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Wednesday, 27 May 2026
26 facts about Russia
26 facts about Russia
A fascinating and mysterious land
Although not officially proclaimed an empire until 1721, it is claimed that Tsardom – a term first used after the coronation of Ivan IV in 1547 – was ...

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Philippines
The Philippines is one of the ten most biodiverse countries in the world.
It has one of the highest rates of biodiversity per unit area - 1736 species per 100 square kilomete ...
Croatia
The national flower of Croatia is the iris.
Cuba
Before Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba in 1492, the island was inhabited by the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, the Taíno and the Ciboney.
In the early 16th century (1511-1514), Cuba was overrun by Spain and became the base for the Spanish ...
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 ...
Argentina
Argentina is boarded by five countries: Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay.
It also claims the Falkland Islands archipelago and part of Antarctica.
Uganda
In Uganda there are mostly oxisols, only in the river valleys there are gley soils, called gleysols.
Oxisols are characteristic of the tropical equatorial and subequatorial climate zones, and such a cl ...
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is shaped like a teardrop or mango fruit.
It is a lowland country with flat or rolling coastal plains making up 80% of its area. The south-cen ...
Great Britain
Polish is the second most popular language in Great Britain.
During the 2021 census, as many as 612.000 people reported Polish as their primary language. That's almost 1% of the total UK population.
Nigeria
There are about 75.000 registered doctors in the Nigerian health service, but more than 33.000 of them have left the country.
Nigeria’s health care system is facing a shortage of doctors due to the emigration of qualified prof ...
Mauritius
In 1897, a lone sailor named Joshua Slocum spent eight days on Rodrigues Island.
Joshua Slocum was the first person to circumnavigate the world alone. In 1900 he wrote a book about his voyage, A Lonely Voyage Around the World, which became an international bestseller.