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Sichuan

Geography; Countries & Territories

Sichuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu. The current name of the province, "四川", is an abbreviation of "四川路" (Sì Chuānlù), or "Four circuits of rivers", which is itself ...

Guizhou

Geography; Countries & Territories

Guizhou is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.

Yunnan

Geography; Countries & Territories

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers (152,000 sq mi) and with a population of 45.7 ...

Shaanxi

Geography; Countries & Territories

Shaanxi is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the ...

Gansu

Geography; Countries & Territories

Gansu is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.It lies between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus, and borders Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia to the north, ...

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Geography; Countries & Territories

Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands consist of a group of volcanic islands in the southern Indian Ocean, southeast of Africa, approximately equidistant between Africa, Antarctica and ...

Western Sahara

Geography; Countries & Territories

Western Sahara, formerly Rio de Oro, Saguia el Hamra, Spanish Sahara, is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and ...