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The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in India. The rupee is subdivided into 100 paise (Hindi plural; singular: paisa). The...108 KB (9,118 words) - 15:34, 12 June 2024
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; Arabic: منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية Munaẓẓamat at-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīniyyah) is a Palestinian nationalist coalition...78 KB (8,173 words) - 03:10, 10 June 2024
Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the...99 KB (11,046 words) - 22:04, 9 June 2024
Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. Japanese people constitute 97.6%...47 KB (4,109 words) - 03:50, 4 June 2024
Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam pronunciation: [ʃɐʃi t̪ɐɾuːr], SHUH-shee thǝ-ROOR; born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, historian, public intellectual...101 KB (8,213 words) - 10:44, 17 June 2024- Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the...58 KB (6,596 words) - 12:47, 15 June 2024
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Arabic: منظمة التعاون الإسلامي, romanized: Munaẓẓamat at-Taʿāwun al-ʾIslāmī; French: Organisation de la coopération...77 KB (6,694 words) - 20:32, 22 May 2024
Palaniappan Chidambaram (born 16 September 1945), better known as P. Chidambaram, is an Indian politician and lawyer who currently serves as Member of...41 KB (3,289 words) - 03:36, 16 June 2024
The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin, Kantō ō-jishin) also known in Japanese as Kantō daishinsai (関東大震災) struck the Kantō Plain on the main...47 KB (4,948 words) - 03:53, 8 June 2024- The Free Syrian Army (FSA; Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر, romanized: al-jaysh as-Sūrī al-ḥur) was a big-tent coalition of decentralized Syrian opposition rebel...307 KB (30,729 words) - 10:37, 10 June 2024
AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-Eight) is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located...187 KB (17,985 words) - 19:31, 3 June 2024- India, officially the Republic of India, has full diplomatic relations with 201 states, including Palestine, the Holy See, and Niue. The Ministry of External...492 KB (44,129 words) - 04:13, 15 June 2024
A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but...78 KB (9,981 words) - 13:31, 19 June 2024
The Insurgency in Balochistan is an insurgency or revolt by Baloch separatist insurgents and various Islamist militant groups against the governments of...152 KB (15,141 words) - 11:47, 15 May 2024
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (US: /ʊzˈbɛkɪstæn, -stɑːn/ , UK: /ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑːn, ʌz-, -ˈstæn/), also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, UzSSR...22 KB (1,713 words) - 23:50, 14 May 2024
The Strait of Hormuz (/hɔːrˈmuːz/ Persian: تنگهٔ هُرمُز Tangeh-ye Hormoz listen, Arabic: مَضيق هُرمُز Maḍīq Hurmuz) is a strait between the Persian Gulf...61 KB (6,137 words) - 02:37, 14 June 2024
The Qara Khitai, or Kara Khitai (simplified Chinese: 哈剌契丹; traditional Chinese: 喀喇契丹; pinyin: Kālā Qìdān or Chinese: 黑契丹; pinyin: Hēi Qìdān; lit. 'Black...34 KB (2,904 words) - 00:28, 31 March 2024
The Bank of China (BOC; Chinese: 中国银行; pinyin: Zhōngguó Yínháng; Portuguese: Banco da China) is a Chinese majority communist-owned commercial bank headquartered...46 KB (4,403 words) - 01:15, 15 June 2024
Shah Alam (/ʃɑː ˈɑːləm/) is a city and the state capital of Selangor, Malaysia and situated within the Petaling District and a small portion of the neighbouring...39 KB (4,112 words) - 11:36, 26 May 2024- Personal names in Malaysia vary greatly according to ethno-cultural group. Personal names are, to a certain degree, regulated by the national registration...21 KB (2,941 words) - 05:48, 21 May 2024