Children are naturally very curious about new countries and are excited to learn new things especially when visiting an interesting place.
Here you will discover exciting facts and the main attractions of the world's countries.
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Here are 10 famous man-made landmarks and monuments that are well known because of their location, special architecture and famous attractions.
These landmarks located on six of the seven continents on our planet. They are Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania/Australia.
Asia is the largest continent. It has the biggest land area and the world's biggest population. This means most people live on the Asian continent.
The continent has the most pupular cities, which means there are biggest cities in the world with million people living in the urban centers, such as in Delhi, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing.
Oceania is the smallest continent of the planet. Oceania includes Australasia, Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. This means Australia, New Zealand and many islands to the north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean are on this continent.
Africa is the continent that has the most countries. As the oldest human fossils such as skeletons and skulls have been discovered in Africa, the continent is also referred to as the "Cradle of humankind".
North America is a continent which is located entirely on the northern and western hemisphere. It includes among others:
The island of Greenland is the world's largest island that belongs to Denmark but is located in North America. Greenland is also known as the most northern place in the world!
North America is home to the largest Christian population in the world. Almost 80% of the people in Canada, the USA and Mexico consider themselves as Christians.
Europe is considered to be the wealthiest and richest continent. However, there are poor regions especially in the eastern parts of the continent too!
Europe houses are the two smallest countries in the world:
There are five European countries make it on the list of the ten smallest countries in the world which include San Marino, Liechtenstein and Malta.
There are 2,300 languages spoken in Asia! 2,000 languages of the world's 7,000 languages are spoken by less than 1,000 people! Chinese is the language with the most native speakers - with almost 1.4 billion people speaking it.
However, English is spoken by people in more than 100 countries worldwide. North America has the largest number of people who speak English either as their first language (231 million people) or as their second language fluently.
This is a continent of many natural superlatives:
This is the richest nations in the world. The tiny country Qatar on the Arabian peninsula is on the richest nations in the world due to its income is from the oil exploration and the petroleum industry.
Saudi-Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are also among the richest countries in the world due to their oil reserves.
This is the smallest continent by population numbers. This means the huge continent is only sparsely populated. On Antarctica there are only research stations for scientists and no permanent settlements.
Antarctica is covered almost completely by ice. 90% of the planet's ice is located on this continent, which also makes up 60%-70% of the world's freshwater supply.