Iceland
Iceland is a North Atlantic island nation where active volcanoes, glaciers, geysers and black-sand beaches sit side by side, and Reykjavik is the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state.
Iceland is a North Atlantic island nation where active volcanoes, glaciers, geysers and black-sand beaches sit side by side, and Reykjavik is the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state.
India is the world's most populous country and largest democracy, a federal republic of 28 states stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, with thousands of languages and a deep civilisational heritage.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago — over 17,000 islands — and the fourth most populous country, where Java alone hosts more than half the population and active volcanoes loom over Bali, Sumatra and Sulawesi.
Iran is a large, mountainous Middle Eastern country with a Persian civilisation more than 2,500 years old, vast oil and gas reserves, and a population concentrated on the high Iranian Plateau.
Iraq sits across ancient Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the birthplace of writing, the wheel and the first cities of human history, and remains the cultural heart of the Arab world.
Ireland occupies most of the island of the same name in the North Atlantic, with a green Atlantic coastline, a literary tradition stretching from Joyce to Heaney, and a booming tech-driven economy in Dublin.
Israel is a small Middle Eastern country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, founded in 1948, with deep religious significance for Judaism, Christianity and Islam centred on Jerusalem.
Italy is the boot-shaped Mediterranean republic that gave the world the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, opera and pasta, with cultural treasures from Venice and Florence to Pompeii and the Sicilian coast.
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) is a West African country on the Gulf of Guinea, the world's largest cocoa producer, with the cosmopolitan economic capital Abidjan and the political capital Yamoussoukro.