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Amazing Facts About Places in the World
Here are some quite amazing things about the different countries in the world.
- The US and Canada’s 200 million cars, buses and trucks drive on 6,500,000 km of paved roads (almost 16 times the distance of the moon)
- Brazil is the largest source of orange juice concentrate
- The United States of America is the largest consumer of lead, zinc and the largest importer of fossil fuels
- North America is the largest consumer of oil, nuclear power and hydroelectricity
- The US is the leader in waste, disposing of 864 kg per capita per year
- Built in Birmingham in 1904, a statue of Vulcan stands 58 feet high is the largest cast iron statue in the world
- The government of Bhutan has stopped using Gross Domestic Product (a measure of economic output) as a measure of progress; it now measures “GNH” or Gross National Happiness instead
- There are 3 presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina who rotate every 8 months
- Bulgaria has existed as a nation for more than 13 centuries
- Finland has about 60,000 lakes
- Although separated by 2,300 miles of ocean, Easter Island, known for its giant Moai statues, has been a part of Chile since 1888
- Colombia is the world’s biggest source of emerald
- Eritrea – A mysterious language spoken by 3,000 Dahlak Islander was unknown to outsiders before 1996
- Equatorial Guinea is the only country in Africa in which Spanish is an official language
- The 3.7 million-year-old skeleton of “Lucy” one of the earliest ancestor of modern humans, was found in Ethiopia.
- Wearing a hat is a sign of disrespect in Fijian culture
- Budapest was originally two separate cities, Buda and Pest. The 2 areas are separated by the Danube River.
- Iceland, the “Land of Fire and Ice has more than 200 volcanoes and 120 glaciers
- India has more people than the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined. Her total population is 1.09 billion.
- Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world
- Lebanon has been famous for cedar trees for over 4,000 years. The cedar even appears on the country’s flag.
- Surrounded by Switzerland and Austria, which themselves also have no access to the sea, Liechtenstein is said to be “doubly landlocked.”
- Monaco is the most densely populated country in the world. (Population – 32,543, area – 1 sq. mi)
- Mongolia is the most thinly populated country in the world. (Population – 2,832,224, area 603,909 sq. mi).
- Slovenia has more than a thousand caves formed in the rocky areas known as karsts
- South Africa has 11 official languages; 9 of them are native
- Though it is home to the European headquarters of the United Nations, Switzerland did not join the UN until 2002
- Camel racing is a popular sport in the United Arab Emirates. Racing camels are especially bred for speed and are highly prized.
- In Oman, Muslim desert women follow religious custom by wearing a black mask to prevent her face from being seen. City woman cover only the nose, mouth and cheek.
- Tablets found in Ugarit contain one of the world’s oldest alphabets dating back to around 1400 BC
- The Muruntau gold mine is the world’s largest open pit gold mine
- Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It’s the capital of Syria.
- Colombia leads the world in coffee
- The national sport of Afghanistan is buzkashi. It is played on horseback and literally means “goat grabbing.”
- Barbados is named after the island’s bearded fig trees (Barbados means “bearded ones” in Spanish)
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Great post.
Great article! Very interesting and informative. Thanks
Very interesting article.
I think you should be on Jeopardy some day.
Nice to know spanish is spoken in Africa too.By the way,have you seen Chile in the map?
thanks to all of you guys,
@Juancav,yes i’ve seen it,what about it my friend?
Thank you for adding Vulcan to the list. I am from Hanceville, Alabama and we went to the park and into Vulcan a few times. Not many people have heard about it unless they live or have lived there.
Fascinating facts.
Thank you and take care.
thank you all,i appreciate your support very much
Good facts and interesting
Very interesting. I was fascinated with all the facts. Thank you.
I am not telling a lie: yes, my name is said as “Mickey Mouse”! Please don’t laugh……………… and yes, i enjoyed reading all of this………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. okay, so my NAME isnt kiki mouse, but i was called that in High School. I liked the facts! LOOOOVED IT!
LOL liked the stuff….
omg Miki is that you? and btw(by the way) i like #14 & 16 for some reason……..
it’s really an amazing! interesting…i enjoy reading the facts and i learn from it…keep posting…
it\’s really an amazing! interesting…i enjoy reading the facts and i learn from it…keep posting…