Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Older editions of the CIA World Factbook, going back to 1989, country rankings constructed from CIA data, and additional country information from other sources are available at the Countries of the World website, which was begun in 1996.

Countries marked in dark colors are authoritarian, and most often dictatorships.

Countries that are more red are authoritarian, and most often dictatorships.

Countries choose this kind of economic integration if their economical structures are complementary.

In 2004 the Right to Food Guidelines are adopted, offering guidance to states on how to implement their obligations on the right to food .< ref > Olivier de Schutter ( 2010 ) " Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach.

Excavations are currently underway, and if the so far presented estimates hold true, the site would be the only pre-glacial ( Neanderthal ) site so far discovered in the Nordic Countries, and it is approximately 125, 000 years old.

Countries within the EU are required to adopt the directive in national legislation by early 2013.

The IMU's members are Member Countries and each Member country is represented through an Adhering Organization, which may be its principal academy, a mathematical society, its research council or some other institution or association of institutions, or an appropriate agency of its government.

The Commission for Developing Countries supports research travel of mathematicians based in developing countries as well as mathematics research conferences in the developing world through its Grants Program which is open to mathematicians throughout the developing world, including countries that are not ( yet ) members of the IMU.

Countries are required to update their AIP manuals every 28 days and so provide definitive regulations, procedures and information for each country about airspace and aerodromes.

Countries are increasingly recognizing how severely IC / PBS can affect patients ' lives, by officially recognizing that it can completely impair functioning.

Countries pictured ( clockwise from upper left ) are Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt ( across the Gulf of Aqabah ), Israel, and the disputed West Bank, with Jordan in the center.

In common use are such terms as Lusophone, meaning Portuguese-speaking, and Lusitanic, referring to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries — once Portugal's colonies and presently independent countries still sharing some common heritage.

Countries are forced to follow suit, on this view, because should they not foreign investment will dry up, move places with lower " burdens " and leave more people jobless and poor.

* They are both members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.

Countries seen as not being sufficiently compliant with such recommendations are subjected to financial sanctions.

Countries with a minority Muslim population are more likely than Muslim-majority countries of the Greater Middle East to use mosques as a way to promote civic participation.

Some micro-nationalists call their countries Nomadic Countries, especially ones that have no land and are based on the Internet.

Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are ( clockwise, from the north ): Iran, Oman ( exclave of Musandam ), United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest.

Countries such as Belgium and Switzerland that often use charitable fund-raising design stamps that are desirable for collectors.

In the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the population and economy of the town were bolstered by the arrival of craftsmen and merchants from France and the Low Countries who came to England to escape wars and religious persecution in their home countries.

Two seasons of inconclusive campaigning that ravaged the north of France left Edward penniless at the end of 1341 ; he returned home, and when he returned to the fray, it was to Brittany: he never returned to the Low Countries.

It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer group and one of the top five largest consumer goods companies in the world ; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.

In July 1340, Edward returned and besieged Tournai ; again, Philip brought up a relieving army which harassed the besiegers but did not offer open battle, and Edward was again forced to return home, fleeing the Low Countries secretly to escape his creditors.

Printed music moved around Europe during the migration of Franco-Flemish composers from their home areas in the modern day Low Countries to Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland and elsewhere ; the polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish became an international language, with later regional variations.

Countries vary in their acceptance of pilot licenses from other countries to fly aircraft registered in the home country.

Throughout 1518 he was English representative to Margaret of Austria in the Low Countries, and sailed home from Calais 15 February 1519.

Countries such as Nigeria, the home of the Yoruba and Igbo cultures, and Equatorial Guinea experienced and influx of ex-slaves from Cuba brought there as indentured servants during the 17th century, and again during the 19th century.

In the folklore of the Low Countries, kabouters are tiny men who live underground or in mushrooms, or spirits who help in the home.

Many of the Commonwealth and Allied forces took their Quads to their home Countries, and were provided with more ex British ones to fully re-equip.

Today there are movements supporting the independence of the Catalan Countries in both Spain and France, but they only have significant support in Catalonia.

In December 2000, São Tomé received significant debt reduction under the IMF-World Bank's Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ( HIPC ) initiative.

Countries with significant Serb diaspora

Yuri Andropov, then the CPSU Director on Relations with Communist and Workers Parties of Socialist Countries, to write an urgent letter to the Central Committee on 28 August 1958 about the significant 50 % increase in the number of East German intelligentsia among the refugees.

Countries such as the Philippines for instance still had significant Betamax followers up until the late 90s.

This latter set of approaches has become of very considerable interest as Information and Communications Technology for Development ( ICT4D ) has emerged as significant element in strategic ( and funding ) approaches to social and economic development in Less Developed Countries.

The Cornfield and the Travellers are characterized by Duplessis as prints of a high order which may be regarded as the most significant expressions of landscape art in the Low Countries.

Countries with a huge fan-club membership include Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, the US and Canada-mostly countries with significant Croat immigration.

More have come from German populations in Eastern Europe and Russia with significant number of Germans coming from Switzerland and the Low Countries ; some have also come from Austria.

** Catholicism: Countries with significant Catholic populations are Portugal, Spain, Poland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland, Scotland ( UK ), Northern Ireland ( UK ), Italy, Malta, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia and Lithuania.

** Protestantism: Countries with significant Protestant populations are Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland.

* Islam: Countries with significant Muslim population are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Kosovo in Serbia, several republics of Russia and Crimea in Ukraine.

The Seven Countries Study found a significant correlation between red meat consumption and risk of CHD.

Countries with well known significant Arain populations include:

The battle was part of the Hook and Cod wars waged over control of the Low Countries and resulted in a significant victory for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy