted language and culture.
Monaco is a tiny city-state on the French Riviera, ruled by the Grimaldi dynasty since 1297, and famous for the Monte Carlo casino, the Formula 1 Grand Prix and one of the world's most expensive real-estate markets.