Countries & Culture Facts for Kids
Amazing facts about countries and cultures
Haiku is a traditional Japanese form of poetry with exactly 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 β it focuses on a single moment or image in nature.
Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was a leading voice for Pan-Africanism β the idea that all African peoples share common bonds and should unite politically.
Patagonia in southern Argentina is one of the world's last great wildernesses β a windswept region of glaciers, mountains, and steppes bigger than California.
France is one of the world's largest wine producers β wine has been made in France for over 2,600 years and French wines are exported to countries around the globe.
India became the first country to successfully reach Mars orbit on its very first attempt in 2014, at a fraction of the cost of other Mars missions.
Iceland's parliament, the Althing, was founded in 930 AD β making it the oldest functioning parliament in the world, over 1,000 years old.
Siberia, the vast region of Russia east of the Ural Mountains, contains about one-third of all the forests on Earth and stores enormous amounts of carbon.
Nepal has the only national flag in the world that is not a rectangle or square β it is made of two stacked triangular pennants and represents the Himalayan mountains.
Kenya's elite runners train in the Great Rift Valley at altitudes above 8,000 feet β the thin air forces the body to produce more red blood cells, boosting endurance.
Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country β over 800 distinct languages are spoken there, roughly 12% of all languages in the world.