as Malvinas):
deeply indented coast provides
good natural harbors; short growing season

Faroe Islands:
archipelago of 17 inhabited islands and one
uninhabited island, and a few uninhabited islets; strategically
located along important sea lanes in northeastern Atlantic;
precipitous terrain limits habitation to small coastal lowlands

Fiji:
includes 332 islands of which approximately 110 are inhabited

Finland:
long boundary with Russia; Helsinki is northernmost
national capital on European continent; population concentrated on
small southwestern coastal plain

France:
largest West European nation

French Guiana:
mostly an unsettled wilderness

French Polynesia:
includes five archipelagoes; Makatea in French
Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the
Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and
Nauru

French Southern and Antarctic Lands:
islands component is widely
scattered across remote locations in the southern Indian Ocean

Gambia, The:
almost an enclave of Senegal; smallest country on the
continent of Africa

Gaza Strip:
there are 25 Israeli settlements and civilian land use
sites in the Gaza Strip (August 2000 est.)

Germany:
strategic location on North European Plain and along the
entrance to the Baltic Sea

Ghana:
Lake Volta is the world's largest artificial lake;
northeasterly harmattan wind (January to March)

Gibraltar:
strategic location on Strait of Gibraltar that links the
North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea

Greece:
strategic location dominating the Aegean Sea and southern
approach to Turkish Straits; a peninsular country, possessing an
archipelago of about 2,000 islands

Greenland:
dominates North Atlantic Ocean between North America and
Europe; sparse population confined to small settlements along coast,
but close to one-quarter of the population lives in the capital,
Nuuk; world's second largest ice cap

Grenada:
the administration of the islands of the Grenadines group
is divided between Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada

Guam:
largest and southernmost island in the Mariana Islands
archipelago; strategic location in western North Pacific Ocean

Guatemala:
no natural harbors on west coast

Guernsey:
large, deepwater harbor at Saint Peter Port

Haiti:
shares island of Hispaniola with Dominican Republic (western