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Interesting & Amazing Geography Facts.
Posted By:jasmin On 6/24/2008

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Interesting  & Amazing Geography Facts.


Alaska

More  than half of the coastline of the entire United  States is in Alaska.



Amazon

*  The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen  supply.

*  The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more  than one hundred miles at sea, off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh  water out of the ocean.

*  The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight  largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers  in the United  States.



Antarctica

*Antarctica is the  only land on our planet that is not owned by any  country.

*  Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica. This ice also represents  seventy percent of all the fresh water in the  world.

*  As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert The  average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.  

*  Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the  driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the  Gobi  desert.



Brazil

Brazil  got its name from the nut, not the other way  around.



Canada

*  Canada  has more lakes than the rest of the world  combined.

*  Canada is an Indian word  meaning "Big  Village."



Chicago

Next  to Warsaw,  Chicago has the  largest Polish population in the world.



Detroit

Woodward  Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M - 1, named so because  it was the first paved road anywhere.



Damascus ,  Syria

Damascus,  Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in  753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in  existence



Istanbul,  Turkey

Istanbul ,  Turkey  is the only city in the world located on two  continents.





Los  Angeles

Los Angeles's  full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de  Porciuncula --and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.



New York  City

*  The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s  who used the slang ___expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to  play New York City is to  play the big time - The Big Apple.

*  There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians  in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in  Tel Aviv, Israel.



North  America - Africa

Percentage  of Africa  that is wilderness: 28. Percentage of North America that is wilderness:  38.



Ohio

There  are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is  manmade.



Pitcairn  Island

The  smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just  1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.



Rome

*  The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy  in 133 B.C.

*  There is a city called Rome on every  continent.



Siberia

Siberia  contains more than 25% of the world's forests.



S.M.O.M.

The  actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military  Order of Malta  ( S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two  tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than  the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the  Vatican  is.



Sahara  Desert

In  the Sahara  Desert,  there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten  years.



Spain

Spain  literally means 'the land of rabbits.'



St  Paul  Minnesota

St. Paul,  Minnesota  was originally called Pigs Eye after a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye"  Parrant who set up the first business there.



Roads

Chances  that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A.: 1%, in  Canada:  75%



Texas

The  deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep  as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches  wide.



United  States

The  Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be  straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or  other emergencies.



Waterfalls

The  water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela  drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara  Falls.  



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