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The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [8] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [2] [3] [9] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about 105,000 square kilometers (40,541 ...
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO): promotion of sustainable development of the Amazon Basin; AMEA: Asia, Middle East and Africa; America (AMER): Usage varies; it may refer to just the United States of America, or just North America, or all of North and South America combined, or some other combination.
Geography; Location: ... The region contains some of the world's most highly urbanized areas—the Greater Manila Area, ... Malaysia, with a height of 4,095.2 m ...
The New Economic Policy in Malaysia presented strategies meant to address economic growth. [12] As a result, the poverty rate fell from 52.4% in 1970 to 3.8% in 2009. [12] Malaysia seeks to address poverty at the micro-level and has produced a New Economic Model and framework in the Tenth Malaysia and Eleventh Malaysia Plans to address this ...
This list concerns blood type distribution between countries and regions.Blood type (also called a blood group) is a classification of blood, based on the presence and absence of antibodies and inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs).
1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...
It includes the island's tallest peak, the 3,952 m (12,966 ft) Yu Shan ('Jade Mountain') [1] [20] [21] which makes Taiwan the world's fourth-highest island, and is the highest point in the western Pacific region outside of the Kamchatka Peninsula, New Guinea Highlands and Mount Kinabalu.