With 91% of its land covered in jungle Suriname’s half-a-million residents live primarily along the coast near the capital. Only 5% of the population (mainly indigenous people) live inland.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is Haiti, a country that has been so badly deforested that you can tell where it borders the Dominican Republic by looking at a satellite image (Haiti is on the left in the photo above).
photo – nationalgeographic.com
Although there are a number of small nations in the world that show no hint of having an agriculture based economy, (take Vatican City for example) Singapore is the largest of these urban city-states.
photo – nationalgeographic.com
Although English is its official language, only 1-2% of the population actually speak it. As the most linguistically diverse country in the world, over 820 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea or 12% of the world’s total.
With 50% of its population having been educated at the post secondary level, Canada easily has the most educated populace in the world. It is followed by Israel at 45% and Japan at 44%.
With 99% of the country covered in desert Libya is one of the most arid places in the world and in some regions decades may go by without a single drop of rain.
photo – latimes.com
Although for the last three years Iraq has been ranked as the least peaceful country in the world, according to the Global Peace Index Somalia overtook it this year for the top spot.
Siberia is home to approximately 25% of the world’s forests that span an area larger than the continental United States, making Russia the largest converter of CO2 into breathable compounds.
photo – wikimedia
Producing a whopping 95 percent of the world’s opium, not even 10 years of occupation by American forces have slowed down the industry.
When it comes to incarcerating its population, the United States is the world’s uncontested leader. With 2.2 million people behind bars it has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. China comes in second place at 1.5 million and Russia comes third at 870,000.
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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?