Showing posts with label geographic facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geographic facts. Show all posts

10 facts about the Sahara desert

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The countries which Sahara desert encompasses include Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and...

Where does the koala come from?

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The koala is a small mammal that looks like a cute teddy bear. It lives only in Australia , and even if some of these animals were taken ...

What place was called the copper island?

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Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is located 70 kilometres south of Turkey and 96 kilometres off the coast of S...

Where did the first drive-in open?

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Who invented the drive-in theater? In 1932, a man named Richard Hollingshead placed a screen in front of his garage in Riverton, New Je...

Where does the olive tree come from?

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Nowadays, most of the olives we eat come from Spain or Italy . However, the origin of the olive tree is found in the Middle East, where it w...

What part of Siberia doesn't have mountains?

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The Urals is a set of mountains that extends from north to south through Russia , which divides the European part of that nation from the...

Where do potatoes come from?

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Potatoes are so popular and important that you might think they've been part of the world's diet for a long time. But that's ...

Where are the highest sand dunes in the World?

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The central part of Algeria, in the Sahara desert, is a region of large quantities of sand. The sand is accumulated by the wind in massiv...

Where is the Alhambra?

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During the Middle Ages, the Moors from North Africa conquered most of Spain and Portugal and established a kingdom there. They chose a...

Where is the strangest house in the world?

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 In the late 19th century, Sara Winchester moved to an ordinary home in San Jose, California . For some reason, the wealthy woman began...

What is the deepest hole dug by hand?

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Today engineers use machines of many kinds to dig holes for oil and to lengthen tunnels inside mines. But before the invention of these ma...

Where is the world's largest gold mine?

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California was once the Mecca of gold mining, but today the region that produces the most gold in the world is in South Africa, near the...

Where is the world's largest religious complex?

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The nation of Cambodia, formerly known as Kampuchea, is the home of the Khmer people. More than a thousand years ago, the Khmer (Khmer)...

Which canal joins two oceans?

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Although the Suez Canal in Egypt is the longest canal in the world, covering a distance of approximately 160 kilometers, the canal with t...

Who was the first person to get to the North Pole?

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No one knows for sure who reached the North Pole for the first time, but two men said they did so around the same time. American explore...

Where does the pepper come from?

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You've probably peppered your food thousands of times. But did you know that this spice comes from a fruit? Black pepper is the pro...

Where is the world's most powerful lighthouse?

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The first lighthouse built in history was in ancient Egypt, and some of them had already been built in Europe before the time of Christ. T...

Where is the world's largest library?

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The Library of Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the ancient world, with about 750,000 volumes or rolls. Today, a public...

Great facts about Machu Picchu

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 The historic site of Machu Picchu in Peru is located at an altitude of 2,400 meters above sea level. Once known as the "Lost Cit...

Where is the coldest place on the planet?

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 The average temperature in Antarctica, a cold desert with little precipitation, is -17 degrees Celsius. It is quite cold, but it is no...