Land, climate, resources.
Bolivia sits in the center of South America and, along with Paraguay, is one of only two landlocked countries on the continent. Its terrain divides into three broad zones: the Andean highlands in the west, a belt of sub-Andean valleys, and extensive lowland plains in the east, which together cover more than half of national […]
Belize covers about 22,966 square kilometers (8,867 square miles) on the Caribbean coast of Central America, bordered by Mexico to the north and Guatemala to the west and south. Its Caribbean coastline runs roughly 386 kilometers (240 miles) and is low, flat, and dotted with lagoons. The country’s terrain divides broadly into the Maya Mountains, […]
Barbados is the easternmost island of the Lesser Antilles, lying in the Atlantic Ocean about 160 kilometers east of the main Caribbean island chain. Covering roughly 430 square kilometers, the island measures about 34 kilometers from north to south and 23 kilometers at its widest, giving it a compact, pear-like shape that geographers have long […]
The Bahamas is a sprawling archipelago in the western Atlantic Ocean, lying southeast of Florida and north of Cuba and Hispaniola as part of the wider Lucayan Archipelago. The nation stretches roughly 800 kilometers from northwest to southeast and includes about 700 islands together with thousands of smaller cays, of which only around 30 are […]
Argentina occupies the southern reaches of South America, stretching roughly 3,800 kilometers from the subtropical north to the sub-Antarctic tip of Tierra del Fuego. Covering about 2.8 million square kilometers, it is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest in the world, bordered by the towering Andes to the west and the South […]
