OTP Interesting Geography

INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY

Alaska
More than half of the coastline of the entire United
States is in Alaska .

Amazon
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's
oxygen supply.. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic
Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river,
one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon
river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined
and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .

Antarctica
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not
owned by any country. Ninety percent 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.

Brazil
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world
combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning " Big Village ."

Chicago
Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish
population in the world.

Detroit
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the
designation M-1, sonamed because it was the first paved road anywhere.

Damascus , Syria
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand
years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously
inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul , Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located
on two continents.

Los Angeles
Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angelesde Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its
size: L. A.

New York City
The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz
musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or
city. T herefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big
Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin ,
Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews
in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel .

Ohio
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every
one is manmade.

Pitcairn Island
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn i n
Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

Rome
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.

Siberia
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.

S.M.O.M ..
The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.OM.). It is located in the city of
Rome , Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a
population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity
under international law, just as theVatican is.


Sahara Desert
In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt,
which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years Technically though, the
driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island .
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.

Spain
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'

St. Paul , Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye
after a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant who set up the first business
there.

Roads
Chances that a road is unpaved in the USA : 1%, in Canada : 75%

Texas
The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas.
It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.

United States
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile
in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times
of war or other emergencies.

Waterfalls
The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in
Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .





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