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Our Unique World

(Credit: Zinara Rathnayake)
Our Unique World

Sri Lanka's last indigenous people

By Zinara Rathnayake

Church and snowy mountain view at Agrafa, Greece
Our Unique World
The Greek region too remote for maps
By Alex Sakalis
Geisha walking in the snow in Niigata City, Japan
Our Unique World
Japan's little-known geisha centre
By Steve John Powell and Angeles Marin Cabello
Boat full of men from Orang Seletar tribe on a wild boar hunt
Culture & Identity
Singapore's forgotten first people
By Wee Ling Soh
Stone memorial at Peter Verigin's tomb in Brilliant, British Columbia
Culture & Identity
Canada's little-known Russian sect
By Brendan Sainsbury
What was once a thriving culture with a distinct heritage has dwindled to a population of 200 (Credit: Aldis Pinkens)
Culture & Identity
Europe's smallest ethnic minority
By Alastair Gill
Kihnu, known as the Island of Women, is in the Baltic Sea off Estonia's western coast. (Credit: Jean-Luc LUYSSEN/Getty Images)
Our Unique World
Europe's last surviving matriarchy
By Anders Jørgensen
The Musandam Peninsula's wildly dramatic coastline has given it the nickname 'the Norway of Arabia' (Credit: CristianDXB/Getty Images)
Culture & Identity
Oman's spectacular 'Norway of Arabia'
By Daniel Stables
(Credit: Alex Robinson/Getty Images)
Our Unique World
A seafaring people with five genders
By Daniel Stables
The Gullah Geechee and their culture are at risk as climate change threatens the coastal areas where they live (Credit: Richard Ellis/Alamy)
Our Unique World
The US islands of slave descendants
By Erica Chayes Wida
The Ainu were assimilated into Japanese society and their traditional tattoos and other customs banned (Credit: Michele and Tom Grimm/Alamy)
Our Unique World
Japan’s forgotten people
By Ellie Cobb
The Saugeais valley, geographically isolated by the river Doubs, has developed a unique identity (Credit: typo-graphics/Getty Images)
Culture & Identity
The French republic no-one knows
By Lebby Eyres
Honfest takes place in over two days in June in the Baltimore suburb of Hampden (Credit: JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images)
Our Unique World
The US’ little-known subculture
By Addison Nugent
Each “paisa” accumulated and saved is an ode to the trials the Memons of Karachi overcame (Credit: Asif Hassan)
Our Unique World
Why these people are so good with money
By Aysha Imtiaz
The island’s isolation preserved the Hoi Toider dialect, a mix of Elizabethan English, Irish and Scottish accents, and pirate slang (Credit: William Graham/Alamy)
Our Unique World
Where people speak Elizabethan English
By Brian Carlton
The Ásatrú Association of Iceland is currently one of the country’s fastest growing religions (Credit: Gunnar Freyr Steinsson/Alamy)
Our Unique World
The religion passed down from Vikings
By Gavin Haines

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