Countries

There are four main physical-geographic regions in the country: the mountainous area of Northern Thailand, the Chao Phraya Plain, the Korat Plain and the Malay Peninsula.

England is connected to France by a railway tunnel called Channel Tunnel (also Eurotunnel or Chunnel).

There are four official languages in Swiss federal institutions: German, French, Italian, and Romansh (Romance - covering five groups of Romance dialects used in the canton of Graubünden).

Panama’s shape resembles the letter “S.”

On December 16, 1991, Kazakhstan was the last of the republics of the USSR to proclaim independence.

There are 18 national parks in South Africa.

Germany was the first country to implement daylight saving time (DST, summertime).

The national bird of the Philippines is the Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), known as the monkeyfish.

The name of the country comes from the name of the kingdom of Buganda, the largest of the traditional kingdoms that make up Uganda, inhabited by 52 clans.

About 12,000 plant species grow in Turkey, of which about four thousand are endemic.