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Thursday, 8 October 2026
30 facts about China
30 facts about China
A civilization that has existed continuously for 5000 years
China is the most populous country with the longest-living civilization in the world. It is the home of many inventions and a treasure trove of folk m ...

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Singapore
It lies just above the equator.
The distance is 137 kilometers. There are no seasons there, and the weather is the same all year. It ...
Egypt
The longest river in Egypt is the Nile.
It was the Nile that allowed the first civilizations to settle in this area. Annual floods of the ri ...
Peru
Peru is a leading exporter of gold.
However, a large part of the mining of this metal takes place "outside the government administration ...
Albania
Albania is a mountainous country, where mountains and highlands cover 75% of the area.
Areas above 1000 m above sea level they constitute 28.8% of the country's area. The mountains in Alb ...
Cuba
In the first half of the 19th century, Cuba was one of the most developed places in Latin America (countries of the South and Central America where Romance languages are spoken, i.e. Spanish, Portuguese or French).
It was also one of the last Spanish colonies. Cuba became the leading sugar producer in the region. ...
Austria
The German name for Austria, Österreich, comes from the Old High German Ostarrichi, which meant "eastern land" and first appeared in a document from 996.
The word is probably a translation of the medieval Latin Marchia orientalis into the local (Bavarian ...
Slovakia
Slovakia has 9 national parks covering 6.5% of the country's area, as well as numerous reserves and protected landscape areas.
Protected areas cover a total of 12.3 thousand square kilometers. The history of nature protection i ...
Uganda
Uganda is one of the highest countries in Africa.
The vast majority of the country lies in the northwestern part of the Precambrian East African Plate ...
Republic of South Africa
The first inhabitants of modern South Africa were the Bushmen, also called San - a negroid people, showing some features of the yellow race.
They came here in the 1st century BC. In the 1st century AD, the Khoikhoi arrived here, and from the ...
South Korea
It is a mountainous and highland country.
About 70% of South Korea's terrain is mountains, although they are not as high as those in North Korea.