O'Hare International Airport, Chicago (USA) is the busiest airport in the world. On an average, there is a take off or landing every 36 seconds.
The fastest round-the-world flight was established by Air France's Concorde. It left New York on 15th August 11995, heading east. The global trip was completed in 31 hours land 28 minutes, with landing for refuelling at Dubai, Bangkok, Guam-USA-Pacific, Honolulu USA and Acapulco-Mexico.
Indonesia is an Archipelago (chain of islands) with 13,000 islands, stretching over a distance of 5,600 km.
Istanbul (Turkey), the largest and most populated city known for its juxtaposition with 9.4 million, is the only city to lie in two continents. It is split by a narrow channel of water called Bosporus Strait. The European and Asian parts of the city are linked by a number of bridges.
The Niagara Falls is on the border between the USA and Canada. There are two parts – the American Falls, which fall at 320 m wide, and the Canadian or Horseshoe Falls, which fall at 675 m wide. The water flows at Niagara is about, 6,000cu. m/sec.
China is the only country with the most international boundaries of 15 countries, followed by Sudan with 9 countries.
McDonalds, USA, is the world's largest food chain with more than 30,000 restaurants in 100 countries. They serve more than 46 million customers every day. The biggest and the busiest outlet is in Moscow (Russia).
Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest buildings with a height of 508 m, is in Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan. This 101 –floored building is owned by Taipei Financial corporation and cost nearly US $ 1.7 billion.
The first barcode was used on Wrigley's chewing gum.
Airlines is the first in the world to put it into service. This double-deckered, Rolls-Royce's four-engined, super jumbo, with a wing span of 80 m, overall length of 73 m, height of 24 m and with a maximum take off weight of 560 tonnes, can carry between 550 and 840 passengers on its variants. It can continuously fly up to 15,000 km and is priced between US $ 263 and US $ 286 million.
