1. Mongolia, the most sparsely inhabited country on Earth, averages only about four people in every square mile (2.6 sq km)!
2. The largest collection of maps-more than four million-belongs to the U.S. Library of Congress,
3. Maps have helped people find their way for about 3,500 years. The eariest were drawn on clay tablets.
4. The world's longest hot dog-668 feet, 7.62 inches (203.80 m)-was created in Paraguay in 2011 to commemorate the country's 200th anniversary.
5. The Mississippi River drains 40 percent of the continental United States.
6. On November 8, 2005, the city of Hillsdale Michigan, U.S.A, elected 18 year-old high schooler Michael Sessions as mayor. He fulfilled his mayoral duties after school.
7. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, has a degree in geography.
8. Cairo, Egypt, is the largest city in both Africa and the Middle East.
9. Iceland's capital, Reykjavík, is the world's northernmost capital city.
10. in 1513, a Turkish admiral created the oldest-surviving map showing a detailed loct the Americas. He used one of Christopher Columbus's maps for ref
11. The first new country of the 21st century, Timor-Leste, gafned its indepen dence from Indonesia in 2002,
12. The highest point in Australia-the 7.310-foot-(2,228-m)-tall Mount Kosciuszkois only about ose- quarter the size of Mount Everest.
13. The lowest point un Antarctica's surface is 8.383 feet (2,555 m) below sea levelbut it's 300 320 340 NW covered with ice.
14. The Andes Mountains make up the e west coast of South America.
15. Though Europe and Asia area giant landmass, the Ural Mountains divide the two continents.
16. Almost half of the Netherlands is below sea level
17. Russia is the largest country in the world, spanning 6,592.850 square miles (17,075.400 sq km) across Asia and Europe.
18. Ninety-five percent of Saudi Arabia is desert
19. Dutch is the official language of the South American coun- try of Suriname.
20. Dutch men are on average taller-6 feet (1.83 m)-than any other country's male population.
21. Africa has more countries than any other continent.
22. La Paz. Bolivia, sits at 1,897 feet (3,626 m), making it the world's highest capital city.
23. The Strait of Gibraltar, a body of water just 36 miles(58 km) long, separates Europe from Africa.
24. The Isthmus of S SE 100120 Panama, which connects North America with South America and separates the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean, is only about 30 miles (50 km) wide at its narrowest point.
25. Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful geyser blasts water and steam out of the earth and 184 feet (55 m) into the air about every 92 minutes.
26. A volcano in Canada, Mount Garibaldi, erupted through a glacier
27. Beneath the surface of North America's deepest lake, which sits inside a volcano, is another volcano.
28. Asia likely got its name from the Assyrian word asu, which means "sunrise, east."
29. The ancient Greek city of Byzantium was renamed Constantinople in A.D. 330 and renamed again in 1930 to Istanbul, the capital of Turkey.
30. On January 22, 2010, 5,387 citizens of South Korea's Taebaek City participated in a snowball fight, the world's largest.
31. Great Britain is an island that includes England, Scotland, and Wales.
32. Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A., is known as the "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of the South." because of its large iron and steel industries.
33. A state, city, waterfall, island, läke, mountain, river and province are all named after Britain's Queen Victoría,
34. The country of Lesotho is completely surrounded by the country of South Africa.
35. People in Belgium don't speak Belgian, they speak Flemish and French.
36. A forest more than 11 times the size of Texas, U.S.A., stretches across Russia and as far west as Norway.
37. Russia produces more natural gas than the next top six prpducing countries combined.
38. Only about, sth of Russia's population-fewer than 25 nillion-lives in Siberia, a frigid uxpanse of land covering northern Asia.
39. The workas longest itemad tunnel links Japan's two largest islands, Honshu and Hokkaida, and is 33.46 miles(53.85 km) long,
40. About g00,00o square miles (23 million sq alof farmland in northern China are blown away by the wind each year.
41. Tokvo's busiest train station serves more than two million passengers a de
42. Asia's Dead Sea is 1380 feet (421 m) below sea level, nearly the length of the Empire State Building with its antenna.
43. Thailand is the only cauntry in Southeast Asia that's never been under colanial rule.
44. Oregon, U.S A's D River is only 120 feet (37 m) long-shorter than an Olympic-size RIGHT DIRECTION seimming pool.
45. On March 14, 2010, 22 year-old Katie Spotz completed her solo, 70-day paddle across the Atlantic Ocean, between Africa's Dakar Seriegal, and South America's Georgetown, Guyara.
46. Drouglit and trrijation have reduced Central Alrica's Lake Chud to che teintinth t eriinal sie.
47. South Africa's Kruger National Park, which covers more area than Israel, is the largest park in Africa.
48. Namibia's "Big Daddy" sand dune rikes 1,200 feet (366 m).
49. Australia's largest läke, Lake Eyre isn't even 20 feet (6 m) deep.
50. The Hational baographic Sociesy srganinsd the fint an sational geography contest in 1993; three teams competed in London. The competitionnow called thie National Geographic Norld Chattonte sheld every other year, and has included teams from as many as 18 different regions.
51. Argentinians eat 150 pounds (68 kg) of beef per person ach year,
52. More people live in California, U.S.A., than in Canada.
53. In Christmas, Florida, US.A, the average temperature on December 25 is 71F(22"C.
54. The Capital of the African country of Burkcina Faio, Duagadougou, is pronountad wah-ga-n00-goo. 55. In 1873, the two cities of Buda and Pest. divided by the Danube River, united to become Budapest. 56. Dalmatian dogs come from the Dalmatia region along Europe's Balkan Peninaula.
57. Finland has more than 185,000 lakes.
58. There's a statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Demmark's harhor.
59. Mount. Etna, on the isand of Sicily, is known as the home of the Greek god Zeus.
60. The country of South Sudan deciared its independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011.
61 Asia's Lake Baikal is horme to about 1500 plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth, including the world's only freshwater seal.
62. About y5, COCH) peopite livn in the country of Monaco's 0.8 square miles (2 sg km),
63. Almost half of South America's land lies in Brazil,
64. The final question of the zoii National Geographic Bee was: "Thousands of mauntain climbers and trekkers rely on Sherpas to aid their ascent of Mount. Everest. The southern part of Mount Everest is located in which Nepalese national park?" Answer: Sagarmatha National Park.
65. Thirty-five islands in the Persian Gulf make up the country of Bahrain.
66. Saudi Arabia has more ait reserves than any other country in the world.
67. Ore-quarter of New Zealand's population lives in the city of Aucklanıt,
68, People live on only 36 of Tonga's 170 islands.
69. The isianid country of Tuvalu's highest point is only about 16 feet (s m) above sea levet.
70. Papua Hew Guinea's mouttainous interior is se rugged that it wasn't explored by qutsiders until the 1930s.
71. India has miore than three timer the population of the United States, but only about one-fifteenth the number of cars.
72. The vast majority of Egypt's 78,629,000 people live along the banks of the Nile River
73. In March 2011, Reza Pakravan bicycled across the Sahara in 13 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes; and 14 seconds the fastest trip across the desert by bike to date.
74. About 12,000 yars ago, the Suhara hiad ia wetter dimate and was covered with forests.
75. It would take about two days to drive the roughly 3,00o miles (4,828 km) between the US. towns of Boring, Oregan, and Ordinary, Virginta.
76. North America's most densely populated country, Barbados, holds 1,693 people per square mile (2.6 sq km).
77. In the 12th century, a Muslim scholar made an atlas showing most of Europe, Asia, and North Africa for the first Ume The map took 15 years to make and wascreated centuries before Marco Polo or Columbus explored the world
78. Part of the nation af Armenia ies entrely within Azerbaijan.
79. There are no tornadoes on Antarctica.
80. Nepal's flag, which resembles two stacked triangles, mimics the country's famous Himalayan peaks and is the only national flag that isn't a rectangle ar a square,
81. Indonesia is hame to mare Muslims -202.900,000 than any ather country.
82. Botswana has mare govermment-protacted land- 182 percont-than any other Africin nation.
83. More than six million Kanyans work in the coffe trade. That's i5 percent.of the populationi
84. More than half of the world's diamonds are mined from Africa.
85. 0nly 61 percent of India's papulation can read. By compartson, the United States the United Kingdom, Russia, and dapan have populations that are 99 percent literate.
86. Rusnia's seaport of Murmansk hes above the Arctic Circie lut tiuinkes to Wwanm curtents it is kei-free year-round:
87. The vast mājortty of Russias142 milion people live west of the Ural Mountains, in the Euronean part of the Country
88. In the early years of cartography, or mapmaking, Muslims usualy drew their maps with South facing upward and north downvard while Europeans did the opposite.
89. The interior of Antarctica averages less than two inches(5 cm) of snow a year
90. More tihan half of Bolria's population Amerindian, the native peugle of the continent.
91. Europe's six smallest countries could fit inside the smallest US. state, Rhode Island, with room to spare.
92. Portugal is the world's leading producer of cork.
93. People in Fiji practiced cannibalism until the Inte 18oos,
94. Japan builds more cars, almost tah imilon in people living in the area were forced to move.
95: Due to the construction of the Three Gorges Clam on China's Yangtze River, more than one million
96. Indonesia has more square miles of coral reefs-51.020 (132,132 sq km)-than any other country
97. Mexico takes Ita rname from the word Medcn another name for the native Aztec people who ruled the country until Sparish conquerors took over in 1521
98.when traditional deums vere baitned in Trinidad in i84 plantation vvarkers used s5 gallon (208 L) oil drums instead as InstrumentL the ortein of the Cartbbean's tharactaristic steel drums.
99. Somie of Colombia's emerald mines were ance worked by the Inca. who considered the stones sacred.
100. The world's oldest space-launch facility is in Kazakhstan. 2o08, than atty other country
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