Countries of the World
Note: This list of countries follows the order of "Yakko's World". Try singing the song as you scroll down the page. It's a great way to study the countries!
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United States |
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Canada |
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Mexico |
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Panama |
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Haiti |
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Jamaica |
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Peru |
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Republic Dominican |
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Cuba |
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Caribbean |
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Greenland This large island belongs to Denmark. |
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El Salvador too. |
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Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is not an independent territory. It is a territory of the United States. |
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Colombia |
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Venezuela |
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Honduras |
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Guyana, and still, |
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Guatemala |
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Bolivia |
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then Argentina |
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Ecuador "Ecuador" means "equator" in Spanish. The equator runs through Ecuador. |
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Chile |
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Brazil |
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Costa Rica |
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Belize |
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Nicaragua |
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Bermuda Bermuda is not an independent country. It is a territory of Britain. |
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Bahamas The Bahamas are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. |
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Tobago The full name of this country is the "Republic of Trinidad and Tobago." |
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San Juan San Juan is not a country. It is the capital city of Puerto Rico, which is a territory of the United States. |
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Paraguay |
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Uruguay |
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Suriname |
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and French Guiana |
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Barbados |
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and Guam Guam is not a country. It is a territory of the United States. |
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Norway |
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and Sweden |
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and Iceland |
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and Finland |
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and Germany now in one piece, Between 1945 and 1990 Germany was divided into "West Germany" and "East Germany." Germany was reunified in 1990. |
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Switzerland |
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Austria |
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia was a country that existed between 1918 and 1993. In 1993 Czechoslovakia split into two countries: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
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Italy |
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Turkey |
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and Greece |
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Poland |
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Romania |
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Scotland Scotland is one of the four "countries" of the United Kingdom. It is not fully independent. |
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Albania |
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Ireland |
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Russia |
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Oman |
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Bulgaria |
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Saudi Arabia |
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Hungary |
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Cyprus
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Iraq |
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and Iran |
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There's Syria |
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Lebanon |
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Israel |
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Jordan |
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both Yemens From 1967 until 1990, Yemen was divided between North and South. It was reunified in 1990. |
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Kuwait |
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and Bahrain |
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The Netherlands |
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Luxembourg |
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Belgium |
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and Portugal |
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France |
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England England is one of the four "countries" that comprise the United Kingdom. It occupies the southeastern part of the Island of Great Britain. The other three "countries" of the United Kingdom are Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. |
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Denmark Denmark looks like a big thumb that sticks out into the North Sea. |
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and Spain |
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India |
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Pakistan |
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Burma Burma is the old name for the country that is now called Myanmar. |
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Afghanistan |
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Thailand |
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Nepal |
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and Bhutan |
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Kampuchea Kampuchea is an old name for Cambodia. |
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Malaysia |
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Bangladesh, Asia,
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and China |
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Korea In 1945, Korea was divided into two different countries: North Korea and South Korea. Technically, these two halves are still at war.
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Japan
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Mongolia |
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Laos |
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and Tibet Tibet (the dark orange region on the map) is an ancient kingdom that has been part of China since 1950. |
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Indonesia |
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The Philippine Islands |
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Taiwan |
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Sri Lanka |
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New Guinea New Guinea is actually the name of a large island (not a country). The eastern half of the island is the country of Papua New Guinea. The western half belongs to Indonesia. |
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Sumatra Sumatra is an island (not a country). The island of Sumatra belongs to Indonesia. |
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New Zealand |
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Then Borneo Borneo is actually the name of an island (not a country). The island is divided among three countries: Malaysia and Brunei in the north, and Indonesia in the south. |
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and Vietnam |
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Tunisia |
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Morocco |
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Uganda |
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Angola |
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Zimbabwe |
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Djibouti |
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Botswana |
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Mozambique |
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Zambia |
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Swaziland |
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Gambia Gambia is the thin "mouth" of Senegal. It's just a tiny sliver of a country on the banks of the Gambia River. |
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Guinea |
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Algeria |
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Ghana |
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Burundi |
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Lesotho |
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and Malawi |
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Togo |
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The Spanish Sahara is gone, Spanish Sahara is an old name for Western Sahara. Today, the Western Sahara is a disputed territory. Part of it is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and the other part is occupied by Morocco.
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Niger |
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Nigeria |
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Chad |
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and Liberia |
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Egypt |
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Benin |
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and Gabon |
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Tanzania |
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Somalia |
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Kenya |
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and Mali |
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Sierra Leone |
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and Algiers Algiers is not a country. It is the capital city of Algeria. |
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Dahomey Dahomey is an old name for Benin. Since Yakko already named Benin in an earlier verse of the song, there really wasn't any need to repeat it here. Nonetheless, we've included it again, because it sounds cool and it makes the song work. |
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Namibia |
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Senegal Remember, the "mouth" of Senegal is Gambia. |
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Libya |
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Cameroon |
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Congo Remember, there are two Congos:
The country highlighted on this map is the Republic of the Congo.
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Zaire Zaire is an old name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see above). |
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Ethiopia |
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Guinea Bissau |
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Madagascar |
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Rwanda |
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Mahore Mahore is another name for Mayotte, an island of the Comoro Islands in the Mozambique channel of the Indian Ocean. It remained a French territory after the other islands declared their independence in 1975. |
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and Cayman The Cayman Islands are a British territory in the western Caribbean Sea. |
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Hong Kong Hong Kong is a city in southern China that was a British colony for more than 150 years (from 1841 to 1997). The city and the surrounding area was returned to China in 1997. |
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Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. |
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Qatar
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Yugoslavia Yugoslavia was a country that existed in eastern Europe from 1918 to 1991. In 1991 it broke up into six different countries:
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Crete Crete is a large island that belongs to Greece. |
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Mauritania |
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Then Transylvania Transylvania, the home of Count Dracula, is not an independent country. It is a region of Romania. |
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Monaco Monaco is a city-state. In other words, it's a country the size of a city. |
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Liechtenstein Liechtenstein is a small, German-speaking country between Switzerland and Austria. |
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Malta Malta is an island country in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. |
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and Palestine The regions marked by the pink box and the blue box constitute Palestine. The area marked by the pink box is call the Gaza Strip. The area marked by the blue box is called the West Bank. Both areas are currently occupied by Israel. |
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Fiji Fiji is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. |
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Australia |
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Sudan |