North Africa
The world's largest canal, known as the Suez, is vital to international trade and is located in this country.
What is Egypt?
The world's youngest nation was founded in 2011, is starting to finally experience unpreceded levels of peace, and is located just south of Sudan.
What is South Sudan?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers pass close by each other in this nation, where the first cities in world history developed.
What is Iraq?
Recently, China has been accused of trying to conquer this ocean by building artificial islands and expanding their naval power.
What is the Pacific?
The Ganges River is both a holy site for Hindus, and an environmental problem for this country.
What is India?
The modern nations of Algeria and Libya were once colonized by nations like France and Italy, who divided up Africa from their comfortable seats on this continent.
In this country, the election of Nelson Mandela signaled the end of apartheid segregation.
What is South Africa?
This historic homeland of the Jewish people has been a controversial topic since the end of World War II.
What is Israel?
In an attempt to stop the spread of communism in the 1950's, the United States and China took sides in this peninsula nation's civil war.
What is Korea?
One of these three countries was established after it was decided that Muslims and Hindus in South Asia couldn't possibly live under the same government.
What is India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh?
This type of very controlling government often leads to instability and at times led to violence and famine.
What is an autocracy? (dictatorship, oligarchy, etc.)
This style of government in Nigeria has a strong executive, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch, with no nagging Prime Minister.
What is presidential democracy?
A theocracy occurs when a nation's government, like Iran, is operated by the rules and leaders of one of these.
What is a religion?
Holding on to their traditional monarchs, the Great Britain of the East - Japan, has this type of government.
What is parliamentary democracy, or constitutional monarchy?
This former British colony is today the world's largest English speaking country, and largest democracy.
What is India?
Many people in North Africa have chosen to move to Europe for better jobs. This is what its called when people move from one country to another.
What is immigration?
Kenya's mixed economy has come more and more under government control in recent years, meaning that on the continuum they lean to this side.
What is command?
Many people would describe economics in Southwest Asia with just one word - this natural resource.
What is Oil?
In South Korea, 98% of citizens can successfully read and write, contributing to their strong economy. This is what the term is called in economics.
What is Literacy Rate?
Many people in India choose to start their own business in the process known as this.
What entrepreneurship?
A series of protests in the 2010's demanding democracy were led by students, coordinated through Twitter and Google Maps, and sometimes led to revolutions that overthrew governments in M.E.N.A.
What is the Arab Spring?
In 1994, this sport had its World Cup in South Africa, signaling the beginning of black and white cultures coming together as one in the country.
What is Rugby?
This nation is in the midst of an ongoing civil war and groups like the US, Russia, ISIS, and the Kurdish Militia have all been involved.
What is Syria?
This country hosted the 1964 Olympics and, since tourists couldn't read their language, invented the symbols for sports that we still use.
What is Japan?
This is one of the four major religions in South and East Asia.
What is Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, or Confucianism?