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== Geography ==
[[Image:Anti-systemic_flag_orange.jpg|right|120px|Logo for '''Countries''' section of '''Countering systemic bias''']]  
{{updated|May 2011}}
Wikipedia has major [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Geography|holes in its geographic coverage]] primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.  
===Countries for improvement===
The countries below have been identified as those most in need of work.  They are accompanied by some online resources that may be useful in contributing to the articles.  If a user feels that a country article has progressed to the level where it may be replaced by another, please seek consensus on the [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias Open Tasks|talk page]].

#[[Benin]] (see [[:Category:Benin|Category]], BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064527.stm profile] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/3638535.stm timeline], [http://hrw.org/doc/?t=africa&c=benin HRW], google [http://www.google.com/search?q=benin&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 search] [http://images.google.com/images?q=benin&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi images] [http://news.google.com/news?q=benin&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wn news]), [[Porto-Novo]], [[Cotonou]]
#[[Republic of the Congo]] (see [[:Category:Republic_of_the_Congo|Category]], BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076794.stm profile] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076836.stm timeline], [http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=congob HRW], google [http://www.google.com/search?q=congo%20brazzaville&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=iw search] [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=ni&ie=UTF-8&q=congo+brazzaville&sa=N images] [http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=in&ie=UTF-8&q=congo+brazzaville news]), [[Brazzaville]]
#[[The Gambia]] (see [[:Category:The Gambia|Category]] BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1032156.stm profile] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1032207.stm timeline], [http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=gambia HRW], google [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Gambia&btnG=Search  search] [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=Gambia&btnG=Search+Images images] [http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=in&ie=UTF-8&q=Gambia&btnG=Search news]), [[Banjul]]
#[[Guinea]] (see [[:Category:Guinea|Category]]), [[Conakry]]
#[[Kyrgyzstan]] (see [[:Category:Kyrgyzstan|Category]]), [[Bishkek]]
#[[Mozambique]] (see [[:Category:Mozambique|Category]]), [[Maputo]]
#[[Myanmar]]/Burma (see [[:Category:Myanmar|Category]]), [[Yangon]] and [[Naypyidaw]]
#[[Niger]] (see [[:Category:Niger|Category]]); [[Niamey]]
#[[Suriname]] (see [[:Category:Suriname|Category]]), [[Paramaribo]]
#[[Tajikistan]] (see [[:Category:Tajikistan|Category]]), [[Dushanbe]]
#[[Togo]] (see [[:Category:Togo|Category]]), [[Lomé]]
#[[Turkmenistan]] (see [[:Category:Turkmenistan|Category]]), [[Ashgabat]]
*See also:[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America countries]]

Translations of any appropriate articles in the French or Portuguese Wikipedia can be requested on [[Wikipedia:Translation into English]] - though some articles are actually shorter in the foreign language version. For materials not in Wikipedia, but available in electronic form, you could contact an appropriate individual at [[Wikipedia:Translators available]].

===Missing geography articles===
The following articles are about important geographical regions in the non-English-speaking world.

* Northeast Africa - The region encompasses [[Egypt]], [[Sudan]] and [[Horn of Africa]] and is missing completely from Wikipedia while other regions are available, suspecting racial bias as editors have been vandalizing sources referring to that region for fear of linking Egypt to Sub-Saharan African countries.
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