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2 days ago · Except for Guam, the inhabited territories lost population in 2020. Although the territories have higher poverty rates than the mainland U.S., they have high Human Development Indexes . Four of the five territories have another official language, in addition to English.
May 29, 2024 · Taiwan. East and Southeast Asia. Page last updated: May 29, 2024. Photos of Taiwan. view 12 photos. Introduction. Background. First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century).
1 day ago · Taiwan is an island in the western Pacific Ocean that lies roughly 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of southeastern China. Taipei, in the north, is the seat of government of the Republic of China (ROC; Nationalist China).
Jun 6, 2024 · Korea regained its independence after Japan's surrender to the US and its allies in 1945. A democratic government (Republic of Korea, ROK) was set up in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, while a communist-style government was installed in the north (North Korea; aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK).
2 days ago · For a short time in the 1990s, at the founding of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the name of the current Republic of Moldova was also spelled Moldavia. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the country began to use the Romanian name, Moldova .
2 days ago · Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas , but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain . It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north , and India to the south, east, and west , while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by ...
Jun 11, 2024 · With ASSK as the de facto head of state, Burma’s first credibly elected civilian government drew international criticism for blocking investigations into Burma’s military operations -- which the US Department of State determined constituted genocide -- against its ethnic Rohingya population.
