Angola, Austria, Azerbaijan,

Brazil, Bangladesh and Bulgaria,

Chile, China, Deutschland and Dagestan,

England, Ecuador, Ethiopia.

France, Greenland, Haiti and Indonesia,

Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lapland,

Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua,

Oman, Pakistan, Poland and Queensland.

Russia, Spain, Sierra Leone, Scotland,

Sudan, Sweden, Turkey, Turkmenistan,

Tajikistan, Thailand, Tanzania,

USA, Vietnam, West Indies Land.

Ex-Soviet states, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Man!

Can you state why we need them? Me neither!

An A-Z of countries from a self-confessed geography nerd, in sonnet form.