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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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Great Britain
The Thames is not the longest river in Great Britain.
It is the River Severn, whose source is in the Cambrian Mountains in mid-Wales. The Severn is 8 kilometers longer than the Thames.
Austria
The Alps are divided into three main mountain ranges in Austria: the Northern Limestone Alps, the Central Eastern Alps, and the Southern Limestone Alps.
The highest peak in Austria is Großglockner, 3798 m above sea level.The Austrian Alps are the highest in the west of the country, and the further east you go, the lower they are.
Peru
In the eastern foothills of the Andes, there are cultivations of the Erythroxylum coca, also known as Coca.
This shrub occurs only in cultivation. Coca leaves contain cocaine in the amount of 0.25-1.3% and ar ...
Austria
Austria has no access to the sea and is located in the southern part of Central Europe.
It can be divided into three geographical regions; the largest of them, covering 62% of the country' ...
Portugal
Portugal has the largest oceanarium in Europe.
It is located in the Park of Nations in Lisbon, which was created after the Expo'98 exhibition. The ...
Portugal
In 1755, one of the most tragic earthquakes in human history occurred in Lisbon.
It took place on November 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It left Lisbon almost completely ruined a ...
Poland
Poland had 38 kings.
Seven of them were titular kings, the remaining thirty-one crowned.
Slovakia
Slovakia has 9 national parks covering 6.5% of the country's area, as well as numerous reserves and protected landscape areas.
Protected areas cover a total of 12.3 thousand square kilometers. The history of nature protection i ...
Cuba
In the first half of the 19th century, Cuba was one of the most developed places in Latin America (countries of the South and Central America where Romance languages are spoken, i.e. Spanish, Portuguese or French).
It was also one of the last Spanish colonies. Cuba became the leading sugar producer in the region. ...
Thailand
Thailand is located in Southeast Asia on the Indochina Peninsula.
It lies between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. From the west, it is surrounded by the Andam ...