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Vatican City isn’t actually a city. It is a country, estination with more than 75 million tourists each year. Between 1800 and 2000, the population
of the world grew from 1 billion to
although it is only the size of 50 football pitches 6 billion.
and its official population is just 821 people.
In 27 CE Rome became the first city
Nigeria is the most densely populated country Before humans arrived to have 1 million inhabitants.
in Africa with more than 100 million people, in New Zealand around
but Sudan is the largest country geographically 1,000 years ago, there were In 2008, for the first time in history, more
with a total area of 2,505,800 sq km than half the people of the world lived
(967,490 square miles). in cities and towns rather than rural

no mammals there exceptUganda has the youngest population in the world. 50communities.
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The first map to name the newly discovered The oldest known map world’s toys are made in China.
continent America was drawn by German
cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507. was drawn around 2,500 BCE
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speak Votic, a language of area around the River Euphrates.
northern Russia.
Iceland’s Althing is the oldest parliament in About 4,000 people, mainly
583 different languages are spoken in Indonesia. the world. Its first meeting was held in 930 CE. scientists, live in Antarctica
in the summer. This number
Argentinians eat more In 1978, Argentinian Emilio Marcos Palma drops to 1,000 in the winter.
became the first person to be born in Antarctica.
meat than anyone else.

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