word | | Geography - note |
| Angel | Venezuela | on major sea and air routes linking North and South America; Angel Falls in the Guiana Highlands is the world's highest waterfall |
| Antarctic | Southern Ocean | the major chokepoint is the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica; the Polar Front (Antarctic Convergence) is the best natural definition of the northern extent of the Southern Ocean; it is ... |
| Antarctica | Southern Ocean | the major chokepoint is the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica; the Polar Front (Antarctic Convergence) is the best natural definition of the northern extent of the Southern Ocean; it is ... |
| Antarctica | World | ... common classification recognizes seven, which are (from largest to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Asia and Europe are sometimes lumped together into a Eurasian continent resulting ... |
| Antigua | Antigua and Barbuda | Antigua has a deeply indented shoreline with many natural harbors and beaches; Barbuda has a large western harbor |
| Antilles | Anguilla | the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles |
| Antilles | Cuba | largest country in Caribbean and westernmost island of the Greater Antilles |
| Antilles | Dominica | ... fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural park system; the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and include Boiling Lake, the second-largest ... |
| Antilles | Netherlands Antilles | the five islands of the Netherlands Antilles are divided geographically into the Leeward Islands (northern) group (Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten) and the Windward Islands (southern) group (Bonaire and Curacao); the ... |
| anywhere | Saint Helena | Saint Helena harbors at least 40 species of plants unknown anywhere else in the world; Ascension is a breeding ground for sea turtles and sooty terns; Queen Mary's Peak on Tristan ... |
| apart | Cote d'Ivoire | most of the inhabitants live along the sandy coastal region; apart from the capital area, the forested interior is sparsely populated |
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