Great Land of Wind

The is one of the more prominent countries revealed. It is located to the south-west of the Land of Fire and borders the Land of Rivers and Amegakure. The Great Land of Wind is simply the Land of Wind after the Seventh Kazekage came into office. Thus uniting the surrounding villages with Sunagakure creating a unified country ruled by a singular entity. The Great Land of Wind has also become the head country in the Nankoku Alliance. With newly established trade routes and supplylines as well as natural resources appearing, The Great Land of Wind has entered an era of prosperity. One great advancement made by the Seventh Kazekage was the introduction of deser farming practices which included the creation of various underground rivers and canals. As well as various mechanical devices to control both the flow of the waterways and it's filtration. The land of wind's vast realm was infamously known for little productivity due to very little rainfall throughout the year. Which forced the people of the country live in villages built on one of the desert's many oases. However, the Seventh Kazekage employed various shinobi who utilized earth release to create underground and aboveground waterways that connected each village to the ocean. From there on, Zenjou funded another project which instilled each river with a pumping system and filtration device. Albeit an expensive project, when coupled with other desert farming practices, it had a rather huge payoff. Causing for each village to expand and live rather eaily. However, the country retained it's extremely harsh environment. But it has had no influence on it's already large and expanding population. Although they have warred with each other in the past, the Land of Wind is now on good terms with the Land of Fire, with a great deal of trade going on between the two countries.

Under the Seventh Kazekage, The Great Land of Wind has become the leading country over various smaller countries. A practice once performed in the past, the greater village has began to assimilate surrounding areas. Both increasing it's size, resources and overall manpower.

Trivia

 * In Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel, Haido's Knights attacked the Land of Wind in their quest of searching for the Gelel vein, meaning the country is close to Temujin's Continent.
 * The Land of Wind is often said to border the Land of Fire, however, maps show that the Land of Rivers is right in between them. Whether the map is wrong or the Land of Rivers is smaller than initially thought is currently unknown.