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Thursday, 22 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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Florida
Native Americans inhabited the area of Florida as far back as 14 thousand years.
They got to the area thanks to the last glaciation, in which sea levels lowered and the peninsula itself was much wider and had a cooler and drier climate.
Bangladesh
Typhoons and floods are common in Bangladesh, especially in autumn and winter.
These are always major natural disasters that claim hundreds of thousands of lives.
Faroe Islands
The islands have a highland and mountainous surface.
The average altitude is 300 meters above sea level. Almost the entire archipelago is crisscrossed by ...
South Korea
Koreans are born a year older than us (at least).
The age of a person born in Korea is counted from one, not from zero as in our country. This is beca ...
Bangladesh
The People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country with an area of 148,460 km2 (57,320 sq mi).
It is located in South Asia on the largest bay in the world, the Bay of Bengal. It borders India to the west, north, and east and Myanmar (formerly Burma) to the southeast.
Russia
St. Petersburg changed its name three times.
First, it was known as Petrograd (1914 – 1924) and later as Leningrad (1924 – 1991). Since 1991 it has been known as St. Petersburg.
Peru
Peru is one of the countries with the greatest biodiversity in the world.
Its wildlife is very diverse due to the presence of the Andes, the Amazon rainforest, and the Pacifi ...
Portugal
In mainland Portugal, over 20% of the total number of species are exotic.
In Madeira it is 36% and in the Azores - 70%.In 2019, out of 172 countries in the world, Portugal ranked 168th in the Forest Landscape Integrity Index.
Austria
The international agreement signed on May 15, 1955 between Austria and the Allies, as well as the declaration of perpetual neutrality, gave Austria independence.
Austria, located between countries separated by the "Iron Curtain", has become a gateway connecting ...
Turkey
Turkey was proclaimed on October 29, 1923.