If you count everything, including overseas territories, then France claims the title by covering 12 time zones. The United States would be the runner-up with 11 and then Russia with 9.
With all the talks of global warming and rising sea levels, it is the residents of the Maldives that have the greatest reason to fear. With an average height of around 1.8 meters above sea level their nation is the lowest on Earth.
With over 95% of its population being overweight, the small island nation of Nauru is by far the fattest country on Earth. Its obesity epidemic is primarily attributed to the importation of western fast food that coincided with an increased standard of living in the 20th century due to the global popularity of its phosphate exports. It’s almost non sequitur…almost.photo – theworldgeography.com
Because Guam doesn’t have any natural sand, but rather coral, the island nation makes its asphalt using a mix of ground coral and oil rather than importing sand from abroad.
With only about 3,000 people the Falkland Islands are home to approximately half-a million-sheep. Not surprisingly wool is a major export.
This largely depends upon your definition of a sovereign state but if you are going by first acquisition of sovereignty then Egypt would be the first country in the world to achieve sovereignty based upon the formation of the first dynasty in 3100 BC.
With over 3 million lakes 9% of Canadian territory is actually fresh water and over 60% of all the lakes in the world are found within its borders.
photo – theatlantic.com
At 4 people per square mile Mongolia is the least densely populated country on Earth. Compare this to the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong that has the highest population density in the world with 340,000 people per square mile.
It is a strange title to hold, but Russia has by far the most tanks of any army in the world (21,000). Unfortunately for the motherland most of these outdated machines are tributes to its past, and although outnumbered (16,000), the United States has a much more advanced tank inventory.
photo – americanbedu.com
Sounds a bit strange doesn’t it? For a country as big as Saudi Arabia there has to be at least some sort of flowing water. Well, there isn’t. Most of their fresh water comes from desalinization plants or underground reservoirs.
Generally the worlds youngest country is determined by calculating the portion of the population that is younger than 15. Presently it is Niger that holds this distinction with roughly half of its population having barely reached puberty (49%).
In almost every category – culturally, economically, climatically, racially, linguistically, ethnically, and religiously India is either the most diverse countries in the world, or the runner-up.
With a natural decrease in population of .8% annually, between now and 2050 Ukraine is expected to lose around 30% of its people.
After some rough economic times coupled with an increased birth rate, Malta experienced significant immigration. It was so significant that there are now more Maltese living abroad than within the country itself.
Although Vatican City is smaller (.17 sq mi) than Monaco (.8 sq mi), unlike Monaco it doesn’t have any permanent residents which leaves Monaco as the smallest permanently inhabited nation in the world…smaller than Central Park.
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Actually Russia is the highest educated country with 54% of the population having a higher degree. Also China has a lower incarceration rate than Russia.
lol where’s north korea?
I may be wrong, but i think India is the country with the most languages (depends on tour definition of a language though). Wikipedia says India speaks over 1500 languages.
United States not only have more tanks..it has noob people operating them..and US has in reality very less allies in real world other than few poticians because of their bad habit of attacking any country that has oil(fuel not cooking). advanced tanks is shit because if the shells cannot penetrate a old tanks armour then its more like firing
a Pistol at a solid concrete block..
Congratulations, your comment is probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever read, Dumbo.
The US has some of the most highly trained troops in the world, not “noobs”. Then you bitch about our foreign policy — how very original your opinion is. Thank you for clarifying about the oil, BTW; I definitely thought you were talking about vegetable oil. Finally, what in the world would make you think that the most advanced military on the planet would have state-of-the-art tanks that are unable to destroy old Soviet relics? You don’t suppose that it ever occurred to the engineers who design modern weapons systems that the weapons on their tanks might need to be able to penetrate and destroy other tanks? Are you 10 years old, or are you really just that dumb?
There are farms in Singapore – quite a couple of them, in fact.
need in add Antarctic…?
Yes, the map of France certainly is bizarre. Algeria is shown as an integral part of metropolitan France when it has been independent since 1962. Most of the other countries marked in light blue have also been independent for decades. The remaining 24 items are very good and it’s strange that the author would spoil it by putting the misinformation about France first.
I stopped at Number 1. How in the hell does the Republic of Vietnam equate to territory belonging to France?? The Frogs got their arses whipped in Vietnam (at Dien Bien Phu, among other places) and went home to whine into their vin ordinaire and complain to their camemberts.This was back in the 1950′s, FFS! Who wrote this list and what were they smoking at the time?