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  2. Corruption in Peru - Wikipedia

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    On Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, Peru scored 33 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Peru ranked 121st among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [ 1 ]

  3. List of most-polluted cities by particulate matter concentration

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    The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter ( PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively).

  4. Rome - Wikipedia

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    Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) [6] is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city. Rome is often referred to as the City of Seven Hills due to its geographic location, and ...

  5. Ager Romanus - Wikipedia

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    In effect, Rome was a gigantic city-territory continuously expanding across Europe. [ 3 ] Octavian Augustus founded the office of praefectus urbi and other offices which divided the administration of the city of Rome from that of the Roman Empire.

  6. Italian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon of the so-called "new emigration" [76] caused by the serious economic crisis also affects all of southern Europe such as countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece (as well as Ireland and France) which record similar, if not greater, emigration trends. It is widely believed that the places where there are no structural changes in ...

  7. Anti-Peruvian sentiment - Wikipedia

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    According to the Peruvian historian Jorge Basadre, the Ecuadorian plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro would have proposed that the Brazilian baron of Rio Branco accept the cession of part of the territory that his country disputed to Peru so that Brazil could obtain an exit to the Pacific, the cession was mainly considered from Tumbes. Naturally ...

  8. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A very dirty city in Spain. "Guarro" means "dirty" in Spanish. Guide County: A county in China that serves as the guide to the Tibetan "Trika" treaters. Gumlog: One with a very dirty mind will get a laugh out of this place. Gum Tree: A place in Kentucky. Also quite close to the similarly weird named places of Mud Lick and Flippin. Gun Barrel ...

  9. Anti-Romani sentiment - Wikipedia

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    The practice of placing Romani students in segregated schools or classes remains widespread in countries across Europe. [46] Many Romani children have been channeled into all-Romani schools that offer inferior quality education and are sometimes in poor physical condition or into segregated all-Romani or predominantly Romani classes within ...