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| | List of countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | To be listed here as a de facto independent country, article 1 of the Montevideo Convention from 1933 is followed, which means that entity should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states. |
 | | One can also browse countries by capital city, by continent, by population, by area, by population density, by gross domestic product, by date of nationhood and by time zone. |
 | | The WikiProject Countries is an attempt to formulate a template for the country articles and expands articles with public domain sources (see Status of the porting of the CIA World Factbook, Status of the porting of U.S. Dept of State info). |
| www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_countries.html (957 words) |
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