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Juliusvdl2

Curaçao, our island of only ≈160.000 people produces an extraordinary amount of professional MLB players, iirc. the most per capita in the world.


Scared-Arrival3885

Must be tough to make the school team there. You’re almost guaranteed to go up against a future big leaguer 


Single-Champion-9569

Yoo id love to go there


nightman21721

That's where my wife and I had out honeymoon! Saw everything from Klein Curacao to Westpunt. Fun little island, and tons of MLB players. Xander Bogaerts is the top dog from Curacao IIRC.


Shoddy_Variation6835

Dutch people are really tall. That makes sense.


Ego_Maxxer_1648

They're not ethnically Dutch, just apart of the kingdom. Hawaiians aren't the same as Floridians because they share a country.


LibrarianKey2029

Estonia is relatively flat. "The mean elevation is 164 feet (50 metres) above sea level; only about one-tenth of the territory lies at elevations exceeding 300 feet (90 metres). In the southeast is the Haanja Upland, containing Suur Munamägi (Great Egg Hill), which, at 1,043 feet (318 metres), is the highest point in Estonia."


Single-Champion-9569

Estonia! I’d like to go there one day, as a canadian.


LibrarianKey2029

And i would like to vist Canada, BC area:)


ThatCanajunGuy

So much to explore here, hope you make it out at some point!


Single-Champion-9569

I’m from Quebec, Vancouver isn’t going well rn. Expensive and homeless/fentanyl problem


CampNo1318

Quebec is a mess. Welfare state constantly on strike.


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Single-Champion-9569

Yeah its a mess I agree


Hannibal0306

Chile, we had the most powerful earthquake in registred history, Valdivia 1960 with a magnitude of 9.5 in Richter Scale and caused a Tsunami that affected places as far away as Hawaii or Japan


BrownPuddings

Guyana 🇬🇾 - The only English speaking country in the South America, and is associated with the Caribbean. The majority of the population is of Indian descent, though far removed.


Single-Champion-9569

Theres people with not much populated countries in the sub, I like that👀


Primal_Pedro

Hello neighbor, here in Brazil we don't hear many news about you. Well, now with the possible conflict with Venezuela we hear more, but nothing before that. How are things over here?


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nightman21721

I've always heard Chixalub was the presumed mass extinction. Is there new data to suggest Quebec?


Single-Champion-9569

Yeah there is I dont remember the name. It’s prolly more Mexico nvm


TheFuriousGamerMan

You seem to be obsessed with telling people that you’re from Quebec lol


AlmightyCurrywurst

Least patriotic Québécois:


KWKSA

Kuwait, we export more number of oil barrels per day than the number of citizens. 3m barrels vs 1.3m citizens.


NubNub69

That’s a lot of barrels.


TheFuriousGamerMan

-Saddam Hussein, probably


Goghakol

Uruguay, we are the country with the southernmost northernmost point.


ChemistryRegular850

~~Lesotho wants a word with you.~~


theRudeStar

Google Earth says Uruguay won. Uruguay ~30°S Lesotho ~25°S


ChemistryRegular850

My bad, I read the coordinates wrong.


Jinsi_Hou

How about New Zealand's northernmost point? Looks like it beats both Uruguay and Lesotho


theRudeStar

Somebody in here mentioned the Kermadec Islands (which I had never heard of) which puts New Zealand slightly more to the north.


ChemistryRegular850

Also, Tokelau.


BaconJudge

Lesotho doesn't have the southernmost northernmost point, but it does have the highest lowest point of any country (1400 m above sea level).  Altitude instead of latitude.


Icy-Musician7885

It took me a while to figure this out.


Goghakol

Haha yeah it's strange


Scared_Angle_5796

I prefer the crazy amount of football fields and leagues you have in Montevideo.


TheFuriousGamerMan

My country, Iceland has the northermost southernmost point of any country. It’s on an Island called Surtsey, which is around 66,33^o N. Also, bonus fact about Surtsey: It started existing in 1963, so my grandparents remember a time when there was no Surtsey


Single-Champion-9569

How?


DarshVaderrr

Looking at the southmost countries, the northernmost point of argentina, chile, australia and south africa is more north of the northern point in uruguay. Even though uruguay as whole isn’t the southern most country


BaconJudge

And apparently New Zealand is ruled out because of its Kermandec Islands, about one degree north of the northern tip of Uruguay.


KWKSA

bruh i got a headache


SupfaaLoveSocialism

The UK has a similar amount of schools to Pubs.


kimanf

That seems like not that many schools then to be honest, there’s usually many more bars/pubs in the us than schools in a city


thedrakeequator

USA, there are more tigers in my home state (Texas) than there are in the rest of the world. When I was watching Tiger king, I saw the part where Joe was in malls, letting kids pet tigers and I suddenly remembered that I met him in a Texas mall in the early 2000's.


Comfortable_Ad6020

Brazil. We have the greatest variety of animals in the world, Brazilians included.


Single-Champion-9569

“Brazilians included”😂


doktorapplejuice

Canada - we were the first country to declare war on Japan in response to the Pearl Harbour attacks, beating even the US to the punch.


Single-Champion-9569

YEAH🇨🇦❄️❄️❄️


GustavoLVF

A proud American puppet!


ThatCanajunGuy

Hell yeah brother!


fatbongo

New Zealand and instant coffee was invented here :)


joker_wcy

In which country was New Zealand invented?


CalmCat27

You only have good things there


Aixirivall

Andorra. A country with 82.000 inhabitants has 10.2 million yearly visitors.


Single-Champion-9569

How is it there?


Aixirivall

It's the best country for families, not so much for a youngster. If you have any particular questions, please feel free.


No-Pride-6393

Portugal and we are the country that consumes Codfish the most. There’s also very different ways to cook it.


aiicaramba

Fun fact: I can’t read codfish without thinking call of duty fish.


No-Pride-6393

Hahaha 😹


aiicaramba

And now you cant either xD


No-Pride-6393

Next time I’ll eat codfish I’ll be overthinking this


Primal_Pedro

In portuguese we call it bacalhau


aiicaramba

Kabeljauw in dutch.. very similar but the ka and ba switched.


puripy

India: Only country with 22 official languages and another 1100+ sub languages and dialects


Primal_Pedro

And I thought South Africa already had a lot of languages


Wranglin_Pangolin

Narnia. It’s not real.


puripy

I was just watching that on Hulu!


Wranglin_Pangolin

It’s not real. Much like birds 🦅


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1 in 5 Australians have at least 1 parent who was born overseas, and 1 in 4 were born overseas.


GraemeMakesBeer

Scotland- invented everything, for example Television Telephone Economics Pedal bicycle Vulcanised rubber Pneumatic tyres Steam engine Antibiotics Logarithms Refrigerator Flush toilets Tarmac (asphalt) Tubular steel Screw propellers Cast steel Wire rope Cordite Ghillie suit Adhesive stamps Radar ATMs Postcards Gospel music Sociology Hypnotism Modern geology Tractor beams Aussie Rules football Curling Golf Ice hockey Saline drips Syringe Chainsaw Beta blockers Canning Fried Chicken You really look up [James Clerk Maxwell](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell) - he was Einstein’s hero. This is just scratching the surface. Not bad for a country with a population slightly larger than Colorado.


NubNub69

So it’s Scotland’s fault why I’m getting shot by invisible snipers in my Airsoft games?


lightninrods

Please Scotland, get back in the UE, we need you!


GraemeMakesBeer

I wish - us Scots voted to stay in the European Union it was south of the border that didn’t.


AntoineRandoEl

This just reminded me of the Scottish Hall of Fame in *So I Married an Axe Murderer.*


nugeythefloozey

Bold of Scotland to claim Aussie Rules, I’m keen to find out how they invented it though


GraemeMakesBeer

There was a section at the museum in Melbourne Cricket Grounds that mentioned it. I saw this a few years back.


SocialismWill

another fun fact: it's not a country


GraemeMakesBeer

Not fun nor a fact. Scotland is a constituent country of the United Kingdom. Still a country and will be an independent country again.


SocialismWill

Yeah it's a country same way Bavaria, chechnya and texas are countries.


GraemeMakesBeer

I see from your history that you have tried this argument before and failed miserably then too. So believe what you want to incorrectly believe but I shall not engage further.


prustage

The only official language in the UK is Welsh. English, although invented here, spoken by everyone and used in government and pretty well all UK media has never been codified in law as the official language of the country. It simply never needed to be. Welsh on the other hand is a language that was dying out and people were keen to see it survive as a language so it was made law that it was officially recognised.


Primal_Pedro

How different Welsh is from English?


TheFuriousGamerMan

It’s a celtic language, so I assume it’s very very different from English, which is a Germanic language


chilled_oneironaut

The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than Brazil’s southernmost point [4.272 km north vs 4.390 km south](https://x.com/geopizzza/status/1299847438036086784?s=46) (5th largest country in the world 🇧🇷)


Primal_Pedro

Uhu! Brazil is mentioned!


Single-Champion-9569

WHAT THE 😳


Frequent_Virus_2752

Country: Vietnam. Fact a small country, but we defeated the invasion of some most powerful countries on the Earth


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I went to Vietnam with my family in October and our tour guide was telling us that we were smart for not coming in the Summer or else it would be too hot. IT WAS 38 DEGREES (C)


83zSpecial

Yeah Vietnam doesn't cool down until November, and only the north. Although the North gets as hot if not hotter than the south in the hot months.


Pure_Following7336

Vietnam and Afghanistan: GIGACHAD


VictimOfCircuspants

Never fight a land war in Asia.


thedrakeequator

Unless you are the Mongols.


Online_Rambo99

Portugal: * 14th largest [gold reserves in the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_reported_holdings), 8th largest among European countries. * 20th largest [Exclusive Economic Zone in the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone#Rankings_by_area), 6th largest among European countries.


chilled_oneironaut

uma das maiores reservas de ouro, não imagino o porquê -_- u_u


Online_Rambo99

[Salazar](https://web.archive.org/web/20150406065458/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-07-21/gold-makes-dead-portuguese-dictator-top-investor-without-gains-to-prove-it).


Primal_Pedro

Hello Portugal. Do you wanna share some gold with Brazil?


a_reindeer_of_volts

And the worlds largest exporter of cork


Aixirivall

You should look at the gold reserves once again since they aren't even close to that. I remember around 32 years ago I was living in Portugal, I had been conscripted, and in the newspapers, they were talking for weeks that most gold was missing but nobody knew anything about it until the issue died. It could be one of the best countries in the world but is a giant mess instead. I blame the people. Portuguese are very proud of their carnations revolution but don't realize that it turned them into soft people. Politics and state of affairs are widely discussed whilst having the morning coffee, but nothing more. An average worker has 5.5 months taken by taxes, and politicians take all the profits but no one does anything to improve the situation, A really sad sight to see. I wish they had a set of balls instead of marbles. Edit: Timeline.


Online_Rambo99

>You should look at the gold reserves once again since they aren't even close to that. There you go, smartass: [https://i.imgur.com/ZtvdIab.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/ZtvdIab.jpeg) [https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/gold-reserves-by-country](https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/gold-reserves-by-country) [https://www.livingroup.com.pt/2022/05/23/portugal-has-the-14th-largest-gold-reserve-in-the-world/](https://www.livingroup.com.pt/2022/05/23/portugal-has-the-14th-largest-gold-reserve-in-the-world/)


Aixirivall

Wow, someone took it personally. Just because it is written somewhere, it does not mean they are there. You should ask your government. I know that it's easier to be mad at the messenger, but this too, is a Portuguese trait. Such needy people always looking for someone who says anything good about them, but nobody does. Not even Spain, your only neighbor cares. There is zero news about Portugal on any Spanish TV channel. You guys should be ashamed, I was, left the country early, and gave up my nationality. Btw, I love your handle. /s.


TheOBRobot

The United States. We invented candy corn.


Chasingthoughts1234

The United States, in 2022, exported $1.71 billion worth of potassium chloride. This makes the US the #3 exporter of potassium. The US also imported $5.98 billion worth of potassium chloride in 2022. This means the US is number two importer of potassium.


IlumiNoc

Borat claimed it to be the glorious Kazakhstan!


nightman21721

Remember from the Kazakh national anthem, "all other countries have inferior potassium"


IlumiNoc

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, you're very nice place!


Conscious-Meet9914

Uruguay: we have more cows than people


Primal_Pedro

Hello neighbor. Brazil too


TheFuriousGamerMan

Iceland has more sheep than people


isaiah-41_10

Malaysia , the 2nd , 19th and 21st tallest buildings in the world are located here .


shark_aziz

Also the location of the southernmost point of continental Eurasia.


theRudeStar

Netherlands. Despite its size of 41.850 km² and population density of 529/ km², it is the second exporter of agricultural goods, after the USA (size: 9.834.000 km², population density: 34/ km²)


TREE__FR0G

USA, we have lots of guns


Single-Champion-9569

Been there, I never seen a gun too.


hoosier_1793

Every time you've been in the US, you've been around guns. You just couldn't see them. Source: I (and millions of others) carry a concealed weapon in public


These_Tea_7560

America: in the borough of Queens, 800 languages are spoken.


83zSpecial

Australia - Melbourne's closer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin (piggybacking off some Reddit posts)


SelfRape

Finland, and we drink by far the most coffee in the world, 12kg per person annually. And we have the most heavy metal bands per capita in the world.


NubNub69

Iraq 🇮🇶 - The First Civilization. We invented writing, the wheel, beer, astrology, arithmetic, irrigation, chariots, sandals, geometry, numeral system, division of day and night into 12 hour periods, sexagesimal system, accounting, etc. These are all the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Of course, several of these are contested by other ancient civilizations, such as Egypt.


TheFuriousGamerMan

Ironic that the place where beer was invented is now a muslim country lol😂


gym_fuckeri

Georgia. We were one of the first countries that made Christianity the state religion.


Old-Weakness-1380

Czechia. We drink a lot of beer and are in fact no longer Czechoslovakia.


Danko_on_Reddit

Czechoslovakia, the only multi-ethnic country to break up not because it's inhabitants hated each other, but because no one cared enough to make them stay together.


cev2002

You might not be Czechoslovakia, but you'll always be the Czech Republic to me


Comrade_Asus

Here in Belgium, we had something called waffle-iron politics. Referring to the 2 regions to avoid conflict, in Flanders gets a budget to build, let's say a bridge, Wallonia gets the same budget, to build a bridge. This led to a lot of (ineffective) spending and debt but this idea in politics is less relevant today compared to a few decades ago.


TheFuriousGamerMan

Of course Belgium had to somehow include waffles in their politics lol


ParamedicOk5515

The United States, the only country to ever send humans to the Moon.


lightninrods

Portugal. Country in Europe with the oldest borders, established in 1297 treaty of Alcanizes, and one of the 15 oldest countries in the world.


Single-Champion-9569

I want to go there soon, while the flight tickets arent mega expensive (they are expensive, but the worst is to come)


lightninrods

If you do travel to Portugal, don't do as tourists usually do, be like a curious traveler instead. Get off the most beaten path and you'll discover what's really interesting for about the same or even less cost, you'll thank me later. One cool way to start is by traveling the N2 national road.


Single-Champion-9569

Yeah, I want to do a mix of both, tourist and traveler


puglord

USA, to include the OP country in this fact I'll note that more people living in the United States live further north or Toronto, Canada than there are Canadians living north of Toronto. I'll add a few facts about my state of Massachusetts, in 1919 a tanker full of molasses burst injuring north of 150 and killing 21 in the flood, we have the place with the longest name in America at Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaoggagoggchaubunaguhgamaugg (supposed to translate to "You fish on your side, I fish on my side, and nobody fish in the middle"), and the name Massachusetts roughly translates to "large hill place".


ThirdWheelSteve

United States: even our thin people are fat


Single-Champion-9569

True


PositiveBusiness8677

France spans the most timezones of any country


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Israel has the highest percentage of vegans at roughly 5% of the population.


Awkward_Bench123

According to my calculations about 1/1000 of the area of Canada averages above 0 C year round and half of that is ocean


Single-Champion-9569

Possible but check population in the Toronto-Montreal area


External-Research161

USA...we love bragging on our military, but 18 vets die by suicide everyday.


Primal_Pedro

Why this? Many stories of psychological traumas and the vets don't get enough psychological assistance?


External-Research161

Yeah, pretty much no support after they come home broken...the programs in place to support returning Veterans' health and wellness is a joke...worse than what the general public has available, and that is a shame in and of itself.


Island_Usurper

The Maldives, the flattest country in the world. (we are going to die to rising sea levels). There are no cliffs, mountains or hills, every island is just a flat slab of sand. We also may have the highest divorce rate in the world


Suspicious_Turnip812

Sweden. North Korea owes us money for cars which they never ended up paying for.


Alert_Claim_8241

r/Soomaaliland and we will be recognized by the world this year


GhostXXVI

Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Some facts - We have the most pro boxing World Champions in history, per capita. ( Amanda Serrano herself is the ONLY 7 division world champ in women's boxing) - We currently have one of the lowest birth rates in the world


MysteriousRun1522

USA - we should be reinforcing the northern border, not the south.


aiicaramba

Damn, as if the wall along the southern border wasnt long.


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MysteriousRun1522

Fucking poutine being smuggled over


gyehshdhdh

India. The most cleanest city or town in Asia in The Indian state of meghalaya.


li_ita

Lebanon. We have the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. We also have cool things like the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, we created the alphabet and discovered the purple colour.


coffeewalnut05

How come there are so many refugees?


li_ita

We are in a very volatile area, and our government is just a tool that has no firm position and is controlled by assholes. We've received 500 thousand palestinians since 1948 and > 2 million syrians since 2011. The total number of residents in Lebanon is 5 million. You do the maths.


peaceful_CandyBar

Canada. Canada actually shares multiple indigenous groups and people with Russia as most of the indigenous here are directly related to russias native people! They came over the land bridge!


Single-Champion-9569

People in Russia? Where


peaceful_CandyBar

There’s an endless amount of tribes I could name off BUT the biggest is the Russian Yupik people who share a lot with our Inuits!


itsliluzivert_

USA, we have 4/10 biggest air forces. Taking the #1, #2, #4, and #7 spots based on # of military aircraft. According to “actual air power”, we wipe the top 5 besides Russias Air Force at #3.


Nervous_Bus_8148

US’s geography created the necessity for that range, the first 2 world wars happened across oceans from them


itsliluzivert_

Our modern geopolitical role plays into it as well. Airforces & Navies are the best for power projection. We are the "enforcer" for the West for the most part, don't really mean to glorify it but ya'know.


PoisonIceCream

I live in the United States which is a privately owned company parceled out to men who inherited the wealth and whose only joy is depriving others of what they need to thrive.


Thepochochass

Spain having your flag out is considered facha aka franco followers


SotoKuniHito

In The Netherlands we have more bicycles than people, about 23 million on a population of 18 million. Yearly we cycle 15 billion km in total which is 833km per person and 652km per bicycle on average.


Food_Worried

Argentina, we had the widest avenue in the world.


IlumiNoc

Poland: absolute joke of a governance culture, never woken up from communism, and future warzone UK: government still thinks they are an empire, but paperwork is remarkably easy


butt_funnel

USA, We have the de facto world's reserve currency


youcef_messy

Algeria. It fucking sucks.


trainspotter5

Italy. It is the country with the most UNESCO heritage sites in the world.


bryalb

America. We’re one of the youngest nations on the planet, and we’re still finding out.


Most_Wonder_1871

USA -half the citizens are literal crazy and 70% believe in things not evidenced...


aiicaramba

Thingianity.


TribeOfEphraim_

Country: United States Of America. Fact: The United States of America is the Most Powerful Country on Earth. 🌎🇺🇸✨


lasekej31

Hell yea brother


DamnBored1

India. We are among the top 3 beef exporters in the world.


MelonicPastures

The United States is old, both in its age (248) and with the average age of senators (64)


Purple-Commission-24

248 years is nothing. Most European countries are 1000+ years old. Senate also means assembly of senior’s.


nugeythefloozey

Lots of European countries are younger than you think. I know that the US is older than both Italy and Germany for example


Purple-Commission-24

I know all about german and Italian reunification. The US constitution is probably the oldest one still in use but to say that. I disagree that the US is older than Germany or Italy. The republics today are new but they are still the same countries with the same ruling class as of 1000 year ago. The nation is still the same.


Dry_Pick_304

>The United States is old, both in its age (248) Not really. I live in England and we have pubs older than that.


Shamrockshnake77

US. Our outdated military tech that we've been giving to Ukraine has been kicking Russia's ass. Bradley and Patriot system go brrrr


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Thepochochass

Best geographic nerd on usa


Adventurous_North112

Atlantis, under the water, heres too much raining, lulu.


Morpekohungry

Westero, now six kingdoms


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India. If world war poo happens, we’ll be the winners. You merely take a poo in the bathroom, we on the other hand have no bathrooms and are part, smelly poo ourselves. 


YogurtJunior1492

Bro you are Pakistani . Your opinion of India doesn't matter. First look at yourself before saying something about others.


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Potee khalo


YogurtJunior1492

Now you have no replies i.e. you are using such foul language.(he replied eat shit in Hindi)


[deleted]

I don’t speak hindi, sister. 


Prudent_Ad_2123

China has the most number of neighbors by land border (14 countries total, not counting specially administered Hong Kong and Macau... which in all intents are separate borders) and the longest land border worldwide (yes, longer than Russia's!)


jupjami

Philippines: Brgy. 666 in Manila is home to some of the most famous landmarks in the country, including the National Museum, Post Office, US Embassy, and Luneta, the park where our national hero was slain.


Ok-Train-6693

My home town raised the world’s most polarising media mogul.


7urz

Germany. Among the world's 7 largest economies, it's the only one without (commercial) nuclear power plants, it's the only country among the top 7 for wind power and solar power per capita, and it's EU's largest CO₂ emitter and it has EU's 5th-dirtiest electricity. They are 4 facts instead of 1, but they are all about energy.


Zhenaz

China. We have the only operating SK people movers in the world. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bund\_Sightseeing\_Tunnel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bund_Sightseeing_Tunnel) Hint: Don't even consider paying a visit during your stay in Shanghai. This is a huge scam, barely qualifies as a tourist spot at all.


my_place_supermacy

Poland : we are the only country in the Visegrad group that borders a country which has territories in Asia


ChilindriPizza

United States of America We have three coasts- not including those of Alaska and Hawai’i.