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A transcontinental country is a country belonging to more than one continent. The definitions used may vary according to which criteria are used . An example is Russia, which has its historical core as well as most of its population , economic activity and political institutions in Europe, yet ''geographically'' most of the territory is actually in Asia. By most definitions, Russia straddles in Eurasia. More »
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Russia
Russia , also the Russian Federation , is a transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia . With an area of 17,075,400 km², Russia is the largest country in the world, covering almost twice the total area of the next-largest country, Canada, and has significant mineral and energy resources. Russia has the world's ninth-largest population. Russia shares land borders with the following countries : Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine,... More »
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey More »
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometers , Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east. The northern coast borders the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern coast borders the Red Sea. Egypt is the sixteenth most populous country in the world, and the second most populous country in Africa . More »
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, located in the Southern Caucasus. It shares borders with Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south. A former republic of the Soviet Union, Armenia is a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state with an ancient and historic cultural heritage. More »
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, in the South Caucasus. It is bordered by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. An exclave of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic also borders Turkey to the west. A self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh is occupied by Armenia, but is internationally recognized as a part of Azerbaijan. More »
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus is a Eurasian island country in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey . Cyprus is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, attracting over 2.4 million tourists per year. A former British colony, it gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1960 and became a Commonwealth republic in 1961. The Republic of Cyprus is a developed country and has been... More »
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, also spelled Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of northern and central Eurasia. Its territory of 2,717,300 km² , the ninth largest in the world, is partially located to the west of the Ural River in eastern-most Europe. Prior to full independence, Kazakhstan existed as the Kazakh SSR in the Soviet Union. It is now a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, bordering Russia, the People's Republic of... More »
List of Medical Schools in Egypt
This list of colleges of medicine in Egypt includes major academic institutions in EGYPT that award advanced degrees for medical professionals, such as physicians and surgeons. Schools of medicine or dentistry are listed separately here: More »
Abdullah Cevdet
Abdullah Cevdet was an Ottoman Turkish intellectual of Kurdish origin and a medical doctor by profession. He was also a poet, translator, radical free-thinker and an ideologist of the Young Turks who led the Westernization movement in the Ottoman Empire from 1908 until 1918. Cevdet was influenced by materialistic philosophies of the West and antagonistic towards institutionalized religion. Cevdet published articles on socio-religious, political, economic and literary issues in the... More »
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