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GREENLAND
Arctic Circle
FINLAND
NORWAY
ICELAND
RUSSIA
ESTONIA
LITHUANIA
60°
SWEDEN
60°
LATVIA
DENMARK
UNITED KINGDOM
NETH.
IRELAND
BELARUS
UKRAINE
MOLDOVA
POLAND
BELG.
GER.
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
CZ. REP. SLVK
KAZAKHSTAN
SWITZ.
AUST
.
HUNG.
MONGOLIA
ROM.
BULG.
ALB. GREECE TURKEY
CYPRUS
FRANCE
SLOV.
SERB.
CRO.
BOS.
UZBEKISTAN
GEORGIA
ARMENIA
AZERBAIJAN
N.
KOREA
KYRGYZSTAN
TAJIKISTAN
PORTUGAL
SPAIN
MONT.
KOS.
40°
40°
MACE.
ITALY
TURKMENISTAN
JAPAN
CHINA
S.
KOREA
SYRIA
TUNISIA
AFGHANISTAN
IRAQ
IRAN
MOROCCO
LEBANON
PACIFIC
BHUTAN
JORDAN
ISRAEL
PAKISTAN
NEPAL
KUWAIT
ALGERIA
LIBYA
WESTERN
SAHARA
BAHRAIN
EGYPT
QATAR
BANGLADESH
TAIWAN
Tropic of Cancer
U.A.E.
MYANMAR
(BURMA)
SAUDI
ARABIA
20°
OMAN
INDIA
MAURITANIA
LAOS
MALI
NIGER
ERITREA
VIETNAM
SUDAN
YEMEN
THAILAND
CAMBODIA
OCEAN
SEN E GAL
CHAD
PHILIPPINES
GAMBIA
BURKINA
FASO
DJIBOUTI
GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA
SIERRA LEONE
LIBERIA
NIGERIA
CAMEROON
SRI LANKA
IVORY
COAST
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL
AFRICAN REP.
SOUTH
SUDAN
BRUNEI
SOMALIA
TOGO
BENIN
MALAYSIA
INDIAN
GHANA
UGANDA
CONGO
KENYA
Equator
GABON
RWANDA
SINGAPORE
EQUATORIAL
GUINEA
THE
CONGO
PAPUA
NEW
GUINEA
BURUNDI
OCEAN
INDONESIA
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
TANZANIA
COMOROS
ATLANTIC
EAST TIMOR
ANGOLA
MALAWI
ZAMBIA
FIJI
VANUATU
MADAGASCAR
MOÇAMBIQUE
ZIMBABWE
BOTSWANA
20°
20°
20°
20°
20°
NAMIBIA
MAURITIUS
NEW
CALEDONIA
Tropic of Capicorn
AUSTRALIA
OCEAN
SWAZILAND
SOUTH
AFRICA
LESOTHO
NEW
ZEALAND
40°
40°
40°
20°
40°
60°
100°
120°
140°
160°
60°
60°
60°
60°
SOUTHERN
OCEAN
Antarctic Circle
is currently in the worst position, with numerous countries in the highest catego-
ries of hunger and malnourishment.
The major causes of malnourishment are poverty (inability to pay for
food), the failure of food distribution systems, and cultural and political prac-
tices that favor some groups over others. Where food does reach the needy, its
price may be unaffordable. Hundreds of millions of people subsist on the equiv-
alent of one dollar a day, and many in the vast shantytowns encircling some of
the world's largest cities must pay rent to landlords who own the plots on
which their shacks are built. Too little is left for food, and it is the children who
suffer most.
Is solving hunger as simple as each country growing enough food to feed its
people? Do the best-fed countries have the most arable (farmable) land? Only
4 percent of Norway is arable land, and more than 70 percent of Bangladesh is arable
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