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C. Nepal is located in Himalayas and is home to eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth.
B. Haiti occupies the western three-eighths of the island of Hispaniola which it shares with the Dominican Republic. The islands of Cuba and Jamaica lie to the west of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico lies to the east. According to a report last November, the UN had only spent $307 million to battle cholera on the island. The UN claims diplomatic immunity from lawsuits over the epidemic.
A. The CIA World Factbook lists 18 nations as poorer than Haiti – all but one in Sub-Saharan Africa. About 80 percent of Haiti’s 10.6 million people live under the poverty line and more than half in abject poverty.
D. Death toll estimates range from 100,000 to about 160,000 in Haiti’s most severe earthquake in over 200 years. Haiti has suffered through a series natural disasters, civil wars and invasion since slaves revolted, defeated the French army and established the first independent nation in Latin America and second republic in the Americas in 1804.