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Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village.[1]
Los Angeles' 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.

加拿大的湖泊比世界上其他國家的總和還多。加拿大其是一個印第安名字，意思是“大村莊”
洛杉磯的全稱是El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula，縮寫為L.A.，只有原來的3.63%長度。

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on Two continents.
Lesotho, Vatican City, and San Marino are the only countries completely surrounded by one other country. Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, and Vatican City, and San Marino are both completely surrounded by Italy.
Glaciers store beTween 70% and 80% of all the freshwater on the planet. 99% of those glaciers are in the Arctic and Antarctic.
The Vatican city is the smallest country in the world at only .2 square miles. That is smaller than the average city!

土耳其的伊斯坦布爾是世界上唯一一個位于兩大洲的城市。
萊索托、梵蒂岡和圣馬力諾是僅有的幾個完全被另一個國家包圍的國家。萊索托完全被南非所包圍，梵蒂岡城和圣馬力諾都完全被意大利所包圍。
冰川儲存了地球上70%到80%的淡水。而99%的冰川都在北極和南極。
梵蒂岡城是世界上最小的國家，只有2平方英里。比普通城市要小!

While other continents cover a maximum of one and a half hemispheres, Africa covers the northern, southern, eastern and western hemispheres.
9% of Canada is covered with freshwater lakes.
The third-largest country in terms of area, China generously shares its border with Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Tajikistan, North Korea and Bhutan.

其他大陸最多在一個半球，而非洲同時在北半球、南半球、東半球和西半球。
加拿大9%的面積被淡水湖所覆蓋。
作為面積第三大的國家，中國同時與俄羅斯、印度、哈薩克斯坦、蒙古、緬甸、阿富汗、越南、老撾、吉爾吉斯斯坦、尼泊爾、塔吉克斯坦、朝鮮和不丹接壤。

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.
The buildings in Manhattan are so monumental that they warranted their own zip codes. Now there are about 43 buildings with their very own zip codes.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

第一個人口達到100萬的城市是公元前133年的意大利羅馬。而且每個大陸上都有一個叫羅馬的城市。
曼哈頓的建筑是如此的雄偉，以至于它們都有自己的郵政編碼。直到現(xiàn)在大約還有43棟建筑都有自己的郵政編碼。
南極洲是地球上唯一不屬于任何國家的土地。

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1. The second Longest geographical name that is accepted in the world is “Taumatawhakatangihangak oauauotamateaturipukaka pikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nua kitanatahu” (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand – it is a maori phrase which translates to It was the longest until recently (though the Guinness Book of Records still regards it as the longest); it has most likely now been supplanted by Krung thep maha nakorn amorn ratana kosin-mahintar ayutthay amaha dilok phop noppa ratrajathani burirom udom rajaniwes-mahasat harn amorn phimarn avatarn sathit sakkattiya visanukamprasit in Thailand (163 letters).
2. Lesotho, Vatican City, and San Marino are the only countries completely surrounded by one other country. .
3. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch is the longest village name in the world (and third longest geographical name). it is located in Wales.

1. 第二最長的地理名稱,是世界上公認的“Taumatawhakatangihangak oauauotamateaturipukaka pikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nua kitanatahu”(85字),這是一座新西蘭的小山——它是毛利人的詞語翻譯來的。直到最近，它還是最長的(被吉尼斯世界紀錄仍然認為它是最長的);但現(xiàn)在它很可能被泰國Krung thep maha nakorn amorn ratana kosin-mahintar ayutthay amaha dilok phop noppa ratrajathani burirom udom rajaniws - mahasat harn amorn phimaravatarn sathit sakkattiya visanukamprasit(163個字母)所取代。
2. 萊索托、梵蒂岡和圣馬力諾是僅有的幾個完全被另一個國家包圍的國家。。
3.Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll lantysiliogogogoch是世界上最長的村莊名(也是第三長的地理名)。它位于威爾士!

4. The Shortest place name is ‘?’ it is located in both Sweden and Norway. In Scandinavian languages, ‘?’ means “river”.
5. The Vatican city is the smallest country in the world at only .2 square miles. That is smaller than the average city! The largest country is (surprise surprise) Russia.
6. The largest city in the world – based on surface area, is Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia which is 263,953 km squared.

4. 最短的地名是“?”，它位于瑞典和挪威。在斯堪的納維亞語中，“?”的意思是“河流”。
5. 梵蒂岡城是世界上最小的國家，只有2平方英里。比普通城市還要小!最大的國家則是俄羅斯。
6. 世界上面積最大的城市是內(nèi)蒙古的呼倫貝爾市，面積是263953平方公里。

7. 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).?
8. San Marino claims to be the world’s oldest constitutional republic – it was founded in 301 by a Christian stonemason fleeing persecution under Emperor Diocletian.?
9. Though Mt. Everest is the highest altitude in terms of sea level on the planet, Mount Chimborazo is the closest to the moon. The Marianas Trench is the lowest place on earth.

7. 人類鉆過的最深的洞是俄羅斯的科拉超深鉆孔。它到達了12261米(約40226英尺或7.62英里)的深度。
8. 圣馬力諾自稱是世界上最古老的憲政共和國——公元301年，一位基督教石匠為了躲避戴克里先皇帝的迫害而建立了圣馬力諾共和國。
9. 雖然珠穆朗瑪峰是地球上海拔最高的山，但欽博拉索山卻是離月球最近的地方。而馬里亞納海溝是地球上最低的地方。

10. Alaska is the most Northern, Eastern, AND Western state in all of America. It is the only state that enters the “Eastern Hemisphere” making it also the most eastern lying and western lying state.
11. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the Longest mountain chain on earth (at 40 thousand kilometers). It is located along the middle of the Atlantic. Iceland is the only part of this chain that is above water. The Andes form the longest exposed mountain range at 7,000 kilometers.
12. Mount Circeo on Cape Circaeum on the western coast of Italy was once called Aeaea (5 vowels in a row with no consonants). It was believed in mythology to be the home of the witch Circe. Two other vowel-only geographic locations are the town of Aiea in Hawaii, and Eiao – one of the Marquise Islands.

10. 阿拉斯加是美國最北、最東、最西的三個州。它是唯一進入“東半球”的州，也是最東最西的州。
11. 中大西洋山脊是地球上最長的山脈(40000公里)。它位于大西洋中部。冰島是這條山脈上唯一露出水面的地方。安第斯山脈是世界上最長的地上山脈，長達7000公里。
12. 位于意大利西海岸Circaeum角的Circeo山曾經(jīng)被稱為Aeaea(5個元音在一排，沒有輔音)。在神話中，它被認為是女巫喀耳刻的家。另外兩個只有元音的地理位置是夏威夷的Aiea鎮(zhèn)和馬奎斯群島的Eiao。

13. Glaciers store beTween 70% and 80% of all the freshwater on the planet. 99% of those glaciers are in the Arctic and Antarctic.
14. In 1811 and 1812, three earthquakes measuring around 8 on the richter scale, caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards. These earthquakes also created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee.

13. 冰川儲存了地球上70%到80%的淡水。99%的冰川都在北極和南極。
14. 在1811年和1812年，三次里氏8級左右的地震曾導(dǎo)致密西西比河倒流。這些地震還造就了田納西州的瑞爾福特湖。

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Cuba used to be in the Pacific Ocean off the Mexican coast. It got to where it is by tectonically smashing thru Central America a couple hundred million years ago.
There are 18 volcanoes in the US with the potential to erupt again, in Alaska, Hawaii, Yellowstone Park, and the West Coast states.

古巴過去曾在太平洋上，離墨西哥海岸不遠。它到達現(xiàn)在的位置，是因為幾億年前中美洲地區(qū)發(fā)生了大規(guī)模的地殼運動。
美國有18座火山可能會再次噴發(fā)，分別位于阿拉斯加、夏威夷、黃石公園和西海岸的各州。

A few years ago, somebody had a great idea to look on the continental shelf off the estuaries of South Africa. Gravel had been washed down those rivers for millions of years. About one hundred million karats of diamond were discovered under shallow water at each of eleven locations.
The Carribean coasts of Venezuela and Columbia used to be called “the Pearl Coast”. The Spanish used native and African slaves to completely and thoroughly exploit the oyster resource there. For many decades, the Pearl Coast exported a pearl harvest that exceeded the value of Spanish gold and silver shipped to Spain.

幾年前，有人想到了一個好主意，他想查看南非河口附近的大陸架。數(shù)百萬年間，各種碎石都從河流中被沖下去。最后在11個地點的淺水區(qū)都各發(fā)現(xiàn)了大約1億克拉的鉆石。
委內(nèi)瑞拉和哥倫比亞的加勒比海岸曾被稱為“珍珠海岸”。西班牙人曾利用當?shù)睾头侵薜呐`，將那里的牡蠣資源完全開發(fā)完了。那幾十年間，珍珠海岸出口的珍珠價值超過了南美運往西班牙的金銀價值。

The northern reaches of the Mississippi River were a prime pearl source (from river clams) prior to the Nineteenth century. a good-sized, natural, round pearl occurs only once in every 10,000 river clams. Native Americans of the Upper Mississippi River Valley were wearing pearls in necklaces and other ornaments when the early French explorers arrived. A German by the name of J.F. Boepple founded the Mississippi River pearl button industry. By 1890, Muscatine, Iowa, was known as the Pearl Button Capital of the World. 2,500 workers were employed in 43 different button-related businesses. The button company was producing ninety percent of all buttons in the United States
Lobsters used to be so plentiful in colonial America that they were fed to prisoners in Massachusetts prisons. The waters around New York once yielded oysters weighing one pound. Birds were so prevelent in the original forests around New York that hikers had to shout to be heard.

十九世紀以前，密西西比河的北部出產(chǎn)了大量的珍珠(來自河蚌)。每10000個河蚌中就可以發(fā)現(xiàn)一顆大的、天然的圓形珍珠。當早期的法國探險者到達時，密西西比河上游的美洲原住民都戴著珍珠項鏈和其他珍珠裝飾品。一個名叫J.F. Boepple的德國人創(chuàng)立了密西西比河珍珠鈕扣工業(yè)。到1890年，愛荷華州的馬斯卡廷被稱為“世界珍珠紐扣之都”。美國百分之九十的珍珠紐扣都是由這家公司生產(chǎn)的
在殖民時期的美國，龍蝦是如此的豐富，以至于馬薩諸塞州監(jiān)獄里的囚犯都吃龍蝦。紐約周圍的水域曾產(chǎn)有一磅多重的牡蠣。而且在紐約周圍的原始森林里，鳥類非常多，徒步旅行者們必須大聲喊叫才能聽到彼此的聲音。

Vikings crossed arctic seas to settle Iceland in the 10th century.
Around 1200 AD, Polynesian mariners crossed 2,500 miles of ocean to reach Easter Island. Later, Polynesian mariners crossed 4,000 miles of ocean to reach Peru.?
The first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (after the invention of the compass) was about 3,000 miles.

維京人在10世紀就曾跨越北冰洋來到冰島定居。
公元1200年左右，波利尼西亞水手曾跨越2500英里的海洋到達復(fù)活節(jié)島。后來，波利尼西亞水手還曾跨越4000英里的海洋到達秘魯。
克里斯托弗·哥倫布的第一次航行是在1492年(在指南針發(fā)明之后)，航行了大約3000英里。

The first humans to land in the western hemisphere were African fisherman swept out to sea by storms around 30,000 years sgo snd transported to Brazil, probably to near Rio de Janeiro. Over the centuries, a measurable population accrued on the Brazilian coast. They left hearths and cave paintings. They survived unmolested for Twenty centuries. Around 10,000 years ago, Native Americans arrived overland and attacked them, ultimately driving them south to Tierra del Fuego. 2,000 years ago, a Roman ship loaded with Moroccan wine and olive oil suffered a similar fate.

最早登陸西半球的人類是非洲漁民，大約3萬年前，他們被風(fēng)暴卷到海里，然后被帶到巴西，很可能是在里約熱內(nèi)盧附近。在那里生存了多個世紀，人口并逐漸增加。他們留下了壁爐和洞穴壁畫。它們安然無恙地生存了20個世紀。直到大約1萬年前，美洲原住民從陸路來到這里，攻擊他們，最終將他們趕到火地島南部。2000年前，一艘滿載摩洛哥葡萄酒和橄欖油的羅馬船也曾遭到被風(fēng)吹到南美的命運。

Gypsies got that name because they were presumed to have come to Europe fom Egypt.?
Cossacks derive from serfs who fled feudal servitude in medi eastern Europe.
Old World livestock and crop and decorative plants (and weeds) are pervasive in the New World. Conversely, very few New World plants and animals - mostly corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and turkeys - have similarly penetrated the Old World.

吉普賽人之所以有這個名字，是因為人們認為他們是從埃及來到歐洲的。
哥薩克人，起源于中世紀東歐逃離封建奴役的農(nóng)奴。
舊大陸的牲畜、農(nóng)作物和裝飾植物(以及雜草)在新大陸隨處可見。相反，很少有新世界的植物和動物滲透到舊世界，除了玉米、西紅柿、土豆和火雞。

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1.Russia is so large that it spreads over 11 different time zones. When one side of Russia has a morning breakfast at 8 am; the other side enjoys evening snacks at 7 pm
2.The largest ocean in the world, Pacific Ocean
3. 22 of the 25 largest volcanic eruptions in the last 11,700 years occurred in the ‘Ring of Fire’.
4.Around 90% of the world population lives in the northern hemisphere.

1.俄羅斯幅員遼闊，橫跨11個不同的時區(qū)。當俄羅斯的一邊還在早上8點吃早餐;而對方已經(jīng)在晚上7點吃宵夜。
2.世界上最大的海洋——太平洋。
3.在過去的11700年里，25次大規(guī)模的火山爆發(fā)中有22次發(fā)生在“火山帶”。
4.世界上大約90%的人口生活在北半球。

5. It’s forbidden for airplanes to fly over the Taj Mahal
6. The Rivers originating from Tibetan Plateau are the source of living for almost 2.7 Billion people in the World!!!
7. Himalayan Mountain ranges are the only one of its kind to spread over six countries.

5. 在泰姬陵上空禁止飛機飛行
6. 發(fā)源于青藏高原的河流是世界上近27億人的水來源!!
7. 喜馬拉雅山脈是唯一分布在六個國家的山脈。

8. Istanbul is the largest city in the world that is on Two different continents.
9. Finland and North Korea are separated by just one country.
The reason I say one country is from North Korea you can get to Finland by only through Russia without accessing the borders of other countries.
10. Greenland is not bigger than Africa.

8. 伊斯坦布爾是世界上唯一一個位于兩個不同大洲的城市。
9. 芬蘭和朝鮮只隔著一個國家。
我是說從朝鮮去芬蘭，你只能通過俄羅斯而不需要進入其他國家的邊界。
10. 格陵蘭島并不比非洲大。

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75% of all fresh water available on earth is stored in the glacier. Also, Lake Baikal in Russia contains 20% of the total non-frozen fresh water available on our planet.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. 90%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, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.

地球上75%的淡水都儲存在冰川中。此外，俄羅斯的貝加爾湖含有地球上20%的非冰凍淡水。
南極洲是地球上唯一不屬于任何國家的土地。世界上90%的冰都覆蓋著南極洲。這些冰也代表了世界上70%的淡水。然而，說起來很奇怪的是，南極洲實際上是一片冰原荒漠。因為南極洲是地球上最干燥的地方，絕對濕度比戈壁沙漠還低。
亞馬遜雨林生產(chǎn)了世界上20%以上的氧氣供應(yīng)。

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is man-made.
In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

加拿大的湖泊比世界上其他國家的總和還多。
俄亥俄州沒有天然湖泊，每個湖都是人造的。
在撒哈拉沙漠，阿爾及利亞有一個叫迪迪克爾特的小鎮(zhèn)，十年沒有下過一滴雨。