World In Numbers…

The world is an extreme place. Here we present you all kind of stuff, but just like in real life, only the biggest or the most extreme ones managed to take place in our list! We present you a World in numbers… Check it out!

The driest place on our planet

The desert Atacama in Chile is the driest place on Earth. In some parts of this place, the rain doesn’t fall more than three centimeters per year. The heart of this desert, scientist called “absolute desert”, because there you can not see grass or something like that, not even a single animal…

Highest waterfall

It’s located in Venezuela, and its name is Angel. It is falling from mountain, from 979 meter height. It got its name after Jimmy Angel, American pilot who was a treasure hunter in Venezuela, in 1933. He found his treasure. It didn’t bring him money, but is still precious…

The greatest traveler

Until his thirties , Mauricio Juliano has been in every country on the planet, he visited 193 countries. The youngest man who has visited all the countries in the world, is from Italy, but he lives in Great Britain. As a souvenir, he saved all 42 passports, which he used while traveling from country to country…

The longest sea coral

It spreads on more than 2300 kilometers, is in Australia and its the biggest protected sea area because there you will find the longest sea surface coral on the world. This area spreads on a space which is equal the space that Great Britain and Ireland occupy together.

The longest mountain chain

Its located in South America. It is long about 7600 kilometers and is following the west cost of South America, between Argentina, Chile and Venezuela…

The biggest desert

Sahara in Africa is the biggest desert on a planet. It has a surface more than nine million kilometers. Still, two million peoples live there and most of them are nomads.

Short facts…
- The “youngest country” is Montenegro. It got independence in 2006, separating from Serbia…
- The richest country is Luxembourg, where the year salary is about 51 thousand euros…
- The biggest continent is Asia, we all know that, but I’m sure you didn’t know that it is spreading on 44 million kilometers. Its surface is 4 times bigger than European…

- Country that has most people in the world is, you have probably already assumed, China. In 2007, in this country lived 1.321.851.888 Chinese people.
- The oldest capital city on the world is Damask, Syria… This city was borne 5000 years ago (3000 years BC) and since than people lived here.

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Author: Nikola Samardzija @ sessionmagazine.com