Tierra, clima, recursos.
Costa Rica occupies a narrow strip of Central America between Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south, with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The country covers roughly 51,100 square kilometers, a land area similar in size to West Virginia, and its terrain is dominated less by lowlands than […]
Colombia sits in the northwestern corner of South America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the west, giving it coastlines on two different oceans. Its territory of roughly 1.14 million square kilometers encompasses an unusually wide range of landscapes, from snow-capped mountains and an arid peninsula to dense […]
Chile occupies a long, narrow strip of land along the western edge of South America, squeezed between the Pacific Ocean and the towering Andes Mountains. The country extends more than 4,000 kilometers from north to south yet averages well under 200 kilometers in width, giving it one of the most distinctive shapes of any nation […]
Canada is the second-largest country in the world by total area, spanning roughly 9.98 million square kilometers across North America and bordered by the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans. Its coastline, which touches all three oceans, is the longest of any country, stretching more than 240,000 kilometers. The physical geography of the country ranges from […]
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest in the world, occupying nearly half of the continent’s land area at roughly 8.5 million square kilometers. Rather than towering peaks, its relief consists mainly of lowlands and broad, flat-topped highlands, divided chiefly between the Amazon lowland in the north and the Brazilian […]
