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World’s Top Ten Largest Countries

Rank Country Square Miles
1. Russia 6,592,735
2. Canada 3,855,081
3. United States 3,718,691
4. China 3,705,386
5. Brazil 3,286,470
6. Australia 2,967,893
7. India 1,269,338
8. Argentina 1,068,296
9. Kazakhstan 1,049,150
10. Sudan 967,493

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.

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World’s Ten Most Corrupt Leaders

Name  Position   Estimates of funds allegedly embezzled (in U.S. $) 
 1. Mohamed Suharto  President of Indonesia (1967–1998)    $15 to 35 billion
 2. Ferdinand Marcos  President of the Philippines (1972–1986)  5 to 10 billion
 3. Mobutu Sese Seko  President of Zaire (1965–1997)  5 billion
 4. Sani Abacha   President of Nigeria (1993–1998)  2 to 5 billion
 5. Slobodan Milosevic  President of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1989–2000)   1 billion
 6. Jean-Claude Duvalier  President of Haiti (1971–1986)   300 to 800 million
 7. Alberto Fujimori    President of Peru (1990–2000)   600 million
 8. Pavlo Lazarenko   Prime Minister of Ukraine (1996–1997)   114 to 200 million
 9. Arnoldo Alemán   President of Nicaragua (1997–2002)    100 million
 10. Joseph Estrada   President of the Philippines (1998–2001)    78 to 80 million

                                                                        
                                                                               
                                                                                             

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World’s Worst Dictators, 2006

Name Country In Power Since
Omar al-Bashir Sudan 1989
Kim Jong Il North Korea 1994
Than Shwe Myanmar 1992
Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe 1980
Islam Karimov Uzbekistan 1990
Hu Jintao China 2002
King Abdullah Saudi Arabia 1995
Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenistan 1990
Seyed Ali Khamane Iran 1989
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Equatorial Guinea 1979

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