Count down the fascinating figures behind the 195 countries in our world - from the teeny tiny to the mindbogglingly massive!Do you know how many football pitches would fit into Europe? Or which country has the most newspaper readers? What is a megacity and which is the biggest one in the world? And how many wildebeest migrate thousands of kilometres every year across African's plains? Discover the answers to all these questions and much, more more in Big Countdown: Countries. Helping readers to visualise and understand numbers, The Big Countdown looks at popular topics and investigates the great many numbers that make them fascinating. From the mind-bogglingly large to the smallest and most precious, this series helps us understand that it's not just our days that are numbered. Ideal reading for number-crunchers aged 9 and up.
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Count down your world with an amazing mix of numbers, facts and statistics
1: Counting down the world's continents and countries2: 1,379,302,771 people live in China3: Tokyo is the world's largest megacity with 38,100,000 residents4: 24,668,091 diamond carats mined in Botswana5: Over 1,500,000 wildebeests migrate from Tanzania annually6: North America's largest mall is 493,000 square metres in size7: Canada's coastline stretches for 202,080 kilometres8: 11,770 millimetres of rain fall on Tutunendo, Colombia every year9: The railway line in Peru climbs to 4,818 metres high10: Around 4,400 people move to Antarctica each summer11: Over 1,200 museums and art galleries in France12: Only around 800 people live in the Vatican City13: Australia is the only continent with one country
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781445160849
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Franklin Watts Ltd
Vekt
147 gr
Høyde
264 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Dybde
6 mm
Aldersnivå
JC, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
32
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