CIA World FactBook

Tutuila -- the largest island in American Samoa -- was settled by 1000 B.C., and...

American sailor John HEARD discovered Heard Island in 1853 while fellow American William MCDONALD discovered...

In 2007, the Iles Eparses became an integral part of the French Southern and Antarctic...

This uninhabited volcanic island in Antarctica is almost entirely covered by glaciers, making it difficult...

Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was confirmed in the early 1820s when...

The hunter-gatherer San people first inhabited the area that eventually became Zimbabwe. Farming communities migrated...

Bantu-speaking groups mainly from the Luba and Lunda Kingdoms in the Congo River Basin and...

An ancient crossroads for various migrations, Uganda has as many as 65 ethnic groups that...

Many empires have controlled Tunisia, including the Phoenicians (as early as the 12 century B.C.),...

From the 11th to the 16th centuries, various ethnic groups settled the Togo region. From...

Tanzania contains some of Africa’s most iconic national parks and famous paleoanthropological sites, and its...