Interesting facts about the least known countries in the world

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A selection of the most interesting facts about the least known countries in the world that we have collected over the years

This is a subjective topic, I know. What counts as an interesting fact? What is one of the least known countries in the world?

There is no scientific answer, but when this question was asked on the Q&A-Site Quora, some remarkable details about some of the observatory and not so confident states of the world were surely raised.

In the following I selected some of the most interesting facts about the least known countries in the world that we collected during visits to over 80 countries.

  1. Nauru has overweight overweight the overweight population in the world.

    2. alt = “obese people in Nauru, one of the least known countries in the world”> Lorrie Graham/Ausaid/Creative Commons Nauru has the most overweight population

    1. The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean are the most at risk and have the highest risk of flooding due to climate change.

    2. Prince Phillip, husband of the British queen, is worshiped by the villagers of Yaohnanen on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. Followers of the Prinz-Philipp movement believe that the Duke descends from one of their intellectual ancestors and visit them in 2016 and-if they are lucky-will live with them.

      3. alt = “Two men in Vanuatu, one of the least known countries in the world”> Christopher Hogue Thompson/Creative Commons Prince Phillip is revered in Vanuatu

      1. in French-Polynesia is the Tematangi Atoll of the Mecca antipode. This means that Muslims who want to pray on the island can look kneel and look in any direction, since they would theoretically always look at Mecca.

      2. A large part of the streets in Guam consists of a coral oil mixture because the island has no natural sand supply. In wet weather, the oil tends to swim on the surface of the streets, which makes it dangerous. For this reason, the top speed on the majority of the island is only 35 miles per hour.

      3. Papua New Guinea is the linguistically diverse country in the world with 851 individual languages. 839 and 12 of them are extinct. English is the official language, although only 1-2% of the population speak English.

        4. alt = “tribes humans papua new guinea ,, one of the least known countries in the world”> Christopher Michel/Creative Commons English is the official language in Papua-Neuguinea

        1. San Marino is the oldest state in the world with a story that goes back to 301 AD. It is also the only state with more cars than people with 1,263 street mobile vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants.

        2. niger has the most youthful population in the world. In 2013, over half of the population of Niger (50.09 %) was under 14 years old. At the other end of the scale there are Germany and Japan, where only 13 % of the population are under 14 years old.

        3. Kiribati is the only country in the world that falls into all four hemispheres, spans the equator and extends into the eastern and western hemisphere. Kiribati was also the first country to experience the beginning of the third millennium on January 1, 2000.

          4. alt = "a map of Kiribati, one of the least known countries in the world"> Creative Commons A map of Kiribati, one of the least known countries in the world

          1. The Komoren are the only state with membership in the African Union, the Francophonia, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League (where it is the southernmost and only member completely within the southern hemisphere) and the Commission for the Indian Ocean. Maybe a little confused about his national identity?
          2. In addition to India,

            fiji is the only country with Hindi as an official language. Local Fijians make up 54% of the population. Indian workers were brought to Fiji under British rule to work on the sugar cane harvest. The descendants of these workers are called Indo-Fijians and today make up about 40 % of the population.

          3. transsexual people, known as Fa’Afafine, are a third gender that has been officially recognized and accepted in Samoa at least since the early 20th century.

          4. Liberia is one of only two countries in Africa that was not colonized by the European powers. The other is Ethiopia.

          5. Nauru, which is published on this list for the second time, has no official capital, but Yaren is the largest settlement and the seat of Parliament.

          6. Red Star OS is the official and only operating system used in North Korea. It is based on Linux and was developed by the Korean Computer Center. It sees Apple's early versions of Mac OS X remarkably similar.

            7. alt = “North Korea is one of the least known countries in the world"> KCC/GNU/General Public License North Korea is one of the least known countries in the world

            1. The tiny island state of Niue only has 1,190 inhabitants, but is the first and only WLAN state in the world (ie with free WiFi access nationwide, which is made available to citizens by the government).

            2. bhutan is the only country that measures happiness instead of GDP (gross domestic product). The BNH concept (Gross National Happiness), which has been used in Bhutan since 1972, inspired a modern political happiness movement, and in 2011 the UN General Assembly "Glück" unanimously relied on the global development agenda.

            3. bhutan is also a country in which paintings of phallic penises are the order of the day. The Bhutan believes that the unexpected image of an erect penis promotes fertility, offers protection against evil and scattered because of gossip. The murals can be painted on the walls of their houses and hanging on the eaves of their houses.

              4. alt = “Bhutan is one of the least known countries in the world"> Nagarjun Kandukuru/Creative Commons bhutan is one of the least known countries in the world

              1. Lesotho, San Marino and the Vatican City are the only sovereign states in the world that are enclosed on all sides by a single country, which makes it enclaves. Lesotho is inland from South Africa, the others of Italy.

              2. For a long time, Tuvalu could not join the United Nations because it could not afford the $ 100,000 entrance fee. When the domain names were distributed to countries for the first time, Tuvalu received the coveted abbreviation .tv. In 2000, the country acted a 12-year lease agreement over $ 50 million for its domain, and again in 2011.

              3. There are 22 countries in the world that have no army, the vast majority consists of tiny island states or enclaves. Incidentally, this does not include the Vatican City, which the Swiss Guard has as a military corps.

                4. alt = “The Swiss Guard in the Vatican City”> Dream time The Swiss Guard in Vatican City

                1. Despite the popularity of the beautiful game in Greenland, the country cannot join FIFA (the international umbrella organization of football), since no grass can grow there due to the extreme weather conditions. In 2006 they were allowed to take part in two World Cup qualification games. They both lost.

                  2. Alt = “Footballer in Greenland, one of the least known countries in the world“> Algkalv/Creative Commons Greenland is one of the least known countries in the world

                  1. for the third and last time Nauru appears on the list. The country earns more money than its GDP by recognizing it by renegade and controversial countries. A state striving for sovereignty can only be taken seriously if it is recognized by other UN member states (the more, the better). In 2009, Nauru recognized the Abkhazia and South Ossetia supported by Russia for $ 50 million in Russian aid. There were other controversial examples related to Kosovo and Taiwan.

                  2. Lichtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only countries in the world that have a double inland state. The first is blocked by Switzerland and Austria, the second of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, all of which are internal states.

                  3. In 2018, Swasiland changed its name in "Kingdom of Eswatini". King Mswati III, who renamed the country, announced the official change in a stadium during the celebrations on the 50th anniversary of Swazis from the British rule.

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