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Thursday, 13 August 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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Kazakhstan
The main component of the Kazakh diet is meat.
An old custom dictates that meat with bones, or meat and bones, be served to the table. In front of ...
Republic of South Africa
Of South Africa's nearly 55 million population, 10% are HIV positive.
Every third man living in South Africa admits to committing rape.
Cuba
The predominant religion in Cuba is Catholicism.
There are 57% Christians, of whom 50.6% are Catholic, 6% Protestant, and 0.4% Orthodox. Afro-Christi ...
Panama
A dominant feature of Panama’s geography is the mountain range that stretches across the Isthmus of Panama, forming the watershed.
This range, commonly referred to by geographers as the Cordillera Central, is called the Cordillera ...
Russia
Over 12 million people live in the capital city of Moscow.
It makes it the second-most populous city in Europe. Istanbul holds first place.
Slovakia
The oldest preserved artifacts from what is now Slovakia date back to 270.000 BC (early Paleolithic).
They are located near Nové Město nad Váhom and are ancient tools made of flint. Stone tools found in ...
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
It is a unitary state - all units constituting the state are organized in the same way and subordinated to the central authorities.
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked country.
It has no access to the sea and neither do the countries that the principality borders. There are only two such countries in the world - Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
Argentina
The first child born in Antarctica was a son of an Argentine – Silvia de Palma.
His birth, which happened in 1978 was planned right there to strengthen the Argentine’s territorial claim of Antarctica.
Vatican City
Yellow mailboxes have become an icon in the landscape of the papal city-state.
The Vatican Post Office has operated its postal services and issued its stamps since 1929. Vatican P ...