Unit 27B, NCE 1

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Across
  1. 5. a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country.
  2. 9. a large country in the northern half of North America.
  3. 11. a large island country, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
  4. 12. a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; the most populous country in the world.
Down
  1. 1. a region of East Asia forming a peninsula between the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and the Yellow Sea, now divided into the countries of North Korea and South Korea.
  2. 2. a republic in northern Europe and one third of its territory is inside the arctic.
  3. 3. a great nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the second most populous country in the world
  4. 4. a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of kra to the Malay peninsula
  5. 6. a mountainous republic in central Europe, and music is quite popular in this country.
  6. 7. a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World Warâ…¡.
  7. 8. a country consisting of a group of islands in eastern Asia and one of the major defeated nations in World War II.
  8. 10. a country in western Asia and southeastern Europe.