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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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Slovakia
A relatively small part of the country's area is covered by lowland areas - about 40%.
These are three lowlands: the Záhorská Lowland - the smallest, in the southwestern part of the count ...
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein has no army of its own.
Switzerland provides its external security.
Kazakhstan
The capital of Kazakhstan is Nur-Sultan, the country's second most populous city (after Almaty).
It is located in the Kazakh Foothills, in the northern part of the country on the Ish River. The cap ...
South Korea
The national flower of South Korea is the Hibiscus syriacus.
Although the name suggests otherwise, this flower comes from China and Taiwan and gained its name thanks to the fact that it reached Europe with Syrian traders around the 16th century.
Croatia
Since the declaration of independence in 1991, the official language of Croatia is Croatian.
Slovenian, Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian languages were spoken on the territory of Yugoslavia. In re ...
Albania
Albania shares many symbols related to its history, culture, and faith.
Belong to them: colors - red and black animals such as the golden eagle found throughout the countr ...
Zanzibar
In the past, the Stone City was the center of the East African slave trade between Africa and Asia.
Brazil
Brazil is the longest country in the world, stretching 4395 kilometers from the north to south.
It is also the only country in the world through which the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn run.
Austria
Austria is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
It borders eight countries: Germany in the northwest, the Czech Republic in the north, Slovakia in t ...
Cuba
It used to be believed that cigars were rolled on the thighs of beautiful Cuban women - this may once have been so, but today they are made in factories by trocedores, skilled cigar factory workers.
The trocedores make the cigars entirely by hand. Starting with laying the filler (tripa) from whole tobacco leaves, rolling it into a wrapper (capote) and attaching the outer leaf (capa).