Synonyms and antonyms of Specific countries in the dictionary in American Thesaurus

Afghanistan ()

Afghanistan is bounded in the north by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, east by China, east and south by Pakistan and west by Iran.

Albania ()

Albania is bounded in the north by Montenegro and Serbia, east by Macedonia, south by Greece and west by the Adriatic.

Algeria ()

Algeria is bounded in the west by Morocco and Western Sahara, south-west by Mauritania and Mali, south-east by Niger, east by Libya and Tunisia, and north by the Mediterranean Sea.

Andorra ()

The co-principality of Andorra is situated in the eastern Pyrenees on the French-Spanish border.

Angola ()

Angola is bounded in the north by the Republic of the Congo, north and north-east by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, east by Zambia, south by Namibia and west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Antigua and Barbuda ()

Antigua and Barbuda comprises three islands of the Lesser Antilles situated in the eastern Caribbean; it consists of Antigua, Barbuda and uninhabited Redonda.

Aotearoa ()

the Maori name for New Zealand. It means “the land of the long white cloud.”

Argentina ()

The second largest country in South America, the Argentine Republic is bounded in the north by Bolivia, in the north-east by Paraguay, in the east by Brazil, Uruguay and the Atlantic Ocean, and the west by Chile.

Armenia ()

Armenia is bounded in the north by Georgia, in the east by Azerbaijan and in the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

Australia ()

Australia, excluding external territories, covers a land area of 7,692,024 square kilometers, extending from Cape York in the north some 3,680 km to South East Cape, Tasmania; and from Cape Byron, New South Wales in the east some 4,000 km west to Steep Point, Western Australia.

Austria ()

Austria is bounded in the north by Germany and the Czech Republic, east by Slovakia and Hungary, south by Slovenia and Italy, and west by Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Azerbaijan ()

Azerbaijan is bounded in the west by Armenia, in the north by Georgia and the Russian Federation (Dagestan), in the east by the Caspian sea and in the south by Turkey and Iran.

Bahamas ()

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas consists of over 700 islands and inhabited cays off the south-east coast of Florida extending for about 260,000 square miles. Only 22 islands are inhabited.

Bahrain ()

The Kingdom of Bahrain forms an archipelago of 36 low-lying islands in the Persian Gulf, between the Qatar peninsula and the mainland of Saudi Arabia.

Bangladesh ()

Bangladesh is bounded in the west and north by India, east by India and Myanmar and south by the Bay of Bengal.

Barbados ()

Barbados lies to the east of the Windward Islands, north of Venezuela.

Belarus ()

Belarus is situated along the western Dvina and Dnieper. It is bounded in the west by Poland, north by Latvia and Lithuania, east by Russia and south by Ukraine.

Belgium ()

Belgium is bounded in the north by the Netherlands, north-west by the North Sea, west and south by France, and east by Germany and Luxembourg.

Belize ()

Belize is bounded in the north by Mexico, west and south by Guatemala and east by the Caribbean.

Benin ()

Benin is bounded in the east by Nigeria, north by Niger and Burkina Faso, west by Togo and south by the Gulf of Guinea.

Bharat (Indian English)

Indian English the Hindi name for India

Bhutan ()

Bhutan is situated in the eastern Himalayas, bounded in the north by Tibet and on all other sides by India.

Bolivia ()

Bolivia is a landlocked state bounded in the north and east by Brazil, south by Paraguay and Argentina, and west by Chile and Peru.

Bosnia and Herzegovina ()

The republic is bounded in the north and west by Croatia, in the east by Serbia and in the south-east by Montenegro.

Botswana ()

Botswana is bounded in the west and north by Namibia, north-east by Zambia and Zimbabwe, and east and south by South Africa.

Brazil ()

Brazil is bounded in the east by the Atlantic and on its northern, western and southern borders by all the South American countries except Chile and Ecuador.

Britain ()

England, Scotland, and Wales

Brunei ()

Brunei, on the coast of Borneo, is bounded in the north-west by the South China Sea and on all other sides by Sarawak (Malaysia), which splits it into two parts.

Bulgaria ()

Bulgaria is bounded in the north by Romania, east by the Black Sea, south by Turkey and Greece, and west by Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia.

Burkina Faso ()

Burkina Faso is bounded in the north and west by Mali, east by Niger and south by Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

Burundi ()

Burundi is bounded in the north by Rwanda, east and south by Tanzania and west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Cabo Verde ()

Cabo Verde is situated in the Atlantic Ocean 620 km off west Africa.

Cambodia ()

Cambodia is bounded in the north by Laos and Thailand, west by Thailand, east by Vietnam and south by the Gulf of Thailand.

Cameroon ()

Cameroon is bounded in the west by the Gulf of Guinea, north-west by Nigeria, east by Chad and the Central African Republic, and south by the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

Canada ()

Canada is bounded in the north-west by the Beaufort Sea, north by the Arctic Ocean, north-east by Baffin Bay, east by the Davis Strait, Labrador Sea and Atlantic Ocean, south by the U.S.A. and west by the Pacific Ocean and U.S.A. (Alaska).

Central African Republic ()

The republic is bounded in the north by Chad, north-east by Sudan, east by South Sudan, south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, and west by Cameroon.

Chad ()

Chad is bounded in the west by Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger, north by Libya, east by Sudan and south by the Central African Republic.

Chile ()

Chile is bounded in the north by Peru, east by Bolivia and Argentina, and south and west by the Pacific Ocean.

China ()

China is bounded in the north by Russia and Mongolia; east by North Korea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea; south by Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, India, Bhutan and Nepal; west by India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Colombia ()

Colombia is bounded in the north by the Caribbean Sea, north-west by Panama, west by the Pacific Ocean, south-west by Ecuador and Peru, north-east by Venezuela and south-east by Brazil.

Comoros ()

The Comoros consists of three islands in the Indian Ocean between the African mainland and Madagascar.

Costa Rica ()

Costa Rica is bounded in the north by Nicaragua, east by the Caribbean, south-east by Panama, and south and west by the Pacific.

Côte d’Ivoire ()

Côte d'Ivoire is bounded in the west by Liberia and Guinea, north by Mali and Burkina Faso, east by Ghana, and south by the Gulf of Guinea.

Croatia ()

Croatia is bounded in the north by Slovenia and Hungary, in the east by Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the south-east by Montenegro.

Cuba ()

The island of Cuba forms the largest and most westerly of the Greater Antilles group and lies 215 km (135 miles) south of the tip of Florida, U.S.A.

Cyprus ()

The island lies in the Mediterranean, about 60 km off the south coast of Turkey and 90 km off the coast of Syria.

Czech Republic ()

The Czech Republic is bounded in the west by Germany, north by Poland, east by Slovakia and south by Austria.

Democratic Republic of the Congo (noun)

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, sometimes referred to as Congo (Kinshasa), is bounded in the north by the Central African Republic, north-east by South Sudan, east by Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Lake Tanganyika, south by Zambia, south-west by Angola and north-west by the Republic of the Congo.

Denmark ()

Denmark is bounded in the west by the North Sea, north-west and north by the Skagerrak and Kattegat straits (separating it from Norway and Sweden), and south by Germany.

Djibouti ()

Djibouti is in effect a city-state surrounded by a semi-desert hinterland. It is bounded in the north-west by Eritrea, north-east by the Gulf of Aden, south-east by Somalia and south-west by Ethiopia.

Dominica ()

Dominica is an island in the Windward group of the West Indies situated between Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Dominican Republic ()

The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern portion (about two-thirds) of the island of Hispaniola, the western division forming the Republic of Haiti.

down under (informal)

informal Australia or New Zealand

Ecuador ()

Ecuador is bounded in the north by Colombia, in the east and south by Peru and in the west by the Pacific ocean.

Egypt ()

Egypt is bounded in the east by Israel and Palestine, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, south by Sudan, west by Libya and north by the Mediterranean.

El Salvador ()

El Salvador is bounded in the north-west by Guatemala, north-east and east by Honduras and south by the Pacific Ocean.

the Emerald Isle (mainly literary)

mainly literary a name for Ireland

Equatorial Guinea ()

The mainland part of Equatorial Guinea is bounded in the north by Cameroon, east and south by Gabon, and west by the Gulf of Guinea.

Eritrea ()

Eritrea is bounded in the north-east by the Red Sea, south-east by Djibouti, south by Ethiopia and west by Sudan.

Estonia ()

Estonia is bounded in the west and north by the Baltic Sea, east by Russia and south by Latvia.

Ethiopia ()

Ethiopia is bounded in the north-east by Eritrea, east by Djibouti and Somalia, south by Kenya and west by South Sudan and Sudan.

Fiji ()

Fiji comprises 332 islands and islets (about one-third are inhabited) and is situated in the South Pacific, off the east coast of Australia.

Finland ()

Finland is bounded in the north-west and north by Norway, east by Russia, south by the Baltic Sea and west by the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden.

France ()

France is bounded in the north by the English Channel, north-east by Belgium and Luxembourg, east by Germany, Switzerland and Italy, south by the Mediterranean, south-west by Spain and Andorra, and west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Gabon ()

Gabon is bounded in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, north by Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon and east and south by the Republic of the Congo.

The Gambia ()

The Gambia takes its name from the River Gambia, and consists of a strip of territory never wider than 10 km on both banks. It is bounded in the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on all other sides by Senegal.

G.B. (abbreviation)

Great Britain

G.D.R. (abbreviation)

German Democratic Republic: the name given to East Germany when it was separate from West Germany

Georgia ()

Georgia is bounded in the west by the Black Sea and south by Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Germany ()

Germany is bounded in the north by Denmark and the North and Baltic Seas, east by Poland, east and south-east by the Czech Republic, south-east and south by Austria, south by Switzerland and west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Ghana ()

Ghana is bounded west by Côte d'Ivoire, north by Burkina Faso, east by Togo and south by the Gulf of Guinea.

Gr. (abbreviation)

Greece

Gr. (abbreviation)

Greek

Great Britain ()

the island that consists of England, Scotland, and Wales

Greece ()

Greece is bounded in the north by Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, east by Turkey and the Aegean Sea, south by the Mediterranean and west by the Ionian Sea.

Grenada ()

Grenada is the most southerly island of the Windward Islands, situatued off the Venezuelan coast.

Guatemala ()

Guatemala is bounded on the north and west by Mexico, south by the Pacific Ocean and east by El Salvador, Honduras and Belize.

Guinea ()

Guinea is bounded in the north-west by Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, north-east by Mali, south-east by Côte d'Ivoire, south by Liberia and Sierra Leone, and west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Guinea-Bissau ()

Guinea-Bissau is bounded by Senegal in the north, the Atlantic Ocean in the west and by Guinea in the east and south.

Guyana ()

Guyana is situated on the north-east coast of Latin America on the Atlantic Ocean, with Suriname on the east, Venezuela on the west and Brazil on the south and west.

Haiti ()

Haiti is bounded in the east by the Dominican Republic, to the north by the Atlantic and elsewhere by the Caribbean Sea.

Honduras ()

Honduras is bounded in the north by the Caribbean, east and south-east by Nicaragua, west by Guatemala, south-west by El Salvador and south by the Pacific Ocean.

Hungary ()

Hungary is bounded in the north by Slovakia, north-east by Ukraine, east by Romania, south by Croatia and Serbia, south-west by Slovenia and west by Austria.

Iceland ()

Iceland is an island in the North Atlantic, close to the Arctic Circle.

Ind. (abbreviation)

India

Ind. (abbreviation)

Indian

India ()

India is bounded in the north-west by Pakistan, north by China (Tibet), Nepal and Bhutan, east by Myanmar, and south-east, south and south-west by the Indian Ocean.

Indonesia ()

Indonesia, in the south-east of Asia, consists of 17,507 islands (6,000 of which are inhabited) extending about 3,200 miles east to west through three time-zones, and 1,250 miles north to south.

Iran ()

Iran is bounded in the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan, east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, south by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, and west by Iraq and Turkey.

Iraq ()

Iraq is bounded in the north by Turkey, east by Iran, south-east by the Persian Gulf, south by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and west by Jordan and Syria.

Ireland ()

The Republic of Ireland lies in the Atlantic Ocean, separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea to the east, and bounded in the north-east by Northern Ireland (UK).

Israel ()

Israel is located in the Middle East on the Mediterranean Sea, bounded by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.

Italy ()

Italy is bounded in the north by Switzerland and Austria, east by Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea, south-east by the Ionian Sea, south by the Mediterranean Sea, south-west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and Ligurian Sea and west by France.

Jamaica ()

Jamaica is an island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba.

Japan ()

Japan, located in the Pacific Ocean, consists of four major islands, Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, and many small islands.

Jordan ()

Jordan is bounded in the north by Syria, east by Iraq, south-east and south by Saudi Arabia and west by Israel.

Kazakhstan ()

Kazakhstan is bounded in the west by the Caspian Sea and Russia, in the north by Russia, in the east by China and in the south by Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

Kenya ()

Kenya is bounded by South Sudan and Ethiopia in the north, Uganda in the west, Tanzania in the south and Somalia and the Indian Ocean in the east.

Kiribati ()

Kiribati consists of three groups of coral atolls and one isolated volcanic island, spread over a large expanse of the Central Pacific.

Kuwait ()

Kuwait is bounded in the east by the Persian Gulf, north and west by Iraq and south and south-west by Saudi Arabia.

Kyrgyzstan ()

Kyrgyzstan is situated on the Tien-Shan mountains and bordered in the east by China, west by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, north by Kazakhstan and south by Tajikistan.

Laos ()

Laos is a landlocked country, bordered on the north by China, the east by Vietnam, the south by Cambodia and the west by Thailand and Myanmar.

Latvia ()

Latvia is situated in north-eastern Europe. It is bordered by Estonia on the north and by Lithuania on the south-west, while on the east there is a frontier with the Russian Federation and to the south-east with Belarus.

Lebanon ()

Lebanon is mountainous, bounded on the north and east by Syria, on the west by the Mediterranean and on the south by Israel.

Lesotho ()

Lesotho is an enclave within South Africa.

Liberia ()

Liberia is bounded in the north-west by Sierra Leone, north by Guinea, east by Côte d’Ivoire and south-west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Libya ()

Libya is bounded in the north by the Mediterranean Sea, east by Egypt and Sudan, south by Chad and Niger and west by Algeria and Tunisia.

Liechtenstein ()

Liechtenstein is bounded on the east by Austria and the west by Switzerland.

Lithuania ()

Lithuania is bounded in the north by Latvia, east and south by Belarus, and west by Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and the Baltic Sea.

the Lucky Country (Australian)

Australian Australia, seen as a rich happy country

Luxembourg ()

Luxembourg is bounded on the west by Belgium, south by France and east by Germany.

Macedonia ()

Macedonia (referred to within the United Nations as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) is bounded in the north by Serbia, in the east by Bulgaria, in the south by Greece and in the west by Albania.

Madagascar ()

Madagascar is situated 400 km (250 miles) off the south-east coast of Africa, from which it is separated by the Mozambique channel.

Malawi ()

Malaŵi lies along the southern and western shores of Lake Malaŵi, and is otherwise bounded in the north by Tanzania, south by Mozambique and west by Zambia.

Malaysia ()

The federal state of Malaysia is bounded by Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and by the South China and Sulu Seas.

Maldives ()

The republic, to the south-west of Sri Lanka, consists of 1,192 low-lying coral islands, grouped into 19 atolls and two cities.

Mali ()

Mali is bounded in the west by Senegal, north-west by Mauritania, north-east by Algeria, east by Niger and south by Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea.

Malta ()

The three Maltese islands and minor islets lie in the Mediterranean 93 km (at the nearest point) south of Sicily and 288 km east of Tunisia.

Marshall Islands ()

The Marshall Islands lie in the North Pacific Ocean north of Kiribati and east of Micronesia.

Mauritania ()

Mauritania is bounded west by the Atlantic Ocean, north by Western Sahara, north-east by Algeria, east and south-east by Mali, and south by Senegal.

Mauritius ()

Mauritius, the main island, lies east of Madagascar. Rodrigues is 560 km (350 miles) east. The outer islands are Agalega and the St Brandon Group.

Mexico ()

Mexico is bounded in the north by the U.S.A., west and south by the Pacific Ocean, south-east by Guatemala, Belize and the Caribbean Sea, and north-east by the Gulf of Mexico.

Micronesia ()

The Federated States lie in the North Pacific Ocean, north-east of Papua New Guinea.

Moldova ()

Moldova is bounded in the east and south by Ukraine and on the west by Romania.

Monaco ()

Monaco is bounded in the south by the Mediterranean and elsewhere by France.

Mongolia ()

Mongolia is bounded in the north by the Russian Federation, and in the east and south and west by China.

Montenegro ()

Montenegro is a mountainous country which opens to the Adriatic in the south-west. It is bounded in the west by Croatia, north-west by Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the north-east by Serbia and in the south-east by Albania.

Morocco ()

Morocco is bounded by Algeria to the east and south-east, Mauritania to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the north-west and the Mediterranean to the north.

Mozambique ()

Mozambique is bounded in the east by the Indian Ocean, south by South Africa, south-west by Swaziland, west by South Africa and Zimbabwe and north by Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania.

Myanmar ()

Myanmar is bounded in the east by China, Laos and Thailand, and west by the Indian Ocean, Bangladesh and India.

Mzansi (South African)

South Africaninformal another name for South Africa

N.A. (abbreviation)

North America

Namibia ()

Namibia is bounded in the north by Angola and Zambia, west by the Atlantic Ocean, south and south-east by South Africa and east by Botswana.

Nauru ()

Nauru is a coral island surrounded by a reef situated north-east of Australia.

Nepal ()

Nepal is bounded in the north by China and the east, south and west by India.

The Netherlands ()

The Netherlands is bounded in the north and west by the North Sea, south by Belgium and east by Germany.

New Zealand ()

New Zealand lies south-east of Australia in the South Pacific.

Nicaragua ()

Nicaragua is bounded in the north by Honduras, east by the Caribbean, south by Costa Rica and west by the Pacific Ocean.

Niger ()

Niger is bounded in the north by Algeria and Libya, east by Chad, south by Nigeria, south-west by Benin and Burkina Faso, and west by Mali.

Nigeria ()

Nigeria is bounded in the north by Niger, east by Chad and Cameroon, south by the Gulf of Guinea and west by Benin.

North Korea ()

North Korea is bounded in the north by China, east by the Sea of Japan, west by the Yellow Sea and south by South Korea.

Norway ()

Norway is bounded in the north by the Arctic Ocean, east by Russia, Finland and Sweden, south by the Skagerrak Straits and west by the Norwegian Sea.

N.Z. (abbreviation)

New Zealand

Oman ()

Situated at the south-east corner of the Arabian peninsula, Oman is bounded in the north-east by the Gulf of Oman and south-east by the Arabian Sea, south-west by Yemen and north-west by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Oz (British)

Britishinformal Australia

Pakistan ()

Pakistan is bounded in the west by Iran, north-west by Afghanistan, north by China, east by India and south by the Arabian Sea.

Palau ()

The archipelago lies in the western Pacific.

Panama ()

Panama is bounded in the north by the Caribbean Sea, east by Colombia, south by the Pacific Ocean and west by Costa Rica.

Papua New Guinea ()

Papua New Guinea is bounded by Indonesia, situated north-east of Australia.

Paraguay ()

Paraguay is bounded in the north-west by Bolivia, north-east and east by Brazil and south-east, south and south-west by Argentina.

Peru ()

Peru is bounded in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, east by Brazil and Bolivia, south by Chile and west by the Pacific Ocean.

Philippines ()

The Philippines is situated in the Pacific Ocean, south-east of China. It is composed of 7,100 islands and islets, 3,144 of which are named.

Poland ()

Poland is bounded in the north by the Baltic Sea and Russia, east by Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, south by the Czech Republic and Slovakia and west by Germany.

Portugal ()

Portugal is bounded in the north and east by Spain and south and west by the Atlantic Ocean.

PR (abbreviation)

Puerto Rico

Qatar ()

Qatar is a peninsula running north into the Persian Gulf. It is bounded in the south by Saudi Arabia.

Republic of the Congo ()

The Republic of the Congo, sometimes referred to as Congo (Brazzaville), is bounded by Cameroon and the Central African Republic in the north, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the east and south, Angola and the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west and Gabon to the west.

Romania ()

Romania is bounded in the north by Ukraine, in the east by Moldova, Ukraine and the Black Sea, south by Bulgaria, south-west by Serbia and north-west by Hungary.

RSA (abbreviation)

Republic of South Africa

Russia ()

Russia is bounded in the north by various seas, which join the Arctic Ocean, in the south by North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Black Sea and Ukraine, and in the west by Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, the Baltic Sea and Finland. In the east it is separated from the USA (Alaska) by the Bering Strait.

Rwanda ()

Rwanda is bounded in the south by Burundi, west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, north by Uganda and east by Tanzania.

S.A. (abbreviation)

South Africa

Samoa ()

Samoa is situated in the South Pacific, off the east coast of Australia.

San Marino ()

San Marino is a land-locked state in central Italy, 20 km from the Adriatic.

São Tomé and Príncipe ()

The republic lies about 200 km off the west coast of Gabon, in the Gulf of Guinea.

Saudi Arabia ()

Saudi Arabia, which occupies nearly 80% of the Arabian peninsula, is bounded in the west by the Red Sea, east by the Persian Gulf, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, north by Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait and south by Yemen and Oman.

Senegal ()

Senegal is bounded by Mauritania to the north and north-east, Mali to the east, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south and the Atlantic to the west with The Gambia forming an enclave along that shore.

Serbia ()

Serbia is bounded in the north-west by Croatia, in the north by Hungary, in the north-east by Romania, in the east by Bulgaria, in the south by Macedonia and in the west by Albania, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Seychelles ()

The Seychelles consist of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar.

Sierra Leone ()

Sierra Leone is bounded on the north-west, north and north-east by Guinea, on the south-east by Liberia and on the south-west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Singapore ()

The Republic of Singapore consists of Singapore Island and some 63 smaller islands. Singapore Island is situated off the southern extremity of the Malay peninsula.

Slovakia ()

Slovakia is bounded in the north-west by the Czech Republic, north by Poland, east by Ukraine, south by Hungary and south-west by Austria.

Slovenia ()

Slovenia is bounded in the north by Austria, in the north-east by Hungary, in the south-east and south by Croatia and in the west by Italy.

Solomon Islands ()

The Solomon Islands lie in the South Pacific, off the east coast of Papua New Guinea. The group includes the main islands of Guadalcanal, Malaita, New Georgia, San Cristobal (now Makira), Santa Isabel and Choiseul.

Somalia ()

Somalia is bounded in the north by the Gulf of Aden, east and south by the Indian Ocean, and west by Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

South Africa ()

South Africa is bounded in the north by Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, north-east by Mozambique and Swaziland, east by the Indian Ocean, and south and west by the South Atlantic, with Lesotho forming an enclave.

South Korea ()

South Korea is bounded in the north by North Korea, east by the Sea of Japan, south by the Korea Strait and west by the Yellow Sea.

South Sudan ()

South Sudan is bounded in the north by Sudan, east by Ethiopia, south-east by Kenya, south by Uganda, south-west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and west by the Central African Republic.

Spain ()

Spain is bounded in the north by the Bay of Biscay, France and Andorra, east and south by the Mediterranean and the Straits of Gibraltar, south-west by the Atlantic Ocean and west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

Sri Lanka ()

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean, south of the Indian peninsula from which it is separated by the Palk Strait.

the States (noun)

informal the United States of America

St. Kitts and Nevis ()

The two islands of St. Kitts and Nevis are situated at the northern end of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean. Nevis lies 3 km to the south-east of St. Kitts.

St. Lucia ()

St. Lucia is an island of the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean between Martinique and St. Vincent.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines ()

St. Vincent is an island of the Lesser Antilles, situated in the eastern Caribbean between St. Lucia and Grenada, from which latter it is separated by a chain of small islands known as the Grenadines.

Sudan ()

Sudan is bounded in the north by Egypt, north-east by the Red Sea, east by Eritrea and Ethiopia, south by South Sudan, south-west by the Central African Republic, west by Chad and north-west by Libya.

Suriname ()

Suriname is located on the northern coast of South America. It is bounded in the north by the Atlantic Ocean, east by French Guiana, west by Guyana, and south by Brazil.

Swaziland ()

Swaziland is bounded in the north, west and south by South Africa, and in the east by Mozambique.

Sweden ()

Sweden is bounded in the west and north-west by Norway, east by Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia, south-east by the Baltic Sea and south-west by the Kattegat.

Switzerland ()

Switzerland is bounded in the west and north-west by France, north by Germany, east by Austria and Liechtenstein and south by Italy.

Syria ()

Syria is bounded by the Mediterranean and Lebanon in the west, by Israel and Jordan in the south, by Iraq in the east and by Turkey in the north.

Tajikistan ()

Tajikistan is bordered in the north and west by Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, in the east by China and in the south by Afghanistan.

Tanzania ()

Tanzania is bounded in the north-east by Kenya, north by Lake Victoria and Uganda, north-west by Rwanda and Burundi, west by Lake Tanganyika, south-west by Zambia and Malaŵi, and south by Mozambique.

Thailand ()

Thailand is bounded in the west by Myanmar, north and east by Laos and south-east by Cambodia. In the south it becomes a peninsula bounded in the west by the Indian Ocean, south by Malaysia and east by the Gulf of Thailand.

Timor-Leste ()

The mainland area incorporates the eastern half of the island of Timor. The island is bound to the south by the Timor Sea and lies approximately 500 km from the Australian coast.

Togo ()

Togo is bounded in the west by Ghana, north by Burkina Faso, east by Benin and south by the Gulf of Guinea.

Tonga ()

The Kingdom is situated in the South Pacific and consists of some 169 islands and islets. Its western boundary is the eastern boundary of Fiji.

Trinidad and Tobago ()

The island of Trinidad is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about 12 km off the north-east coast of Venezuela. The smaller island of Tobago lies 30·7 km further to the north-east.

Tunisia ()

Tunisia is bounded in the north and east by the Mediterranean Sea, west by Algeria and south by Libya.

Turkey ()

Turkey is bounded in the west by the Aegean Sea and Greece, north by Bulgaria and the Black Sea, east by Georgia, Armenia and Iran, and south by Iraq, Syria and the Mediterranean.

Turkmenistan ()

Turkmenistan is bounded in the north by Kazakhstan, in the north and north-east by Uzbekistan, in the south-east by Afghanistan, in the south-west by Iran and in the west by the Caspian Sea.

Tuvalu ()

Tuvalu lies in the South Pacific, to the east of Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Uganda ()

Uganda is bounded in the north by South Sudan, in the east by Kenya, in the south by Tanzania and Rwanda, and the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Ukraine ()

Ukraine is bounded in the east by the Russian Federation, north by Belarus, west by Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova, and south by the Black Sea and Sea of Azov.

Ulster ()

another name for Northern Ireland, used mainly by people who believe that Northern Ireland should remain part of the U.K.

United Arab Emirates ()

The Emirates are bounded in the north by the Persian Gulf, north-east by Oman, east by the Gulf of Oman and Oman, south and west by Saudi Arabia.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ()

The U.K. is situatued off the west coast of mainland Europe.

United States of America ()

The United States is bounded in the north by Canada, east by the North Atlantic, south by the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico, and west by the North Pacific Ocean.

Uruguay ()

Uruguay is bounded on the north-east by Brazil, on the south-east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Río de la Plata and on the west by Argentina.

the U.S. ()

the United States

the U.S.A. ()

the United States of America

Uzbekistan ()

Uzbekistan is bordered in the north by Kazakhstan, in the east by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, in the south by Afghanistan and in the west by Turkmenistan.

Vanuatu ()

Vanuatu comprises 83 islands (65 of which are inhabited), which lie roughly 800 km west of Fiji and 400 km north-east of New Caledonia.

Vatican City ()

The area of the Vatican City is 44 hectares or 0·44 square kilometres set within Rome, making it the smallest independent country in the world.

Venezuela ()

Venezuela is bounded to the north by the Caribbean, east by the Atlantic and Guyana, south by Brazil, and south-west and west by Colombia.

Vietnam ()

Vietnam is bounded in the west by Cambodia and Laos, north by China and east and south by the South China Sea.

Yemen ()

Yemen is bounded in the north by Saudi Arabia, east by Oman, south by the Gulf of Aden and west by the Red Sea.

Zambia ()

Zambia is bounded by the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the north, Tanzania in the north-east, Malaŵi in the east, Mozambique in the south-east, Zimbabwe and Namibia in the south, and by Angola in the west.

Zimbabwe ()

Zimbabwe is bounded in the north by Zambia, east by Mozambique, south by South Africa and west by Botswana and the Caprivi Strip of Namibia.