North Korea (Choson Minchu-Chui Inmin Konghwa-Guk, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is a communist republic in the Far East, located in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The country, washed to the east by the Sea of Japan and to the west by the Yellow Sea, bordered to the north by China and Russia […]
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The climate of Nepal: when to go to Nepal ?
Nepal, despite its small size, has a wide variety of types of climate, due in particular to the huge differences in height between the areas of the country, it goes from 60 meters in the southern areas along the border with India to more than 8,000 meters of the Himalaya Mountains. Climatically, Nepal can be […]
Nepal (Nepal Adhirajya) is an Himalayan landlocked kingdom, situated on the southern Himalaya, which borders the north with China, and to the west, east and south with India, the capital is the city of Kathmandu. Despite its small size, Nepal has a wide range of natural environments, including territories that run from the plains of […]
Mongolia has a typical continental climate, dry and rigid with cold and dry winters, and warm and relatively rainy summers, the springs are extremely windy, winds, usually carrying dust particles from the desert. The rainfall is very scarce throughout Mongolia, and vary between 100 mm a year in the lowland of the desert of Gobi, […]
Mongolia (Bügd Najramdah Mongol Ard Uls) is a republic of Central Asia. The country is landlocked and borders with Russia to the north and China to the south. The only major city is the capital Ulan-Bator. The country is formed by a series of plateaus which have an average altitude of around 1,500 meters. To […]
The Maldives are located near the equator, and thus have a climate with stable temperatures throughout the year, while the seasons are marked by changes in the amount of rain that falls. The climate of the islands is dominated by two distinct seasons: a relatively dry season and a rainy monsoon season which brings strong […]
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Maldives: atolls, fish and coral reefs
The Maldives (Divehi Jumhuriya, Republic of Maldives) are an archipelago of atolls located in the Indian Ocean south-west of the southern tip of India. The archipelago of the Maldives is located only 400 km from the southern tip of India, and 700 km south-west of the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). CORAL ATOLLS IN THE […]
The climate in Malaysia is equatorial, hot and humid, subject to monsoon rains. The north-east monsoon brings heavy rains between October and February along the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, in the north east Sabah and west Sarawak. On the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, the monsoon brings rains between September and December. In several […]
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Malaysia: modernity and wilderness
Malaysia (Persekutuan Tanah Malaysia) is a federal state of Southeast Asia located just north of the equator. Malaysia encompasses the southern end of the Malacca peninsula and the northern part of the island of Borneo. The Malaysian state is made up of 11 states (Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Terengganu, Negeri Sembilan, Perlis, Melaka, […]
The climate of Macau is subtropical humid influenced by monsoon. The climate, as in much of southern China, is cool and sunny in winter (January-February), hot and rainy in spring (March-April) and summer (May-October), while it is mild and sunny in autumn (October-December). The differences in temperature and humidity between summer and winter are obvious. […]
Macau is a city nestled on a peninsula and some islands that has become a special statute administrative region of China since late 1999, having been a Portuguese colony since 1557. Macau is located along the coast of the South China Sea, at the Pearl River estuary (Zhujiang) and is made up of the Macau […]
The climate of Lebanon is Mediterranean, but influenced by the presence of mountains running parallel to the coast and that block the flow of moist air into the interior. The western slopes of the mountains of Lebanon are the wettest areas of the country, in some locations fall up to 2,000 mm of rain per […]
Lebanon (Al-Jumūhrīya al-Lubnānīya) is a presidential republic in the Middle East, which is bordered to the north and east by Syria, to the south by Israel, to the west is washed from the Mediterranean Sea. The most important city is the capital Beirut, other cities are Tripoli, Saida (Sidon), Sur (Tyre). GEOGRAPHY The Lebanese territory […]
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The climate of Laos: when to go to Laos ?
Laos has a tropical monsoon climate characterized by hot, humid and rainy weather from May to October, from a relatively cooler, dry season between November and February, and by a period warmer and drier between March and April. In the city of Vientiane, the average maximum temperature values are above 30°C for most of the […]
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Laos: temples and Buddhist traditions
Laos (Sāthlāmalath Pasāthi Patai Pasāsunh Lāo, République démocratique populaire Lao) is a socialist republic of Southeast Asia, located on the Indochinese peninsula. The country borders Vietnam to the east and north, China to the north, Cambodia to the south, Thailand to the west and Myanmar (Burma) to the north-west. The capital of the country is […]