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In addition to spices, Zanzibar also exports seaweed and raffia (a bamboo palm with long pinnately divided leaves, the largest plants in the world with fiber-producing leaves).

The independent Republic of Singapore was proclaimed in 1965.

Poland's symbolic beginning was the baptism of Mieszko I, a Polish prince, in 966.

The most important sector of the Swiss economy is manufacturing.

The Faroe Islands are a group of eighteen islands and eleven islets of volcanic origin.

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.

A climatic curiosity in Austria is the occurrence of the foehn - a warm and dry wind from the Sahara.

In the western part of Ireland, in County Mayo, there is Mount Saint Patrick (Croagh Patrick 764 m above sea level)

The port of Singapore is the world’s second-largest port, after Rotterdam.

The English language is spoken by about 1 billion people around the globe.