Suppose I have a 2-column table. Column A contains the names countries and
column B contains the name of a city in that country. The same country can
appear more than once in column A, but the whole table is unsorted. (So the
first 5 cells in column A might read England, France, Germany, France,
Germany and in column B Liverpool, Paris, Munich, Marseilles, Berlin).

I want to extract from this table a smaller table with each country
appearing once in the first column and the second column containing any
relevant example city in that country. Is there a simple way to do that? I
tried using a pivot table with the "MIN" function, hoping that MIN would pick
the alphabetically first city, but "MIN" only works on numbers.