Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is a Caribbean Windward Island famed for the dramatic twin volcanic Pitons, sulphur-spring spas, and a culture blending British, French and African heritage.
Saint Lucia is a Caribbean Windward Island famed for the dramatic twin volcanic Pitons, sulphur-spring spas, and a culture blending British, French and African heritage.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a Caribbean island chain stretching from St Vincent's volcanic main island down to the small Grenadines, popular for sailing and the Tobago Cays' coral reefs.
Samoa is a Polynesian Pacific archipelago, the historic centre of Polynesian culture, comprising the two main islands of Upolu and Savai'i, with strong fa'a Samoa traditional way of life.
San Marino is a microstate enclaved within central Italy, perched atop Monte Titano, and claims to be the world's oldest surviving sovereign state and constitutional republic.
Saudi Arabia covers most of the Arabian Peninsula, holds Islam's two holiest cities — Mecca and Medina — and possesses some of the world's largest petroleum reserves.
Senegal is the westernmost country in mainland Africa, with the cultural centre Dakar on a small Atlantic peninsula, the haunting slave history of Gorée Island, and a stable democratic tradition.
Serbia is a landlocked Balkan country at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, with mountainous south, fertile northern Vojvodina plains, and a turbulent 20th-century history at the heart of former Yugoslavia.
Seychelles is a 115-island archipelago east of Africa in the Indian Ocean, famous for granitic island beaches, the giant Aldabra tortoise, and the rare double coco-de-mer palm.

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