Religion in Malawi
The small kingdom of Kitwara that lay out to the Malawian island – before Nyassa – had, along with other states, participated in the extraction of gold, and had been…
The small kingdom of Kitwara that lay out to the Malawian island – before Nyassa – had, along with other states, participated in the extraction of gold, and had been…
Population In 2019 Madagascar had an average population density of 45 residents per km2. However, due to topographical and ecological conditions, the population is unevenly distributed, and the density varies…
In 1991, a major financial scandal erupted when the international commercial bank BCCI cracked. It had its headquarters in the United Arab Emirates, but its European headquarters was in Luxembourg.…
Lithuania is a small country located in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Baltic…
Population The actual citizens count their ancestry from the Alemans, a Germanic tribe that took possession of the region around 500. About 90 percent are Roman Catholics. The population has…
Libya is Africa’s most developed country. UNDP’s 2009 HDI index placed Libya in first place in Africa. The popular, Arab and socialist Yamahiriya – known as Libya – has historically…
Population In 2019, Liberia had an average population density of 43 residents per km2. However, the population is unevenly distributed; 20 percent live within a 655 km 2 area (corresponding…
The difficult economic situation gave the opposition party the Congress Party the election victory in 1970. Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan now conducted a coup d’etat, dissolved the parliament and sent…
Population Lebanon’s domestic population was estimated at 6.8 million in 2019. In addition, many refugees live in the country. No census has been conducted since 1932, and all population data…
The first residents of present-day Latvia were nomadic tribes of hunters, fishermen and collectors who emigrated to the forests of the Baltic coast after the glaciers had retreated after the…
In February 1993, the Supreme People’s Assembly met and appointed Nuhak Fumsavanh as Republican President and PPRL leader, Khamtay Sifandon as Prime Minister. The country maintained its closed political system…
During the World War and the following decades, the industry in the region underwent a renewed expansion, which was mainly concentrated on the production of machinery, building materials and electricity.…
Population Kuwait’s population was estimated at 4.1 million in 2019. More than half of the population is immigrant, most of whom are Arabs. However, the proportion of non-Arab guest workers…
Kosovo is a secular state. 95.6 percent of the population are Muslims, 2.2 percent are Roman Catholic and 1.5 percent are Orthodox Christians. Religion Differences Religious differences in Kosovo largely…
Population The majority of the population is micronesia. Just over 90 percent live in the Gilbert Islands, alone on the Tarawa Atoll, close to 40 percent. Of the 32 atolls,…
Kenya is a country located in East Africa. It is bordered by Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Kenya has a diverse geography including coastal beaches, mountain ranges, savanna…
Population In 2019, Kazakhstan had a population density of 7 residents per km2. 58 percent of the population live in cities, of which Alma-Ata is the largest with 1.8 million…
Population In 2019, Jordan had an average population density of 112 residents per km2, but since about 90 percent of the country’s area consists of desert, the geographical distribution is…
Japan is a country located in East Asia, made up of four main islands and 6,852 smaller islands. It is the world’s tenth-largest country by population and has the world’s…
Population Like many other Caribbean states, Jamaica has a high average population density, 264 residents per km2 (2019) and relatively high urbanization, 56 percent. As a result of large emigration,…
Population The Ivory Coast had an average population density of 78 residents per km 2 in 2019. However, the population is very unevenly distributed, with strong concentration in the Abidjan…
Christianity is the most widespread religion in Italy, and Catholicism is the most widespread direction within Christianity. A large majority of the people of Italy are considered Christians. According to…
According to thesciencetutor, there is full religious freedom in Israel, but the majority of the population (outside the occupied territories of 1967) belongs to Judaism (about 80%). It is approx.…
About 90 percent of the population of Ireland belongs to the Catholic Church, but there are also Anglicans (3 percent) and other Christians (1 percent), including Presbyterians and Methodists. The…
1990-91 The crisis and war of the Persian Gulf The conflict with neighboring Kuwait is now tightening. Kuwait refused to cap its oil production, which lowered oil prices and hit…
Population In 2018, according to thesciencetutor, Iran had an average population density of 51 residents per km2, but the geographical distribution is very uneven. The largest population concentrations are found…
Population According to thesciencetutor, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country. The residents are extremely unevenly distributed between the different islands. Java, Madura and Bali comprise about 8 percent…
India is a diverse country with a population of over 1.3 billion people. It is the world’s largest democracy and home to an array of cultures, religions, and languages. India…
Population In 2019, Iceland’s birth and death figures were 12 and 7 per thousand respectively, which gives a natural population growth of 0.5 percent. The average life expectancy in the…
Hungary is a Central European country located in the Carpathian Basin and bordered by Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Austria. It has a population of approximately 9.7 million people…
While the military continued to carry out police duties in the cities, Parliament initiated discussions on a constitutional amendment to transfer public security control to civilian authorities. In January 1995,…
Population Haiti is densely populated, 400 residents per km2 (2019). The country has a large emigration to the Dominican Republic and the United States, which contributes to a relatively moderate…
Population In 2019, Guyana had an average population density of 4 residents per km2. Almost the entire population lives along the coast, while the hinterland is largely unpopulated. As a…
Population Guinea-Bissau has a population density of 53 residents per km2. By 2019, 43 percent of the population lived in rural areas, which means that Guinea-Bissau is one of the…
In February 1996, part of the army rebelled when it did not receive promised pay increases. The rebellion developed into an attempt to overthrow the government, but was defeated in…
1982 Mass terror The repression had cost 80,000 civilians since 1954 – mostly killed by the military. The bourgeoisie and the military now recognized that drastic means had to be…
The Caribbean inhabited the island of Grenada until 1498, when Columbus arrived and named it “Concepción”. The arrival of the Europeans did not immediately disturb the peace, but two centuries…
Population and ethnography Up until the 18th century, when Danish missionaries and traders gained influence, Greenland’s Inuit served as nomadic hunters; the main wild area was sea mammals and wild…
In the 5th-3rd, millennium BCE, the Balkan Peninsula was inhabited by sailors who came from Asia. central Greece and Crete. In the 2nd millennium BCE, Indo-European warriors began to extend…
Population In 2018, Ghana had an average population density of 125 residents per km2. The largest population concentration is found in the southern parts of the country, mainly in the…