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Tuesday, 1 September 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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Kazakhstan
They are descendants of early Turkic peoples, and their culture has been influenced mainly by Mongolian, Persian, Russian, and Arabic cultures.
Their language (Kazakh) has characteristics of other Turkic languages, and the similarity is so grea ...
Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is located off the northeast coast of Australia. It is the largest ecosystem on earth.
James Cook discovered it on June 11, 1770. It was previously known to the indigenous inhabitants of Australia.
Croatia
Croatia has 1185 islands, most of which are fragments of land. The only exceptions are Brusnik and Jabuka, which are of volcanic origin.
These two islands are small and uninhabited, have powerful winds and no drinking water. Compasses do ...
Peru
There are three large physical and geographical regions in the country: Costa, Sierra, and Amazonia.
Costa covers a narrow (50-70 km) strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Western Cordillera ...
Thailand
Animals typical of the Indochina Region live in Thailand.
Large mammals are represented by Indian elephants, bantengs, and formerly also by Sumatran rhinos. T ...
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankans called Queen Elizabeth II the Maharaja, which translates to the Great Queen.
Elizabeth II visited Sri Lanka for the first time in 1954, five months after her coronation. She was ...
Brazil
Brazil occupies roughly half of South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
It occupies most of the eastern part of the South American continent and its geographic center, as w ...
Austria
On March 12, 1938, German troops entered Austria, and it was incorporated as the Eastern March into the Greater German Reich.
After the end of World War II, Austria became a republic again, but was under the control of the Allies: Great Britain, France, the USA and the Soviet Union.
Russia
The deepest lake in Russia is Lake Baikal, with a maximum depth of 1,642 meters.
Apart from being the deepest lake globally, it is also the largest freshwater lake by volume, containing about 23% of the world’s surface water.
Panama
Panama was part of the Spanish Empire for more than three hundred years - from 1513 to 1821.
From 1535 it was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, from 1717 it was part of the Viceroyalty of N ...