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My long-term DYK aim is to produce a DYK article for every country/entity in the world, A-Z. Major islands are also included in the challenge, especially if they have a cultural identity which is often different to the mainland.

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 Abkhazia
 Afghanistan
 Åland Islands
 Albania
 Alderney
 Algeria
 American Samoa
 Andorra
 Anguilla
 Angola
 Antigua and Barbuda
 Argentina
 Armenia
 Aruba
 Australia
 Austria
 Azerbaijan
 Azores
 Bahamas
 Bahrain
 Bangladesh
 Barbados
 Belarus
 Belgium
 Belize
 Benin
 Bermuda
 Bhutan
 Bolivia
 Bonaire
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Botswana
 Brazil
 British Antarctic Territory
 British Indian Ocean Territory
 British Virgin Islands
 Brunei
 Bulgaria
 Burkina Faso
 Burma
 Burundi
 Cambodia
 Cameroon
 Canada Autographa sansoni ... that Autographa sansoni is a four-winged moth that lives in the Pacific Northwest?
 Cape Verde
 Cayman Islands
 Central African Republic
 Chad
 Chile
 China
 Christmas Island
 Colombia
 Comoros
 Republic of the Congo
 Democratic Republic of Congo
 Cook Islands
 Corsica
 Costa Rica
 Côte d'Ivoire
Crete
 Croatia
 Cuba
 Curaçao
 Cyprus
 Czech Republic
 Denmark
 Djibouti
 Dominica
 Dominican Republic
Easter Island
 East Timor
 Ecuador
 Egypt
 El Salvador
 England Church of Saint Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswaldkirk
that St. Oswald's church, Oswaldkirk, hosted the first sermon of the future Archbishop of Canterbury and chaplain to Charles II, John Tillotson?
 Equatorial Guinea
 Eritrea
 Estonia
 Ethiopia
 Falkland Islands
 Faroe Islands
 Fiji
 Finland
 France Mont Aiguille
... that in the medieval period, Mont Aiguille was traditionally called "Mount Inaccessible", and typically depicted as an "inverted pyramid" or "mushroom"?
French Guyana
 French Polynesia
 Gabon
Galapagos Islands
 The Gambia
 Georgia
 Germany
 Ghana
 Gibraltar
Gran Canaria
 Greece
 Greenland
 Grenada
 Guadeloupe
 Guam
 Guatemala
 Guernsey
 Guinea
 Guinea-Bissau
 Guyana
 Haiti
 Herm
 Honduras
 Hong Kong
 Hungary
Ibiza
 Iceland
 India
 Indonesia
 Iran
 Iraq
 Republic of Ireland
 Isle of Man
 Israel
 Italy
 Jamaica
 Japan
 Jersey
 Jordan
 Kazakhstan
 Kenya
Kerguelen Islands
 Kiribati
 Kosovo
 Kuwait
 Kyrgyzstan
 Laos
Las Palmas
 Latvia
 Lebanon
 Lesotho
 Liberia
 Libya
 Liechtenstein
 Lithuania
 Luxembourg
 Macau
 Republic of Macedonia
 Madagascar
 Madeira
Majorca
 Malawi
 Malaysia
 Maldives
 Mali
 Malta
 Marquesas Islands
 Marshall Islands
 Martinique
 Mauritania
 Mauritius
Mayotte
 Mexico
 Micronesia
Minorca
 Moldova
 Monaco
 Mongolia
 Montenegro
 Montserrat
 Morocco
 Mozambique
 Nagorno-Karabakh
 Namibia
 Nauru
   Nepal
 Netherlands
 New Caledonia
 New Zealand
 Nicaragua
 Niger
 Nigeria
 Niue
 Norfolk Island
 Northern Cyprus
 Northern Ireland
 Northern Mariana Islands
 North Korea
 Norway
 Oman
 Pakistan
 Palau
 Palestine
 Panama
 Papua New Guinea
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Philippines
 Pitcairn Islands
 Poland
 Portugal
Prince Edward Islands
 Puerto Rico
 Qatar
 Réunion
 Romania
 Russia
 Rwanda
 Ryukyu Islands
 Saba
 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Saint-Barthélemy
 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
 Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 Samoa
 San Marino
 São Tomé and Príncipe
 Sardinia
 Sark
 Saudi Arabia
 Scotland
 Senegal
 Serbia
 Seychelles
 Sicily
 Sierra Leone
 Singapore
 Sint Maarten
 Slovakia
 Slovenia
Socotra
 Solomon Islands
 Somalia
 Somaliland
 South Africa
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
 South Korea
 South Ossetia
 Spain
 Sri Lanka
 Sudan
 Suriname
Svalbard
 Swaziland
 Sweden
  Switzerland
 Syria
 Taiwan
 Tajikistan
 Tanzania
Tenerife
 Thailand
 Togo
 Tokelau
 Tonga
 Transnistria
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Tunisia
 Turkey
 Turkmenistan
 Turks and Caicos Islands
 Tuvalu
 Uganda
 Ukraine
 United Arab Emirates
 United Kingdom
 United States Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin ... that places in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin inspired locations in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show?
 Uruguay
 U.S. Virgin Islands
 Uzbekistan
 Vanuatu
 Vatican City
 Venezuela
 Vietnam
 Wales
Wallis and Futuna
 Yemen
 Zambia
 Zanzibar
 Zimbabwe