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the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia's capital is Canberra, located in the southeast between the larger and more important econo...
About 795 pages (238,579 words) in 16 products

largely mountainous, landlocked country of south-central Europe. Together with Switzerland, it forms what has been characterized as the neutral core of Europe, notwithstanding Austria's full membership since 1995 in the supranational Europ...
About 100 pages (30,130 words) in 4 products

country of eastern Transcaucasia. Occupying an area that fringes the southern flanks of the Caucasus Mountains, it is bounded on the north by Russia, on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the south by Iran, on the west by Armenia, and on the ...
About 81 pages (24,338 words) in 6 products

small Arab state situated in a bay on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf. It is an archipelago consisting of Bahrain Island and some 30 smaller islands. Its name is from the Arabic term al-bahrayn, meaning “two seas.” L...
About 64 pages (19,160 words) in 5 products

country of south-central Asia, located in the delta of the Padma (Ganges [Ganga]) and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent. The riverine country of Bangladesh (“Land of the Bengals”) i...
About 120 pages (35,913 words) in 7 products

member of a group of Protestant Christians who share the basic beliefs of most Protestants but who insist that only believers should be baptized and that it should be done by immersion rather than by the sprinkling or pouring of water. (Th...
About 314 pages (94,186 words) in 2 products

island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 20 miles (32 km) from northwest to southeast and about 15 m...
About 55 pages (16,494 words) in 5 products

country of eastern Europe. Until it became independent in 1991, it was the smallest of the three Slavic republics that formed part of the Soviet Union. On the northwest Belarus adjoins Latvia and Lithuania, while Russia lies to the northea...
About 87 pages (26,223 words) in 5 products

country of northwestern Europe. It is one of the smallest and most densely populated European countries, and it has been, since its independence in 1830, a representative democracy headed by a hereditary constitutional monarch. Initially, ...
About 143 pages (42,838 words) in 6 products

 
country located on the northeast coast of Central America. Belize, which was known as British Honduras until 1973, was the last British colony on the American mainland. Its prolonged path to independence was marked by a unique internationa...
About 55 pages (16,427 words) in 5 products

 
country of western Africa. It consists of a narrow wedge of territory extending northward for about 420 miles (675 kilometres) from the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, on which it has a 75-mile seacoast, to the Niger River, which for...
About 68 pages (20,423 words) in 4 products

 
country of south-central Asia, located on the eastern ridges of the Himalayas. Historically a remote kingdom, Bhutan became less isolated in the second half of the 20th century, and consequently the pace of change began to accelerate. With...
About 53 pages (15,798 words) in 6 products

country of west-central South America. Extending some 950 miles (1,500 km) north-south and 800 miles (1,300 km) east-west, Bolivia is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the...
About 116 pages (34,645 words) in 5 products

country in the centre of southern Africa. The territory is roughly square—approximately 600 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west—with its eastern side protruding into a sharp point. Its eastern and southern...
About 78 pages (23,261 words) in 4 products

 
country of South America that occupies half the continent's landmass. It is the fifth largest nation in the world, exceeded in size only by Russia, Canada, China, and the United States, though its area is greater than that of the 48 contig...
About 324 pages (97,285 words) in 6 products

 
independent Islamic sultanate on the northern coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. It is bounded to the north by the South China Sea and on all other sides by the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, which also divides the state in...
About 56 pages (16,718 words) in 7 products

religion and philosophy that developed from the teachings of the Buddha (Sanskrit: “awakened one”), a teacher who lived in northern India between the mid-6th and the mid-4th centuries &BCE; (before the Common Era or Christian e...
About 1,160 pages (348,109 words) in 16 products

country occupying the eastern portion of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Founded in the 7th century, Bulgaria is one of the oldest states on the European continent. It is intersected by historically important routes from north...
About 105 pages (31,415 words) in 4 products

landlocked state in western Africa. The country is bounded to the north and west by Mali, to the south by Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo, and to the east by Benin and Niger. The capital, Ouagadougou, is about 500 miles (800 kilometre...
About 63 pages (18,882 words) in 4 products

country in east-central Africa, south of the Equator. The landlocked country, a historic kingdom, is one of the few countries in Africa whose borders were not determined by colonial rulers. The vast majority of Burundi's population is Hutu...
About 60 pages (18,075 words) in 4 products

country on the Indochinese mainland of Southeast Asia. Largely a land of plains and great rivers, Cambodia lies amid important overland and river trade routes linking China to India and Southeast Asia. The influences of many Asian cultures...
About 148 pages (44,448 words) in 11 products

country lying at the junction of western and central Africa. Triangular in shape, it is bordered by Nigeria to the northwest, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, Congo (Brazzaville) to the southeast, Gabon and ...
About 98 pages (29,479 words) in 5 products

second largest country in the world in area (after Russia), occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America. Despite Canada's great size, it is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries. This fact, co...
About 2,207 pages (662,104 words) in 16 products

country comprising a group of islands that lie 385 miles (620 kilometres) off the west coast of Africa, between 14°30′ and 17°30′ N and between 22°30′ and 25°30′ W. Praia on São Tiago is the c...
About 51 pages (15,370 words) in 5 products

 
landlocked state in north-central Africa. The capital, N'Djamena (formerly Fort-Lamy), is almost 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) by road from the western African coastal ports. Although it is the fifth largest country on the continent, Chad...
About 89 pages (26,570 words) in 5 products

 
country situated along the western seaboard of South America and extending approximately 2,700 miles (4,300 km) from its boundary with Peru, at latitude 17°30′ S, to the tip of South America at Cape Horn, latitude 56° S, a po...
About 151 pages (45,208 words) in 7 products

major religion, stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century &AD;. It has become the largest of the world's religions. Geographically the most widely diffused...
About 2,523 pages (756,844 words) in 31 products

country of northwestern South America. Its 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of coast to the north are bathed by the waters of the Caribbean Sea, and its 800 miles (1,300 km) of coast to the west are washed by the Pacific Ocean. The country is border...
About 116 pages (34,921 words) in 5 products

an independent state comprising three of the islands of the Comorian archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. A fourth island of the Comorian archipelago, Mayotte, is claimed by the country of Comoros but administered...
About 63 pages (18,902 words) in 5 products

the way of life propagated by Confucius in the 6th–5th century &BC; and followed by the Chinese people for more than two millennia. It has traditionally been the substance of learning, the source of values, and the social code of the...
About 460 pages (138,077 words) in 9 products

Form of Judaism that mediates between Reform Judaism and Orthodox Judaism. Founded in 19th-century Germany as the Historical School, it arose among German-Jewish theologians who advocated change but found Reform positions extreme. They acc...
About 148 pages (44,383 words) in 3 products

Principal Christian church in Egypt. Until the 19th century it was called simply the Egyptian Church. It agrees doctrinally with Eastern Orthodoxy except that it holds that Jesus has a purely divine nature and never became human, a belief ...
About 332 pages (99,580 words) in 4 products

country located in the northwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula. It is a small yet highly diverse crescent-shaped country. Its capital is Zagreb, located in the north. The present-day republic is composed of the historically Croatian regi...
About 89 pages (26,596 words) in 4 products

 
country of the West Indies, the largest single island of the archipelago, and one of the more influential states of the Caribbean region. The domain of Taino-speaking American Indians who had displaced even earlier inhabitants, Cuba was cl...
About 139 pages (41,643 words) in 6 products

 
an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea renowned since ancient times for its mineral wealth, superb wines and produce, and natural beauty. A “golden-green leaf thrown into the Sea” and a land of “wild weather and volca...
About 132 pages (39,658 words) in 7 products

country located in central Europe. It comprises the historical provinces of Bohemia and Moravia along with the southern tip of Silesia, collectively often called the Czech Lands. Despite its landlocked location, there were brief periods in...
About 102 pages (30,438 words) in 5 products

country occupying the peninsula of Jutland (Jylland), which extends northward from the centre of continental western Europe, and an archipelago of more than 400 islands to the east of the peninsula. Jutland makes up more than two-thirds of...
About 109 pages (32,595 words) in 6 products

strategically located nation on the northeast coast of the Horn of Africa. It is situated on the Strait of Mandeb, which lies to the east and separates the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden. Small in size, Djibouti is bordered by Eritrea to th...
About 44 pages (13,043 words) in 4 products

island nation of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It lies between the French islands of Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante to the north and Martinique to the south. It has been a member of the Commonwealth since independence in 1978. It...
About 53 pages (16,003 words) in 5 products

country of the West Indies that occupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola, the second largest island of the Greater Antilles chain in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti, also an independent republic, occupies the western third of the island. The...
About 116 pages (34,926 words) in 6 products

country of northwestern South America. Ecuador is one of the most environmentally diverse countries in the world, and it has contributed notably to the environmental sciences. The first scientific expedition to measure the circumference of...
About 149 pages (44,692 words) in 7 products

Comments Although great effort has gone into this work, we would appreciate any suggestions for future editions of the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Please send comments to the following address: EditorWorldmark Encyclopedi...
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Country, Middle East, northeastern Africa. Area: 385,229 sq mi (997,739 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 70,457,000. Capital: Cairo. The people are largely Egyptian Arabs. Language: Arabic (official). Religions: Islam (official; predominant...
About 298 pages (89,494 words) in 4 products

country of Central America. El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated of the seven Central American countries. Despite having little level land, it traditionally was an agricultural country, heavily dependent upon coffee expor...
About 72 pages (21,654 words) in 4 products

country located on the west coast of Africa. It consists of Río Muni (also called Mbini), on the continent, and five islands: Bioko (formerly Fernando Po), Corisco, Great Elobey (Elobey Grande), Little Elobey (Elobey Chico), and Ann...
About 49 pages (14,729 words) in 4 products

country of the Horn of Africa, located on the Red Sea. Its 600 miles (1,000 kilometres) of coastline extend from Cape Kasar, in the north, to the Strait of Mandeb, separating the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden in the south. It is bounded on...
About 99 pages (29,794 words) in 5 products

country in northeastern Europe, the northernmost of the three Baltic states. Estonia's area includes some 1,500 islands and islets; the two largest of these islands, Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, are off mainland Estonia's west coast. Estonia has ...
About 67 pages (20,098 words) in 4 products

landlocked country on the Horn of Africa. It shares frontiers with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, and The Sudan to the west and northwest. Its total area is 437,794 square miles (1...
About 89 pages (26,664 words) in 4 products

Protestant movement that stresses conversion experiences, the Bible as the only basis for faith, and evangelism at home and abroad. The religious revival that occurred in Europe and America during the 18th century was generally referred to...
About 313 pages (93,937 words) in 2 products

 
country and archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. It surrounds the Koro Sea about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) north of Auckland, N.Z. The archipelago consists of some 300 islands and 540 islets scattered over about 1,000,000 square miles (3,0...
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