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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia consisting of four main islands—Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku—alongside t...

Asia Archipelago Island Mountainous

9.5 Brilliant

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia with Bangkok as its capital...

Asia Coastal Tropical Monarchy

8.5 Great

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Mexico

Mexico is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America, with Mexico City as its capital. Its pre-Hispanic...

Coastal Tropical North America Mountainous

8.5 Great

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Vietnam

Vietnam is a socialist republic in Southeast Asia bordering China, Laos, and Cambodia, with Hanoi as its capital and Ho...

Asia Coastal Tropical Mountainous

8.5 Great

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China

East Asian nation spanning vast territories from mountains to deserts to coasts with ancient civilizations and modern de...

Asia Coastal Desert Mountainous

8.4 Great

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South Korea

East Asian nation on the Korean peninsula with mountainous terrain, Buddhist temples, palaces of Seoul, and globally inf...

Asia Coastal Mountainous Unesco Heritage

8.4 Great

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India

South Asian nation and cradle of Hinduism and Buddhism, with the Taj Mahal, Himalayan mountains, and many languages and...

Asia Tropical Mountainous Federation

8.4 Great

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Indonesia

Southeast Asian archipelago of over seventeen thousand islands with tropical rainforests, volcanoes, and diverse ethnic...

Asia Tropical Rainforest Archipelago

8.3 Great

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Czech Republic

Central European landlocked nation known for the medieval architecture of Prague, beer culture, and the historic Charles...

Europe Landlocked Unesco Heritage

7.9 Good

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Maldives

The Maldives is a republic of roughly 1,200 coral islands grouped into about 26 atolls in the Indian Ocean, southwest of...

Asia Tropical Archipelago Island

7.8 Good

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Vatican City

Vatican City is an independent city-state enclaved within Rome, established as a sovereign entity under the 1929 Lateran...

Europe City State Landlocked Unesco Heritage

7.8 Good

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation in Southeast Asia consisting of Peninsular Malaysia, south of Thailand, and the states of Sabah...

Asia Tropical Rainforest Island

7.7 Good

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Nepal

Nepal is a landlocked federal republic in the Himalayas between India and China, with Kathmandu as its capital. It conta...

Asia Alpine Mountainous Landlocked

7.7 Good

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Philippines

The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, with Manila as its capital. A...

Asia Tropical Archipelago Island

7.6 Good

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and S...

Europe Landlocked Wine Producing Unesco Heritage

7.6 Good

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Bhutan

Bhutan is a landlocked Himalayan kingdom between China and India, with its capital at Thimphu and Dzongkha as the offici...

Asia Monarchy Mountainous Landlocked

7.4 Good

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Cambodia

Cambodia is a country in mainland Southeast Asia with its capital at Phnom Penh and Khmer as its official language. It w...

Asia Tropical Unesco Heritage

7.3 Good

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is an island country off the southern tip of India. Its Sinhalese Buddhist majority and Tamil Hindu minority r...

Asia Coastal Tropical Island

7.2 Good

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia and one of only two doubly landlocked nations in the world. Its Silk...

Asia Desert Landlocked Unesco Heritage

6.8 Fair

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Myanmar

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a country in mainland Southeast Asia with coastlines on the Bay of Bengal and the Andam...

Asia Coastal Tropical Mountainous

6.1 Fair