Countries

Switzerland has no access to the sea, its largest reservoir is Lake Geneva.

South Africa is a developing country, ranking 114th on the Human Development Index.

The country's relatively rapid economic and demographic growth over the past century has meant that Brazil's ability to protect its environmental habitats is increasingly under threat.

A popular entertainment in China is cricket fighting.

The Jura is a limestone mountain range stretching from Lake Geneva to the Rhine Valley - from this range comes the name of the second period of the Mesozoic era.

Despite being a Muslim country, polygamy in Turkey is forbidden.

Mauritius is one of twenty-five countries in the world without an active armed force.

The island climate means that Ireland is usually quite warm, and humid and rains often.

The first inhabitants of modern South Africa were the Bushmen, also called San - a negroid people, showing some features of the yellow race.

The island has an area of 110,860 km2 (68,885 sq mi) and a population of over 11 million people.