Countries Trivia | 100 random facts about countries (part 3)

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1. There are 23 countries in North America.
2. Canada is the largest country of North America, as it’s been covering almost half the North American continent’s land area.
3. Canada has the longest coastline in the world with 202,080km/125.567miles.
4. Canada is the second largest oil reserve holder after Saudi Arabia.
5. Greenland is world’s largest island that is not a continent.
6. Greenland is technically part of Denmark, but is autonomous with its own domestic government.
7. Lake Superior, North America’s largest lake, is as large as… Austria!
8. Lake Superior is also considered the largest freshwater lake by area in the world.
9. 80% of the country is covered by ice!
10. Another fun fact is that in Greenland there aren’t any roads!
11. One of the most famous cities of the U.S.A., New York, was once called… New Amsterdam.
12. Alaska in now part of the U.S.A., but back in the 19th century was part of Russia.
13. Mexico’s real name is the United States of Mexico, and its capital name is Mexico City.
14. Mexico’s got 34 UNESCO sites within its borders.
15. Argentina had 5 presidents in only 10 days in 2001.
16. The name of Venezuela comes from the Italian word “Veneziola”.
17. Venezuela is a place with really beautiful women. It has six times Miss Universe winners and five times Miss World.
18. Bolivia has has over 30 official languages, but the one mostly spoken is Spanish.
19. Lake Titicaca, is located on the western part of Bolivia and the south eastern part of Peru, and it is the highest navigable lake in the world.
20. Caral-supe in Peru is believed to be the oldest site occupied by humans in the Americas dating back 5,000 years.
21. Three-quarters of the world’s alpaca population lives in Peru.
22. Peruvians celebrate New Year’s by gifting one another yellow underpants on New Year’s Eve to bring good luck in the coming year.
23. Colombia is the only country in South America that has coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
24. It is mandatory for radio and public television in Colombia to play the national anthem every day at 6 am and 6 pm.
25. In the Bahamas there are pink sand beaches.
26. The pink sand of Pink Sands Beach, on Harbour Island the Bahamas, comes from Foraminifera, a microscopic marine animal with a bright pink or red shell.
27. The name “Bahamas” comes from the Spanish words “baja mar”, meaning shallow water or sea.
28. The first people that inhabited the island were called the Tainos.
29. These indigenous people also lived in Colombia.
30. Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas is plunging 202 metres into the sea making it the deepest blue hole in the world.
31. Barbados produces the world’s oldest rum.
32. There are a whopping 1500 rum shops located all over the island
33. Despite its independence, Barbados still has ties to the British Monarch and is represented by a British Governor General.
34. The famous pop singer Rihanna is from the Barbados.
35. Barbados has over 3000 hours of sunshine each year.
36. New Zealand has more golf courses per capita than anywhere else in the world.
37. 90% of Australians live on the coast
38. The island of Tasmania has air that is as fresh as it is the air of Antarctica.
39. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world.
40. The Great Ocean Road is the world’s largest war memorial.
41. 80% of the australian animals exist only in… Australia
42. In Mongolia people love eating ice cream, so you wll find many vendors selling ice cream un the streets.
43. Mongolia is the land where dinosaurs once roamed.
44. More than one-quarter of the population live as nomads.
45. The Chinese New Year celebration lasts for 15 days, and it’s not the same day with the European New Year
46. In China, every year is represented by one of 12 animals.
47. These animals are also known for making the chinese zodiac circle.
48. In Ancient China, soldiers sometimes wore armour made from paper.
49. The Forbidden City, a palace complex in Beijing, contains about 9,000 rooms!
50. The mortar used to bind the Great Wall’s stones was made with sticky rice.
51. The 7th-century Emperor Tang of Shang had 94 ‘ice men’ who made him ice-cream.
52. Temperatures in China”s Turpan Depression can range from 49°C in summer to -29°C in winter.
53. Asiatic golden cats in the country’s south sometimes communicate by spitting.
54. The first chopsticks were made for cooking.
55. Hong Kong has the most skyscrapers in the world!
56. China is about the same size as the continental USA but it only has one official time zone.(FYI continental USA has four).
57. People in China don’t actually speak Chinese, but Chinese dialects.
58. The mostly common dialect in Mandarin.
59. Many Chinese emperors considered themselves to be descendants of dragons.
60. The word “ketchup” may come from a Chinese word for pickled-fish sauce.
61. 50% of earth’s pigs live in… China!
62. At around 13 million square kilometers (5.1 million square miles), Siberia takes up three-quarters of all Russian territory.
63. Humans have lived in Siberia for 125,000 Years.
64. The Trans-Siberian Railway Network, which connects Moscow and Vladivostok, is 5,771 miles (9,288.2 kilometers) in length, and it’s the world’s largest railway in the whole world.
65. Almost 40% of Belarus is covered by forest.
66. The bison is one of Belarus national symbols.
67. Other national symbols of Belarus include the stork and the cornflower.
68. A popular superstition for people in Belarus is that you should never whistle in your house or you’ll blow all your money away. 
69. January 31st is an important day for Russia as it was the day that a Russian citizen could order their very first McDonald’s burger on their soil. 
70. In Russia some bears are addicte to… kerosene and gas barrels that are used for jet fuel.
71. The Hermitage located in Russia is the largest museum in the world.
72. But one of the weirdest Russian museums is the cat museum.
73. The Danish language has no word for “please”.
74. The Danish flag “Dannebrog” remains the oldest state flag in the world still in use by an independent nation.
75. Danish pastry actually origins from Vienna.
76. Denmark has no mountains!
77. The world-famous LEGO® brick was invented by Danish Ole Kirk Christiansen in the town of Billund in 1949.
78. Denmark has 444 islands.
79. But only 76 of them are inhabited
80. You’ll never be more than 52km from the ocean in Denmark!
81. The world’s longest road tunnel is in Norway.
82. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo by the Swedish Academy.
83. The world’s most remote island is a Norwegian territory, and it is located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is called Bouvet Island.
84. Norway has a land border with Russia.
85. In Norway there is a village named… Hell!
86. Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japanese.
87. There are two versions of the Norwegian written language.
88. Mother Teresa was Albanian.
89. Only Vatican City and Tirana, the capital city of Albania, don’t have a McDonald’s store.
90. Bulgaria is the only European city that hasn’t changed its name since it was first established.
91. The oldest gold treasure in the world was found in Bulgaria.
92. The roses grown in Bulgaria’s “Rose Valley” produce most (70-85%) of the world’s rose oil.
93. With the accession of Bulgaria to the EU on January 1, 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the EU.
94. Cyrillic are also used in Serbia.
95. “Montenegro”, is a small Balkan country, and the name came from the words “Black Mountain”.
96. Montenegrins are the tallest nation in Europe.
97. In Montenegro, the highest automobile bridge in Europe is built – the Djurdjevic Bridge.
98. Croatia is home to the world’s smallest town.
99. A person from Croatia holds the Guinness World Record of the biggest white truffle.
100. Laos is a completely landlocked country.