Monaco was admitted to the U.N. in May 1993, making it the smallest country represented there.
Montreal is the largest French-speaking city in the Western Hemisphere.
More than two-thirds of Earth's land surface lies north of the equator.
Murmansk, in Russia, is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
Myanmar was known as Burma until 1989.
Each tour through Natural Bridge Caverns in Texas covers ¾ mile. An average tour guide will walk almost 560 miles in one year.
El Salvador is the only Central American country not bordering the Caribbean Sea.
Eskimos use wooden "eyeglasses" with narrow slits for eyepieces to protect their eyes from glare reflected by ice and snow.
Filled with water, gas, electric, telephone, cable, steam, and sewer lines, Manhattan is the most dense underground site in the United States.
Finland has the greatest number of islands in the world: 179,584.
Florida averages the greatest number of shark attacks annually — an average of 13.
Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States. Hawaii is farther south.
For centuries, Spain's fishing fleet has been and still is one of the world's largest.
The largest U.S. state is home to the 4,215-square-mile Katmai National Monument, the largest of all other United States national parks and monuments in size. Glacier Bay National Monument, also in Alaska, ranks second with 3,554 square miles, and Yellowstone National Park is third with 3,472. Katmai (pronounced "cat-my") is about four-fifths as large as Connecticut, and more than twice the size of Delaware.
The longest main street in America, 33 miles in length, can be found in Island Park, Idaho.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the most mini-golf courses per area in the U.S. At last count, there were 47 in a 60 mile radius.
The magnificent 1,000-foot cliffs of Canyon de Chelly (pronounced de shay) National Monument in northeastern Arizona is a magnificent place. Its relative lack of fame owes much to the continuing presence of the Navajo, for whom the canyon retains enormous symbolic significance, although they did not themselves build its cliff dwellings. Most visitors are restricted to peering into the canyon from above, from overlooks along the two rim drives. There's no road in, and, apart from one short trail, tourists can only enter the canyons with a Navajo guide.
Nature’s totem, the awe-inspiring, 325-foot spire of Chimney Rock in Nebraska, informed Pony Express riders and frontiersmen they had crossed the American plains and that mountains lay ahead.
The majestic eastern slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town create the home of the world-renowned Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. The gardens are dedicated to the preservation of the indigenous plants of South Africa. More than 6,000 different species of plant are grown here, including ancient cycads and many species of erica, pelargoniums, ferns, and rare succulents.
New Orleans was the U.S. Confederacy's largest city.
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