Suriname is the country with the largest surface covered by forest -91% of entire land – followed by the Solomon Islands with 89% and Papua New Guinea with 83 per cent.
In 1463, Paris (France) became the first city in the world to give numbers to its houses.
The imperial suite at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva (Switzerland) charges US $ 33000 per night and is the most expensive in the world.
Smith and Lee are the most common names in Britain and China respectively.
FreshKills on Staten Island, New York (USA), is the largest rubbish processing plant in the world. It extends over a surface of 1200 hectares. The central body is as tall as a 1 7 -storey building, and contains up to 100 million tonnes of rubbish. The process itself produces an estimated 2,700 tonnes of methane gas.
Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in the world is, in Ghana (West Africa).
General Motors (GM) USA, the world's largest automobile producer, produces 8 million motor vehicles on an average per year. The brands include Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Opel, Isuzu and Saab.
Finland is the world's most environmentally friendly country, which heads the Environmental Sustain ability Index (ES1) compiled in 2002 by the World Economic Forum.
The world's largest car park is in Edmonton, Alberta, (Canada), which houses 20,000 vehicles, with an adjoining overflow capacity of another 10,000.
There are about 26 countries in the world which are entirely land-locked. This means, that they have no coastal line.
