South Korea 2014
Yearbook 2014 South Korea. South Korea population in 2020 is estimated at 51,269,196. A ferry disaster that occurred in April became a national trauma that caused great anger against the government and the authorities....
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Singapore 2014
Yearbook 2014 Singapore. In January, one of Singapore Airlines’ super-jet planes, an Airbus A380 with 467 passengers aboard, was forced to land in Azerbaijan during a flight from London when the pressure in the...
Saudi Arabia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Saudi Arabia. The increasingly serious security situation in the region left traces in both domestic and foreign policy. Concerns over Saudis taking part in the fighting in Syria were assumed to be...
Russia 2014
Russia is a vast Eurasian country stretching from Eastern Europe to Northern Asia. It has the largest landmass of any country in the world, spanning 17 million square kilometers and 11 time zones. Russia...
Qatar 2014
Qatar is an Arab nation located in the Persian Gulf, bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and the United Arab Emirates to the east. It is a small, but wealthy country with an...
Philippines 2014
Yearbook 2014 Philippines. In January, the Muslim guerrilla MILF (Moro’s Islamic Liberation Front) and the government signed a disarmament agreement in exchange for Muslim autonomy on parts of the island of Mindanao in the...
Pakistan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Pakistan. The year was marked by violent assaults and failed peace negotiations. Pakistan population in 2020 is estimated at 220,892,351. Nearly 800,000 people were forced to flee in the government’s major offensive...
Oman 2014
Oman is a nation in the Middle East located on the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. It has a long coastline along the Persian Gulf and the...
North Korea 2014
Yearbook 2014 North Korea. In February, a commission of inquiry by the UN Human Rights Council presented a report concluding that the regime in Pyongyang was guilty of crimes against humanity. The investigation was...
Nepal 2014
Yearbook 2014 Nepal. In January, the Election Commission determined the result of the November 2013 election and the new Constituent Assembly took office. In February, Sushil Koirala, leader of the Nepalese Congress Party (NC),...
Myanmar 2014
Yearbook 2014 Burma. Myanmar population in 2020 is estimated at 54,409,811. Burma took another step on the international stage during the year. In January, the country became chairman of the regional Southeast Asian Association...
Mongolia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Mongolia. Mongolia population in 2020 is estimated at 3,278,301. A conflict was going on between the state and foreign mining companies regarding the licenses for mining, which slowed investment from outside. Among...
Maldives 2014
Yearbook 2014 Maldives. In April Mohamed Nazim, Minister of Defense and National Security, announced that all illegal immigrants in the country would be sent back to their respective countries. According to the minister, special,...
Malaysia 2014
Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country located on the Malay Peninsula and the northern part of the island of Borneo. It is bordered by Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei. Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural...
Lebanon 2014
Yearbook 2014 Lebanon. The war in Syria characterized Lebanon, in which existing contradictions deepened and contributed to the political crisis and regular fighting. The refugee disaster in the region also continued to put enormous...
Laos 2014
Yearbook 2014 Laos. Laos population in 2020 is estimated at 7,275,571. Defense Minister Douangchay Phichit, who was also Deputy Prime Minister, was among the 17 people who died in an air crash in May....
Kyrgyzstan 2014
The Kyrgyz (formerly called Kara – Kirghisi) are a Turkish-speaking people similar to the Kazakhs (see Kyrgyz). The name of Kirghisi, always used very broadly by the Russians, who include many tribes of different...
Kuwait 2014
Yearbook 2014 Kuwait. Kuwait population in 2020 is estimated at 4,270,582. The power struggle within the ruling royal family that led to the dissolution of the parliament and the reformation of the government countless...
Kazakhstan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan population in 2020 is estimated at 18,776,718. President Nursultan Nazarbayev maintained his authoritarian grip on power. The independent newspaper Pravdivaja Gazeta was closed during the year. At the same time,...
Jordan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Jordan. Jordan population in 2020 is estimated at 10,203,145. The number of refugees from Syria’s civil war continued to rise. By the end of the year, there were over 600,000 registered refugees...
Japan 2014
Japan is an East Asian island nation located off the eastern coast of the Asian mainland. It is made up of 6,852 islands and has a population of over 126 million people. Japan is...
Israel 2014
Yearbook 2014 Israel. Israel population in 2020 is estimated at 8,655,546. The tense situation between Israel and Palestine worsened during the year as a new armed conflict began between Israel and Palestinian resistance groups...
Iraq 2014
Yearbook 2014 Iraq. Iraq population in 2020 is estimated at 40,222,504. Iraq, which was already politically unstable and violent, ended up in an acute war and crisis situation during the year, where the formation...
Iran 2014
Yearbook 2014 Iran. The breakthrough in the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program reached at the end of 2013 led to the presentation of a “joint action plan” in January. Behind the plan was the...
Indonesia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Indonesia. The election of parliament and new president marked the political year. The opposition party PDI-P (Indonesia’s Democratic Party for Struggle) became the largest in the parliamentary elections in April with 109...
India 2014
India is a country located in South Asia. It is the world’s second-most populous country with over 1.3 billion people, and it is the seventh-largest country by area, spanning 3.3 million square kilometers. It...
Georgia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Georgia. In February, former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili was sentenced to several years in prison for corruption. Georgia population in 2020 is estimated at 3,989,178. Merabishvili was accused of giving members of...
East Timor 2014
Yearbook 2014 Timor. In January, negotiations were held in the International Court of Justice in The Hague between East Timor and Australia. East Timor demanded that Australia release documents that the Australian intelligence agency...
Cyprus 2014
Yearbook 2014 Cyprus. The talks about a reunion of the island resumed in February, after close to two years’ delay. President Nicos Anastasiades met his counterpart from the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic in the north,...
China 2014
Yearbook 2014 China. China population in 2020 is estimated at 1,439,323,787. Xi Jinping, who took office as president in 2013, made sure during the year to consolidate his power. At the same time, he...
Cambodia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Cambodia. The political stalemate that arose after the disputed elections in 2013 was broken at the end of July. The opposition party CNRP (Cambodia’s National Rescue Party) announced that it would suspend...
Brunei 2014
Yearbook 2014 Brunei. In May, the gradual adaptation of the legislation to Islamic law, Sharia, was announced by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in the fall of 2013. In this first phase, it became punishable, among...
Bhutan 2014
Bhutan is incompletely explored and for the most part not yet topographically surveyed. The first Europeans to enter it were the Portuguese Jesuits Cacella and Cabral, in 1627, from Cooch Behar, on the northern...
Bangladesh 2014
Yearbook 2014 Bangladesh. Contested parliamentary elections were held on January 5. The election campaign turned violent. Nearly 150 people were killed in clashes between the security forces and the opposition before and during the...
Bahrain 2014
Yearbook 2014 Bahrain. Bahrain population in 2020 is estimated at 1,701,586. The political crisis that arose during the 2011 democratic uprising continued to characterize the country during the year. On the three-year anniversary of...
Azerbaijan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Azerbaijan. The regime’s oppression of dissent continued and received widespread criticism from, among others, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner. At the same time, Azerbaijan during the year chaired the Council...
Armenia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Armenia. Armenia has long demanded that Turkey recognize the Ottoman military massacre of Armenians in 1915 in the First World War. In April, for the first time, such a statement came from...
Afghanistan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Afghanistan. During the year, more and more countries brought home their soldiers from the country, and even NATO-led troops left Afghanistan, which was still severely affected by violence and attacks on both...
Asia Peoples
Asia accounts for one third of Earth’s land area, but is inhabited by approx. 60% of the population. Compared to other continents, there are several different race types and peoples. The most prevalent race...