Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres
It straddles the equator and the prime meridian, so it has land in the northern, southern, eastern and western hemispheres.
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Around 60 percent of all the world’s lakes are in Canada — well over two million of them.
Read the fact →India’s Mawsynram is the wettest place on Earth
This village in Meghalaya receives about 11,870 mm of rain a year on average — more than ten times what London gets.
Read the fact →Russia spans 11 time zones
From Kaliningrad in the west to Kamchatka in the east, a traveller crossing Russia would reset their watch eleven times.
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