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History & Society

World Geography

• World Geography: Countries, Capitals, and Spatial RelationshipsA country becomes easier to remember when it has neighbors, an ocean, a river basin, and a place in a larger pattern. An isolated pair such as “Niger—Niamey” is fragile knowledge. Niger as a landlocked Sahel–Sahara country north of Nigeria, with Niamey on the Niger River in its southwest, has several routes back into memory.