The World’s 40 Most Beautiful Countries
To craft our list of the most beautiful countries in the world, we focused on places that offer an impressive range of natural wonders along with manmade creations and cities just as vibrant as their environment. They also all make an effort to preserve their historic structures and artistic practices while making way for new technologies to help improve their nation. From the towering mountains of Oman to Thailand’s white sand coast, these are the world’s 40 most beautiful countries that you should visit in your lifetime.
Colombia’s de la Espriella has to rebuild the earthquake’s ruptures — and the political ones too
CALI, Colombia — Three days after President Abelardo de la Espriella celebrated his inauguration here, instead of in the nation’s capital, the loud sound of cranes digging through rubble was drowning out the mumbled prayers of family members hoping to find their loved ones’ bodies after a devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake flattened their building.
Thailand’s first openly gay senator attends World Pride in Amsterdam
The independent senator noted Thailand’s marriage equality movement began to gain traction with a lawsuit that the Foundation for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights and Justice, a Thai advocacy group, filed.
The Constitutional Court in 2021 upheld a law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. MP Tunyawaj Kamolwongwat of the Move Forward Party later introduced the marriage equality bill that became law.
Nature
The U.S. dumped 2 million tires into the ocean to build an artificial reef in 1970. Decades later, officials are still trying to clean up the environmental disaster
Like the failed Osborne Reef, there are efforts to stop the havoc the tires have been and are still creating by removing them and cleaning up the mess that was made. In the case of the Osborne Reef, just over a quarter of the tires have been removed since efforts got underway in 2006, but current projections expect getting to the halfway mark won’t happen until around 2033.
Evolving Folks Project 