World Geography

Syria

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:38:41 -0500

THE SYRIAN ARAB Republic (“Al-Jumhria Al-Arabia Al-Suria” in Arabic) is a Middle Eastern country located at the southwestern edge of the Asian continent.

Switzerland

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:33:12 -0500

THE SWISS CONFEDERATION is a landlocked country that borders France to the west, Germany to the north, Liechtenstein and Austria to the east, and Italy to the south and southeast.

Sweden

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:27:02 -0500

SWEDEN IS ONE of the four Scandinavian countries of northern Europe. Like its neighbors Norway and Finland, Sweden is a long country from south to north, encompassing climatic variation from the relatively temperate south to subarctic areas north of the Arctic Circle.

Swaziland

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:23:05 -0500

THIS TINY, LANDLOCKED, southern African monarchy is surrounded by the Republic of South Africa on three sides and Mozambique on the east.

Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:19:15 -0500

Two territories of the kingdom of Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen are outposts for hunting, mining, and scientific activity far to the north of most human settlement.

Land Survey

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:15:55 -0500

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT from our very earliest origins, modern humans have had an interest in putting things into perspective; being able to say where things are.

Suriname

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:08:48 -0500

SURINAME IS THE SMALLEST independent country in South America. Known formerly as Dutch Guiana, it has had a troubled history since independence in 1975, in part because of conflicts between its very different populations of varied East Asian and African background.

Lake Superior

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:05:27 -0500

LAKE SUPERIOR IS THE coldest, deepest and largest of the Great Lakes, a group of lakes located along the border between the United States and Canada.

Sunspots

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:01:51 -0500

SUNSPOTS ARE DARK, roughly circular features on the solar photosphere. They appear dark because they are cooler than surrounding parts of the photosphere— 7,000 degrees F (4,000 degrees C) as compared to 11,000 degrees F (6,000 degrees C).

Sumatra

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:56:15 -0500

SUMATRA IS IN Southeast Asia and is the sixthlargest island in the world. It is part of the country of Indonesia.

Sudan

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:54:11 -0500

BORDERED BY THE Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, and Uganda, Sudan is Africa’s largest country.

Strait

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:50:09 -0500

A STRAIT IS A narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water. These narrow passageways are sometimes the only way to travel from one body of water to another.

Steppe

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:45:32 -0500

MANY OF THE WORLD’S wide-open spaces, particularly in eastern Europe and central Asia, are considered to be steppe. A steppe is a plain mostly without trees, dominated by short grasses.

St. Lawrence River

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:34:15 -0500

THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER (in French, “fleuve Saint-Laurent”) was formed at the end of the last ice age. It is a 1,900-mi (3,058-km) west-to-east, middle latitude river connecting the five Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

St. Helena Island

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:32:03 -0500

ST. HELENA IS AN ISLAND in the South Atlantic Ocean between Africa and South America. The capital is Jamestown.

Sri Lanka

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:28:41 -0500

GEOLOGICALLY, THE ISLAND of Sri Lanka is considered a southerly extension of peninsular India’s Deccan region and was clearly part of the peninsula all through the last Ice Age.

Spatial interaction

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:25:40 -0500

SPATIAL INTERACTION IS A dynamic flow process from one location to another. It is a general concept that may refer to the movement of human beings such as intraurban commuters or intercontinental migrants, but may also refer to traffic in goods such as raw materials or to flows of intangibles such as information.

Spanish Empire

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:56:16 -0500

THE SPANISH EMPIRE designates the whole of territories that were conquered and ruled by Spain as a result of exploration and colonial expansion initiated in the 15th century.

Spain

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:05:02 -0500

SPAIN IS A COUNTRY located in southwestern Europe, occupying with Portugal the Iberian Peninsula. Spain also borders France and Andorra, and is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and by the Mediterranean Sea.

Southern African Development Community

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:52:02 -0500

IN 1980, NINE FRONTLINE southern African countries came together as the South African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) to promote economic stability, increase interdependence, mitigate poverty, and battle the issue of apartheid in South Africa.

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:49:23 -0500

SOUTH GEORGIA and the South Sandwich Islands are two island formations at the southern extremities of the Atlantic Ocean, not far from the Antarctic Peninsula that juts out from Antarctica, 1,000 mi (1,600 km) to the south.

South Dakota

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:46:06 -0500

SOUTH DAKOTA, IN THE American Midwest, is the 17th largest state at 77,121 square mi (199,742 square km), but is small in population (just 754,844 people ranking it as 46th largest in population).

South China Sea

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:42:36 -0500

THE SOUTH CHINA Sea covers an area of 1.35million square mi (3.5 million square km) bordered by he People’s Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

South Carolina

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:40:16 -0500

KNOWN AS THE Palmetto State, South Carolina was named for Kings Charles I and Charles II of England.

South Africa

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:35:12 -0500

OFFICIALLY called the Republic of South Africa, the country is a semiarid subtropical state located on the southernmost tip of Africa.

Sonoran Desert

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:02 -0500

THE SONORAN DESERT, an arid region of western North America, covers an area of 120,000 square mi (311,000 square km) in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, most of Baja California, and the western half of the state of Sonora, Mexico.

Somalia

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:23:12 -0500

SOMALIA OCCUPIES a strategic location along Africa's northeast coast at the southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and the route through Red Sea to the Suez Canal.