Asia
... people came under Russian rule in the 1860s and 1870s, but Russia's hold on Central Asia weakened following the Revolution of 1917. Bolshevik control of the area was fiercely contested and ...
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/a_fg.html
Asia
Central Asia, west of China
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/b_mp.html
Asia
... of opium poppy for domestic consumption; Tajikistan seizes roughly 80% of all drugs captured in Central Asia and stands third worldwide in seizures of opiates (heroin and raw opium); significant consumer of ...
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/i_ti.html
Asia
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma
www.exxun.com/Thailand/b_mp.html
Asia
... to have fully recovered from the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis. The country was one of East Asia's best performers from 2002-04. Boosted by strong export growth, the Thai economy grew 4.5 ...
www.exxun.com/Thailand/e_ec.html
Asia
... outpacing fixed lines international: country code - 66; connected to major submarine cable systems providing links throughout Asia, Australia, Middle East, Europe, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 ...
www.exxun.com/Thailand/f_cm.html
Asia
Southeastern Asia, northwest of Australia in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago; note - Timor-Leste includes the eastern half of the island of Timor, the Oecussi ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/b_mp.html
Asia
... the SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; coaxial cable and microwave radio ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/f_cm.html
Asia
southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/b_mp.html
Asia
Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Kazakhstan
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/b_mp.html
Asia
strategic position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; second-largest country in Europe
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/b_mp.html
Asia
... country code - 380; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/f_cm.html
Asia
... relay, and fiber-optic systems international: country code - 44; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and US; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (7 Atlantic Ocean and ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/f_cm.html
Asia
Central Asia, north of Afghanistan
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/b_mp.html
Asia
... via the Moscow international gateway switch; after the completion of the Uzbek link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable, Uzbekistan will be independent of Russian facilities for international communications ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/f_cm.html
Asia
... Uzbekistan is a source and, to a lesser extent, a transit country for women trafficked to Asia and the Middle East for the purpose of sexual exploitation; women from other Central Asian ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/i_ti.html
Asia
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/b_mp.html
Asia
... Asia-America Gateway submarine cable system, scheduled for completion by the end of 2008, will provide new access links to Asia and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/f_cm.html
Asia
... which are (from largest to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Asia and Europe are sometimes lumped together into a Eurasian continent resulting in six continents. Alternatively ...
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Asia
... two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and ...
www.exxun.com/World/c_pp.html
Asia
... commercial sexual exploitation; roughly two-thirds of the global victims are trafficked intra-regionally within East Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia (170,000 to 210,000 people ...
www.exxun.com/World/i_ti.html
Asian
increasingly active transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a lesser extent - cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; limited opium and growing ...
www.exxun.com/Albania/i_ti.html
Asian
native Pacific islander 92.9%, Asian 2.9%, white 1.2%, mixed 2.8%, other 0.2% (2000 census)
www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/c_pp.html
Asian
white 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1%
www.exxun.com/Australia/c_pp.html
Asian
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and South American cocaine destined for Western Europe; increasing consumption of European-produced synthetic drugs
www.exxun.com/Austria/i_ti.html
