Technically, the longest, direct, domestic airline flight in the world is between Paris, France and the department of Réunion in the Indian Ocean at 5,809
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While many English-speakers refer to it as Holland, the lowland country famous for tulips, windmills and wooden shoes is properly named the Netherlands. Nord and
It might sound like the music from an ice-cream truck, but if you’re in Taiwan, chances are that’s the garbage truck. By law, you can’t
Even if you never send postcards, you will want to send one when you get to Molokai, Hawaii’s fifth-largest island. That’s because you can mail
The world’s largest thermal river is thought to be in Peru’s Amazonian rain forest. The “Boiling River” flows hot for more than six kilometres and
Each continent has a “pole of inaccessibility.” It is that point on the globe that is most distant from any ocean. The Eurasian landmass’ pole
The furthest you can travel by train in the world in a single trip, including transfers, is from Porto, Portugal to Ho Chi Minh City