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3 days ago · The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC [i] and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered the Greek ...
3 days ago · The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD; French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, [1] [4] founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is a forum whose member countries describe themselves as ...
4 days ago · 2.2 Western Africa. 2.2.1 Benin. 2.2.2 Burkina Faso. 2.2.3 Cape Verde. ... Southwest Asia and the Middle East Afghanistan. Location Airport IATA Code Kabul:
4 days ago · Indonesia operates a 142.8 kilometres (88.7 miles) high-speed rail line connecting its two largest cities in Western Java, the Whoosh HSR with an operational speed of 350 km/h (217 mph). Operations commenced in October 2023. It is the first high-speed rail in Southeast Asia and the Southern Hemisphere. Japan
3 days ago · The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luzon, Mindoro and Palawan), and in the south by the Indonesian islands of Borneo, eastern Sumatra and the Bangka Belitung Islands, encompassing an area of around ...
2 days ago · Southeast Asia, vast region of Asia situated east of the Indian subcontinent and south of China. It consists of two dissimilar portions: a continental projection (commonly called mainland Southeast Asia) and a string of archipelagoes to the south and east of the mainland (insular Southeast Asia). Extending some 700 miles (1,100 km) southward ...
4 days ago · North America is the fourth most populous continent after Asia, Africa, and Europe. [127] Its most populous country is the U.S. with 329.7 million persons. The second-largest country is Mexico with a population of 112.3 million. [128] Canada is the third-most-populous country with 37.0 million. [129]
