Few countries can compete with Canada’s breadth of nature. But many of the best tourist attractions in Canada can be found inits cities. They boast world-class festivals, a touch of European elegance, all the while encapsulating the country’s vision as a multi-cultural society. 27. Al...
A 45-minute tour of De Halve Maan Brewery museum offers visitors an inside look of the brewing techniques that have made Belgium one of the best beer-producing countries in the world. Of the nation’s 180 breweries, the Half Moon is one of the oldest. Six generations have operated the fa...
Gold remains the leading export commodity in Ghana ahead of crude oil, cocoa beans and timber (Bank of Ghana, 2018). Ghana is recognized among the leading gold producers in Africa and the world (see ANNEX). The past decade has seen a rapid growth in ASM (see Fig. 1). The Minerals Co...
What really brought the country together was the great development of its economy following the rapid expansion of cocoa growing by farmers in the forest. The cacao tree and its seeds—cocoa beans—were introduced in the 1870s. By the 1920s the Gold Coast, while continuing to export some gol...
The Intracoastal Waterway passes through the northern part of Mosquito Lagoon before entering a canal into the Indian River (west). The city of Cape Canaveral (including Port Canaveral), just south of the space centre and about 5 miles (8 km) north of Cocoa Beach, was incorporated in 1962....
to the west and thus permits an extensive agriculture, including grains, potatoes, and coffee in the highlands and sugarcane, cacao (the source of cocoa beans), tobacco, and fruit in the Chapare tropical lowlands, an area that had been one of the country’s main coca-leaf-producing regions...
Most Pacific Islands’ annual imports (excluding those of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Hawaii) farexceedexports. Tourism and remittances from expatriates only partially offset the trade deficits. Frozen or canned fish,minerals,copra,cocoa,coffee,tea, andspicesare among the leading exports, mai...
of slavery in the mid-19th century. People of mixedethnicityconstitutea slightly smaller third group. Migrants from Spain and other European countries, Africa, East andSoutheast Asia, and theMiddle Easthave all contributed to the ethniccompositionof the islands’ population. Although English is the ...
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Geographical and historical treatment of Ecuador, country of northwestern South America. One of the world’s most environmentally diverse countries, it has contributed notably to environmental science. Much of what is now Ecuador was part of the Inca emp