Entries starting with B
- Baghdad: History, Geography and Key Facts About Iraq’s CapitalBaghdad is the capital and largest city of Iraq, founded in 762 CE on the Tigris River as the seat of the Abbasid caliphate.
- Bahrain: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsBahrain is a small archipelago nation in the Persian Gulf, home to the ancient Dilmun capital of Qal'at al-Bahrain.
- Ballistic missileA ballistic missile is rocket powered at launch, then coasts on an unpowered arc, falling under gravity onto its target.
- BandwidthBandwidth is how much data a connection can carry each second, usually measured in megabits per second, and quoted separately for download and upload.
- Bangalore: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsBangalore (Bengaluru) is the capital of Karnataka, India, and the country's leading information technology hub.
- Bangkok: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsBangkok is Thailand's capital, a Chao Phraya River megacity that has been the country's royal and economic center since 1782.
- Bangladesh: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsBangladesh is a densely populated South Asian country on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, along the Bay of Bengal.
- Barbados: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsBarbados is an independent island country in the eastern Caribbean, known for the UNESCO-listed colonial port of Bridgetown and its sugar plantation history.
- Barcelona: Catalonia’s Mediterranean CapitalBarcelona is the Mediterranean coastal capital of Catalonia, Spain, known for Roman origins, Catalan culture, and Antoni Gaudi's modernist architecture.
- Basis pointA basis point is one hundredth of one percentage point (0.01%), used to describe small changes in interest rates and other financial percentages.
- Beijing: China’s Imperial CapitalBeijing is the capital of China, an imperial seat turned modern seat of government built around a UNESCO-recognized dynastic central axis.
- Beirut: History, Geography and Key Facts About Lebanon’s CapitalBeirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, a Mediterranean port settled by Phoenicians before 1500 BCE.
- Belarus: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsBelarus is a landlocked Eastern European country bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, known for the Mir Castle Complex.
- Belgium: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsA federal constitutional monarchy in western Europe known for hosting the European Union's main institutions and NATO headquarters.
- Belize: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsBelize is a small English-speaking country on the Caribbean coast of Central America, home to the Belize Barrier Reef and independent from Britain since 1981.
- Benin: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsBenin is a West African country on the Gulf of Guinea, historically home to the Kingdom of Dahomey and the birthplace of the Vodun religion.
- Berlin: History, Geography, Culture and Key FactsBerlin is the German capital whose Brandenburg Gate symbolizes the country's Cold War division and 1989 reunification.
- Bhutan: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsBhutan is a small, landlocked Buddhist kingdom in the eastern Himalayas between India and China, known for Gross National Happiness and carbon negative status.
- Big Five personality traitsThe Big Five are five broad personality dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
- Blood pressureBlood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the blood vessels, recorded as two numbers such as 120/80 mmHg.
- Bloom’s taxonomyBloom's taxonomy sorts learning goals by how much thinking they demand, from remembering a fact up to creating something new.
- Bolivia: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsBolivia is a landlocked, Indigenous-majority country in the central Andes of South America, home to the Salar de Uyuni and governed as a plurinational state.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Balkan Nation RebuildingA Balkan nation on the Dinaric Alps, still rebuilding institutions and its economy three decades after the 1992-1995 war and Dayton Agreement.
- Boston: History, Geography, Culture and Key FactsBoston, founded by Puritans in 1630, was a key birthplace of the American Revolution and home to Faneuil Hall.
- Botswana: Diamond-Rich DemocracyBotswana is a landlocked Southern African democracy built on diamond wealth, home to the Okavango Delta and the Tsodilo Hills rock art site.
- Brazil: South America’s Largest CountryBrazil is the largest country in South America, home to most of the Amazon rainforest and Latin America's biggest economy.
- Brent crudeBrent crude is the North Sea oil grade whose price serves as the main benchmark for crude sold in Europe, Africa and Asia.
- BRICSBRICS is a grouping of major emerging economies, founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and expanded to eleven members.
- Brisbane: History, the Story Bridge and Key Facts About Queensland’s CapitalBrisbane is Queensland's capital, founded in 1824 as a penal settlement, set to host the 2032 Olympics.
- Brunei: Borneo’s Oil-Rich SultanateBrunei is a small, oil-wealthy absolute monarchy on Borneo, Southeast Asia, known for royal rule and the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque.
- Brussels: History, Geography, Culture and Key FactsBrussels is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union, home to the Grand-Place and the Atomium.
- Budapest: Hungary’s Danube CapitalBudapest is the capital and largest city of Hungary, straddling the Danube River between the hilly Buda district and flat Pest district.
- Buffer overflowA buffer overflow happens when a program writes more data into a block of memory than that block was built to hold.
- Bulgaria: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsBulgaria is a Balkan Peninsula nation on the Black Sea, shaped by Thracian, Roman, and medieval Bulgarian empires, later ruled by the Ottomans.
- Burkina Faso: Landlocked West African NationBurkina Faso is a landlocked West African nation in the Sahel, home to the UNESCO-listed Loropeni ruins and a growing gold-based economy.
- BurnoutBurnout is a syndrome the WHO describes as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.
- Burundi: Landlocked Great Lakes NationBurundi is a small, landlocked country in East Africa's Great Lakes region, bordered by Lake Tanganyika and shaped by a difficult ethnic history.