Africa is the second largest of the earth's seven continents and makes up approximately 22% of the earth's total land area
Amazing fact: Greek
About 10% of a Greek worker's pay is taken for taxes and another 10% for national health care. The government provides free hospitals and other medical services.Greek workers get at least one month of paid vacation every year
Amazing fact: India
India is the largest democracy in the world.
Amazing fact: Opera
The world's first operas were composed in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. Opera reached the height of popularity in the nineteenth century, when the works of Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), and Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) became hugely popular. The late tenor Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007) is a national celebrity, and Claudio Monteverdi (c. 1567-1643) is regarded as the father of the modern opera
Amazing fact: North Korea
North Korea was accepted into the United Nations in 1991
Amazing fact: Thailand
The world's smallest mammal, the Craseonycteris thonglongyai (the bumble bat), is found in Thailand
