Denmark
Denmark is the southernmost Scandinavian country, with a hilly Jutland peninsula, dozens of inhabited islands, and a quality-of-life model centred on hygge, cycling and cradle-to-grave welfare.
Denmark is the southernmost Scandinavian country, with a hilly Jutland peninsula, dozens of inhabited islands, and a quality-of-life model centred on hygge, cycling and cradle-to-grave welfare.
Djibouti is a small Horn of Africa nation at the mouth of the Red Sea, hosting major foreign military bases due to its strategic position on global shipping lanes between Asia and Europe.
Dominica is a small mountainous Caribbean island known as 'Nature Island', with rainforests, a boiling lake heated by volcanic activity, and the indigenous Kalinago territory.
The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola Island, with Caribbean beaches, the colonial old town of Santo Domingo (the New World's oldest European city), and a sport-mad merengue and bachata culture.
East Timor (Timor-Leste) occupies the eastern half of Timor island in Southeast Asia and is one of the world's youngest sovereign states, having gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
Ecuador is a small but diverse South American country named for the equator that crosses it, encompassing Andean highlands, Amazonian rainforest, Pacific beaches and the Galápagos Islands.
Egypt is a transcontinental country linking north-east Africa with the Middle East via the Sinai Peninsula, with a 5,000-year recorded history along the Nile and the Pyramids of Giza as its enduring symbol.
El Salvador is the smallest country in mainland Central America, the only one without a Caribbean coast, known for surfing breaks, volcanoes and a 2021 move to make Bitcoin legal tender.
Equatorial Guinea is a small Central African country split between a mainland on the Gulf of Guinea and the volcanic island of Bioko, where the capital Malabo sits, with substantial offshore oil reserves.