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Chile

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Santiago de Chile
756,950 square kilometers
17,063,000 (2010)
Spanish
Peso ($) CLP
$243.569 billion (2009)
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Last updated January 20, 2011
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Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands

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George Town
264 sq km (102 sq mi)
60,456 (2008)
English
Cayman Islands Dollar ($) KYD
+1-345
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$
Last updated October 21, 2010
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Cambodia

Cambodia, or the Kingdom of Cambodia, and formerly also Kampuchea, borders Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to the west, northwest and east, respectively, with the Gulf of Thailand to the south of it. It is a nation of approximately 15 million, with a checkered past. While a kingdom historically and a constitutional monarchy presently, there are still lingering effects of the Pol Pot regime of the mid 1970s. But things are changing.

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Phnom Penh
181,035 square kilometers
14,805,000 (2010)
Khmer
Riel (៛) KHR
+855
$28.092 billion (2009)
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Last updated October 21, 2010
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British Virgin Islands

The principal islands in the British Virgin Islands group are clustered around the Sir Francis Drake Channel in two parallel strands. On the north are the large islands, Tortola and Beef, while the south strand includes many small islands such as Norman, Peter, Salt and Cooper, plus Virgin Gorda. The positioning of the islands creates a protected channel 20 miles long and five miles wide, with some of the finest sailing waters in the world. Two of the larger islands not on the channel are Jost Van Dyke, northwest of Tortola, and Anegada, 20 miles north of Virgin Gorda.

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Road Town
153 square kilometers
27,000 (2005)
English
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+1-284
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Last updated November 29, 2010
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Bonaire

Bonaire is part of the extensive Dutch territory in the Caribbean known as the Netherlands Antilles. The overseas kingdom is divided into two three-island clusters separated by more than 500 miles of tropical sea. The “S” islands (St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, and Saba) lie just east of the Virgin Islands, between Anguilla and St. Kitts. The “ABC” islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) are lined up along the northwestern coast of Venezuela.

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Kralendijk
294 sq km (113 sq mi)
14,006 (2006)
Dutch, Papiamento, English
Netherlands Antillean Guilder (ƒ) ANG
+599
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Last updated October 21, 2010
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Bolivia

Bolivia, described by Hubert Herring in his History of Latin America as "the Tibet of the Americas," is a land-locked country with a smorgasbord of landscapes. There are tropical jungles in the Amazon River Basin and bleak but beautiful deserts on the Altiplano. These are a photographer’s dream. The Andes Mountains, with four of the world’s highest peaks, offer some of the best hiking, climbing and caving in the world.

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Sucre
1,098,581 sq km (424,163 sq mi)
10,907,778 (2010)
Spanish, Quechua, Aymara
Boliviano ($b) BOB
+591
$45.563 billion (2009); $4,451 per capita
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Last updated January 20, 2011
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Bermuda

Bermuda, a tiny collection of rocks in the Atlantic Ocean some 580 miles due east of Cape Hatteras, is isolated. Even so, this group of British islands is one of the most popular tourist resorts in the Western Hemisphere. On most maps, if it shows at all, it’s no more than a tiny dot. Close up, Bermuda looks somewhat like a fishhook, with the curve at the southwest end and the stem extending to the northeast.

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Hamilton
53.2 square kilometers
67,837 (2009)
English, Portuguese
Bermudian dollar ($) BMD
+1-441
$5.85 billion (2007)
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Last updated October 21, 2010
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Belize

Belize can be described as a land of white-sand beaches, blue skies and clear waters, with the largest unbroken coral reef in the Americas - 150 miles long. It also has ancient Maya ruins in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, animal preserves, and a jungle full of medicinal plants and virgin hardwoods. Its two tallest peaks are Mount Victoria at 3,680 feet (1,122 meters) and Doyles Delight in the Cockscomb Range at 3,688 feet (1,124 meters).

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Belmopan
22,966 sq km (8,867 sq mi)
333,200 (2010)
English, Kriol, Spanish, Garifuna, Maya, Plautdietsch
Belize dollar (BZ$) BZD
+501
$2.55 billion (2009)
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BZ$
Last updated October 21, 2010
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Barbados

Barbados can honestly claim to be the island that has everything under the sun. The most easterly of the Caribbean islands, its 166 square miles of forests, cliffs, fishing villages, wildlife, nightlife, and beaches are pounded by the relentless power of the Atlantic on the east, brushed by the Caribbean on the west and caressed everywhere by the sun.

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Bridgetown
431 sq km (167 sq mi)
284,589 (2009)
English, Bajan
Barbadian dollar ($) BBD
+1-246
$5.013 billion (2009)
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Last updated October 21, 2010
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Austria

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Vienna
German, Slovene, Croatian, and Hungarian
Euro (€) EUR
8,356,707 (2009)
83,872 sq km (32,383 sq mi)
$381.880 billion (2009)
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Last updated March 28, 2012
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