A country is a term that refers both to geography and politics and designates a territory delimited by its frontiers, its landscapes, its culture and often its language.

In general, country is synonymous of nation or state. Culturally, a country represents also worths and customs. Politically, a country is usually run by a president or a king.

If a country is generally a whole, there can be other dependencies -also called countries- that are part of one “main” country. For instance, Hawaii belongs to the US, Guadalupe belongs to France, and so on. Internally, a country may be divided in regions, states, departments...that all refer to the same government, although they may have internal laws or rules.

The countryside, on the other hand, refers to a rural area, conversely to a urban one. The countryside is usually made of small villages and farming exploitations that produce their own local products.

In the world, we count 194 countries dispatched on the 5 continents. Certain regions or attached countries are currently fighting for their independence but are not yet counted as countries.

The most populated country in the world is China with 1 milliard 337 millions inhabitants, unlike Vatican that only counts 824 inhabitants and which is also the smallest country with 0,17 square miles area. The largest one is Russia with 6.5 millions square miles. The most inhabited countries are Macao (China) and Monaco with about 6291 inhabitants per square mile. The richest country (GNP/inhabitant) are Bermuda with $70, 000 before Luxembourg: $65, 000. and finally, the most visited country is France with no less than 77 millions tourists per year, 15 millions people more than the local population