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Asia–Pacific. The Asia–Pacific ( APAC) [1] is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean. The region's precise boundaries vary depending on context, but countries and territories in Australasia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia are often included. In a wider context, Central Asia, North Asia, the Pacific Islands, South Asia ...
The Middle East and North Africa ( MENA ), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa ( WANA) [1] or South West Asia and North Africa ( SWANA ), [2] [3] is a geographic region. While still referring to most of the Middle East (or West Asia without East Thrace or the Sinai peninsula) and North Africa together, it is widely considered to be a ...
This is a list of countries and territories by their average elevation above sea level based on the data published by Central Intelligence Agency, unless another source is cited. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Savanna. A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland - grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of grasses.
Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley ( Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. [1] While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise ...
The approximate locations of the sixteen Guthrie Bantu zones, including the addition of a zone J around the Great Lakes. The Jarawan languages are spoken in Nigeria. The most widely used classification is an alphanumeric coding system developed by Malcolm Guthrie in his 1948 classification of the Bantu languages. It is mainly geographic.
ASEAN: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organisation comprising ten Southeast Asian states. ASEAN+3: the ASEAN countries, plus China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). [4] ASEAN+5: the ASEAN countries with Japan, India, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand. ASEAN+6 along with China.
Time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UTC+01:00, West Africa Time (WAT) UTC+02:00, Central Africa Time (CAT) The Democratic Republic of the Congo observes UTC+01:00 ( West Africa Time) and UTC+02:00 ( Central Africa Time ). [1] It does not observe DST. [2] It is the only country in Africa to use more than one time zone.