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Thursday, 5 February 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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New Zealand
The founding document of New Zealand was the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the Māori and the British Crown.
Australia
The world’s longest fence is located in Australia.
The Diego Fence is 5,614 kilometers long and 180 centimeters high. It was built between 1880 and 188 ...
Mauritius
Women in Mauritius gained the right to vote in 1947.
That’s when the Constitution extended the right to vote to all women and men over the age of 21 who could write and read. Previously, the right to vote applied only to the elite.
Croatia
Catholicism is the dominant religion in Croatia (76.8% of the population are Catholics).
Croatian territories were Christianized earlier than Polish lands. The official date of adoption of ...
Thailand
In Bangkok there is the Grand Palace with the temple of Wat Phra Kaew - "Temple of the Emerald Buddha".
This palace served as the official residence of the King of Thailand from the 18th to the mid-20th c ...
Zanzibar
There are numerous clove and coconut plantations on the island, which constitute the basis for exports.
Clove trees appeared in Zanzibar in 1812 thanks to Saleh ibn Haramil from Muscat, who brought them h ...
Switzerland
Switzerland does not have an official state religion, although most cantons (except Geneva and Neuchatel) officially recognize churches, which are either the Catholic Church or the Swiss Reformed Church.
These churches (in some cantons also the Old Catholic Church and Jewish communities) are financed by official taxation of believers.The dominant religion of Switzerland is Christianity.
Faroe Islands
There are many rivers on the islands, although they are shallow and short.
They flow from mountain springs or sparse lakes. The area of the 10 largest lakes in the Faroe Islands is 7.19 square kilometers, and their total area is 0.5 percent of that of the entire archipelago.
Croatia
Undoubted attraction of the Istrian peninsula is the smallest town in the world, Hum.
It was surrounded by walls, an important strategic point on the border of the lands belonging to the ...
Portugal
Portugal is currently one of the slowest developing countries in Europe.
In 2007, The Economist described Portugal as "the sick man of Europe".