Unique facts, namely a list of the most interesting countries, which are specific because of their natural features and beauty, some by demographic characteristics, and some by their tourist characteristics. This list will include only sovereign states.
We will start with Canada - this country is interesting because it has three million lakes. Indeed, Canada contains almost 60% of the world's lakes. There are so many of them that their exact number, which is located in this country, is unknown. In certain regions, there are as many as thirty lakes for every hundred square kilometers!
In second place on our list is Indonesia - a country that is rich in islands, there are more than 17,500 of them. Indonesia consists of such a huge number of islands with a full coastline that stretches for 81,350 km. Approximately six thousand of the total are inhabited by residents. And here are the largest islands - Sumatra, Bali, Lombok, Flores, Java, Borneo and Sulawesi. By the way, Indonesia also contains 10-15 percent of the world's coral reefs.
Libya, it is often called - the country of the desert. Yes, indeed, this country has the highest percentage of desert, which is 99%. The Libyan Desert covers a huge part of Libya and is one of the driest places in the entire world. In some of these places, there is no rain for decades. Even in highland areas, precipitation is extremely rare, about once every five to ten years.
The country with the smallest population density is Mongolia, it also deserves to be on this list. Indeed, Mongolia has the lowest population density in the entire world. Per square mile 1.7 people / km2, population about 4.5. Per square mile. 2.5 million people cover an area of more than 600,000 square miles - that's about 1,560,000 square kilometers. Most of the country's population is people who live in urban areas, due to the fact that the development of pastures in the vast deserts of Mongolia is very difficult, in particular due to severe drought and dust storms, as a result of which some territory of the country is almost the same desert, as in the days of Genghis Khan.
Do you know what country is called the country in the jungle? This is Suriname. The forest area in this country is 14.8 million hectares (57,000 square miles), this is 91 percent of the total land area of Suriname, which is 16.3 million hectares, or 63,000 square miles.
Suriname's vast forest and very low population of around 400,000 in the capital and coastal areas give it one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world. Only five percent of the population lives in rainforests, all of these are indigenous peoples and six tribes of blacks are the descendants of fugitive slaves who re-created forest communities only a few centuries ago. And today these tribes are trying to maintain their traditional West African style.
These are such unusual countries on the globe, about which, more precisely about some, you did not even suspect what is happening with them and what they are famous for!
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