Countries

Thailand borders four countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia.

The national flower of South Korea is the Hibiscus syriacus.

Five Swiss cities were among the ten European cities with the highest cocaine use (as measured in sewage).

Russia is the largest country in the world.

The area of Ireland is 70.284 square kilometers.

The original areas of Bangladesh were covered with monsoon forests, which are now severely degraded and have been replaced by agricultural land. As a result of human overexploitation, forests now cover only 14% of the country.

These photos are evidence of the scale of destructive gold mining in the Madre de Dios region.

Bulgaria has approximately 170 species of plants and 57 species of snails that are endemic to the country.

In addition to spices, Zanzibar also exports seaweed and raffia (a bamboo palm with long pinnately divided leaves, the largest plants in the world with fiber-producing leaves).

Bangkok has a reputation around the world as the "city of sex".