- 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)
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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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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