Nicaragua The largest of the Central American republics. Central mountainous area between Pacific and Caribbean coasts.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Dominican Republic The eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, shared with Haiti.

Advertisements

Cuba The largest island in the Caribbean..

Haiti Western third of the island of Hispaniola; shared with the Dominican Republic.

Panama The narrowest point of the Central American isthmus, and bisected by the Panama Canal.

United States of America The world’s third largest nation in area and population.

China, Hong Kong A mountainous peninsula and 230 islands on the coast of Guangdong Province.

Ghana Grasslands in north, farmland and forest in south. Centre dominated by the 520-km- long Lake Volta, Africa’s largest man-made lake.

Guatemala A land of mountains, volcanoes and lakes. Mexico’s southern neighbour.

Russia The world’s largest country, extending across 9 time zones between the Baltic and the Pacific. The Russian Federation is composed of 83 administrative.

France The largest country in Western Europe.. France PRAY FOR THE COUNTRY Area: 543,965 sq km Population: 62,636,580  Annual Growth: 0.5% Capital: Paris.

Australia This island continent is the world’s driest, but better watered in the east, southeast and southwest coastal regions, where most live in highly.

Brazil One-half of the land surface and population of South America. The world’s fifth largest country in both area and population.

Angola Large coastal state on the South Atlantic coast. Cabinda is an oil-rich coastal enclave to the north of the Congo River.

Colombia Northwest corner of South America. The fourth-largest country on the continent. Mountains in west; plains, forests and jungles in east.

Costa Rica Agriculturally and ecologically rich land that straddles the Central American isthmus.

Liberia Heavily forested coastal state adjoining Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire.

St Lucia Windward Islands between Martinique and St Vincent. One of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean.

Namibia Predominantly arid, semi-desert; the driest African land south of the equator.

El Salvador 21,041 sq km on the Pacific Coast of Central America. The smallest and most-densely populated Spanish- speaking mainland state in the.

Suriname Northeast coast of South America, between Guyana and French Guiana.

Republic of China, Taiwan

Denmark The most southerly of the Scandinavian countries. See separate entries for Faeroe Islands and Greenland, which are autonomous regions of.

Africa Area: 30,244,000 sq km Population: 1,033,042,510

Brunei Two small enclaves on the island of Borneo, separated by the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. Tropical, 70% forest, with heavy rainfall.

Iceland A volcanic island in the North Atlantic; mountainous, largely barren with many large glaciers.

Switzerland Mountainous land; 25.7% agriculturally unproductive. The Swiss Alps are one of the greatest tourist attractions in the world.

Serbia Landlocked Balkan state. Serbia has two autonomous provinces, Vojvodina in the north and Kosovo in the south.

Bolivia Landlocked Andean state. High plateau in southwest, tropical lowlands in north and east. One of only two landlocked republics in the Americas.

Bulgaria Balkan state adjoining Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.

Mali Landlocked state. Dry southern grasslands merge into the Sahara Desert. The Niger River runs through the southern part of the country.

Czech Republic Landlocked central European state.

Chad Desert in the north, dry grassland in centre, thick bush in the south. The sea is 1,000 km distant.

The Gambia A narrow, 400- km-long riverine enclave that virtually divides Senegal’s Casamance from the rest of the country.

Niger Sahara desert in centre and north. Only the southwest and a narrow strip along the Nigerian border in the south are savannah grasslands.

Somalia The mostly arid Horn of Africa east of Ethiopia and Kenya.

Belarus Landlocked; fertile agricultural land with extensive forests on the North European plains. Surrounded by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania.

Cook Islands Over 100 coral atolls and volcanic islands 3,500 km northeast of New Zealand, 15 of which are inhabited.

Nauru A raised coral atoll ringed with sandy beaches, with a central plateau of phosphates from fossilized bird droppings; 300 km west of Banaba,

Guyana On the north coast of South America. A developed coastal strip with under- developed, forested interior.

Georgia Black Sea state between the Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. Moderate climate with good natural resources and soil.

Equatorial Guinea A small enclave, Rio Muni, on the African mainland and several islands in the Gulf of Guinea, including Bioko (2,000 sq km) and.

Faeroe Islands Archipelago of 18 rugged islands between Iceland and Scotland, 16 of which are inhabited.

Bosnia Mountainous Balkan state bracketed by Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia.

Jamaica The 3rd largest island in the Caribbean after Cuba and Hispaniola. Mostly mountainous with only 17% arable land.

Mauritius One larger and three smaller islands east of Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean. One of these, Rodrigues Island, is 500 km to the east.

Austria Landlocked. The Alps in the south and west; flat plains along the Danube River in the east.

Guinea-Bissau Coastal state wedged between Senegal and Guinea, including the Bijagos archipelago.

Algeria Agriculture is possible on the Mediterranean coast, in the Atlas Mountains and at oases; 80% is desert.

Argentina Latin America’s second largest country, with a great range of climate, rainfall and topography. The 16,300 sq km Islas Malvinas (Falkland.

British Virgin Islands

Falkland Islands Consists of over 740 islands 2 are inhabited year-round. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands also fall under the remit of.

Greece Southernmost part of Balkan Peninsula in southeast Europe and 150 inhabited islands in the Ionian, Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. The islands.

Chile A 4,200-km-long country wedged between the mountains of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean and averaging only 150 km in width. Also Easter Island/Rapa.

Germany Strategically placed in the centre of Europe and of the expanding EU.

Réunion Rugged, mountainous volcanic Indian Ocean island 700 km east of Madagascar. The largest of the Mascarene Islands, which include Mauritius.

Timor Leste Eastern half of Timor and the Ocussi-Ambenu enclave in Indonesian West Timor and Atauro Island.

Turkmenistan Two populated strips of irrigated land on its northern and southern borders, separated by the barren Kara- Kum Desert. Only 1% of the.

Cape Verde Islands Fifteen dry, barren islands 600 km off the west coast of Africa.

Cameroon On the continental "hinge" between West and Central Africa. Semi-arid in the north, grasslands in the centre, rainforest in the south.

Qatar Arabian peninsular state that is almost entirely desert.

Armenia Landlocked, mountainous Caucasus state. Nagorno-Karabakh, a 4,400 sq km enclave in Azerbaijan populated by Armenians, is controlled by Armenia.

Fiji Two larger and 110 smaller inhabited islands, both volcanic and coralline.

Montenegro A coastal Adriatic state. Small, but mountainous and picturesque.

Mayotte One larger island, Grande Terre, and one smaller, Petite Terre.

Gibraltar A strategically placed rocky peninsula on the south coast of Spain.

Zimbabwe Landlocked state in southern Africa..

Malaysia Two distinct parts: Peninsular (West) Malaysia on the Kra peninsula of mainland Asia (PM), and East Malaysia (EM) consisting of the territories.

Slovenia Alpine state adjoining Italy, Hungary, Croatia and Austria.

St Kitts and Nevis Two volcanic islands in the Caribbean Leeward Islands. St Kitts 176 sq km; Nevis 93 sq km.

Presentation transcript:

Nicaragua The largest of the Central American republics. Central mountainous area between Pacific and Caribbean coasts.

Nicaragua PRAY FOR THE COUNTRY Area: 127,849 sq km Population: 5,822,265 Annual Growth: 1.3% Capital: Managua Urban Percent: 57.3% Human Development Index Rank: 124 of 182 countries

Nicaragua PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE Peoples: 18 (1 unreached) Languages: 7 Official Languages: Spanish. English-speaking communities on east coast. Largest Religion: Christian (97% of population) Christians Other Religions P=Protestant J=Judaism I=Independent M=Muslim A=Anglican Bh=Bahai C=Catholic B=Buddhist O=Orthodox H=Hindu S=Marginal Sk=Sikh U=Unaffiliated Ch=Chinese Rel. X=Other Christian; E=Trad. Ethnic All Christians N=Non-Religious T=Other

Nicaragua PRAY FOR THE CHURCH Christians (self-identified): 5,666,228 97.3% of population Annual Growth: 1.4% Evangelicals: 1,732,307 29.8% of population Annual Growth: 5.5%