Vatican City Isn’t actually a city. It is Actually a Country, although it is only the Size of 50 football pitches and its official population is just 821 people!

Nigeria is the most densely populated country in Africa with more than 100 million people, but Sudan is the largest country Geographically with a total area of 2,505,800 sq km (967,490 square miles)

Uganda has the youngest population in the world. More than half its inhabitants are aged 14 or under.

Singapore is both a city and a state. It is the only member of the UN with a completely urban population.

China and India both have more than 1 billion inhabitants. The next biggest country by population, the USA, has fewer than 300 million.

Istanbul in turkey is the only city to straddle two continents - Europe and Asia.

Damascus in Syria is the world’s oldest City. People have lived there for more than 10,000 years.

It is Estimated that 3.9 billion people watched the 2004 Athens Olympic Games On T.V.

With more than 40 million registered players (mostly in China), Table tennis is the most Popular Competitive Sport in the World.

English is an Official language in 58 countries.

There are about 110,000 Inuit People, almost equally distributed between Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.

about 6,000 Different Languages are used around the World, of which half are spoken by fewer than 10,000 people.

Walmart, a US company with a chain of stores, is the largest company in the world with 1.9 million employees.

France is the world’s most Popular holiday destination with more than 75 million tourists each year.

About 1 billion people do not have enough to eat.

the first country to give Women the vote was New Zealand in 1893.

the first Phone Network was launched in Sweden in 1956.

three Million people make their living working on Fishing Boats.

The widest Avenue in the world is Avenda 9 de julio in Buenos Aries, Argentina. It has 12 lanes of traffic!