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17 hours ago · Central America[b] is a subregion of North America. [2] Its political boundaries are defined as bordering the United States and the Gulf of Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually defined as consisting of eight ...
17 hours ago · Parts of the Caribbean had been colonized by countries that now came under Axis occupation. Aruba and Curaçao remained loyal to the Dutch government-in-exile, but because they housed valuable refineries that processed Venezuelan petroleum, they were placed under British protection. Both islands were subjected to German attacks in Operation ...
17 hours ago · Gilbert Islands: 16 atolls located some 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) north of Fiji; Phoenix Islands: 8 atolls and coral islands located some 1,800 kilometres (1,118 mi) southeast of the Gilberts; Line Islands: 8 atolls and one reef, located about 3,300 kilometres (2,051 mi) east of the Gilberts; Banaba (or Ocean Island) is a raised-coral island.
17 hours ago · A 2024 map of countries by fertility rate. Blue indicates negative fertility rates. Red indicates positive rates. This is a list of all sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.
17 hours ago · Map of Western Africa by Lázaro Luis (1563). The large castle in West Africa represents the São Jorge da Mina ( Elmina Castle ). The first feitoria trade post overseas was established in 1445 on the island of Arguin , off the coast of Mauritania, to attract Muslim traders and monopolize the business in the routes travelled in North Africa.
17 hours ago · The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [47] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans. [48][49] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central Africans ...
17 hours ago · Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [note 1] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes. It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [1] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [2] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean.
