Places Trivia

  • Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps, and they're the only nation today that doesn't use a national name on their stamps.
  • Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a Korean word meaning "capital"
  • The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles without a tree
  • Australia's national anthem is called Advance Australia Fair
  • Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country
  • Australia is the only continent on earth without an active volcano
  • There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people
  • There are more Rolls Royces in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world
  • The oldest national flag still in existence, that of Denmark, dates back to the 13th century
  • Mongolia is the largest landlocked country
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