Second in South America only to Brazil in size and population, Argentina is a plain, rising from the Atlantic to the Chilean border and the towering Andes peaks. Aconcagua is the highest peak in the world outside Asia. Argentina is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay, and by Uruguay and Brazil on the east. The northern area is the swampy and partly wooded Gran Chaco, bordering on Bolivia and Paraguay. South of that are the rolling, fertile Pampas, which are rich in agriculture and sheep- and cattle-grazing and support most of the population.

Northeast Africa includes countries such as Ethiopia, Chad, Somalia and Eretria. Ethiopia is a large-medium size country land-locked in NE Africa. It has a population density of 59 people/sq.km. It is a country with history going back to ancient times. Thanks to its geographic position, Ethiopia is a mulit-ethnic country and a crossroads of several cultures, languages and religions. Unfortunately, Ethiopia has rarely been without disasters, natural as well as man-made, or invasions by enemies from near and far.

With about thirty-six percent of the world population combined (Johnson), India and China are suffering. Their populations are out of control but their governments are doing all they can, good or bad, to help lower the populations of both countries.