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| 5th largest nation in the world, super power of latin america |
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| Brutal penal colony, very poor, depend heavily on mother country. |
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| Eastern 3rd of this country occupies the Andes, easter island on this coast. |
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| country machu pichu was discovered in. |
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| This country was known as the Switzerland of south america |
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| This country was known as british honduras, the only english speaking nation in central america, half population is black. |
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| Banana Republic, poorest nation in central america. |
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| Highest standard of living, highest literacy rate. |
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| 27 volcanos, largest percentage of indians. |
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| Mosquito coast, fresh water sharks, largest lake in central africa. |
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| Home to Aztecs and Toltecs, beautiful silver, largest oil reserves. |
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| Only nation to have both atlantic and pacific coastlines, provides the only land entrance to the continent. Cocaine marajuana are cash crops |
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| Formerly british guiana, below sea level and are protected by a network of dikes and canals. Built by dutch over 300 years ago. |
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| Dutch made worst land swap ever: they gave New Netherlands and New Amsterdam to the british in exchange for suriname. |
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| Means "little venice" in spanish. Black ooze that sullies the lake made venezuela the worlds first oil exporting nation and wealthiest country in south america. |
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| South america's poorest nation. Sits the world's highest capital. 50% indian. Named after Simon Bolivar. |
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| The eastern third of the country is occupied by the andes. The strait of magellan is the world's southern most major city. |
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| World leading beef exporter, Second largest country in size. Argentina tried to take falkland islands. |
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| Enormous hydroelectric dams, built with brazil on the parana river. Gran Chaco to the west and the Oriental to the east. |
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| Smallest and most densly populated in the region, has no atlantic coastline. |
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| Through the natural gap Spanish used mules to pack inca gold brought up form the west coast of south america. US buil canal was open in 1914. US agreed to give panama control over the canal zone |
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