Get ready for the most exciting round of the world trip ever! Here is One Fact about each Country.
One Fact about each Country
#1 United States
The United States of America is the country with the largest number of millionaires. There are 18.6 millionaires, which is about 40% of the total number of the world.
#2 India
India has the world's biggest postal service. It has more than 1,55,000 post offices, and one of them even floats on water.
#3 China
5,000 years ago, chopsticks in China were used for cooking, not for eating.
#4 Ethiopia
In 1974, In Ethiopia, Scientists found "Lucy" fossilized bones of one of the most ancient human ancestors. It was the first proof that humankind was way older than people used to think.
#5 Indonesia
Indonesia is the home to the world's largest lizard - The Komodo Dragon. These animals live on five of The Lesser Sunda Islands and can take down animals larger than humans.
#6 Pakistan
More than 40% of the world's soccer balls are produced in the city of Sialkot in Pakistan.
#7 Brazil
In Brazil, Bottlenose dolphins help fishers catch fish. People cannot see anything in the murky waters. So, when dolphins notice fish, they give a signal by diving or slapping their tails.
#8 Nigeria
Nigeria has its own film industry known as Nollywood. It is the second-largest in the world in terms of movie output.
#9 Bangladesh
Even though Bangladesh has a subtropical monsoon climate, It has six seasons instead of four. They are Summer, Rainy season, Fall, Cool season, Winter, and Spring.
#10 Russia
Russia's Red Square got its name from the word "Krasnvi," which once meant "Beautiful" in old Russian. It was not until later that the meaning was changed to "Red."
#11 Mexico
The capital of Mexico is slowly sinking into the soil. It is because the city was built in the middle of a late that once appeared in a volcanic crater.
#12 Japan
Japan is the country with the biggest number of vending machines in the world - It has more than 5 million! You can buy anything there, from hot coffee to umbrellas and toilet paper.
#13 Philippines
Great Philippine eagle (also known as Monkey-eating eagle) is Philippines ' official emblem. It is the largest of his kind in the world by wing surface and length.
#14 Egypt
#15 Vietnam
Vietnam is home to the world's largest natural cave - Hang son doong. A local farmer accidentally discovered the entrance to the cave, when he was trying to hide from heavy rain.
#16 Germany
Germany was the first country to launch a magazine. It happened in 1663. It was an edition of Literature and Philosophy.
#17 Turkey
Turkey has tons of delicious sweets. Probably the most unusual of them is made from milk, sugar, cinnamon, shredded chicken meat, and a few other ingredients.
#18 Iran
One of the world's oldest feline breeds is the Persian long hair cat from Iran.
#19 Thailand
Thailand's national symbol is the elephant. These days, just a couple of thousands of animals are still wild. Others have been domesticated.
#20 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom requires all kinds of horse related animals, including ponies, donkeys, animals by its height and species.
#21 France
France was the first country to start preserving food from spoiling by canning it. It happened in 1809 when a researcher sealed some food in a glass container and heated it to get rid of microorganisms.
#22 Italy
Every year, visitors throw more than 1 million dollars into Rome's Trevi fountain. That is about three thousand bucks a day.
#23 South Africa
The world's largest diamond was found in South Africa in 1905. It was a 3,106-carat stone called the "Cullinan." It weighed as a basketball.
#24 Myanmar
People in Myanmar used tree bark to produce a yellow paste. To defend against the sun, they apply the paste to their body.
#25 Kenya
There is an Island in Kenya called Lamu. There, Cars are forbidden from the public. The inhabitants are only allowed to travel on foot, bicycles, or donkeys.
#26 South Korea
Babies in South Korea are considered one-year-old at birth.
#27 Colombia
Colombia was named after famous Italian Explorer Christopher Colombus. This country is the biggest emeralds manufacturer in the world.
#28 Spain
The most ancient restaurant in the world is located in Spain. A french cook opened it in Madrid, in 1725. The four-story building still has its original firewood oven.
#29 Argentina
Argentina is the first country to identify a criminal by fingerprints.
#30 Uganda
Over 1,070 bird species live in Uganda. It is more than 10% of the world's avian population.
#31 Algeria
Algeria's national animal is the Fennec fox, which is the smallest of all foxes. The national soccer team is also named after this animal.
#32 Sudan
More pyramids are found in Sudan than in Egypt. It has 200 to 250 of these constructions, while Egypt only has 138 at most.
#33 Poland
People from Poland have received a total of 19 Nobel Prizes so far - including 4 Peace prizes, 4 prizes in physics, and 6 in literature.
#34 Canada
Canada has seen some weird temperature fluctuations. In 1962, In Alberta, the temperature went from -2.2 degrees to 72 degrees Fahrenheit in just one hour.
Coincidentally, it was the same year the very first Hawaiian pizza was created in the country.
#35 Morocco
Morocco is home to the oldest existing University in the world. It has been founded in 859.
#36 Saudi Arabia
There are camel beauty pageants in Saudi Arabia, with thousands of camels taking part in them. The prize is more than 37,000 dollars.
#37 Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has one of the world's largest gold mine. It is called the Muruntau.
#38 Peru
If you get a boat tour from Paracas in the south of Peru to a group of small islands, you will see Penguins waddling along the shoreline.
But you won't be able to set foot on the island because of conservation reasons.
#39 Malaysia
The largest area cave chamber is in Malaysia. Located on the island of Borneo. It is 30 times the size of a football field.
#40 Angola
Angola is likely to be the country that influenced the Brazilian popular dance "Samba." Though in Angola, a similar dance is called "Semba."
#41 Ghana
Northern and southern territories of Ghana have different seasons. In the south, the rainy season lasts from April to June and from September to October but in the north, the rainy season lasts from March to mid-November.
#42 Mozambique
Mozambique is the only one-word country in the world to feature all five vowels.
#43 Venezuela
Venezuela is the home to the Angel Falls - the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall.
During the summer, it gets so hot in that region that the water evaporates before reaching the ground.
#44 Madagascar
Around 90% of all the animal and plant species in Madagascar cannot be found anywhere else on earth.
#45 Cameroon
Because of its diverse landscapes and climatic zones, Cameroon is known as "Africa in miniature." It is also home to more than 200 languages.
#46 Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa bean producer. It produces 30% of cocoa for the world's chocolate market.
#47 Ireland
Ireland is nicknamed the Emerald Isle because of its vast green fields. But the country has some rocky terrain as well.
About 15,000 years ago, the country was entirely covered in thick glaciers. While shifting, they removed some of the soil, leaving limestone ground behind.
#48 Nepal
Nepal is the only county in the world that does not have a rectangular flag.
#49 Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is home to Sigiriya rock fortress. Built more than 1,500 years ago, it is one of the country's most popular tourist attractions.
#50 Chile
Chile has the world's oldest mummies - some of them go back 5,000 to 7,000 years ago.
#51 Malawi
Malawi is the home to a lake, which has the world's largest number of fish species. Over 1,000 closely related, but still, distinct forms of cichlid fish live there.
#52 Kazakhstan
#53 Netherlands
The Netherlands is also known as "Low Lands" because a large part of the country is below sea level.
#54 Cambodia
Cambodia is the only country in the world with a flag depicting a building.
#55 Senegal
In Senegal, there is an island with a city built entirely of discarded clamshell - which includes streets and houses!
#56 Sweden
Sweden has more than 2,21,000 islands. But only 1,000 of them are inhabited.
#57 Hungary
The Hungarian alphabet consists of 44 letters and is based on the Latin alphabet.
#58 Switzerland
Einstein developed his most famous mass-energy equation while living and studying in Switzerland.
#59 Bulgaria
The Rose Valley in Bulgaria produces half the world's rose oil.
#60 Singapore
Singaporeans are amongst the world's quickest walkers. They cover more than 60 feet in 11 seconds. A quick pace of life there.
#61 Niger
The biggest animal petroglyphs in the world are found in Niger. Created 7,000 to 9,000 years ago, it depicts two giraffes.
#62 Armenia
In Armenia, children have chess lessons as part of their school curriculum.
#63 Greece
Greece is home to the world's oldest olive tree and it still produces olives! The tree grows in Crete and is between 2,000 and 4,000 years old.
#64 Maldives
The Maldives holds the record for the flattest country in the world. Its maximum altitude is approximately 2.5 meters above sea level.
#65 Belgium
A Belgian artist is the only person in the world who have their artwork on the moon. This is a little statue named "The fallen astronaut."
It was left there in 1971 by the commander of the Apollo 15 mission.
#66 Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is home to hundreds of castles - the number ranges from 150 to 1,000.
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