The Philippines is also the first tropical nation to compete at the Winter Olympics.

Derek Brown examines the underlying ethnic tensions in this supposedly idyllic tropical nation.

Among tropical nations, Brazil probably has the world's best monitoring of deforestation activity.

Despite being a tropical nation, ice skating is a popular sport in the Philippines.

American energy use is being subsidized by tropical coastal nations, who appear to be global warming's first victims.

The country is a tropical, maritime nation.

Congo is a tropical nation, which means it has a tropical climate.

Temperature and humidity are high as in all tropical nations.

Togo is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation, highly dependent on agriculture, with a climate that provides good growing seasons.

For example, he went on, engineers in tropical nations could use detailed information from the computers to help design public projects such as roads.