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Questions

--------- is the largest country in Africa. It has a population greater than 28,100,000.?

The ------------ is actually a desert environment, averaging about the same amount of monthly rainfall as the Sahara Desert.?

Taiwan was known formerly as -----------------?

The standard single oar used by gondoliers in ------------ is 14 feet long.?

--------------- has 254 counties. Alaska, which is more than twice as large, hasn't any.?