Countries

North Korea's military is the fourth largest globally.

Portugal is one of the largest wine producers in the world.

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

Time travel is a normality for North Koreans. In 2015, a special time zone called the "Pyongyang zone" was established.

Brazil has a dense and complex river system, one of the most extensive in the world, with eight major drainage basins flowing into the Atlantic.

China lies in three climatic zones.

Despite the huge size of the territory, China has only one-time zone.

The currency in Singapore is the Singapore dollar.

The Philippines is located on the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire - one of the most important and active seismic and volcanic regions in the world.

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.