115 islands make up the Seychelles.  Listen to the happiest pod ever for Citizen Cork - good news only (99% true) in this episode.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

When winning the Nobel Peace Prize is part of your game theory playbook you might be the PM of Ethiopia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

It doesn't do it justice. A quick narrative as to why lines on maps don't a country make. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Finally back to it with the long awaited Hong Kong episode.  Hong Kong is probably most erroneously thought of as an island, which there is an island of Hong Kong, but Hong Kong includes mainland and other islands as regards the Special Administrative Region.  This SAR now allows for only "patriots" in elections as the 50 year independence from China begins to evaporate a little early. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. ...

An island facing Chinese military aggression. Learn about the other Republic of China --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

All the things you shouldn’t talk about at work and the results of warring monarchs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Ireland is beautiful and despite a lack of conversation on this topic quite wealthy on a per capita basis. Learn more about what’s happening in Ireland and the dynamic of two nations one island in this episode of Citizen Cork --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

If you had a dollar for every island that is part of Indonesia ... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

St Lucia and the narrative of the 1500s to today loosely told. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Makes more money than bananas. Join me and Marenka as we talk through a beautiful island with a complicated history. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Rushed to press. Where is Burma and what’s the backdrop to the most recent military coup. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

The name may not seem fearsome but Cambodia’s Pot Pol filled a short tenure with immense destruction. And on the lighter side, Cambodia has a donut king. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Pakistan is the world’s fifth most populous country. An episode on the background. There is no dive into the “war on terror”. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Interview covering economic issues as well as current political environment --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Interview covering the protests and the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Nigeria is the world's 6th most populous country and there is no shortage of interesting history.  Listen to Part 1 to set yourself up for two amazing interviews with two Nigerian men explaining how they view Nigeria today and what they think might come of the recent protests in the next three years. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Honduras sits just south of central Central America and is one of the poorest countries in the region. Once stable enough for tourism this country faces violence driving emigration. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Jordan is small and not self-sustaining but they haven’t let that stop them from having outsized influence in the Middle East --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Woof woof woof, who let the dogs out? It’s home to Baha Men and beautiful beaches, this episode is about the Bahamas --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

An Interim President is never a sign of stability. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Land of the Rising Sun or Land of the First Porno Mag (either one). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

Suriname is staking a claim to greenest country with 93% vegetation coverage - find out more in this short take on a square(ish) country (shape-wise only). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

TNT out of sight, TNT dynamite or a tale of two islands that come together for a great acronym.  More seriously, Trinidad and Tobago came with a number of surprises including an energy industry and mud volcanoes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support

The country famous for chocolate, banking and "neutrality".  Find out more about this European power. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citizencork/support