Pakistan
Pakistan, 2002
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Pakistan is located in Southern Asia bordering the Arabian Sea, between India to the east and Iran and Afghanistan to the west and China to the north. Pakistan covers an area of 803,943 sq. km., nearly twice the size of the U.S. state of California. The majority of Pakistan's population (176,243,000 July 2009, est.) lives along the Indus River valley and along an arc formed by the cities of Faisalabad, Peshawar, Lahore, and Rawalpindi/Islamabad. 
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan Adminstrative Divisions, 2008
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, covers and area of 647,500 sq. km. (249,935 sq. mi.), slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Texas. Its capital, Kabul has an estimated population of 1,780,000; other major cities include: Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalabad, and Konduz. This landlocked country is comprised of mostly mountains and desert. Afghanistan's climate ranges from arid to semiarid with cold winters and hot summers. Read More
Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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[Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream]
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The Gulf Coast of the United States stretches more than 1,600 miles from Texas to the tip of the Florida peninsula and is bounded by the Gulf of Mexico, which covers more than 700,000 square miles in Southeast North America. Read More
