making it one of the newest countries to be added to global maps. Since it became its own country, Slovakia has developed a ...

This is true of mountainous countries like Afghanistan. Areas likely to be hit by floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or by drought tend to remain less developed. The map below ...

In the late 1960s, the United Nations began to pay special attention to the least developed countries, recognizing those countries as the most vulnerable among the international community.