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South Korea
Area: 99,373 sq km
Population: 48 million
Capital City: Seoul (pop 10.3 million)
People: Korean
Language: Korean
Religion: 25% Christianity, 25% Buddhism,
Confucianism, Shamanism, 50% none.
Government: republic |
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China
Area: 9.59 million sq km
Population: 1.28 billion
Capital City: Beijing (pop 12.6 million)
People: Han Chinese (93%), plus 55 ethnic
minorities
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese
Religion: Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism (no
stats available); Muslim (14 million), Christian
(7
million)
Government: Communist republic |
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Japan
Area: 377,835 sq km
Population: 127 million
Capital City: Tokyo
People: Japanese (including indigenous Ainu & Okinawans), Korean
Language: Japanese
Religion: Shintō, Buddhism, Christianity.
Government: constitutional monarchy |
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Germany
Area: 357,021 sq km
Population: 82.39 million
Capital City: Berlin
People: Predominantly Caucasian, with a
significant Turkish minority. Germany has also
absorbed many refugees from the former
Yugoslavia.
Language: German
Religion: 34% Protestant, 34% Catholic, 4%
Muslim, 28% unaffiliated or other. There are
about 74,000
Jews (the pre-Holocaust figure was over half a
million).
Government: Federal republic |
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France
Area: 547,030 sq km
Population: 60.4 million
Capital City: Paris
People: 92% French, 3% North African, 2% German,
1% Breton, 2% other (including Provençal,
Catalan & Basque)
Language: French, Catalan, Basque, Breton,
Corsican
Religion: 86% Roman Catholic, 8% Muslim, 2%
Protestant 1% Jewish, 3% unaffiliated
Government: republic |
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Spain
Area: 505,000 sq km
Population: 42.7 million
Capital City: Madrid
People: Castilians, Basques, Catalans, Galicians,
Moroccans, South Americans
Language: Spanish, Basque, Gallegan, Catalan
Religion: 80% Roman Catholic
Government: parliamentary monarchy |
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Croatia
Area: 56,542 sq km
Population: 4.42 million
Capital City: Zagreb (pop: 777,000)
People: Croatian (78%), Serbian (12%), Slavic
Muslim (Bosniac), Hungarian, Slovenian, Italian
Language: Croatian, Serbian, Italian, Slovenian,
Hungarian
Religion: Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox,
Islam
Government: presidential/parliamentary democracy |
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Italy
Area: 301,230 sq km
Population: 57.99 million
Capital City: Rome
People: Italian
Language: Italian, Croatian, French, German,
Serbian
Religion: 84% Roman Catholic, 6% Jewish, Muslim
and Protestant
Government: republic |
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England
Area: 129,720 sq km
Population: 51 million
Capital City: London
People: Anglo-Saxons, Scots, Welsh, Irish, West
Indians, Pakistanis, Indians
Language: English
Religion: Church of England, Catholic,
Methodist, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh and Hindu.
Government: constitutional monarchy |
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