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When Britain made South Africa a country by force, each of the preceding countries bar Natal (which got cash) was given a Capital. SA has t...

The borders of countries are tidal. What divides and rules us depends on the whims of the times, and the songs we happen to be singing. Cit...

Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country. It is bordered by five landlocked countries. The idea of Nation States wasn't built ...

Ethiopia was the only African country never colonised by the Europeans. It is the reason so many flags in the world bear the Ethiop...

Civil war has often followed independence from foreign conquerors. Tajikistan became an independent nation following the 1991 disso...

About 10 million Filipinos live outside the country, making one of the world's largest diasporas . It sneaks into the 13 count...

The Mongol invasions that touched most of the Eurasian landmass also ended four centuries of power of the Pagan Empire  in 1287. The...

Mongolia sits between Russia and China. It is the most sparsely populated fully sovereign nation in the world with around 3 million...

Due to its central trade location, wealth flowed in Laos. The present cultural identity is tied to a kingdom that lasted the  four...

Colonial legacies include language, religion, food, mannerisms and other deep cultural ties. Independence doesn't mean unrelated...

The Korean War was fought in 1950-1953. The North was supported by China and the Soviet Union, and the South by the United States....

When thinking of colonialism and imperialism, I know far more about European adventures than the spread of Islam. I don't know ...

Timor-Leste ( formerly East Timor ) is just to the north of Australia, separated by the Timor Sea. The first humans arrived 42,000 y...

Brunei is a sovereign state, with just less than half a million people, on the north coast of Borneo. Two-thirds of the population a...

In the 19th century, Afghanistan was a buffer state in ' the Great Game ' between the British and Russian Empires. The are...

Hagia Sophia Istanbul was once known as Constantinople and Byzantium. Its commercial and historical centres, and two thirds of its p...

Delhi Map The National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) is both a city, and a union territory of India . Almost 17 million people liv...