CZ:Basic Article List

This is a list of articles that don't exist (or which exist only as lemma articles, or don't have a definition) but which could be considered basic reference material in an encyclopedia.

Color code

• Red: no article whatsoever
• Pink?: lemma
• Blue: at least a stub

Key to Pictograms

Each article name has an icon to the left indicating the status of that particular article:

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Continents and Regions

• Central America: Southernmost region of North America, comprising Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; borders Mexico, Colombia, the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (area approximately 524,000km²/202,000mi²; population about 42 million). ^[e]
•  South America: The fourth largest of the Earth's continents, one of the pieces that broke up from the former supercontinent Gondwana. ^[e]
•  Middle East: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. ^[e]
• Maghreb: The Muslim-majority, Arabic and Berber-speaking countries of North Africa, bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea and often by the Sahara Desert on the south. ^[e]
•  Levant: The region of the eastern Mediterranean Sea and some neighboring states, largely Muslim but with significant Jewish and Christian populations ^[e]
•  Horn of Africa: A peninsula in East Africa, bordered by the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. ^[e]
•  Sahel: A dryland transitional area stretching across Africa, south of the Sahara Desert ^[e]
•  East Africa: Add brief definition or description
•  West Africa: A major geographic and economic subregion of Africa, usually defined as having 15 member countries ^[e]
•  Southern Cone: The southernmost part of South America, always including Argentina, Chile and Uruguay; sometimes all or part of Brazil, as well as Bolivia and Peru. ^[e]

Countries

•  Philippines: A large, democratic nation of Southeast Asia, consisting of an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with many cultures, religions and languages. ^[e]
• Ethiopia: Among the oldest countries of the world, from which Muslim-majority Eritrea split after a civil war; Coptic Christian-majority state in East Africa ^[e]
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Add brief definition or description
•  South Africa: The southernmost African nation; population about 50,000,000. ^[e]
•  Kenya: A country of 38 million in East Africa. ^[e]
•  Nepal: Landlocked country in South Asia, bordered by Tibet and India. ^[e]
• Venezeula: A country in the northern part of South America, with coastline along the Caribbean Sea; democratic government since 1959 although there is concern that the current President of Venezuela is weakening democratic institions; member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ^[e]
• Malaysia: Country in Southeast Asia; a peninsula bordering Thailand and the northern one-third of the island of Borneo, Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea; south of Vietnam ^[e]
•  North Korea: State comprising the northern Korean peninsula; officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with Pyongyang its capital. ^[e]
•  Taiwan: Formerly known as Formosa, an East Asian island and the common name for territories administered by the Republic of China. ^[e]
•  Mozambique: Republic in Africa, bounded north by Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania, west by Zimbabwe, south-west by South Africa and Swaziland, with access to the Indian Ocean in the east. ^[e]
•  Madagascar: Republic in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of south-east Africa, the fourth largest island in the world. ^[e]
•  Burkina Faso: Landlocked West African nation with significant gold reserves and an economy based primarily on cotton; formerly a French colony (population about 18 million). ^[e]
•  Niger: A country in Western Africa, with one of the worst qualities of life in the world. ^[e]
•  Malawi: Landlocked republic in Africa, located along the shores of Lake Malawi, and bounded north by Tanzania, south by Mozambique, and west by Zambia. ^[e]
•  Mali: Landlocked republic in Africa, bounded north-west by Mauritania, north-east by Algeria, west by Senegal, east by Niger, and south by Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Guinea. ^[e]
•  South Sudan: North-eastern African nation established in 2011; formerly the southern region of Sudan. ^[e]
•  Ecuador: South American country with Quito its capital; economy built on agriculture and latterly on oil exports and industry (population about 15 million). ^[e]
•  Guatemala: Country in Central America that shares borders with Mexico to the north and west, Belize to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the south. ^[e]
•  Zambia: Landlocked republic in southern part of Africa. Formerly North Rhodesia until independence from U.K. in 1964. ^[e]
•  Senegal: Once a French colony, now an influential yet Highly Indebted Poor Country with diplomatic and military impact well beyond its borders ^[e]
•  Tunisia: Country in the North African Maghreb region that gained independence from France in 1956 and was the first to see governmental change in the 2011 Arab Spring. ^[e]
•  Dominican Republic: Republic on the eastern-side of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, part of the Greater Antilles. ^[e]
• Guinea: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Guinea (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  Haiti: Caribbean country, capital Port-au-Prince, covering the western part of the island of Hispaniola; population about 10,000,000. ^[e]
•  Rwanda: A small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. ^[e]
•  Bolivia: Landlocked state in South America, formerly part of the Inca Empire, independent since 1825. ^[e]
•  Benin: An African republic, bordering Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger and the Gulf of Guinea, which gained independence from France in 1960. ^[e]
•  Burundi: A country of Central Africa, having borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania, as well as coast on Lake Tanganikya. ^[e]
•  Honduras: Central American republic (capital Tegucigalpa) with an economy built on agriculture and peoples of mixed European and Amerindian descent; has the world's highest murder rate and high levels of poverty (population about 8.5 million). ^[e]
• Papau New Guinea: Add brief definition or description
•  Togo: Republic located on the west coast of Africa. The country is bounded by Burkina Faso in the north, Benin in the east and Ghana in the west, with access to the Atlantic Ocean. ^[e]
•  Libya: North African revolutionary republic led by Muammar Gaddafi, which normalised diplomatic ties with the West in 2003; fourth-largest African nation, population about 6,000,000. ^[e]
•  Paraguay: Country in Central South America, northeast of Argentina, which also has boundaries with Bolivia and Brazil. ^[e]
•  El Salvador: Republic in Central America, one of the smallest but most densely populated in the region. ^[e]
•  Nicaragua: Add brief definition or description
• Sierra Leone: Add brief definition or description
• Krygzystan: Add brief definition or description
•  Eritrea: Add brief definition or description
•  Costa Rica: Add brief definition or description
• Central African Republic: Add brief definition or description
• Puerto Rico: Add brief definition or description
• Palestine: Add brief definition or description
• Republic of the Congo: Add brief definition or description
•  Moldova: Add brief definition or description
•  Liberia: Add brief definition or description
•  Panama: Add brief definition or description
•  Mauritania: Add brief definition or description
•  Armenia: Add brief definition or description
•  Oman: Add brief definition or description
•  Jamaica: Add brief definition or description
•  Namibia: Add brief definition or description
•  Lesotho: Add brief definition or description
• Macedonia: Add brief definition or description
•  Botswana: Add brief definition or description
• Gambia: Add brief definition or description
•  Guinea-Bissau: Add brief definition or description
•  Gabon: Add brief definition or description
•  Qatar: Add brief definition or description
•  Trinidad and Tobago: Add brief definition or description
• Swaziland: Add brief definition or description
• East Timor: Add brief definition or description
• Dijbouti: Add brief definition or description
•  Fiji: Add brief definition or description
•  Bahrain: Add brief definition or description
•  Guyana: Add brief definition or description
•  Comoros: Add brief definition or description
•  Equatorial Guinea: Add brief definition or description
•  Suriname: Add brief definition or description
•  Western Sahara: Add brief definition or description
•  Cape Verde: Add brief definition or description
• Bahamas: Add brief definition or description
•  Maldives: Add brief definition or description
•  Barbados: Add brief definition or description
•  Vanuatu: Add brief definition or description
•  Netherlands Antilles: Add brief definition or description
•  Samoa: Add brief definition or description
•  Saint Lucia: Add brief definition or description
•  São Tomé and Príncipe: Add brief definition or description
• Federated States of Micronesia: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Virgin Islands: Add brief definition or description
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Add brief definition or description
• Aruba: Add brief definition or description
•  Grenada: Add brief definition or description
•  Tonga: Add brief definition or description
•  Kiribati: Add brief definition or description
• Jersey: Add brief definition or description
•  Antigua and Barbuda: Add brief definition or description
•  Northern Mariana Islands: Add brief definition or description
•  Seychelles: Add brief definition or description
• Isle of Man: Add brief definition or description
•  Dominica: Add brief definition or description
• American Samoa: Add brief definition or description
•  Guernsey: Add brief definition or description
• Greeland: Add brief definition or description
• Cayman Islands: Add brief definition or description
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis: Add brief definition or description
• Faroe Islands: Add brief definition or description
•  San Marino: Add brief definition or description
• British Virgin Islands: Add brief definition or description
• Cook Islands: Add brief definition or description
•  Palau: Add brief definition or description
•  Anguilla: Add brief definition or description
•  Tuvalu: Add brief definition or description
•  Nauru: Add brief definition or description
• Montserrat: Add brief definition or description
•  Saint Helena: Add brief definition or description
•  Falkland Islands: Add brief definition or description
• Niue: Add brief definition or description
• Tokelau: Add brief definition or description
• Pitcairn Islands: Add brief definition or description

Cities

•  Mumbai: Add brief definition or description
• Delhi: Add brief definition or description
•  Istanbul: Add brief definition or description
• Moscow, Russia: Add brief definition or description
•  Mexico City: Add brief definition or description
• Wuhan: Add brief definition or description
• Lagos: Add brief definition or description
• Tehran: Add brief definition or description
• Kinshasa: Add brief definition or description
• Lima: Add brief definition or description
• Ho Chi Minh City: Add brief definition or description
•  Bangkok: Add brief definition or description
• Dhaka: Add brief definition or description
•  Cairo: Add brief definition or description
• Guangzhou: Add brief definition or description
• Lahore: Add brief definition or description
• Bangalore: Add brief definition or description
• Tianjin: Add brief definition or description
• Kolkata: Add brief definition or description
• Santiago: Add brief definition or description
• Chongqing: Add brief definition or description
• Chennai: Add brief definition or description
• Saint Petersburg: Add brief definition or description
• Surat: Add brief definition or description
• Riyadh: Add brief definition or description
• Alexandria, Egypt: Add brief definition or description
• Yangon: Add brief definition or description
• Hyderabad: Add brief definition or description
• Ahmedabad: Add brief definition or description
• Ankara: Add brief definition or description
• Johannesburg: Add brief definition or description
•  Los Angeles, California: Add brief definition or description
• Abidjan: Add brief definition or description
• Yokohama: Add brief definition or description
• Busan: Add brief definition or description
• Cape Town: Add brief definition or description
• Durban: Add brief definition or description
• Pune: Add brief definition or description
•  Madrid: Add brief definition or description
• Kanpur: Add brief definition or description
• Jaipur: Add brief definition or description
• Buenos Aires: Add brief definition or description
• Jeddah: Add brief definition or description

United States-related topics

• State definitions (see United States of America/Related Articles) need a bit of cleanup.
• Vice-Presidents catalog
• Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States catalog

Canada-related topics

• Manitoba: Add brief definition or description
• Yukon: Add brief definition or description
• Northwest Territories: Add brief definition or description

Causes of death

• Heart disease: Add brief definition or description
• Injury: Add brief definition or description
• Liver disease: Add brief definition or description
•  Suicide: Add brief definition or description
• Homicide: Add brief definition or description