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Friday, 31 July 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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Russia
It has a population of over 146 million people.
In terms of population, it ranks 9th in the world.
Croatia
Since the first century BC, these territories belonged to the Roman Empire.
The Romans divided Croatia into two provinces: Dalmatia and Pannonia, and in the early 7th century, ...
Australia
There are about 60 separate wine regions in Australia.
Great Britain
The majority of British citizens are English. There are as many as 56 million of them or approximately 84% of the kingdom's population.
The second largest population is occupied by the Scots (5.4 million) and the Welsh (3.1 million). Th ...
Republic of South Africa
The cape flora does not contain any economically important plants, but over 1000 species of ornamental plants come from there.
These include, among others: clivia, geranium, gerbera, gladiolus, amaryllis, freesia, and numerous ...
Mauritius
In 1883, the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatau was heard at Rodrigues.
Rodrigues remains the farthest point nearly 4800 kilometers away where the explosion was heard. The ...
Bulgaria
From the south, the Balkans descend steeply and turn into a vast depression in which the vast Upper Thracian Plain is located.
This lowland is surrounded by the Rhodope Mountains from the west and south. To the west of them ris ...
Brazil
The capital of Brazil is the city of Brasilia, located in the Brazilian Highlands, in the central-western part of the country.
It is the third (after Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) most populous city in the country. Brasilia bec ...
Croatia
The Pazincica River, which flows through the Istrian capital Pazan, ends its course in the Fojba Cave, also known as the Pazinska Cave, 120 m deep.
Further on, it flows about 100 m below the city, forming two underground lakes connected by a siphon ...
New Zealand
A physicist from New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford, discovered the proton in 1920.
Rutherford is referred to as the father of nuclear physics.