[WowMailz] INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY AROUND DINESH VORA

 

 
 
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INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY AROUND








DINESH VORA









 

 [1]    ALASKA, USA

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


 [2]   AMAZON, SOUTH AMERICA 








 








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

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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 .








 









[3]  ANTARCTICA

  








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

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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, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.









[4]   BRAZIL, SOUTH AMERICA

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

















 


[5]  CANADA, NORTH AMERICA

  Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village .' 









[6] CHICAGO, USA

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


















[7]  DETROIT, USA

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








 








 


[8]  DAMASCUS, SYRIA

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 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. 


















[9]  ISTANBUL, TURKEY

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









[10]  LOS ANGELES, USA

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 Los Angele'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. 








 








 











[11] NEW YORK CITY, USA








The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's 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 . 

















 


[12]  OHIO, USA

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









 








[13]  PITCAIRN ISLAND, POLYNESIA 

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

















 











 [14]  ROME, ITALY

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 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.

















 











[15] SIBERIA, RUSSIA

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









 








[16]  S.M.O.M. ITALY


 [17] SAHARA DESSERT, AFRICA

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

Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island . There has been no rainfall there for two million years.

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[15] SPAIN, EUROPE 

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Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.' 








 











 








[16] ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

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









[17] ROADS, USA 

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








IN Canada : 75%
 








IN OTHER COUNTRIES VERY HIGH


















 


[18] RUSSIA

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The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia . It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen - so massive that the mud coming from the hole was "boiling" with it.








 











 
[19]  UNITED STATES 

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 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. 








 


[20]  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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