CIA World FactBook

Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served...

Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in...

The Spanish founded the city of Montevideo in modern-day Uruguay in 1726 as a military...

The Spaniards first explored Suriname in the 16th century, and the English then settled it...

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands lie approximately 1,000 km east of the Falkland...

Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the...

Several Indigenous groups, principally belonging to the Guarani language family, inhabited the area of modern...

Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British...

Although first sighted by an English navigator in 1592, the first landing (English) did not...

What is now Ecuador formed part of the northern Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest...

Colombia was one of three countries that emerged after the dissolution of Gran Colombia in...