Country JigsawSeptember 22, 2010

ITALY

• Relative Location: Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into Central Mediterranean Sea, Northeast Tunisia

• Absolute Location: 42.5 degrees North, 12.5 degrees East

• Climate: Predominantly Mediterranean, Alpine in far north, hot and dry in south

• Population: 58, 126, 212

ITALY

• Natural Resources: coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite, natural gas, and crude oil reserves, fish, and arable land

• Imports: engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing, food, beverages, and tobacco

• Exports: engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals, food, beverages, tobacco, minerals, and metals

ITALY

GERMANY

• Relative Location: Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark

• Absolute Location: 51 degrees North, 9 degrees East

• Climate: temperate and marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm mountain wind

• Population: 82, 329, 758

GERMANY

• Natural Resources: coal, lignite, natural gas, iron ore, copper, nickel, uranium, potash, salt, construction materials, timber, and arable land

• Imports: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals

• Exports: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, and textiles

GERMANY

UNITED KINGDOM

• Relative Location: Western Europe, islands including the northern 1/6th of the island of Ireland between the North Atlantic Ocean and North Sea, Northwest of France

• Absolute Location: 54 degrees North, 2 degrees East

• Climate: temperate, moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current, more than half the days are overcast

• Population: 61, 113, 205

UNITED KINGDOM

• Natural Resources: coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, arable land

• Imports: manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, foodstuffs

• Exports: manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals, food, beverages, tobacco

UNITED KINGDOM

RUSSIA

• Relative Location: Northern Asia, bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean

• Absolute Location: 60 degrees North, 100 degrees East

• Climate: Ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast, summers vary from warm to cool

• Population: 140, 041, 247

RUSSIA

• Natural Resources: deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, timber

• Imports: vehicles, machinery and equipment, plastics, medicines, iron and steel, consumer goods, meat, fruits and nuts, semi finished metal products

• Exports: petroleum, natural gas, grain, wood and wood products, metals, chemicals, and wide variety of civilian and military manufactures

RUSSIA