How do you get to Scotland? Air connections Great Britain’s largest airline is British Airways, which offers long-haul flights in all directions. Virgin Airlines is the second largest airline and also offers numerous long-haul...
Important monuments Angel of the North The Angel of the North is Britain’s largest and also one of its most impressive sculptures. The 200-ton steel angel designed by Antony Gormley stands near the A1...
Currency: Euro (EUR) Exchange rate: – Time zone: CET Country code (phone): +383 climate: temperate continental climate Housing and provision The housing market in Kosovo and particularly in Prishtina is very vital. There is...
Form of government and constitution According to its constitution, India sees itself as a “sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic” based on “justice, freedom, equality and fraternity”. It organizes the political, social and economic concerns...
Rio de Janeiro is world famous for its typical beaches that are filled all day by tourists and well-turned people. Here you can see the smallest swimsuit models that do not leave much to...
Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States after New York City . Countless sights and the location on the Pacific coast attract more than 40 million tourists to the metropolis...
Take a tour around the island to see its versatile yet overlooked wonders. Explore lots of green rice fields and see Mount Batur volcanic lake. Discover Balinese culture during a traditional display and visit...
Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resort & Spa Kota Kinabalu It is dawn, and you are seated in a tower as the majestic new sun rises over Mount Kinabalu in the distance. This is the best...
Wonderful lazy days await you after a trip in Thailand to the famous Golden Triangle and an exciting journey along the mighty Mekong River. Our trip to Thailand and Laos includes highlights in two...
Rhodes is an island of year-round sun. Rhodes Holiday Island is a combination of antiquity, the Middle Ages and a beach holiday in the magnificent Mediterranean scenery. Read Rantapallo’s destination guide and plan your own...
The Old Town is the heart of Prague, and the most familiar of the city’s areas. The Old Town Square is the heart of Prague The square of Prague’s Old Town is a great...
Puerto Rico is a charming gateway to the Caribbean. Puerto Rico’s tropical beaches and interesting cities make the island one of the most attractive resorts in the Caribbean. Read Rantapallo’s destination guide and plan...
Yearbook 2014 Zimbabwe. In April, leaders of the opposition party Democratic Change Movement (MDC) demanded that party leader Morgan Tsvangirai resign. The party’s national council accused Tsvangirai of negligent leadership and of using the...
Yearbook 2014 Zambia. At the end of October, the country’s 77-year-old President Michael Sata passed away at a hospital in London. According to Countryaah.com, Zambia population in 2020 is estimated at 18,383,966. Sata had...
Yearbook 2014 Yemen. Despite ongoing reconciliation attempts, fighting continued to rage on several fronts in Yemen, and the political crisis worsened. According to Countryaah.com, Yemen population in 2020 is estimated at 29,825,975. The Shiite...
Yearbook 2014 Western Sahara. In April, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in a resolution that extended the mandate of the peacekeeping UN force MINURSO to 2015. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch...
Yearbook 2014 Vietnam. In January, 30 people were sentenced to death for smuggling 2 tonnes of heroin in the largest drug trial in the country’s history. That same month, the country’s largest fraud target...
Yearbook 2014 Venezuela. The year was characterized by continued major financial problems. In six weeks, from the beginning of September to the middle of October, the price of oil fell by a full 16%....
Yearbook 2014 Vatican City. On Pope Francis’s 78th birthday in mid-December, a historic agreement between the United States and Cuba was published that had been negotiated with the help of the Vatican. According to...
Yearbook 2014 Vanuatu. At least ten people died when tropical cyclone Lusi pulled over Vanuatu in March. According to Countryaah.com, Vanuatu population in 2020 is estimated at 307,156. Several of the deceased drowned when...
Yearbook 2014 Uzbekistan. According to Countryaah.com, Uzbekistan population in 2020 is estimated at 33,469,214. Uzbekistan was ranked as the third worst country in the world in freedom of the press. According to Freedom House,...
Yearbook 2014 Uruguay. In the second round of the presidential election on November 30, Tabaré Vázquez from the ruling left coalition won the Breda Front (Frente Amplio, FA) by a wide margin over rival...
Yearbook 2014 USA. According to Countryaah.com, United States population in 2020 is estimated at 331,002,662. The president’s annual speech to the nation in January reflected the locked state of politics. Barack Obama mentioned several...
Yearbook 2014 UK. The winter weather in January put the community to the test. The amount of rainfall was reported to be the largest in 248 years and the floods are among the most...
Yearbook 2014 United Arab Emirates. In Dubai, the year began with a world record that was recorded by Guinness’s record book when half a million rockets were fired in six minutes along a roughly...
Yearbook 2014 Noted on Digopaul, Ukraine population in 2020 is estimated at 43,733,773. Ukraine is a country located in Eastern Europe. It was an extremely dramatic year with a collapsed regime, lost Crimean peninsula...
Yearbook 2014 Uganda. According to Countryaah.com, Uganda population in 2020 is estimated at 45,741,018. The reactions were strong on the tightening of laws against homosexuality signed by President Yoweri Museveni at the beginning of...
Yearbook 2014 Tuvalu. In January, the Tuvalu government sent a request to the Fiji government that retired Fijian elementary school teachers should be able to come to Tuvalu to teach there. According to Countryaah.com,...
Yearbook 2014 Turkmenistan. According to Countryaah.com, Turkmenistan population in 2020 is estimated at 6,031,211. President Gurbanguli Berdimuchammedov dismissed the head of the state gas company in January, claiming that he had not done enough...
Yearbook 2014 Turkey. A police investigation presented shortly before the New Year and pointed out leading government representatives for corruption hit hard back during the year against people with ties to the investigators. In...
Yearbook 2014 Tunisia. In January, Parliament adopted a new constitution and the country also got a new transitional government consisting of technocrats and party-politically independent persons. According to Countryaah.com, Tunisia population in 2020 is...
Yearbook 2014 Trinidad and Tobago. In January, the country’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, described the increase in violent crimes that Trinidad and Tobago experienced as “totally unacceptable”. Among the large number of people killed...
Yearbook 2014 Tonga. According to Countryaah.com, Tonga population in 2020 is estimated at 105,706. Tonga was hit in January by tropical cyclone Ian, classified as Category 5 on the Saffir – Simpson scale, which...
Yearbook 2014 Togo. According to Countryaah.com, Togo population in 2020 is estimated at 8,278,735. Tensions rose at the end of the year ahead of the presidential election, which is expected in April 2015. Several...
Yearbook 2014 Thailand is a country located in Southeastern Asia. See map on Digopaul. On May 22, the military took power in the country. The government was set aside and the constitution was repealed....
Yearbook 2014 Tanzania. According to Countryaah.com, Tanzania population in 2020 is estimated at 59,734,229. President Jakaya Kikwete reformed the government in January after the death of the finance minister and four other ministers were...
Yearbook 2014 Tajikistan. The repression of freedom of opinion and opinion continued. According to Countryaah.com, Tajikistan population in 2020 is estimated at 9,537,656. The National Security Committee increased control over content in media and...
Yearbook 2014 Taiwan. According to Countryaah.com, Taiwan population in 2020 is estimated at 23,816,786. Taiwan and China took an important step towards improving relations between the countries when the first government-level meeting since 1949...
Yearbook 2014 Syria. The war in Syria went on in its fourth year without any signs of relief. In what was described as the world’s worst refugee disaster, 10 million people, almost half the...
Yearbook 2014 Switzerland. According to Countryaah.com, Switzerland population in 2020 is estimated at 8,654,633. Two referendums on immigration were held during the year with conflicting results. In February, the issue concerned the reintroduction of...