The Gulf Coast of the United States stretches more than 1,600 miles from Texas to the tip of the Florida peninsula and is bounded by the Gulf of Mexico, which covers more than 700,000 square miles in Southeast North America. Read More
South Africa
South Africa (officially, Republic of South Africa) lies at the southern most tip of the African continent. Its administrative capital is Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein; other major cities include: Johannesburg, Durban, and Port Elizabeth. The terrain of South Africa is a vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain. Its climate is mostly semiarid and subtropical along east coast. Read More
Mexico
Mexico, situated in the middle of North America, borders the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to the East, between Belize and the United States and Guatemala and the North Pacific Ocean to the West. Comprising about 1,964,375 sq km, it is slightly less than three times the size of Texas. The capital city is Mexico City (population 22 million, for metro area); other major cities include: Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Acapulco, Merida, Leon, and Veracruz. Read More
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, covers and area of 647,500 sq. km. (249,935 sq. mi.), slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Texas. Its capital, Kabul has an estimated population of 1,780,000; other major cities include: Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalabad, and Konduz. This landlocked country is comprised of mostly mountains and desert. Afghanistan's climate ranges from arid to semiarid with cold winters and hot summers. Read More