Curious facts about the world's geography

Our contemporary world has a lot to offer in terms of interesting things, especially from geographic point of view. Fell free to read the following facts: - Since the proclamation of its independence in 1825, Bolivia had passed through more than 175 revolutions, thus making it one of the most politically unstable country in the world. - The total length of the Pan-American Highway is 47,958 km (29,800 mi) and it stretches from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Ushuaia in Argentina. - 76% of the population of New Zealand lives on its North Island. - With an area of 1,717,854 square km (663,268 sq mi), Alaska is the largest US State, but its population of 722,718 represents only 0,002% of the total US population. - The Mediterranean island of Malta has an average of 300 sunny days per year. - 15% of the total area of Sweden lies north of the Artic Circle. - Situated at an altitude of 3,490 metres (11,450 ft), Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese Autonomous Region of Tibet, is one of the highest city in the world. - The muslim community in India has about 177 million people thus representing the third largest muslim community in the world, after Indonesia and Pakistan. - Standing at more than 4 million people, the turkish community in Germany is the second largest after the one in Turkey itself. - More than half the area of Saudi Arabia is represented by deserts. - There are about 1240 planes that land or take off daily to or from London Heathrow Airport. - Having 600 km of ski pistes, Les 3 Vallées in France is the world largest ski resort. - The California beaches get 567 million visitors annually and Miami Beach has about 21 million visitors per year. - The Son Doong Cave in Vietnam was first revealead to the public in 2009 and it is considered the largest cave in the world. - The Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta port region consists of five ports from the Netherlands and Belgium and it is the third busiest port region by gross cargo tonnage handled. - The San Francisco Bay Area has eight toll bridges that cross the bay. - The Indian rail network is the fourth largest rail network in the world with a total length of 64,015 kilometres (39,777 mi) and it has over 10 billion passengers annually. - The highest quantity of snow ever fallen in one year was 31.1 meters (102 ft) and it happened in 1971-1972 on Mount Rainier, Washington.