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Wednesday, 8 July 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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Argentina
Argentina is home to animals typical for South America: llamas, jaguars, monkeys, armadillos, toucans, hummingbirds, nandu, parrots, and Patagonian sea lions that live along the coast, and sea lions, that live in the Mar del Plata area.
Republic of South Africa
The country's area is 1.219.912 square kilometers.
South Africa is the 24th largest country in the world. It is about the same size as Colombia, twice ...
Uganda
The Victoria Nile flows north and spreads, creating Lake Kioga surrounded by swamps.
Flowing out of the lake, along the way it creates two waterfalls: Karuma Falls and Murchison Falls (120 m high waterfall).
Slovakia
In the second half of the 18th century, Juraj Janosik became a Slovak national hero.
It began to be positively associated with the Tatra Mountains. The legend that he operated by robbin ...
Nigeria
The Nigerian telecommunications market is one of the fastest growing in the world.
The major operators (MTN, 9mobile, Airtel, and Globacom) have their largest and most profitable centers there. 92 percent of adult men and 88 percent of women in Nigeria own a cell phone.
Peru
Recently, a hunter's grave from about 9000 years ago was discovered in Peru - this is proof that women hunted there on an equal footing with men.
Both this grave and analysis of other hunter burial sites suggest that in ancient South America, wom ...
Vatican City
The most important scientific institution in the Vatican is the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Founded in 1603, it has 80 members appointed by the Pope from among distinguished scholars from arou ...
Panama
Panama’s tropical climate is conducive to an abundance of plants.
The country is dominated by forests, punctuated in places by grasslands, scrubland, and crops. Altho ...
Croatia
Since the first century BC, these territories belonged to the Roman Empire.
The Romans divided Croatia into two provinces: Dalmatia and Pannonia, and in the early 7th century, ...
Argentina
Most of Argentine’s population live in urban areas.
Only 12% of people live in rural areas, in latifundium and livestock estates.