- Countries ending with A
As I mentioned last week, I’m taking a break from my Wednesday quotations and tackling geography with an alphabetic slant instead. Last week I kicked off with countries beginning and ending with A. This week I’ve set myself a broader brief – countries ending with A, no matter what they start with.
I’ve gone with Transnistria. This breakaway state has been recognised by only three other states, themselves of limited recognition: Abkhazia, Artsakh, and South Ossetia. By most it is still recognised as a part of Moldova, and as that also ends with A I don’t feel I’m cheating too much.
Bread factory, close to the border with Moldova, July 2019
And here’s a small gallery of the town of Bender or Bendery (Бендеры)
Bender sign 
Gorky cinema, Bender 
Bender railway station 
Bender railway station 
Lenin in Bender 
Bender market 
Bender market 
Bender market 
Bender market 
Bender fortress 
Bender fortress 
Bender fortress 
Military museum 
Riverside beach 
Historical War Memorial 
Historical military cemetery 
Arc de triomphe in Bender
If any of you fancy joining in and need some ideas, here’s a list of countries ending with A, including a few that are not officially recognised by many other countries.
- Abkhazia – Limited recognition
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Bolivia
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Burma / Myanma
- Cambodia
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Gambia, The Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea – Bissau
- Guyana
- India
- Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Korea, North / North Korea
- Korea, South / South Korea
- Latvia
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Namibia
- New Caledonia
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Lucia
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Ossetia – Limited recognition
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Tonga
- Transnistria – Limited recognition
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Venezuela
- Western Sahara – Limited recognition
- Zambia
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 1 September 2021
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Travel with Intent 
You do get to some very extraordinary countries and no, I hadn’t heard of Transnistria either!
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I’m always delighted to learn something more about places I may travel to and although I’ve never heard of Transnistria and I doubt if it will find itself on my bucket list, it certainly looks interesting. your images certainly make it seem so. I shall have to get the ladder out and access the high shelf on which my old photos are stored in boxes and did out some ……..a’s.
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Great! I will join with South Africa!
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Perfect!
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😊
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I never heard of this state before 🙂 Your pictures are very colorful and the market look like a real delight.
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Well, I shall join in if I can track down an Andorra image, then I shall have Andorra, Austria, Costa Rica, Cuba, Estonia, Malta, Romania, Russia……
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Interesting – I’ve never heard of it. I stayed very provincial: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/is-it-a-country-is-it-a-state-no-its-a-huge-lady-in-bronze/
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Good selection Debbie 🙂 🙂
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Thanks Brian, more tomorrow 🙂
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