There are currently 282 Confucius Institutes and 272 Confucius Classrooms in 88 countries and regions.
And most of them will live in countries and regions that are now under-represented online.
Inside Europe, however, the contrasts between countries and regions are as striking as the similarities.
To understand why that is, it helps to have a broader context for comparing countries and regions.
Among a wider range of smaller countries and regions, the UK is in 35th place out of 65.
The study also found that China had the highest level of nationalism of 36 countries and regions surveyed.
As of last week, organizers had scheduled sessions focusing on how various countries and regions affected the Philippine revolution.
The new store is now available in Europe and North and Latin America with more countries and regions to follow.
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This service initially launched in five countries, has expanded the deployment of currently 60 countries and regions, for customers worldwide, and delivers 3D entertainment.
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This refers to the countries and regions in which we operate.
There is very little labour mobility between countries, and no systematic mechanism for fiscal transfers to countries and regions that might lose out from monetary union.
Indeed a lesson of recent economic history is that countries and regions that ride out a crisis well are all the more vulnerable to the next one.
The universalism of the measuring methods, the comparability of data and the interrelation of analytical and statistical concepts must be examined with regard to the specificities of the countries and regions.
As Srini Rangan and I described in our book, Capital Rising, one way to frame that context is to think about why capital flows to countries and regions.
Contributions do not always match countries' ability to pay and these imbalances are magnified by uneven spending (about 40% goes to agricultural support and a similar share to poorer countries and regions).
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The fee differs by countries and regions.
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But overseas, cell phones are sold at a wide range of kiosks, which is part of the reason why cell phones have a relatively low level of retail quality in many emerging countries and regions, such as India, Russia, southeast Asia, etc.
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Building enterprises and creating new jobs, improving health and education, and providing basic needs such as food and water in an economical and sustainable manner require a balanced energy mix that is suited to the economic, social, and resource conditions of individual countries and regions.
The contest was organized by Eurasia Media Centre, International Journalist Unions Confederation, International Academy of Television and Radio, UNESCO Moscow office. 140 media professionals from 14 countries and 35 regions of Russia took part in the contest and submitted 1250 photos, 133 TV materials and documentaries covering a wide range of social issues.
International tests clearly show that students with the same number of years of education perform radically different not only across different regions and countries but also across different regions and schools in the same country.
What should be the division of powers between the Union, its constituent countries and European regions?
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About 400 educational professionals and experts from 6 European and Asian countries and 40 Russian regions participated in the Forum and discussed issues of modernisation of professional education for sustainable development, interaction between employers and educational institutions, innovative approaches and ICT in education including inclusive education.
We look to the future and to build an even stronger strategic partnership that benefit both countries and indeed the broader regions, ASEAN and Asia Pacific.
Click on the interactive above to see how investment in the renewable energy sector has developed in recent years, the technologies attracting the most funding and the regions and countries making the biggest financial commitment to clean energy.
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"We know that the ancient Egyptians had extensive trade routes and it is entirely possible that both medicinal plants and the knowledge to use them effectively were traded between regions and countries, " Dr Metcalf said.
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The teenager cannot "specify anything about cities, countries or regions him and his father had travelled through, " authorities said in a statement.
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The rule is well suited to deal with divergent developments in different categories of assets, and of countries or regions under a common monetary regime.
So without a major change in our energy policy, our dependence on oil means that we will continue to send billions of dollars of our hard-earned wealth to other countries every month -- including countries in dangerous and unstable regions.
Vorhaus said a brand used to like having just one person represent it, but those days are gone, and deals are struck with many athletes -- from both sexes, from across races and from across national regions and from different countries.
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