facts-about-world

World

• In China, the PlayStation is illegal.
• Istanbul is the only city on Earth that is spread across two continents.
• 35 million people in China still live in caves.
• The Pacific Ocean has double the area and over double the water volume of the Atlantic Ocean.
• Portugal can actually be found on three continents! The majority of the country is in Europe, its Madeira archipelago is in Africa, and its Azores archipelago is in North America.
• St. Petersburg, Russia, is so far north that it gets 19 hours of sunlight in the summer.
• The world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest, could fit inside the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, and it would still be over one mile underwater.
• The North Pole is not a landmass, instead, it is made up of polar ice caps, and therefore it is always moving.
• Canada has more lakes than anywhere else in the world: 31,752. In fact, 9% of the country is a freshwater lake!
• Paid workers built up the pyramids of Egypt instead of slaves or prisoners.
• 1977, Argentina sent a pregnant woman to Antarctica in an effort to claim a portion of the continent. Her child became the 1st person to be born on the southernmost continent.
• Russia borders 14 countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, Poland and the Ukraine.
• Mount Augustus in Australia is not a mountain but instead just a giant rock. So giant, at 2,300 feet tall (701m) it can be seen from 100 miles (160 km) away.
• 90% of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica.
• Scott is the ninth commonly used surname in Scotland. Top three surname include Smith, Brown and Wilson.
• The leaning tower of Pisa took almost 200 years to build and is still leans.
• Green land in the biggest island in the world.
• The Caribbean Sea averages 8 hurricanes per year, with the majority of them occurring in the month of September.
• There are 13 countries located along the earth's equator.
• The waters of the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the ocean is freezing in some parts and scalding hot in others due to water coming out of hypothermal vents.