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Our Unique World

Our Unique World

The Mexicans keeping the 1930s alive

By Rafael Estefania

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)

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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

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

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

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