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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.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates is a Persian Gulf federation of seven emirates including Abu Dhabi and Dubai, transformed from a 1970s pearling-and-fishing coast into a global hub for finance, aviation and luxury tourism.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — an island nation off the north-west coast of mainland Europe whose former empire shaped the modern global economy and the English language.
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United States
The United States is the world's third-largest country by area, a federation of 50 states stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the world's largest economy and a global cultural and military superpower.