GEOGRAPHY
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- There are 196 countries in the world?
- Practice your skills!! See if you can locate some or all of these well-known countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Kenya, North and South Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and our country, the United States.
- Test your skills!! See if you can locate some or all of these countries: Albania, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Madagascar, Malta, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Samoa, Seychelles, Suriname, Ukraine, Uruguay and Uzbekistan.
- Challenge yourself!! Can you locate the countries of your ancestors? I tried to locate the Czech Republic, England, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands Slovakia and Switzerland (where my ancestors were from) and I was surprised that many of these countries were not where I thought they were!!
- Test your skills again!! See if you can name and locate the 50 states of America and name the capitals!!
- Check out this website for interactive maps of different regions and continents (including the United States)!! http://www.yourchildlearns.com/online-interactive-maps.htm