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TN NC OK AR AZ NM SC The US is divided into MS AL GA 50 areas called states. Check the number of your 48 form a block in the TX LA destination, then find it on the center of . Alaska lies to the map. The list on the left includes 26 northwest of , while the 23 countries of North America. FL On the right are 22 dependencies - Hawaii is a group of islands territories that are governed by, or in the Pacific Ocean. To make up part of, another country. find a state on the map, look for its abbreviation. 2 1. 24. (UK) 2. BAHAMAS 25. (NETHERLANDS) AL ALABAMA MT MONTANA 3. 26. (UK) AK ALASKA NE NEBRASKA 4. 27. (NETHERLANDS) AZ ARIZONA NV NEVADA 16 44 5. CANADA 28. (UK) AR ARKANSAS NH NEW HAMPSHIRE 6. 29. (UK) 7 CA CALIFORNIA NJ NEW 7. 30. CLIPPERTON ISLAND (FRANCE) 28 24 CO COLORADO NM NEW 8. 31. CURACAO (NETHERLANDS) 40 CT CONNECTICUT NY NEW YORK 38 9. 32. (DENMARK) 13 9 DE DELAWARE NC NORTH CAROLINA 39 10. 33. (FRANCE) 37 FL FLORIDA ND NORTH DAKOTA 11. 34. (FRANCE) 15 GA GEORGIA OH OHIO 29 43 1 12. 35. (UK) HI HAWAII OK OKLAHOMA 42 4 45 33 13. 36. NAVASSA ISLAND (US) 19 ID IDAHO OR OREGON 14. 37. (US) 36 IL ILLINOIS PA PENNSYLVANIA 8 15. 38. (NETHERLANDS) 35 IN INDIANA RI RHODE ISLAND 16. MEXICO 39. SAINT BARTHELEMY (FRANCE) 12 IA IOWA SC SOUTH CAROLINA 34 17. 40. SAINT MARTIN (FRANCE) 30 14 KS KANSAS SD SOUTH DAKOTA 18. 41. SAINT PIERRE 20 KY KENTUCKY TN TENNESSEE 21 19. AND MIQUELON (FRANCE) 10 25 LA LOUISIANA TX TEXAS 31 3 20. 42. 27 ME MAINE UT UTAH 21. SAINT VINCENT AND (NETHERLANDS) 17 11 MD MARYLAND VT VERMONT THE GRENADINES 43. (NETHERLANDS) MA MASSACHUSETTS VA VIRGINIA 22. 44. TURKS AND CAICOS MI MICHIGAN WA WASHINGTON 23. (US) ISLANDS (UK) MN MINNESOTA WV WEST VIRGINIA 45. US VIRGIN ISLANDS (US) 22 MS MISSISSIPPI WI WISCONSIN 6 MO MISSOURI WY WYOMING

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6. COSTA RICA ”Oil down,” a stew cooked in coconut milk, Central America, Lake Nicaragua, which is home Paris, helped to design parts of Lady Liberty’s The French painter Paul Gauguin created British in 1799, who established an industry on Earth, higher even than Mount Everest, at It was at the fair that the ice-cream cone PENNSYLVANIA NOVA SCOTIA COUNTRIES • to the bull shark - one of only two species structure. • here based on the processing of sea salt. nearly 33,500 ft. (10,200 m). • CANADA - SIZE: 19, 730 sq. mi. (51, 100 sq km) is the national dish. many of his best-known works while visiting was supposedly invented, when an ice-cream A coal mine in the Pennsylvania borough Burntcoat Head on the shore of the of shark that can live in both freshwater and • • POPULATION: 4.9 million So far, the US is the only country to have Martinique. The island’s highest point is the vendor ran out of cups and used a rolled-up of Centralia caught fire in 1962 and has PROVINCES & Bay of Fundy has the most extreme tidal 1. ANTIGUA AND saltwater. • 45. US VIRGIN ISLANDS (US) IDAHO BARBUDA CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: 12. GUATEMALA successfully landed a human being on the 4,583 ft. (1,397 m) Mount Pelée, a volcano that waffle instead. The idea took off, and soon St. been burning ever since. range in the world. On average, the water The country’s name is a combination of moon. In total, there were six successful moon last erupted in 1932. This state is the country’s most famous Louis’s factories were turning out thousands TERRITORIES San José SIZE: 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq km) • SIZE: 134 sq. mi. (346 sq km) • here is 56 ft. (17 m) lower at low tide SIZE: 171 sq. mi. (443 sq km) “Nicarao,” a local people who were living on missions, between 1969 and 1972. producer of potatoes, growing around a third of cones. Although it only takes up about 0.3 POPULATION: 15.4 million POPULATION: 107,300 RHODE ISLAND than it is at high tide. The greatest tidal POPULATION: 94, 700 • the shores of Lake Nicaragua when the Spanish of the country’s entire supply. ALBERTA percent of the Earth’s surface, Costa Rica is CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: 35. MONTSERRAT (UK) CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: The name of the US’s smallest state range ever recorded here was 71 ft. CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: arrived, and agua, meaning “water” in Spanish. • Alberta’s vast prairies produce around a home to around 5 percent of all its species SIZE: 39 sq. mi. (102 sq km) Charlotte Amalie MONTANA comes either from Dutch explorers, who • (22 m). St. John’s third of Canada’s wheat and about half of of animals and plants. The country’s hot, Founded in 1524, the ruined city of León POPULATION: 5,300 These islands were owned by Denmark for ILLINOIS The capital, Helena, was founded in 1864 named it Roodt Eylandt (meaning “red There are believed to be the remains These twin islands are known as the More than half the population here • DEPENDENCIES • • its barley. • • steamy jungles boast an incredible array • Viejo is one of the oldest Spanish colonial CAPITAL: Plymouth (former), Brades over 250 years before being sold to the US Located on the breezy shores of Lake during a gold rush. Over the next couple island”), or from Italian explorers, who of around 10,000 shipwrecks off Nova “Land of 365 Beaches” because they is descended from the original Maya • of wildlife, including jaguars, hummingbirds, settlements in the . It was abandoned (current), Little Bay (future, under for $25 million in 1917. Michigan, Illinois’s largest city, Chicago, is of decades, around $3.6 billion of gold was thought the shoreline looked like the The first known use of the Halloween Scotia’s rocky shore. boast so many stretches of sand inhabitants. 21 Mayan languages are still 24. ANGUILLA (UK) • three-toed sloths, and squirrel monkeys. in 1610 after a devastating earthquake. construction) nicknamed the “Windy City.” discovered in the surrounding region, briefly Greek island of Rhodes. phrase “trick or treat” was in an Alberta (one for each day of the year) along spoken in Guatemala. : 35 sq. mi. (91 sq km) In 1912, the doomed ocean liner Titanic SIZE : Brades turning the new city into one of the US’s newspaper in 1927. • Around 25 percent of the land is Guatemala’s ancient Maya invented hot : 17, 100 LARGEST CITY struck the iceberg that sent it to the their coasts. • • 18. PANAMA POPULATION INDIANA wealthiest. By 1888, Helena had 50 millionaires, protected inside a network of national chocolate, which they called xocolatl. It was : The Valley There used to be many more people living US STATES SOUTH CAROLINA The world’s longest beaver dam lies bottom of the ocean 800 mi. (1,300 km) In 1493, the explorer Christopher CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY • more than any other city on Earth at the time. • • parks and reserves. SIZE: 29, 120 sq. mi. (75, 420 sq km) on Montserrat, but around two-thirds of them The capital, Indianapolis, hosts one of the South Carolina ignited the American Civil in a remote part of Alberta’s Wood Buffalo southeast of Halifax. Ships sailed from Columbus named Antigua (meaning much more bitter than the sweet liquid we The island was supposedly named Anguilla, • • POPULATION: 3.8 million • fled when the Soufrière Hills volcano suddenly ALABAMA most popular car races in the world, the Lots of dinosaur fossils have been dug up War of 1861-1865 when it withdrew from National Park. It’s 2,790 ft. (850 m) long Halifax to recover the bodies of the “ancient” in Spanish) after a statue Costa Rica has five active volcanoes. drink today. meaning “eel” in Spanish, by Christopher • • CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: exploded in 1995. The volcano devastated The only known incident of a meteorite Indianapolis 500. Every year, around 300,000 in Montana, including those of such famous the Union in November 1860. The first and has been built by several generations victims. known as Santa Maria de la Antigua in Costa Rica is one of the only countries in The country’s national bird is the brightly Columbus in 1493 because of its long, narrow • • • much of the southern part of the island, hitting a human being took place in the spectators gather to watch race cars whizzing prehistoric beasts as the horned Triceratops, shots of the war were fired at Fort Sumter, of beavers over more than 40 years. It’s so Seville Cathedral in Spain. the world that doesn’t have an army. It was colored quetzal. •Between 1904 and 1914, the 48 mi. (77 km) shape. Panama Canal was dug out across the center including the capital Plymouth, which was Alabama town of Oak Grove in 1954, when a around an oval track for 200 laps (amounting the club-tailed Ankylosaurus, and the big dino just off the South Carolina coast. remote that it wasn’t visited by anyone NUNAVUT Once a British colony, Antigua abolished in 1949. • of the country, linking the Pacific and Atlantic abandoned. Much of the island’s south is still shooting star came hurtling through an open to 500 miles), making it the most attended daddy of them all, Tyrannosaurus rex. until 2014, after it was spotted in a Canada’s largest and northernmost and Barbuda has been independent Costa Ricans refer to themselves as either 13. HAITI 25. ARUBA (NETHERLANDS) • • Oceans. It dramatically shortened the time a no-go area. A new capital is being built in window and struck Elizabeth Hodges on the single-day sporting event on Earth. SOUTH DAKOTA satellite image on Earth. territory, Nunavut is a cold, hostile since 1981. ticos (males) or ticas (females). : 69 sq. mi. (180 sq km) SIZE: 10, 714 sq. mi. (27, 750 sq km) it took to ship goods from one side of the SIZE the north. hip. She was left with a large bruise but was NEBRASKA The state’s most famous site, Mount place that stretches across most of the : 115,100 • POPULATION: 10.6 million Americas to the other. POPULATION otherwise unharmed. IOWA Nebraska has more miles of rivers than any Rushmore, has the heads of four BRITISH COLUMBIA Canadian Arctic. Around 38,000 people, 2. BAHAMAS 7. CUBA CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Oranjestad • More than 976 bird species are found in 36. NAVASSA ISLAND (US) Iowa is America’s larder, producing around other state, as well as the US’s largest aquifer presidents - George Washington, Thomas First Nations people in Canada have mostly Inuit, live in an area that’s just Port-au-Prince • • • SIZE: 5,359 sq. mi. (13,880 sq km) SIZE: 42,803 sq. mi. (110,860 sq km) Panama - that’s more than the combined total •Although its population is quite small, this SIZE: 2.1 sq. mi. (5.4 sq km) ALASKA a tenth of the nation’s entire food supply, (underground lake), the Ogalala Aquifer, from Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and lived in British Columbia, Canada’s most slightly smaller than Mexico. POPULATION: 330,000 POPULATION: 11.1 million •Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with species found in Canada and the US. island is home to people from around 90 POPULATION: 0 •Alaska is by far the most sparsely populated including around 15 percent of its eggs and which large amounts of water are extracted Abraham Lincoln - carved into its granite westerly province, for at least 10,000 Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, is the CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: the Dominican Republic. It occupies the different countries. US state. This is probably because it’s also by 30 percent of its pork. for drinking and irrigation. face. Each is over 60 ft. (18 m) tall. Begun years. The first European settlement • Right in the center of Panama is the only CAPITAL: N/A world’s northernmost permanently Nassau western three-eighths. • far the coldest. Winter temperatures here can in 1927, the enormous sculptures took 14 was Fort Victoria, a British settlement Cuba is the largest island in the . place in the world where you can see the sun Claimed by the US since the mid-19th inhabited place. It lies just over 500 mi. • 26. BERMUDA (UK) • plummet to a teeth-chattering -61 F (-50 C) years to complete. established in 1843 and named after Only 30 of the more than 700 islands It’s actually made up of one large island and Haiti was founded in the early 19th rise over the Atlantic and then, later in the century, Navassa is a tiny island off the ° ° KANSAS NEVADA (800 km) from the North Pole. • • in places. Britain’s Queen Victoria, which would that make up are inhabited. over 4,000 much smaller ones. century when a slave colony revolted day, see it set over the Pacific. SIZE: 21 sq. mi. (54 sq km) west coast of Haiti. It used to have a small •Named after the Kansa Native American •The Hoover Dam, on the border between Homes in Nunavut are built on stilts. against its French rulers. Former slaves TENNESSEE eventually become the province’s capital. • •The name Bahamas comes from the •It also has the Caribbean’s largest POPULATION: 70, 900 population that maintained a lighthouse, but •At 20,237 ft. (6,168 m) high, Alaska’s Denali tribe, whose name means “people of the Nevada and Arizona, was the largest in If they were built directly on the Spanish words baja mar (which mean population. became the country’s new leaders. 19. SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS CAPITAL: Hamilton the lighthouse became automatic in 1929 - (known until 2015 as Mount McKinley) is not wind,” Kansas is an extremely windy place. In the world when it was completed in 1935, •Elvis Presley, the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” •The world’s largest hockey stick is on permafrost (ground that remains frozen : St. George’s fact, it lies in a region known as Tornado Alley standing 725 ft. (221 m) high and 1,243 ft. lived most of his life in Memphis. His display in the city of Duncan. It’s 205 ft. “shallow sea”) because the islands are But some of its residents can be quite Haiti has more mountains than any other LARGEST CITY and then was shut down altogether in 1996. just the tallest mountain in the US, but in the year after year), the heat from the • • SIZE: 101 sq. mi. (261 sq km) because so many fierce twisters strike here (379 m) long. The lake it formed, Lake Mead, is former home, Graceland, is open to the (62 m) long and weighs 62,000 lb. surrounded by shallow waters. difficult to spot. The world’s smallest bird, Caribbean nation. In fact, Haiti means The country’s flag shows the Sea Venture, the Today, the island is a national wildlife refuge. whole of North America. houses would melt the permafrost, and POPULATION: 52,700 • every year. still the country’s largest reservoir, covering public and attracts music fans from around (28,000 kg). There are hundreds of underwater the bee hummingbird, lives here. A fully “land of mountains” in the language of the British ship that brought the first settlers to the houses would sink. • CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: an area of 247 sq. mi. (640 sq km) and the world. caves in the seas around the islands - grown adult is only about 2 in. (5 cm) long. original Taino people. Bermuda in 1609, being shipwrecked against 37. PUERTO RICO (US) ARIZONA •According to Guinness World Records, This two-island nation is the smallest in the the island’s rocky coast. KENTUCKY supplying more than 20 million people with the British Columbian resident Sarwan one of the world’s largest underwater The shape of the island looks a bit like • SIZE: 3,459 sq. mi. (8,959 sq km) Northern Arizona is home to the Grand ONTARIO • Caribbean. • Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest cave drinking water. TEXAS Singh has the world’s longest beard. cave systems is in Lucayan National Park a crocodile, so it’s often referred to as 14. HONDURAS POPULATION: 3.5 million Canyon, one of the great wonders of the • Around 40 percent of all Canadians African verdant (or “green”) monkeys have system, with tunnels and caverns stretching The current land-speed record was set in Nicknamed “Space City,” Houston is the It stretches for an incredible • on Grand Bahama Island. El Cocodrilo in Spanish. SIZE: 43,278 sq. mi. (112,090 sq km) • 27. BONAIRE (NETHERLANDS) CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: San Juan natural world. Carved out of the rock by the • • live here, making Ontario Canada’s most : 9 million lived on Saint Kitts for over 300 years. Colorado River over billions of years, it is for 405 mi. (652 km) beneath central the Black Rock Desert in 1997 when the British site of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, 8 ft. 2 in. (2.5 m). populated province. It’s home to both the The last (and only recorded) time it POPULATION SIZE: 114 sq. mi. (294 sq km) About the size of the state of Connecticut, • : The channel that separates Saint Kitts from • 277 mi. (446 km) long, up to 1 mi. (1.6 km) Kentucky, creating a giant underground maze. jet-powered car, Thrust SSC, hit a top speed where astronaut training takes place. It’s country’s most populated city, Toronto 3. BARBADOS snowed in Cuba was in 1857. CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY • POPULATION: 19, 400 Puerto Rico is home to El Yunque, the only Nevis is called The Narrows - every year, deep, and up to 18 mi. (29 km) wide. of 763 mph (1,228 kph). It was the first, and also the flight control center, from where MANITOBA SIZE: 166 sq. mi. (430 sq km) CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: stretch of tropical rainforest in US territory. (2.8 million people), and the country’s Two of Cuba’s main exports are sugar and people take part in a swimming race between LOUISIANA so far only, car to break the sound barrier. teams of scientists guide spacecraft on Churchill in northern Manitoba is the POPULATION: 292,300 • The cathedral in Comayagua, the nation’s The beautiful white beaches found on Bonaire In 2017, much of the island was devastated by You can catch a glimpse of 19th-century capital, . nickel - it produces around 4 percent of • • • their interplanetary missions. • : original , is home to the oldest the two islands. are formed mainly of parrotfish poop (basically, a powerful hurricane. Britain at Lake Havasu City. In 1967, the old Louisiana’s largest city, New Orleans, is the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.” In fall, There are around 250,000 lakes here - CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY the world’s nickel supply. • NEW HAMPSHIRE • clock in the Americas - it dates back to bits of coral that have been ground up by the Bridge, which had spanned the River birthplace of jazz and has many venues where •Bracken Cave in Comal County is home to huge numbers of bears gather here, which together make up about a third of 1100 and was brought to the island from 20. SAINT LUCIA Thames in since 1830, was dismantled you can hear the music being played live, Mount Washington in New Hampshire is the world’s largest colony of bats. Every waiting for the sea ice to form so they Barbados’s parliament dates back fish’s powerful beak). 38. SABA (NETHERLANDS) • the world’s total freshwater supply. • 8. DOMINICA Spain in 1586. : 238 sq. mi. (616 sq km) and shipped across the Atlantic, where it was particularly during the annual carnival. famed for its extremely bad weather. In 1934, night, as many as 20 million bats emerge can head out on it to hunt for their to 1639 - it is one of the oldest SIZE SIZE: 5 sq. mi. (13 sq km) In 1901, a 63-year-old retired teacher SIZE: 290 sq. mi. (751 sq km) : 165,000 reconstructed brick by brick across a section the observatory on its summit measured a from the entrance to feed, turning the sky favorite food - seals. • parliaments in the Americas. The small town of Yoro is said to POPULATION 28. BRITISH VIRGIN POPULATION: 1, 900 from Ontario called Annie Taylor became POPULATION: 73, 900 • CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: of the Colorado River. MAINE wind speed of 231 mph (372 kph), the highest black. Meanwhile, the largest urban bat Polar bears are a major tourist The name Barbados comes from a experience “a rain of fish” - when fish ISLANDS (UK) CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: • the first person to survive a trip in a • CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Around 89 percent of the land is covered ever recorded outside of a hurricane. population, amounting to around 2 million attraction but can also be a danger. Portuguese word meaning the “bearded fall from the sky - at least once or twice Saint Lucia’s most famous landmarks are the SIZE: 58 sq. mi. (151 sq km) At 2,910 ft. (887 m), Mount Scenery, the • barrel over Niagara Falls, which lie on the Dominica is home to Boiling Lake, the • • ARKANSAS in forest, the most of any US state. This animals, can be found roosting under People in Churchill are encouraged to ones” and refers to the bearded fig trees • a year. It’s thought that the fish actually Pitons, a pair of giant, pyramid-shaped rocks POPULATION: 35,000 volcano that dominates this island, is the US-Canadian border. second-largest hot spring in the world, Arkansas is home to the US’s largest poultry forest provides a home to deer, bats, weasels, NEW JERSEY Congress Bridge in the city of Austin. leave their cars unlocked in case anybody that still cover much of the island. Locals appear as a result of rivers breaking their (actually the tops of volcanoes) that rise up CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: highest point in the Netherlands. • which measures around 200 ft. (60 m) industry, producing around 6 billion lb. (2.7 porcupines, and numerous birds of prey. The original version of the board game needs to jump inside to quickly escape often refer to the country as “Bim.” banks after heavy rains, carrying fish onto from the country’s southwest coast. The national dish is called Fish and Fungi • PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND across. It’s literally boiling at its center but billion kg) of chicken and 4 billion eggs a year. Maine also has the largest US population of Monopoly was based on the streets of the UTAH from a charging bear. the land. The island’s national dish is green fig • This is Canada’s smallest province, Bridgetown has its own Trafalgar Square only around 189 F (87 C) at its edge - • (pronounced “fun-jeye”) - the “fungi” isn’t a 39. SAINT BARTHELEMY moose (the state animal) outside of Alaska. New Jersey resort of Atlantic City. The first transcontinental railroad was • • ° ° The Honduran flag has blue stripes at the and saltfish. The Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only • Winnipeg can blow both hot and totaling just 0.1 percent of the country’s - the statue of Lord Nelson that stands in although still far too hot to swim in. • mushroom but a mixture of cornmeal and okra. (FRANCE) • completed in Utah in 1869. Railroad tracks • top and bottom, representing the Pacific diamond-producing site in the country that cold. It’s the holder of both the highest area. it is nearly 30 years older than the one Britain and France fought each other for SIZE: 9.7 sq. mi. (25 sq km) running from the east and the west of the Every year, great leatherback turtles, Ocean (to the west) and the Caribbean • is open to the public. If you find a diamond MARYLAND NEW MEXICO temperature ever recorded in Canada in London. • control of Saint Lucia throughout the 1700s 29. CAYMAN ISLANDS (UK) POPULATION: 7,200 country met at a place called Promontory, The island was named in 1798 after the world’s largest species of turtle, haul Sea (to the east). In the center is a white here, you can keep it. (Note: Not many people The first manned balloon flight on US soil In 1950, the New Mexico town of Hot (107.6°F / 42°C) and the lowest • Snakes are quite rare on Barbados. This and 1800s - ownership switched between : 102 sq. mi. (264 sq km) CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Gustavia • • where the final “Golden Spike” was driven the son of the British king at the • themselves up onto the island’s sandy band with five stars, symbolizing the five SIZE find one.) took place in (or, rather, above) Baltimore, Springs changed its name to that of a (-52.6°F / -47°C). is because early settlers introduced the the two countries no fewer than 14 times. : 58, 400 into the tracks to link them. time, George III, while the capital, beaches to lay their eggs. nations of the United Provinces of Central POPULATION Christopher Columbus visited this island Maryland’s largest city, in 1784. A 13-year- popular radio quiz program at the time, Truth Indian mongoose to the island - and one The island gained its independence in 1979. : • Charlottetown, was named after George America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY in 1493 and named it after his brother CALIFORNIA old boy called Edward Warren was the only or Consequences. It’s stuck with the name The Pando aspen grove, also known NEW BRUNSWICK of a mongoose’s favorite things to eat George Town • III’s wife. 9. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Honduras, and Nicaragua), a short-lived Bartolomeo. It was settled by the French in the Giant sequoias (or giant redwoods), the passenger. He floated up into the air and ever since. as the “Trembling Giant,” is a group of Home to both the headquarters of is snake! 21. SAINT VINCENT AND THE Financial services are the major industry mid-17th century, who then sold it to Sweden • came down (apparently unharmed) two hours around 40,000 aspen trees all growing • The famous children’s story Anne of SIZE: 18,792 sq. mi. (48,670 sq km) country that existed between 1823 and 1840. • world’s tallest trees, grow on the western McCain Foods, the world’s largest • GRENADINES of this three-island territory. Many wealthy in 1784. In 1878, France bought it back again later around 1.9 mi. (3 km) away. from a single root system, making it a Green Gables is set in the province. The POPULATION: 10.7 million slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. NEW YORK manufacturer of frozen potato products, 4. BELIZE SIZE: 150 sq. mi. (389 sq km) people from around the world keep their and it’s been French ever since. single, giant organism. The root system Green Gables house that inspired the CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: 15. JAMAICA The very tallest tree, and the tallest living New York City’s One World Trade Center is and the New Brunswick Potato Museum POPULATION: 102,000 • book is now a national historic site. SIZE: 8,867 sq. mi. (22, 966 sq km) fortunes hidden away in the country’s low-tax thing in the world, is called General Sherman MASSACHUSETTS the tallest building in the US. Its height of is believed to be more than 80,000 (Potato World), the town of Florenceville- SIZE: 4,244 sq. mi. (10, 991 sq km) : POPULATION: 360,300 CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY bank accounts. 40. SAINT MARTIN (FRANCE) and stands 275 ft. (84 m) high. It’s an Plymouth was the first colony founded in 1,776 ft. (541 m) is a reference to the year years old, making this one of the oldest Bristol calls itself the “French Fry Capital In 1492, Christopher Columbus established POPULATION: 3 million • CAPITAL: • Over 32 islands and cays make up Saint : 21 sq. mi. (54 sq km) New England by the settlers who arrived from 1776, when the US declared its independence organisms on Earth. of the World.” QUEBEC the first permanent European settlement in CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Kingston • SIZE estimated 2,500 years old. : Belize City Vincent and the Grenadines. Quebec is the only Canadian province LARGEST CITY 30. CLIPPERTON ISLAND POPULATION: 32,100 At 282 ft. (86 m) below sea level, Death England on the Mayflower in 1620. Established from Britain. Built in 1901, the Hartland Bridge, which • the Americas on Hispaniola, the island where Jamaica is both the fourth-largest • • where French is the main language. It’s From around 2000 bce to 1600 ce, Belize • The nation is home to one of the oldest (FRANCE) CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Marigot Valley is the lowest and hottest place in the just 16 years later, Harvard in Cambridge is Lombardi’s, the country’s first pizzeria, VERMONT crosses the Saint John River in the town • the Dominican Republic and Haiti are now and the fourth most populated country • • spoken by around 80 percent of the was dominated by the Maya civilization. botanical gardens in the western hemisphere - SIZE: 2.3 sq. mi. (6 sq km) Saint Martin is the smallest island in the country. A scorchingly hot 134 F (56.7 C) was the US’s oldest university. opened in New York City in 1905. It’s still Montpelier is the smallest of the 50 of Hartland, is 1,282 ft. (391 m) long, located. in the Caribbean. • ° ° • population. Montreal, with a population There are remains of over 900 Maya sites they were founded in 1765. POPULATION: 0 world that is divided between two nations. recorded here in 1913. The state has seen plenty of sporting serving up slices today. state capitals and has a population of just making it the longest covered bridge in Samaná Bay, in the northwest, is visited The world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, is from • of 1.7 million, is the second-largest in the country - and a Maya temple is still • • The capital, Kingstown, is often referred to as CAPITAL: N/A France owns the northern half, while the innovations. Basketball was invented in 1891 over 7, 500 people. the world. every year by hundreds of humpback Jamaica. In 2009, he ran the 100-meter dash • •New York City’s subway system has the French-speaking city on Earth. the tallest building here. the “City of Arches” - apparently, its buildings This tiny French territory is an atoll - a Netherlands owns the south. COLORADO in Springfield by the Canadian physical largest number of stations in the world: 472. Around 80 percent of the province is whales, who are themselves visited in 9. 58 seconds - which is still the world • • In 1976, Montreal hosted the Summer With a population of just 21,000, Belmopan contain more than 400 of them. ring-shaped island formed when a volcano The borders of Colorado and three other education instructor James Naismith, while VIRGINIA covered in forest. Each year, more than half • • by thousands of tourists on whale- re cord . • Olympic Games. The event cost so much is one of the world’s smallest capital cities. watching trips. sinks beneath the waves. In the early 20th 41. SAINT PIERRE AND states (New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah) meet volleyball was thought up four years later by NORTH CAROLINA •The US Department of Defense has its a million Christmas trees are harvested. The island is the home of reggae music. In century, the island was mined for guano - MIQUELON (FRANCE) William G. Morgan in the city of Holyoke. headquarters here in a vast, five-sided money that it took over 30 years for the Belize is home to a small rodent called With large resorts and mega-hotels lining • 22. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO at a point known as the Four Corners, which In 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child • • the 1970s and 1980s, the Jamaican reggae bird poop - which was used as a fertilizer, • building called the Pentagon. Covering an city to pay off its debts. a gibnut, also known as the “royal rat.” much of its east coast, the Dominican SIZE: 1, 980 sq. mi. (5,128 sq km) SIZE: 93 sq. mi. (242 sq km) is marked by a monument. born to English parents in the Americas. She NEWFOUNDLAND AND musician Bob Marley became one of the but it’s been uninhabited since 1945. area of around 6.5 million sq. ft. (604,000 Quebec produces around 12 million It apparently got its name after Britain’s POPULATION: 1.2 million POPULATION: 5,600 At 5,279 ft. (1,609 m) above sea level, MICHIGAN was born in the colony of Roanoke, which was LABRADOR • Republic is the most visited destination in biggest pop stars in the world. • sq m), it’s one of the largest office gallons (45 million liters) of maple syrup Queen Elizabeth II was served one for the Caribbean. CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Colorado’s capital, Denver, is known as the Michigan is bordered by four of the five established in 1585 but was found abandoned Canada’s most easterly province is made Kingston’s harbor is one of the world’s • buildings in the world. • a year, or around 75 percent of the dinner while visiting the country. • 31. CURACAO (NETHERLANDS) Saint-Pierre “Mile High City.” That’s pretty high, but it’s still Great Lakes that lie between the US and a few years later, without a trace of the up of the island of Newfoundland and The country is a major source of fossilized largest natural harbors. world’s entire supply. Part of the Mesoamerican Barrier • Steel drums (also known as steel pans) were SIZE: 171 sq. mi. (444 sq km) In the 16th and 17th centuries, France built up a lot lower than Leadville, 77 mi. (123 km) to Canada. Wherever you are in the state, you’re colonists. the mainland area of Labrador - which • amber, which often has prehistoric insects • • no more than 85 mi. (137 km) from a Great WASHINGTON Every winter, an ice hotel, the Hôtel de Reef lies off the coast of Belize. It’s the •Established in 1865, Jamaica’s Manchester invented here in the mid-20th century using POPULATION: 149, 700 a vast colony in North America, which it called the southwest, which, at 10,152 ft. (3,094 m) is The age of air travel began here in 1903, are also the names of two popular • trapped inside. The piece of amber featured Lake. Even the name Michigan means “great • The volcano Mount St. Helens erupted in Glace, is built near Quebec City, using second-largest barrier reef in the world. Golf Club is the oldest golf club in the discarded oil drums. Today, they are Trinidad CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: New France. But following defeat to Britain in the US’s highest city. when the Wright brothers made the first-ever • dog breeds, the Labrador and the in Jurassic Park was from the Dominican lake” in the native Ojibwa language. Lake 1980, causing widespread destruction. It 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice. western hemisphere. and Tobago’s national instrument. It’s believed that the island’s name comes from the Seven Years’ War in 1763, it was forced to powered flight in a small plane at Kitty Hawk. Newfoundland, which originated here. The world’s only jaguar nature reserve Republic. • Michigan itself is the only Great Lake entirely • the Portuguese word for “healing.” In the 17th give up most of its territory. This small island CONNECTICUT was the deadliest eruption in US history, The first transatlantic radio message was And every spring, it melts away again. is found here. The country is home to the rare marine The world’s largest brain coral, measuring within the US. • • 16. MEXICO • and 18th centuries, sailors on long sea voyages is all that remains of New France. destroying over 250 homes and killing sent by the Italian scientist Guglielmo mammals known as manatees. 10 ft. (3 m) high and 17 ft. (5.3 m) across, lies Connecticut claims to be the birthplace of NORTH DAKOTA : 758,449 sq. mi. (1, 964,375 sq km) often became ill with scurvy due to a lack of • 57 people. Marconi from a receiver in Cornwall, SASKATCHEWAN 5. CANADA SIZE in the waters off Tobago. the hamburger. A cook named Louis Lassen is According to the US Geological Survey, POPULATION: 124.6 million vitamin C - although this wasn’t understood 42. SINT EUSTATIUS said to have served the first one ever in his MINNESOTA • The computer software company England, all the way across the Atlantic Saskatchewan boasts the most northerly SIZE: 3,855, 103 sq. mi. (9, 984,670 sq km) 10. EL SALVADOR One of the nation’s most spectacular annual the North Dakota town of Rugby marks the • • CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: • at the time. However, when sailors reached this (NETHERLANDS) Its two largest cities, St. Paul and Microsoft has its headquarters in Ocean to one in Newfoundland. It was just sand dunes in the world, extending for : 36 million events is the carnival, which takes place on the restaurant, Louis’ Lunch, in the city of New • geographical center of North America. There’s POPULATION SIZE: 8, 124 sq. mi. (21,041 sq km) island, they would rapidly recover - as if by Minneapolis, are right next to each another Redmond. Its founder, Bill Gates, one a single letter, S, but it marked the start around 60 mi. (100 km) along the south : Ottawa Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday SIZE: 8.1 sq. mi. (21 sq km) Haven in 1900. The restaurant is still making a rock obelisk marking the spot. CAPITAL POPULATION: 6.2 million magic - probably from eating local fruit rich in and are often referred to as the “Twin Cities.” of the world’s wealthiest men, with an of the era of global telecommunication. shore of Lake Athabaska. : Toronto Before Spanish conquerors arrived in 1519, - when you can expect to hear lots of steel POPULATION: 3, 900 burgers today. LARGEST CITY CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: • vitamin C. Over 60 percent of the state’s population estimated fortune of $84 billion, also lives A plaque on the aptly named Signal Hill Mexico had been home to a long line of drum music. CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Oranjestad OHIO •First Nations peoples have been living in Canada is the second-largest country by lives in either one or the other. in the state. marks the spot where the message was this area for at least 5,000 years. It was • civilizations stretching back thousands of Occupied by the Dutch since the 17th DELAWARE Ohio has witnessed plenty of national firsts: area in the world (after Russia) but only El Salvador is both the smallest and most 32. GREENLAND (DENMARK) • The sport of waterskiing was invented on • received, in 1901. first explored by Europeans in the 1690s • years, including the Olmec, the Toltec, the 23. UNITED STATES century, Sint Eustatius became a major trading The second-smallest state in the US, • the first ambulance service was started in the 35th largest by population. densely populated country in Central • Lake Pepin in 1922 by Ralph W. Samuelson. WEST VIRGINIA but not settled until the 1770s. Maya, and the Aztec. The remains of these SIZE: 836,330 sq. mi. (2,166,086 sq km) hub in the 18th century, when it sold guns to Delaware is just 35 mi. (56 km) across at its Cincinnati in 1865; the first police cars were The first Europeans to arrive here were Much of Canada is cold and icy. Over 80 America. It’s also the only one without a SIZE: 3, 531, 905 sq. mi. (9, 147, 593 sq km) He made two skis from pine planks and had In 1928, William Jones and his father • • peoples’ cities still dot the landscape. POPULATION: 56,200 colonists during the American Revolution. widest point and 96 mi. (154 km) long. introduced in the city of Akron in 1899; and • Vikings way back in 1000, five centuries The province is the country’s main percent of the population lives in the south, Caribbean coastline. POPULATION: 326.6 million his brother tow him behind a motorboat with found a shiny stone on the ground in • Mexico is the most populous Spanish- CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: the first electric traffic light began operating before Columbus’s maiden voyage. They producer of lentils and chickpeas. near the border with the United States. • CAPITAL: Washington, DC a rope. the town of Peterstown. Thinking it There are 23 volcanoes in El Salvador, but speaking country in the world. About 80 percent of Greenland, the world’s 43. SINT MAARTEN FLORIDA in Cleveland in 1914. established a short-lived colony called • LARGEST CITY: New York • was nothing more than an interesting It’s a watery place - it has more (thankfully) only two of them are currently largest island, is covered in ice and snow - (NETHERLANDS) Much of southern Florida is covered by a Vinland (meaning “land of vines”). YUKON • Mexico City is sinking. It occupies the site The United States is the third-largest country • rock, William put it in a box and forgot lakes than all the other countries in active. • • making it more white than green. Its Ilulissat tropical wilderness called the Everglades, MISSISSIPPI Yukon has the smallest population of of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, which by area in the world (after Russia and Canada), SIZE: 13 sq. mi. (34 sq km) OKLAHOMA about it. It was only when he showed • the world combined. The turquoise-browed motmot, known Icefjord glacier is the largest outside of which provides a home to a vast variety of Named after the Mississippi River, which NORTHWEST TERRITORIES any province or territory in Canada. • was built on an island in the middle of a and the third-largest by population (after POPULATION: 42,100 • Drivers everywhere have reason to curse the it to a geologist 14 years later that he Over the centuries, Canada had several locally as the torogoz , is the country’s Antarctica. forms the state’s western border, Mississippi • The Northwest Territories are one of the • lake. Over-extraction of water from the China and India). CAPITAL: Philipsburg wildlife, including alligators, panthers (the state. Invented by a couple of professors at • Whitehorse is both Canada’s sunniest means “great river” in the language of the realized he’d discovered one of the largest best places to see the shimmering light • different flag designs before finally national bird. ground has caused the city to drop by LARGEST CITY: Lower Prince’s Quarter state animal), and manatees. Oklahoma State University, the world’s first city, receiving almost no rain, and also settling on the now iconic maple leaf The nation’s capital, Washington, DC, isn’t Native American Algonquin people. The river diamonds ever found in the US. displays known as the Northern Lights, over 30 ft. (10 m) in the past 100 years. • 33. GUADELOUPE (FRANCE) The tiny island’s main airport is right next to parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City one of its coldest. The average winter flag in 1965. part of any of the country’s 50 states. It • is 2,340 mi. (3, 766 km) long and runs through which are caused by charged particles 11. GRENADA It is currently sinking at about 8 in. SIZE: 629 sq. mi. (1,628 sq km) the coast. Giant passenger jets come in to land GEORGIA in 1935. temperature is -20°F (-29°C). was established as the District of Columbia in or alongside 10 states. WISCONSIN hitting the atmosphere. The lights are The name Canada apparently came SIZE: 133 sq. mi. (344 sq km) (20 cm) a year. POPULATION: 449, 400 just 100 ft. (30 m) above sunbathers on nearby The state capital, Atlanta, hosted the Olympic In 1896, the tiny town of Dawson • 1790, soon after American independence, so it • They like their soft drinks here. Coca Cola The first house in the world to be lit visible on roughly 250 days of the year. • about because of a misunderstanding. POPULATION: 111,700 Every year, as winter approaches, millions CAPITAL: Basse-Terre Maho Beach. Games in 1996 - the third US city to do so • OREGON • became the center of a gold rush • wouldn’t favor any particular state. was first bottled in the city of Vicksburg by electricity was in the Wisconsin city In 1535, when a French explorer called CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: of monarch butterflies migrate from LARGEST CITY: Pointe-à-Pitre after St. Louis and Los Angeles. Oregon is home to what many scientists Every year, the residents of the town of in the nearby Klondike region. There have been 45 presidents of the United in 1891 - today, more than 1.9 billion Cokes • of Appleton in 1882. The electricity was • Jacques Cartier asked a couple of Saint George’s southern Canada and the US to the warmer • believe is the largest organism on Earth. Yellowknife hold the Snowking’s Winter In just a couple of years, the States, beginning with George Washington •As an official region of France, this Caribbean 44. TURKS AND CAICOS are sold every day around the world. The powered by a system devised by the locals where he was, they replied Known as the “Island of Spice,” Grenada climate of Mexico, fluttering their way over island is also officially part of the European HAWAII A giant fungus, measuring 2.4 mi. (3.8 km) Festival inside a giant, specially built population grew from just 200 • in 1789. The eighth president, Martin Van ISLANDS (UK) popular drink root beer was also a Mississippi great American inventor Thomas Edison, “Kanata,” which was their word for is the world’s second-largest exporter of 3,100 mi. (5,000 km). Union and has the euro as its currency. Any Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands across, lurks under the ground in the state’s snow castle. to over 40,000. But, in 1899, Buren, was the first to be born after the SIZE: 366 sq. mi. (948 sq km) • invention, by Edward Barq in 1898 in Biloxi. and the house is now a museum. “village.” Cartier thought they nutmeg. stretching for more than 1,500 mi. (2,400 km). Blue Mountains. Because most of the fungus Yellowknife was established in 1934 on the gold ran out, and by US Declaration of Independence and thus EU citizen is free to settle and work here. POPULATION: 52,600 • were referring to the whole 17. NICARAGUA The islands are actually the tops of volcanoes is hidden, for a long time people didn’t the banks of the Great Slave Lake, North 1902, the population was There is an underwater sculpture park the first to be born a US citizen and not a CAPITAL: MISSOURI WYOMING area, and the name stuck • that rose up from the seafloor. realize that all the mushrooms on the surface America’s deepest lake, which descends to back down to 5,000. situated off the island’s west coast. Here, SIZE: 50,336 sq. mi. (130,370 sq km) British subject. 34. MARTINIQUE (FRANCE) LARGEST CITY: Providenciales With mountains covering much of (or so the story goes). The Missouri city of St. Louis staged a belonged to the same organism, until it • a depth of 2,014 ft. (614 m). Today, it’s home a collection of concrete figures has been POPULATION: 6 million SIZE: 436 sq. mi. (1,128 sq km) In the 18th century, the islands didn’t belong The country’s tallest mountain is Mauna Kea • the west and prairies dominating the east, The Statue of Liberty in New York City was a • • World’s Fair in 1904, during which the third was proved by scientific tests. The fungus is to just under placed on the seabed, which can be visited CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: • POPULATION: 385,000 to anyone and so were a popular base for on Big Island, which rises 13,796 ft. (4,205 m) Wyoming is the least-populated US state. gift to America from France in 1886. Gustave modern Summer Olympic Games were also believed to be at least 2,000 years old - 1,400 people. by divers (and which is slowly being CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: above sea level. 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