Country Backgrounders
Quick facts about this Southeast Asian nation.
Argentina's road to democracy has been a bumpy one, with military coups, inequality and corruption along the way.
New Zealand, known in Maori as Aotearoa, or Land of the Long White Cloud, is truly a land apart.
With major European powers at its doorstep, Morocco has long had to cope with foreign interests as well as internal strife.
Nestled in the Himalayan Region of Pacific-Asia, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is governed as a territory of China.  
For centuries, Laos and its neighbours were swept over by shifting dynasties, from Mon and Khmer Kingdoms to the Angkor and Siamese Empires.

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