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Thursday, 3 April 2025
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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North Korea
Taedong-gang is North Korea's longest river.
Its length is 439 kilometers, flowing from north to south, passing through Pyongyang and flowing into the West Korean Gulf.
Philippines
The Philippines is an archipelago consisting of 7107 islands.
The largest islands are Mindanao, with an area of 95.000 square kilometers, located in the south, an ...
Bulgaria
Bulgaria is the home of yogurts.
In 1905, Bulgarian microbiologist Stamen Grigorov discovered the Bulgarian strain of the bacterium, ...
Singapore
Singapore is home to over 350 species of butterflies.
Russia
About 40 thousand people die of alcohol poisoning in Russia every year.
Turkey
Despite being a Muslim country, polygamy in Turkey is forbidden.
Brazil
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.
The main rivers are the Amazon River, the second longest (according to some, the longest in the worl ...
Croatia
Dubrovnik, which was an independent state at the time, was the first to formally recognize the United States as a nation when it declared its independence.
Mauritius
Mauritius is an upland island with altitudes ranging from 300 to 800 meters above sea level.
The terrain rises from the coastal plains to the central plateau, where it reaches an altitude of 67 ...
Peru
All of Peru's culinary traditions come from the traditions of the Andean peoples and European cuisine.
Peruvian cuisine shows great territorial diversity. The coastal regions and Lima are famous for thei ...