This week I did East Asia, I failed to name 10 countries 1. Kyrgzstan 2. Maldives 3. Sri Lanka 4. Myanmar 5. Laos 6. Cambodia 7. Malaysia 8. Phillipines 9. Brunei 10. Timor-Leste. Out of those 10, only Timor-Leste has never visited my blog, lets have a look at this country
- Timor-Leste is an island it has a boarder with part of Indonesia
- It has 2 official languages Portuguese and Tetum
- It is one of the newest countries in the world, having been established in 2002
- It includes the small nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco and Oecusse
- 38% of its parliament are made up of women, making it one of the highest proportion of women in government
- While poverty levels are high, a lot of work is being done to reduce these, it fell by 8% between 2007 and 2014
- It is the smallest country is south east Asia
- The US dollar is its official currency
- Coffe is its main export
- Traditional music such as the likurai dance are performed by women to welcome men home after war
Hope you learnt a little something new from this country
Very interesting. I didn’t know the country was split. Makes travel between segments a little dicy since they aren’t the best of friends with Indonesia.
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I know one of them is actually an enclave with Indonesia
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Yes, I certainly did! I’d never even heard of it before I read this post!
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I must admit, I knew very little about it till this
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It has been a long road to freedom and democracy for East Timor. Thanks for the focus on it.
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Not a problem, it was very interesting to read up on it
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