Belize
Belize is a small Central American country on the Caribbean Sea, the only one with English as the primary official language, with the world's second-largest barrier reef just off its coast.
Belize is a small Central American country on the Caribbean Sea, the only one with English as the primary official language, with the world's second-largest barrier reef just off its coast.
Benin is a slim West African nation between Togo and Nigeria, the historic kingdom of Dahomey, and is widely regarded as the birthplace of Vodun (voodoo) religion.
Bhutan is a Himalayan Buddhist kingdom that famously measures national success by Gross National Happiness rather than GDP, with cliffside monasteries and a strict environmental ethos.
Bolivia is a landlocked South American country with the constitutional capital of Sucre and seat of government La Paz, the highest capital in the world, and the surreal Salar de Uyuni salt flats.
Bosnia and Herzegovina sits at the crossroads of Eastern and Western Europe in the western Balkans, with Sarajevo's Ottoman quarter, Austro-Hungarian boulevards and rugged Dinaric mountains.
Botswana is a landlocked Southern African country dominated by the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango Delta, with one of the most stable democracies and well-managed diamond economies on the continent.
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the world's fifth-largest by area, dominating the continent with the Amazon rainforest, Atlantic megacities like Rio and São Paulo, and a culture defined by samba and football.
Brunei is a small oil-rich sultanate on the north coast of Borneo, surrounded on land by Malaysian Sarawak and famed for the gilded splendour of its mosques and the Sultan's palace.
Bulgaria is a Balkan nation on the Black Sea coast with a 1,300-year history, Thracian and Ottoman heritage, and the Cyrillic alphabet which originated within its borders.