14 years after US invasion, the Taliban are back in control of large parts of Afghanistan
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Americas
What’s on the other side of the ocean?
The map below shows the countries that are due west and east from points along the coasts of the Americas.
Read MoreLiteral Chinese translations of world country names
Chinese is a group of language varieties spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world’s population) speak Chinese as their first language.
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