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Soon after, almost all overseas territories gained independence. The handover of Macau to China in 1999 marked the end of one of the longest-running colonial empires in history.

The dominant denomination is the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. More than 60% of the country's populatio ...

The countries with larger territories than China are Russia, Canada, and the USA.The area of China i ...

It is a lowland island in Gulf of Batabanó. It is the second-largest Cuban island and the sixth-largest in the Antilles archipelago.

The most important rivers are the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Surma. The entire area of Bangladesh falls ...

Further on, it flows about 100 m below the city, forming two underground lakes connected by a siphon ...

Portugal then established trade routes with Japan, exchanging goods and technology since 1543.

The export of oil accounts for more than 60%. The network of all Russian gas and oil pipelines could encircle the globe six times.

The Iron Curtain disappeared at the turn of 1989/90, and in 1995 Austria joined the European Union. In 2002, it joined the eurozone.