Countries & Culture Facts for Kids
Amazing facts about countries and cultures
Russia is the largest country in the world β it covers about 11% of all the land on Earth and spans 11 time zones.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world β it is inside the city of Rome and is about the size of a golf course.
China has the most people of any country, with more than 1.4 billion people β nearly one in five people on Earth lives there.
Australia is the only country that is also its own continent β it is the sixth largest country and the world's largest island.
Canada is the second largest country in the world and has the longest coastline of any country β about 125,000 miles long.
Brazil is home to the Amazon rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, sometimes called the 'lungs of the planet'.
France is the most visited country in the world, welcoming around 90 million tourists every year to see the Eiffel Tower and more.
Japan is nicknamed the 'Land of the Rising Sun' because it lies to the east β in the direction the sun rises β of mainland Asia.
Kenya is home to part of the Great Wildebeest Migration, where over a million wildebeest cross from Tanzania into Kenya's Maasai Mara every year.
Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was the tallest human-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years.