Countries Trivia | 100 random facts about countries (part 2)

We have already found out some fun facts about different countries all over the world.

But the world if full of unknown facts, so let’s find out more about the world’s countries. Meanwhile you can always find out more fun facts about different countries here.

Russia belong to two continets: Europe and Asia.
It takes up 40% of Europe’s land area.
On Taveuni island in Fiji lies the ‘International Date Line’. With the help of a sign, you can see where a new day begins. You can stand with one foot in today and the other in tomorrow.
The main official language of the Republic of Fiji is Fijian.
There are two other official languages: English and Fijian Hindi or Hindustani (a mix of Hindi and Urdu).
Fiji is composed of more than 300 islands.
The Serbian clock-making industry is older than the world-famous Swiss one, as the Serbs had their own clock at least 200 years before the Swiss did.
In Serbia there is a whole village made out of stone. Its name is Gostuša.
Argentina has the highest ratio of psychologists per inhabitant.
In Brazil there are plenty of Osama Bin Laden themed bars.
Someone who looks like him sometimes works there.
If children cheat during a test in Bangladesh, they could be sent to prison.
You can actually marry a dead person in Paris.
Also, in Paris it’s illegal to call a pig Napoleon.
A woman in 2008 with an objct – fetish got married with… the Eiffel Tower.
In Samoa, there is a tradition called ‘fa’afafine’, which means that the youngest son is raised as a daughter if you have too many sons in the family.
According to legend, if a child of the Maya civilisation in Guatemala did not cry when he was born, he was meant to become a warrior.
According to Google maps, you can walk the whole of Monaco from north to south in 52 minutes.
Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a river.
The Greeks believe that if you receive a compliment, the ‘evil eye’ looks at you. To fend off the eye, they spit three times (supposedly at the complimenter).
The number 39 in Afghanistan is associated with prostitution.
In Zimbabwe, the rapper 50 Cent is known as 400 Million Dollars.
Most of dinosaur’s footprints are found in Lesotho.
In Myanmar you cannot get your hair cut on Mondays, Fridays and birthdays.
Snoop Dogg genuinely thought he could rent the whole of Liechtenstein for a music video.
Citizens of Liechtenstein who are given prison sentences longer than two years are transferred over to Austria.
Mauritius doesn’t have an official language.
Nauru is the smallest country in the world (21km²).
It doesn’t have a capital city.
Also, Liechtensein is the world leading country producer of false teeth.
On New Year’s Day in Bhutan, everyone becomes one year older, so no one forgets each other’s birthday.
Andorra has two princes. One of them is the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
Andorra is the only country using Catalan as the official language.
Catalan is mostly used in Spain.
By the way, Spain is Europe’s 2nd largest country.
There are only two countries in the world that don’t have red, white, or blue on their flag: Jamaica and Mauritania
18 countries in the world don’t have a river in them
The Kuwaiti Dinar is the highest-valued currency in the world
There are only 22 countries that haven’t been touche by Britain in any war.
Belarus consumes the most alcohol of all the countries in the world.
On average of 17.5 liters of pure alcohol consumed per capita every year.
North and South Americans, as well as Australians, love their beer,
Asia, the Caribbean and Russiaprefer rice wine, rum and vodka, perhaps.
In Scandinavia, each person is drinking up to 26 pounds of coffee per year.
In Greece the filter coffee is called french coffee.
Asia – Pacific is the richest region as it is the home to nearly 38% of those in the billionaires club.
More than 2.2 billion people worldwide are Christians.
They represent nearly a third of the entire global population.
Islam, the second-most-dominant religion.
It has 1.8 billion adherents.
People with the highest IQs are in Europe and especially in Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
For every 100 females in Estonia, there are 84 men in Estonia.
Estonia is one of Europe’s least crowded countries, with a population density of 28.4 people per square kilometre.
Interestingly, the most populous city in all of Europe, Istanbul.
Istanbul though is splitted half in Asia and half in Europe.
People in Canada, Australia and in Scandinavian countries are considered the happiest ones in the world.
Estonia has 2,222 islands and islets in the Baltic.
The Volga River in Russia is the longest European river.
It is 3,530 kilometres (2,193 miles) long.
The EU recognises 23 languages that are in common use amongst its member countries, where two of every three Europeans live.
Algeria is the largest country in Africa and amongst one of 10 largest countries worlwide.
Seychelles is considered the smallest Africal country.
It is an archipelago, that means a nation of islands, in the Indian Ocean.
On the African mainland, the smallest country is The Gambia.
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world.
Among its resident animals are more than half the world’s chameleons and dozens of species of lemur.
Almost one in 10 Malagasies smoke weed, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou. Written as “Wogodogo” in the Mòoré dialect, it literally means “You are welcome here at home with us”.
It is located south of the Sahara Desert.
It was formerly known as Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso adopted its current name after it gained its independence from France August 5, 1960.
The official language is French, but there other languages spoken as well, such as Mòoré, Gourma, Fulfulde, Dioula, Tamasheq.
Gold is Burkina Faso’s main export, followed by cotton and animal products.
Burkina Faso is home to 60 different ethnic groups.
In 1964, the prime minister of The Gambia said that one of the reasons they like to have ‘The’ in their name is to avoid confusion with Zambia.
The Gambia is slightly smaller than Yorkshire.
The only country with which The Gambia has a border is Senegal.
People cast their votes in elections in The Gambia by dropping stones in holes.
The Gambian national sport is a form of wrestling known as ‘Borreh’.
In Senegal they build a wall of trees, designed to hold back the encroaching Sahara Desert and entice wildlife back to the country’s dusty plains.
Every Sunday the sheeps in Senegala are washed, given a manicure and encouraged to have a swim before returning to the daily grind of grazing.
Senegal is considered one of the safest countries in Africa.
Dakar is the last place on the African continent to see sunrise and sunset.
Dakar is Senegal’s capital city.
In Senegal you can find a pink lake.
Senegal is twice as big as Portugal.
Senegal owns a total of 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Zambia is surrounded by seven countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Victoria Falls in Zambiais 108 metres in height.
It’s almost double the height of Niagara Falls in Canada.
The first African movie was filmed in Senegal.
The local currency is the Zambian kwacha.
It is translated to ‘dawn’.
The Zambezi is the fourth longest river in Africa after the Nile, Congo, and Niger Rivers., and Zambia was named after this river.
The official languages of Morocco are Berber and Arabic.
Also, Moroccans speak French.
Morocco is quite a mountainous country with the Atlas Mountains running from northeast to the southwest through the center and the Rif Mountains located in the north.
Green tea with mint and sweetened with sugar is a popular beverage in Morocco.
The most famous of Moroccan dishes is couscous.
Couscous is also cooked with some slight differences in other Arabic countries in Africa such as Libya and Tunisia