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Just typing first thing i know about these countries
Djibouti:never hear of it
Seychelles:umm holiday and offshore banking /tax haven
Liberia:never hear of it
Grenada:tax heaven?
Gambia, The:poverty
American Samoa:not a clue UN peacekeeping force maybe?
Gibraltar:erm UK overseas's territory
Saint Kitts and Nevis:not a clue former UK territory is all i know somewhere in indian ocean maybe?
Mayotte:never heard of it
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:again former UK territory i figure
Samoa:same as american samoa i figure
Comoros:never heard
Vanuatu:no idea
East Timor:UN peacekeeping force
Solomon Islands:i think this place is in australasia
British Virgin Islands:Tax haven
Guinea-Bissau:drug cartels
Dominica: drugs
Micronesia, Federated States of:i figure this is what the UAE would be like without oil
Turks and Caicos Islands:no idea
Tonga:no idea
Palau:australasia?
Marshall Islands:again australasia?
São Tomé and Príncipe:noo clue
Cook Islands:captain cook? :D
Anguilla:british territory
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):british territory/falklands war
Kiribati:no idea
Nauru:was a rich country until phosphate reserves where mined now poor
Wallis and Futuna:former brit territory
Montserrat:former french terrirtory?
Saint Helena:former brit territory
Tuvalu:no idea
Niue:no idea
most country that spurred-away from the former USSR in 1989, Tjakistan(can't spell it), as well as a few of the countries ending in -istan(Uzbekistan, etc.)
While I'm thinking of it, you never seem to hear about things happening in Greenland, either.
Paraguay, Uruguay, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Anarctica, Mauritania.
You seldom hear about Portugal in the news.
Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan,Bhutan,Laos, Mongolia Togo, Burkina Faso,Gabon, Mauritania,Western Sahara, Central African republic, Canada, Guyana, Suriname.
I guess it depends on where you are and which news you hear.
Iceland
Canada
Australia
Mozambique
Namibia
Armenia
Belize
Cameroon
Kyrgyzstan
Malawi
Nicaragua
Brunei, New Zealand, many African countries.
by Smile loves California on December 17th, 2009
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Luxembourg.
egypt
canada
Finland, Suriname, Polynesia
by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on December 17th, 2009
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Mali and Chad.
Lichtenstein
by Mavericks just doin a flyby on December 17th, 2009
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Republic of Iceland and Madagascar.
by Doyler - you have got to be kidding me! on December 17th, 2009
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greenland
by aiar on February 22nd, 2010
AIAR! but it's on a far, far away planet, only I can live there!
by Ranger on January 8th, 2010
How about little Andora, then Albania, Macedonia (FYR) ,Swaziland, Faroe Islands.
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WOW!! That an is AWESOME list! Those are definitely some places you very rarely hear about. I have been interested in maps since I was a kid and and some of those places like Niue, for example, were unfamiliar to me (I just looked up to see where they were). By the way, all of those ones where you wrote "no idea" are remote islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. You can pretty much count on a lot of those small, remote places evading the news.
by Astro17 on December 19th, 2009