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Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands is a Melanesian Pacific archipelago of nearly 1,000 islands east of Papua New Guinea, with WWII Pacific theatre history including the Battle of Guadalcanal, and rich coral biodiversity.
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Somalia
Somalia occupies the easternmost projection of Africa — the Horn of Africa — with the longest mainland coastline on the continent and a history of seafaring trade with the Arabian Peninsula.
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South Africa
South Africa is a multicultural southern African republic with three capital cities, 11 official languages, the post-apartheid 'Rainbow Nation' identity, and landscapes from the Cape winelands to Kruger National Park.
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South Korea
South Korea occupies the southern half of the Korean Peninsula and has gone from a 1950s war zone to a global tech and pop-culture powerhouse, exporting everything from Samsung phones to K-pop and K-drama.
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South Sudan
South Sudan is the world's youngest sovereign state, having seceded from Sudan in 2011, with the vast Sudd wetland and a population dominated by the Dinka and Nuer peoples.
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Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a Central Asian Caspian-Sea state, mostly covered by the Karakum desert, with vast natural-gas reserves and a famously isolated, marble-clad capital, Ashgabat.
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Tuvalu
Tuvalu is one of the world's smallest and lowest-lying nations, a Polynesian Pacific atoll chain only metres above sea level, deeply threatened by rising sea levels and climate change.
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Uganda
Uganda is an East African landlocked country on the equator, dominated by Lake Victoria and the source of the White Nile at Jinja, with mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is the second-largest country wholly in Europe, with vast fertile black-earth plains, the Carpathian mountains in the west, and a Black Sea coastline that has long made it geopolitically pivotal.