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smallest country in the world. Tuvalu
is located halfway between Australia and Hawaii, and it's predicted to
be the first country to vanish beneath the waves when global warming
pushes sea-levels high enough. It's also very difficult to get to -
you're looking at sporadic, expensive flights from Fiji. Tuvalu has a
grand total of 1,100 tourists a year.
LIBYA
AUSTRALIA
LIBYA
COUNTRY OF DESERTS
unique Country with the highest percentage of desert is Libya (99%). The Libyan Desert, which covers most of Libya, is one of the most arid places on earth. In some places, decades may pass without rain, and even in the highlands rainfall seldom happens, once every 5–10 years. The picture is Libyan Desert.
AUSTRALIA
COUNTRY AS WELL CONTINENT
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Australia is the only country in the world which covers a whole continent,
every other continent has more than one country. It is the only
country that is also a continent, and the only continent that is
also a country. It is the sixth largest country in the world with a
total area of 7,686,850 sq km (2,967,909 sq. mi), making it slightly
smaller than the contiguous 48 states of the United States and 31.5
times larger than the United Kingdom. The photo is of olgas
in Northern Territory of Australia.
CANADA
The picture of Peyto Lake.
UKRAINE
INDIA
CANADA
COUNTRY OF LAKES
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Canada has an extremely large number of lakes. More than 60 percent of the world's lakes are in Canada, this is because of the deranged drainage system that dominates the country. Canada has a huge number of lakes (the exact total number is unknown). Part of the reason is that Canada has at least 3 million lakes and in some regions, there are as many as 30 lakes for every 100 sq km (39 sq mi).The picture of Peyto Lake.
UKRAINE
FASTEST DISAPPEARING
NATION
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The country with the highest decrease in the natural birth rate is Ukraine, with a natural decrease of 0.8% each year. Ukraine is expected to lose 28% of their population between now and 2050 (from 46.8 million now to 33.4 million in 2050).
INDIA
COUNTRY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITIES
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The uniqueness of Indian culture lies in its geographical diversities,
natural wealth, vast population and people's attitude among other
things. There are few countries, which may compare with extreme climatic
conditions like India has. When people in the northern parts of country
would be shivering with chilling cold one can find people in the south
bare feet.
NETHERLANDS
SURINAME
NETHERLANDS
COUNTRY BELOW SEA LEVEL
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More than half of the Netherlands sits below sea level,
and if a massive storm were to break through the dunes,
Rotterdam would be inundated in 24 hours.
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Today, approximately 27 percent of the Netherlands is actually
below sea level. This area is home to over 60 percent of the
country's population of 15.8 million people. The Netherlands, which
is approximately the size of the U.S. states Connecticut and
Massachusetts combined, has an approximate average elevation of 11
meters (36 feet). The Netherlands ties Lemmefjord, Denmark for claim
to the lowest point in Western Europe - Prince Alexander Polder lies
at 23 feet (7 meters) below sea level.
SURINAME
COUNTRY OF JUNGLES
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The estimated forest area is 14.8 million hectares (57 000 sq mi),
which is 91% of the total land area (16.3 million hectares or 63 000 sq
mi). Suriname's extensive forest cover and low population, about 400,000
concentrated in the capital and coastal cities, give it one of the
lowest deforestation rates in the world. Only 5 percent of the
population lives in the rainforest; this includes indigenous peoples and
six tribes of Maroons-descendants of escaped slaves who recreated forest
communities centuries ago and today retain their traditional West
African style. The photo is of central Suriname Nature Reserve.
MONGOLIA
MONGOLIA
LEAST DENSELY POPULATED COUNTRY
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The country with the world's lowest population density is Mongolia
with a population density of approximately 4,4 people per square mile (1,7 people/sq km). Mongolia's 2.5 million people occupy over 600,000 square miles of land (about 1,560,000 sq km). Most of that population is in urban areas, since development in
Mongolia's vast deserts and grazing lands is hindered in part by
drought and dust storms, leaving those parts of the country nearly as
empty as they were in Genghis Khan's time.
INDONESIA
INDONESIA
COUNTRY OF ISLANDS
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Indonesia consists of more than 17,500 islands with a total coastline
of 81,350 km (50,549 miles). Around 6,000 of these are inhabited. The
largest islands are Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Bali, Lombok and
Flores. This country contains 10-15 percent of the world's coral
reefs.