Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in central Asia. It borders Pakistan to the south and east, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north, and the People’s Republic of China to the northeast through the Wakhan corridor. It has been ravaged by wars…
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(Nepāl Adhirājya). State of Central Asia (147,181 km²). Capital: Kathmandu. Administrative division: administrative areas (14). Population: 26,494,504 (2011). Language: Nepali (official), Tibetan dialects. Religion: Hindus 80.6%, Buddhists 10.7%, Muslims 4.2%, Kirat 3.6%, Christians 0.4%, others 0.5%. Currency unit: Nepalese rupee…
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Palmyra, the former Tadmor, was an important trading hub between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean in ancient times. The Arab oasis city with a connection to the Silk Road had been closely connected with the Roman Empire since the 1st…
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Turkey has numerous, although not always huge, mineral deposits. It was precisely the exploitation of underground resources that gave rise to the industrialization of the country in the 1930s. As for energy minerals, coal is extracted in the Ereğli-Zonguldak area,…
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Hasa oasis area (World Heritage) Hasa oasis area (World Heritage) Anyone who thinks of an oasis as a small green watering hole in the middle of wide desert landscapes does not know Hasa (Al-Ahsa) in the east of Saudi Arabia….
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The Kathmandu Valley is considered to be the intersection of the most important Asian civilizations. The peaceful coexistence of Buddhism and Hinduism is evident in the immediate vicinity of Hindu temples and Buddhist monastery and stupa buildings. Important cities include…
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World Heritage Sites Kalat al-Bahrain Archaeological Site (2005) Pearl cultivation as evidence of an island economy (2012) Kalat al-Bahrain Archaeological Site (World Heritage) The settlement history of the island in the Persian Gulf goes back more than 4000 years and…
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Descending from the merger that took place in the century. Among the already sedentary indigenous groups and nomadic Mongolian tribes, the Uzbek population was later subject to the sovereignty of various khanates, among which from the eighteenth century those of…
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(Republik Indonesia). State of Southeast Asia (1,910,931 km²). Capital: Jakarta. Administrative division: provinces (32), special districts (1), autonomous province (1). Population: 248,818,100 (2013 estimate). Language: Bahasa-Indonesia (official), Javanese. Religion: Muslims 87.2%, Protestants 7%, Catholics 2.9%, Hindus 1.7%, Buddhists 0.7%, others…
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CULTURE The cultural history of Afghanistan boasts millennial origins and, above all thanks to the particular position of this land, a crossroads of peoples and experiences in continuous movement, since ancient times it has been configured as the result of…
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