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Vatican City is so small you can walk across it in 12 minutes.
The Dead Sea is over 430 metres below sea level and dropping about a metre per year.
Russia spans eleven time zones; France spans twelve via overseas territories.
The Pacific Ocean is bigger than every continent on Earth combined.
France borders 11 countries, more than any other country in the world.
Tunisia is north of Italy's southernmost point.
Antarctica is technically the world's largest desert.
Mauna Kea in Hawaii is taller than Everest if measured from its base on the seafloor.
Africa is bigger than the US, China, India, and most of Europe combined.
Russia and the United States are less than 4 km apart at their closest point.
Canada's Coastline is the longest in the world, stretching over 151,000 miles including islands.
The Philippines consists of over 7,600 islands.
Egypt's Nile River is often cited as the longest river in the world at about 4,130 miles.
Norway's coastline, if measured including all the fjords, would stretch over 63,000 miles.
Iceland has no mosquitoes despite being surrounded by water and having marshy terrain.
Brazil shares a border with every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.
The name Brazil comes from the brazilwood tree, which was the country's first major export.
Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese.
Brazil contains about 60% of the Amazon Rainforest.
The country with the most time zones is France, with 12, due to its overseas territories.
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the tallest freestanding mountain in the world.
Bolivia has two capital cities — La Paz is the seat of government and Sucre is the constitutional capital.
The Strait of Gibraltar, separating Europe from Africa, is only about 8 miles wide at its narrowest point.
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
The lowest point on land is the shore of the Dead Sea, at about 1,412 feet below sea level.
Singapore is both a city and a country.
The most remote inhabited island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, over 1,500 miles from the nearest populated landmass.
The Panama Canal saves ships about 7,800 miles of travel compared to going around the tip of South America.
There are 195 recognized countries in the world — 193 are members of the United Nations.
The Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize is a giant marine sinkhole over 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep.
Colombia is the only country in South America with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
The country of Nauru is the world's smallest island nation at just 8.1 square miles.
Ethiopia follows its own calendar, which is roughly 7 to 8 years behind the Gregorian calendar.
The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic is the only sea without a land boundary, defined entirely by ocean currents.
Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with only about 5 people per square mile.
The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait are only 2.4 miles apart but are separated by the International Date Line, making them 21 hours apart in time.
Lake Vostok in Antarctica is a freshwater lake buried under 2.5 miles of ice and has been sealed off for about 15 million years.
There are more than 1,000 islands in the country of the Maldives, but only about 200 are inhabited.
Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world.
Chile is so narrow that no point in the country is more than 110 miles from the ocean.
The Great Rift Valley in East Africa is slowly splitting the continent into two separate landmasses.
The shortest place name in the world is the village of Y in France.
There are more than 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The Maldives is the flattest country on Earth, with an average ground level of just 4 feet above sea level.
Bhutan measures its success using Gross National Happiness instead of Gross Domestic Product.
The border between Canada and the United States is the longest international border in the world at 5,525 miles.
The Ring of Fire encircles the Pacific Ocean and is home to about 450 volcanoes.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on Earth — some weather stations there have never recorded rainfall.
Japan has more than 6,800 islands.
Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia is the highest navigable lake in the world at 12,507 feet above sea level.