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Friday, 23 October 2026
37 facts about Slovakia
37 facts about Slovakia
A land of castles and palaces
Slovakia is a small landlocked country that was established in its present form after the division of Czechoslovakia in 1993. It is one of the countri ...

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Switzerland
Since the Reformation in the 16th century, Switzerland has maintained a strong policy of armed neutrality.
In 1815, the Congress of Vienna fully restored Swiss independence, and the European powers agreed to ...
Switzerland
It has the world's twentieth-largest economy in terms of nominal GDP and thirty-eighth largest in terms of purchasing power parity.
It is the seventeenth largest exporter, and Zurich and Geneva are considered global cities (with int ...
Republic of South Africa
South Africa has some of the world's oldest archaeological sites and human fossils.
Archaeologists have discovered such fossils in a series of caves in Gauteng province. This area, inc ...
Kazakhstan
In Nur-Sultan there is a facility, a transparent tent called Khan Shatir (Khan's Tent) - the largest entertainment and shopping center in Central Asia.
It is described as "the largest tent in the world." Under the tent, which is larger than 10 football ...
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan was the site of ambitious Soviet projects such as the Semey nuclear laboratories, nuclear weapons testing, the Baikonur cosmodrome, and the development of uninhabited territories.
The Baikonur Cosmodrome was established in 1955 as a spacecraft launch site. The cosmodrome is the oldest and largest of its kind in the world.
Mauritius
Of particular interest is the Rodrigues coral reef.
It is self-sown and does not receive coral zooplankton from other sources. It is thus poor in specie ...
Albania
Albania is a small country with an area of 28.748 square kilometers.
It is a country slightly smaller than Belgium, and with 2.82 million inhabitants it has approximately three-quarters of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Uganda
The largest city and capital of Uganda is Kampala, located in the southern part of the country, near Lake Victoria.
Kampala developed around an old fort established by the British Imperial East Africa Company in 1890 ...
Turkey
Camel wrestling is an annual Turkish festival taking place between November and March.
Male camels wrestle as a response to a female camel in heat led before them. It originated about 1,0 ...
Republic of South Africa
Same-sex marriage has been legal in South Africa since 2006.
The country was the first country in Africa and the fifth in the world to legalize same-sex marriage ...