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Geneva and the nearby French department of Ain co-host the world's largest laboratory, CERN.

Liechtenstein is a constitutional monarchy.

The highest mountain in South Korea is Hallasan.

Peru's independence was proclaimed in 1821.

There are 12 active volcanoes in Russia.

The oldest papyrus found were Merer's journals.

George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright and novelist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

The Czech Republic belongs to the catchment areas of three seas: the North Sea, the Black Sea, and the Baltic Sea.

The largest lake in the Philippines and the third largest inland freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, after Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia and Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, is Laguna de Bay, also known as Laguna Lake.

Great Britain is home to one of the most prestigious universities in the world - the University of Oxford.