• Has one neighbouring land border, that extends for 237km.
• Approximately 70 per cent of the country is considered mountainous, with a high point of 1,950m.
• Includes roughly 3,000 small and uninhabited islands off the western and southern coasts.
• One of the world's lowest birth rates, comparable with Portugal and Greece.
• Population is around twice the size of Madagascar.

This was published in the September 2019 edition of Geographical magazine
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