Let's see what I can find:
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Originally Posted by Yoodle15
"No vivo en una ciudad, (sino que) vivo en un pueblo. Mi pueblo es muy diferente de Buenos Aires. Es (wrong verb) en el interior del país y no tiene puerto como Buenos Aires. La mayoría de los habitantes de Buenos Aires son de ascendencia europea, pero la mayoría de los habitantes de mi ciudad son descendientes (wrong word) de la India."
"Al norte, el Brasil y la selva amazónica sepabaran (wrong tense) la Argentina de los países vecinos. Al oeste, las montañas (cordillera) de los Andes separaban (wrong tense) la Argentina del Chile."
"La mayoría de los inmigrantes a la Argentina son de Italia y de España. Unos son de Polonia, de Rusia, y de Alemania."
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I've marked some
possible alternatives (but what you wrote is fine), what is wrong and why. I also won't be surprised if I missed something.
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Originally Posted by Yoodle15
The words in red are those that I am not sure I need to include.
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Yes, you need to include them. The general rule in Spanish is that one repeats a preposition with each individual item in a list. Omitting the preposition strongly suggests that the speaker considers that the item and the preceding item are one thing rather than individual things. So, saying "son de Polonia, Rusia y Alemania" refers to one country whose name consists of the several words, "Polonia, Rusia y Alemania".
For example, if someone is from the Carribean country St. Kitts and Nevis (San Cristóbal y Nieves), one says "Es de San Cristóbal y Nieves", even though St. Kitts is one section of the country and Nevis is the other section of the country. One would say "de San Cristóbal y de Nieves" only when one is considering each region individually rather than the country as a whole.