Countries

Croatia lies in two climatic zones: Mediterranean and Continental.

The Volga is the longest river in Europe.

Bulgaria is located in the southeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Black Sea.

Poles constitute the largest national minority in Ireland.

Lake Victoria in terms of area (68.8 thousand square kilometers) is the largest lake in Africa and the largest tropical lake in the world.

Argentina is boarded by five countries: Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy (indirect democracy) with a directly elected federal president as head of state and a chancellor as head of the federal government.

In 1883, the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatau was heard at Rodrigues.

Peruvian prose writer, essayist, and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.

There are nine time zones in Russia.