The earth as we know it is just a glimpse of its geographic. There are many facts you are not aware of, here are some of the mind-blowing facts about the world:
- TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKA PIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHE NUA KITANATAHU is a hill in New Zealand that has 85 letters in its name.
- Bangladesh is 115 times smaller than Russia but has a population of 10 million people more than Russia.
- China has 14 bordering countries.
- The biggest river in the world, the Amazon has no bridges that go across it.
- About half of the world’s population is in India, and south-east Asia.
- There are about 11 time zones in Russia due to its massive size.
- The dwarf planet Pluto has a surface area which is smaller than Russia’s surface area.
- “A” means river in the Scandinavian language and is the shortest name for a place.
- The cave “Er Wang Dong” in China is so big that it has its weather conditions, sometimes have clouds and mists covering up the place
- The Vatican and San Mario are two countries within Italy with its government.
- Pangaea was the name of a giant continent which included all the land masses, and the ocean was called Panthalassa meaning superocean.
- At some point in time, India was in the Indian Ocean rather than being in Asia.
- Australia is wider than the moon.
- During the 1811 and 1812, an earthquake of 8 Richter scale occurred which caused the Mississippi River to flow backward
- The smallest country in the world is the Vatican City.
- The only continent that covers all four hemispheres is Africa.
- The northern hemisphere consists of ninety percent of the earth’s population.
- Mount Everest can fit inside the Mariana trench.
- 75 percent of the world’s fresh water is found in the glaciers.
- The Dingo Fence built in the 19th century Australia is stretched about 3488 miles.
- United Kingdom is smaller than 11 states in the US.
- The growth of our fingernails is the same rate the continent shift.
- The dead sea at present is sinking 1 meter per year and is 429 meters below sea level.
- In the Philippines, there is an island within a lake on an island that’s within a lake on an island.
- The hottest temperature recorded on the earth’s surface was 136 degrees Fahrenheit or 57.8 Celsius.
- The coldest spot on the earth is the Vostok station in Antarctica which has temperatures was about minus 128.6-degree Fahrenheit.
- Gravity is not distributed on earth in equal; there places like Hudson Bay Canada that has less gravity than any region of the globe.
- The magnetic north pole of the earth is moving northward at the rate of 10 miles per year.
