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Wednesday, 10 December 2025
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.
Portugal
The capital of Portugal is Lisbon.
It is also the largest city in the country, located in the western part of the Iberian Peninsula, on ...
Mauritius
Left-hand traffic on the roads there is mandatory.
This is a remnant of the English colonial era.
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
Kazakhs are a people classified as Turkic peoples, living mainly in Kazakhstan, but also in China, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Mongolia.
Depending on their former area of residence, tribal affiliation, kinship, and alliances formed, the ...
Albania
Albania is a mountainous country, where mountains and highlands cover 75% of the area.
Areas above 1000 m above sea level they constitute 28.8% of the country's area. The mountains in Alb ...
Philippines
The Philippines is an island country located in Southeast Asia, in the Philippine Archipelago.
Officially, the Philippines is the Republic of the Philippines, a country with an area of 300.000 sq ...
New Zealand
Pavlova, the meringue-based dessert, originates in New Zealand.
It was named after Anna Pavlova, a Russian ballerina.
Peru
This practice led to intensive deforestation and destruction of important habitats for wild animals in an area previously rich in biodiversity - there were, among others, monkeys, jaguars, and many butterflies.
In 2018 alone, almost 10.000 hectares of the Peruvian Amazon were destroyed as a result of illegal g ...
Poland
The country's name probably comes from the name of the tribe of the Polans.
The name "Poland" has been used to refer to the whole country since the 11th century.