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South Korea has one neighbor - North Korea.

There are four main physical-geographic regions in the country: the mountainous area of Northern Thailand, the Chao Phraya Plain, the Korat Plain and the Malay Peninsula.

Thailand borders four countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia.

Thailand's territory includes several hundred coastal islands (including coral ones).

Peruvian prose writer, essayist, and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.

Freed from the Turkish threat, the empire flourished, especially in culture and art.

The capital of the country is Bangkok.

The main river of the country is Chao Phraya, 365 km long and with a drainage basin area of 160.000 square kilometers.

Aboriginal civilization is the oldest on Earth. It is estimated that aborigines have lived in Australia for about 40 – 60 thousand years.

The name of the country comes from the name of the kingdom of Buganda, the largest of the traditional kingdoms that make up Uganda, inhabited by 52 clans.