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Tuesday, 10 March 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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Switzerland
Just over 5 million people (8.637 million inhabitants) work in Switzerland.
The country has a more flexible labor market than neighboring countries and the unemployment rate is ...
Peru
Peruvian prose writer, essayist, and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.
Peruvian literature was initially passed down orally and has survived to this day in stories as folk ...
Austria
Austria consistently ranks among the top twenty richest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita.
The country has achieved a high standard of living and in 2018 ranked 20th in the world in terms of ...
Great Britain
The Thames is not the longest river in Great Britain.
It is the River Severn, whose source is in the Cambrian Mountains in mid-Wales. The Severn is 8 kilometers longer than the Thames.
Thailand
In Thai culture, taboo includes touching someone's head or pointing at your feet.
The head is considered the most sacred, and the feet are the lowest part of the body. Thai customs i ...
Czech Republic
After the end of World War II, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia took power in Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia became a member of the Eastern Bloc. In 1968, Warsaw Pact armies invaded the country ...
Philippines
The capital of the Philippines is Manila, a city located on the island of Luzon, at the mouth of the Pasig River into Manila Bay.
Manila was the first city in the Philippines to be granted municipal rights in 1901 and autonomy on ...
Japan
The population of Japan is almost 99% ethnic.
England
The highest mountain in England is Scafell Pike, with a height of 978 meters above sea level.
It is located at Lake District National Park in Cumbria. Its name comes from Old Norse (skalli fjal pik). Although it is the most prominent mountain in England, it is ranked 13th in the British Isles.
Republic of South Africa
The vast majority of black South Africans did not have the right to vote until 1994.
Until the mid-1990s, the Republic of South Africa was dominated by a political system of totalitaria ...