Interesting Geography [via David Angsten]


Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.







Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village ...'

Chicago

Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.





Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.




Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

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