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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago is a twin-island Caribbean republic just off Venezuela, the birthplace of calypso, soca and steel-pan music, and famous for one of the world's most spectacular Carnival celebrations.
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Tunisia
Tunisia is a North African Mediterranean country, the smallest of the Maghreb states, with the ancient ruins of Carthage, Saharan oases and a 2011 revolution that triggered the Arab Spring.
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Turkey
Turkey straddles Asia and Europe across the Bosphorus, ruling once-imperial Istanbul, the Cappadocian fairy chimneys and a Mediterranean Riviera, with a population approaching 85 million.
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Uruguay
Uruguay is a small South American country wedged between Argentina and Brazil on the Atlantic coast, with rolling pampas grasslands, mate culture and one of Latin America's most progressive social policies.
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Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked Central Asian republic that contains many of the Silk Road's most legendary cities — Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva — with their iconic blue-tiled madrasas and minarets.
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Vanuatu
Vanuatu is a Y-shaped chain of 83 volcanic islands in the South Pacific, north-east of Australia, with the active Mount Yasur volcano — among the world's most accessible — and a strong indigenous custom culture.
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Vatican City
Vatican City is the world's smallest sovereign state, a walled enclave inside Rome and the spiritual headquarters of the global Roman Catholic Church under the Pope.
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Venezuela
Venezuela is a northern South American country on the Caribbean, holder of the world's largest proven oil reserves, with Angel Falls — the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall — and a recent severe economic crisis.
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Vietnam
Vietnam is a long, slender Southeast Asian country running 1,650 km along the South China Sea, from the Red River delta to the Mekong, with a 1,000-year history of resistance to foreign rule.