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The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, is a federation of seven emirates on the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula. The country, wedged between between Oman and Saudi Arabia, has rocky desert ...

President Kais Saied, who has jailed opponents and consolidated power, is almost certain to win Sunday’s election in the North African country, the birthplace of the Arab Spring movement. By ...

The students took the task to heart. The screen showed a clickable map of the world that could display an array of diagrams, showing everything from carbon dioxide emissions to educational levels in ...

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Switzerland regained the top spot on U.S. News & World Report's list of best countries in the world. The 2024 rankings assessed 89 countries on factors including heritage, power, and entrepreneurship.

So what happens when we use the same methodology but let only respondents in the United States rank the best countries in the world? The U.S. gets a bit of a bump, but it’s still not No. 1.

Below, read on for the best countries in the world, according to U.S. News, and the categories in which each one excels. Population data for each country is from the US Census Bureau and Gross ...