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Facts about Geography

* Guinea has the wettest capital on Earth, with 3.7 metres of rain a year.
* Clipperton Island wins our prize for the most unusual looking country.
* Only two countries in the world are doubly landlocked: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
* Sick of crowds? Move to Greenland! Greenlanders have 38 square kilometres of land per person.
* Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country.
* Think Antarctica is inhospitable? Think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is “barren rock”.
* The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
* The four largest nations - Russia, China, USA and Canada - account for nearly a third of all land area.
* Brazil takes up 47.8% of South America.
* Canada lays claim to more water than any other nation.
* Almost the entire Cook Islands are covered by forest.
* Australia has more than 28 times the land area of New Zealand, but its coastline is not even twice as long.
* Although Russia is 127 times the size of Bangladesh, its population is slightly less.

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