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populations of the world Country Population (m) Area (000 sq km) Capital GDP ($bn) Algeria 31.8 2,382 Algiers 66.5 Canada 31.5 9,971 Ottawa 857.0 Morocco 30.6 447 Rabat 43.7 Peru 27.2 1,285 Lima 60.6 Venezuela 25.7 912 Caracas 85.4 Malaysia 24.4 333 Kuala Lumpur 103.7 Saudia Arabia 24.2 2,200 Riyadh 214.7 Taiwan 22.6 36 Taipei 286.2 Romania 22.3 238 Bucharest 57.0 Australia 19.7 7,682 Canberra 522.0 Côte D’Ivoire 16.6 322 Abidjan/ Yamoussoukro 13.7 Netherlands 16.1 42 Amsterdam 511.5 Cameroon 16.0 757 Santiago 72.4 Chile 15.8 475 Yaoundé 12.5 Zimbabwe 12.9 391 Harare 8.3 Greece 11.0 132 Athens 172.2 Belgium 10.3 31 Brussels 302.0 Czech Republic 10.2 79 Prague 89.7 Portugal 10.1 89 Lisbon 147.9 Hungary 9.9 93 Budapest 82.7 Sweden 8.9 450 Stockholm 301.6 Austria 8.1 84 Vienna 253.0 Bulgaria 7.9 111 Sofia 19.9 Switzerland 7.2 41 Berne 320.1 Israel 6.4 21 Jerusalem 110.2 Denmark 5.4 43 Copenhagen 211.9 Slovakia 5.4 49 Bratislava 32.5 Finland 5.2 338 Helsinki 161.9 Norway 4.5 324 Oslo 220.9 Singapore 4.3 >1 Singapore 91.3 Ireland 4.0 70 Dublin 153.7 New Zealand 3.9 271 Wellington 79.6 Lithuania 3.4 65 Vilnius 18.2 United Arab Emirates 3.0 84 Abu Dhabi 71.0 Latvia 2.3 64 Riga 11.1 Slovenia 2.0 20 Ljubljana 27.7 Estonia 1.3 45 Tallinn 9.1 Source: The <strong>Economist</strong> Pocket World in Figures 2006, Profi le Books, London, 2005. 227
part 3: useful reference Presidents of the US and prime ministers of the UK Here are lists of presidents of America and prime ministers of the UK. Presidents of the United States Date President Date President 1789-97 George Washington 1889-93 Benjamin Harrison 1797-1801 John Adams 1893-97 Grover Cleveland 1801-09 Thomas Jefferson 1897-1901 William McKinley 1809-17 James Madison 1901-09 Theodore Roosevelt 1817-25 James Monroe 1909-13 William H. Taft 1825-29 John Adams 1913-21 Woodrow Wilson 1829-37 Andrew Jackson 1921-23 Warren Harding 1837-41 Martin Van Buren 1923-29 Calvin Coolidge 1841 William Henry Harrison 1929-33 Herbert Hoover 1841-45 John Tyler 1933-45 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1845-49 James Polk 1945-53 Harry Truman 1849-50 Zachary Taylor 1953-61 Dwight Eisenhower 1850-53 Millard Fillmore 1961-63 John F. Kennedy 1853-57 Franklin Pierce 1963-69 Lyndon Johnson 1857-61 James Buchanan 1969-74 Richard Nixon 1861-65 Abraham Lincoln 1974-77 Gerald Ford 1865-69 Andrew Johnson 1977-81 Jimmy Carter 1869-77 Ulysses S. Grant 1981-89 Ronald Reagan 1877-81 Rutherford B. Hayes 1989-93 George H.W. Bush 1881 James Garfield 1993-2001 William J. Clinton 1881-85 Chester Arthur 2001- George W. Bush 1885-89 Grover Cleveland Prime ministers of the United Kingdom Date Prime minister 1721-42 Sir Robert Walpole 1742-43 Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington 1743-54 Henry Pelham 1754-56 Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1756-57 William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire 1757 James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1757-62 Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1762-63 John Stuart, Earl of Bute 1763-65 George Grenville 1765-66 Charles Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham 228
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