Did you know???

• Around 5,000 languages are currently spoken in the world (an exact count is hard to give because even linguists don't always agree as to whether two languages are different or if one is a dialect of the other). About 4% of them are spoken by 96% of Earth's population.
• India has a bill of rights for cows.
• The landlocked country of Kyrgyzstan is surrounded by four other landlocked states, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikstan, and Afghanistan, making it the only double-landlocked country in the world.
• The shortest national anthem is the Japanese national anthem, which is only four lines long. The longest is the Greek national anthem, which is 158 verses long.
• Singapore is the largest country without any farms (approximately 650 square kilometres). As well, the world's three smallest countries (Vatican City, Monaco, and Nauru) don't have any farms either.
• The country of Indonesia comprises over 17,000 islands.
• The official president of North Korea is still Kim Il-Sung, even though he died in 1994
• India is the world's second most populous country, with a population of more than 1,000,000,000. The world's third most populous country, the United States, has a population less than 30% of that of India.
• In New Zealand, there are four sheep for each person.
• England and Portugal have never been at war with each other. It is probably the longest unbroken peace (Portugal was created over 850 years ago) between any two nations in the world.
• Among countries larger than 1000 square kilometres, Bangladesh has the highest population density, with more than 910 people per square kilometer.
• The Spratley Islands, a group of over 100 small, uninhabited islands or reefs in the middle of the South China Sea, are claimed by five different countries.
  
  Source: www.sentex.net/~ajy/facts/countries.html