The North The states of Amazonas (largest Brazilian state), Pará, Acre, Rondônia, Roraima, Amapá and Tocantins cover 3,887,800 square km, but have a total of no more than 10,157,000 inhabitants. The north consists almost entirely of dense rainforest. As a result of road construction and extensive clearing by fire, undisturbed nature can no longer be…
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Tokelau Geography and Climate
Tokelau is a Polynesian word meaning “northern wind”, but in the Tokelau Islands the Tokelau language is spoken, which is quite similar to the language spoken in Samoa. In addition, most people in the Tokelau Islands speak English. This archipelago located in Polynesia in the South Pacific consists of three atolls. Each atoll has a…
Science and Culture of Serbia
According to educationvv, almost half of the population of Serbia and Montenegro had only primary education or did not even receive it. Of the students admitted to elementary school, one in ten did not graduate. Up to 40% of students did not finish secondary school. As a result, only a third of the population had…
Science and Culture of Ukraine
Ukraine has significant scientific potential in many areas. The main state scientific center is the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine (since 1919), which directs and organizes research in leading areas of science. The academy has 170 scientific institutions (of which 5 are international), an experimental production base, and 6 research centers. Among the…
Amusement Parks and Museums in Paris, France
COMPLEX OF CHILDREN’S ATTRACTIONS “MAGIC PLANET” (LA PLANÈTE MAGIQUE) Located in the former Gaité Lyrique theatre. Address: 3 bis, rue Papin, Reamur metro stop. Open from 10:00 to 19:00, Friday from 13:00 to 19:00). Website: http://www.planetemagique.com/ Interplanetary journey in a spaceship, “Soft Planet” (for children from 8 years old) – kids can jump to their…
Shopping and Eating in London
London shopping London is no less famous for shoppers than Milan or Paris. The British capital became one of the centers of world fashion in the 19th century, at the end of which the refined style of the London dandy, sung by Pushkin, appeared. In the 1960s in London, the popular and still style “casual”…
Cities and Regions in Iran
Hamadan Hamadan– one of the most ancient cities in the world, the capital of the Median kingdom and the first capital of ancient Persia, one of the centers of the development of civilization and the birthplace of numerous Persian dynasties, today it is the capital of the region of the same name in Iran. The…
Armenia, Colombia
Armenia is the youngest city of all the capitals of the Colombian departments. The official date of foundation of the city is October 14, 1889. The city probably got its name thanks to the Armenians who came to South America. Although initially the new village was named after the then president, soon, under the influence…
Virginia Landmarks
The state in the northeastern United States on the Atlantic Ocean bears the official title Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia is one of the most scenic states and has historically significant sites. The landscape is shaped by the Appalachian Mountains, up to 1,700 m high, and the Piedmont, which slopes down to the coastal plain. The…
Russia Geography
Russia is the largest state in the world, extending from Eastern Europe to the Far East. ● The name Russia designates the consolidated state starting from the 16th century. around the Principality of Muscovy and extended at the time of maximum expansion, in the mid-19th century, in Europe, Asia and North America, from the Baltic Sea to Alaska. Today, considered synonymous with the Russian…
United States Literature from the End of the 20th Century to the Beginnings of the 21st Century
Postmodern fiction In contemporary American literature, fiction is established as the dominant literary genre and it is interesting to note how a postmodern literature by definition such as the American one is not only dominated by novels imposing in size and ambition, but prefers, among all the variants, that of the novel. historical. It is…
Switzerland Economic Conditions
Established as a political unit also in function of the control of an Alpine transit route of vital importance for the flows between central-northern Europe and the Mediterranean, the China has long preserved and strengthened its original function of ‘hinge’, developing a economy in which transport and trade have played a leading role. Therefore, great…
Limassol, Cyprus
Limassol is located in the center of the southern coast of Cyprus and is the second largest city in Cyprus, after Nicosia. In Limassol itself and its environs there are a large number of attractions, and there are many sandy beaches on the coast, all this was the reason that Limassol is considered one of…
Italy Mining Products
Overall, Italy is not very favored for underground resources; a mining country has never been, but today its conditions of inferiority, compared, not only to the large, better-endowed extra-European states, but also to most of the European ones, derive essentially from two causes: on the one hand, from the shortage of some products, of which the…
Greece Monetation Part II
The coin is a piece of metal of a given weight; now, since the use of money followed the use of metal by weight, so already the primitive coins are cut according to a scale of weights, that is, according to the weight system of the country. In the vast Mediterranean area, there were many…
Greece Monetation Part I
In this article we understand the treatment of the ancient coins minted by the cities of Greece proper and the Hellenic East, and by the Greek colonies, from the beginnings of coinage up to the overlap of Roman rule, referring to the appropriate item the treatment of the coins of Magna Graecia (see.). The first…
The United Germany
The reunification process Contrary to the expectations of the new Prime Minister H. Modrow, who hoped to negotiate an agreed unification with the Federal Republic to safeguard the specificity of the GDR, Bonn, through Chancellor H. Kohl, left no doubt that any aid to the Germany Orientale was subordinated to the prospect of his rapid absorption…
Spain Population 1930
The census of December 31, 1930 marks, for the territory of the Spanish republic, 23,817,179 residents (including the 561,347 residents of the Canaries), which the official estimates for January 1934 raise to 24,242,038 (566,879 in the Canaries). The distribution of this total in the historical regions is summarized in the table at the foot of…
Brazil Between 1961 and 1974 Part 2
The next president, Marshal A. da Costa e Silva, in assuming power (April 15, 1967) provided ample assurances to the poor classes, trade unions, intellectuals and students. He was inclined to choose empirical solutions and measures to reconcile popular sympathy. He managed to contain inflation, blocking price increases while improving wages. I will tolerate a…
Brazil Between 1961 and 1974
Quadros, inaugurated as president on Jan. 1961, he found the country ruined, burdened with debt and in the throes of unstoppable inflation. The previous Kubitschek government was accused of having spent large sums, especially for the construction of Brasilia, and of having allowed scandalous illicit enrichments. The new president addressed the situation with a program…
Ile-de-France in France
The Île-de-France region is in the north Of Franceand is also identical to the Paris metropolitan area. the Île-de-France is therefore also the most heavily populated region in France. The area of the area is 12,012 square kilometers on which about 11.7 million people live. The most important city for the region is of course…
Cities in India
Bangalore Bangalore [ bæ ŋ gəl ɔ ː, English], capital of the state of Karnataka, South India, 915 m above sea level, with (2011) 8.5 million residents (1991: 2,670,000 residents) the fastest growing metropolis India. Numerous universities and institutes; the Indian Institute of Science (with university status, founded in 1909) is one of the most…
Leon Cathedral, Spain
The most French of all Spanish cathedrals The Léon Cathedral – official name Cathedral Santa María de Regla of León – is located in the Castilian town of Léon in northwestern Spain on Plaza Regla. The Episcopal Church is located on the famous Way of St. James, which leads to Santiago de Compostela. There are…
Sights in Germany
Germany – in a class of its own! Take a round trip through the Federal Republic of Germany, impressed by diverse natural landscapes, which range from the North German lowlands, over the low mountain range to the Alps, as well as through the openings to the Baltic and North Sea. The 5 metropolises of the…
Attractions in Albania
Here you will find study trips and round trips through the metropolises of Albania Tirana Visit Tirana, the capital and at the same time the economic, cultural, academic and political center of the Republic of Albania. Experience the most important highlights of the city on a Tirana city trip, such as the famous Boulevard Deshmoret…
Czech Republic Early History
Prehistory The so-called Czech Countries, ancestral territory made up of the regions of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, have been inhabited since ancient times. The oldest evidence dates from the Stone Age, approximately 28,000 BC; later in the 3rd century BC, the Celtic tribe of the Bogos settled in areas of the north and northwest. At the beginning of the 1st century…
Old History of Jerusalem, Israel
According to Youremailverifier, ceramic evidence indicates the occupation of the village of Ophel, within what is now Jerusalem, as early as the Copper Age, around 4000 BC. n. and., [1] [2] with evidence of a permanent settlement in the first centuries of the early Bronze Age (c. 3000-2800 BC). Ann Killebrew proved that Jerusalem was already a walled city in…
Iceland Geography
Iceland – key data Area: 103,000 km² (of which land: 100,250 km², water: 2,750 km²) Population: 311,058 residents (2011 estimate, CIA). Composition: descendants of Scandinavians and Celts 94%, others 6%. Population density: 3.0 residents per km² Population growth: 0.687% per year (2011, CIA) Capital: Reykjavik (117.721 residents, 2007) Highest point: Hvannadalshnukur, 2,110 m (in the…
Traveling in El Salvador
El Salvador Transportation Airplane: There is no regular domesticAir traffic in El Salvador. Ship: on Lake Suchitlantravela passenger ship and a car ferry connecting Suchitoto with Chalatenango. Bus: According to Youremailverifier, El Salvador has an extensive bus system. The vehicles used are mainly old school buses from the USA. Seldom hang in the chaotic bus…
Travel to Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, like so many other countries in the Caribbean, is characterized by foreign influences. This is where Spanish and American culture dominate. Magnificent colonial palaces are crowded next to glittering shopping malls. Spanish and American are heard everywhere – but usually in the form of something the Puerto Ricans themselves call “Spanglish”. Underwater life…