Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwestern China, is located at an elevation of 11,975 feet (3,650 meters) in the Nyainqêntanglha Mountains of southern Tibet near the Lhasa River, a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo (Tsang…

India can be divided into three major geographic regions: the Himalayas in the north, the Indo-Gangetic Plain in the center, and the southern region. The Himalayas are home to the world's highest mountains, while the Indo-Gangetic Plain is a major a…

  “The Contemporary City” also known as Benares Varanasi is a city in India with a riverfront that is considered to be the finest in the country. There are miles of ghats (steps) along the river for religious bathing, as well as a…

Calcutta Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, is the capital of West Bengal state in northeastern India. With a population of over 14 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area in India. The city is located on the Hugli (Hooghly) River, abou…

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia&n…

  The Kingdom of Mutapa – sometimes referred to as the Mutapa Empire, Mwenemutapa, (Shona: Mwene we Mutapa, Portuguese: Monomotapa) – was an African kingdom in Zimbabwe, which expanded to what is …

The Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadou (Arabic: غانا) or Awkar, was a West African empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali that existed from c. 300 unt…

The Songhai Empire (also transliterated as Songhay) was a state that dominated the western Sahel/Sudan in the 15th and 16th centuries. At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history. The state is known by its hi…

The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé or Manden; Arabic: مالي, romanized: Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita&n…

Carthage (/ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ/) was a settlement in modern Tunisia that later became a city-state and then an empire. Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC, Carthage was destroyed by the Ro…