countries – Exact Fact

Ireland is one of the few countries in the world, and the only country in the EU, that does not have postal codes (with the exception of Dublin city).

Only two countries in the world are not allowed to sell Coca-Cola officially: North Korea and Cuba.

According to Bill Gates, by 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

64% of World’s Extreme Poor Live in Just 5 Countries: India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Congo.

In some European countries, there are pizza vending machines.

In some countries, Sunday is the first day of the week while in others it’s Monday.

In English-speaking countries, the most popular names for dogs are Max and Molly.

In some European countries, children are given gifts on December 6 rather than in Christmas Day.

FIFA has more member countries than the U.N.

In the world’s lowest-income countries, less than 10% of very premature babies survive.

McDonald’s Big Mac is used as an economic index to compare purchasing power between currencies and countries.

Graca Machel is the only woman to have been first lady of two separate countries: Mozambique and South Africa.

205 new countries would exist if all the active separatist movements around the world succeeded.

Of modern countries currently independent, New Zealand was the first to allow women the vote.

Holocaust denial is either implicitly or explicitly a crime in 17 countries, including Germany and Austria.

Christianity is severely persecuted in at least 27 countries.

Passports issued by the UK, Sweden and Finland offer visa-free travel to more countries than any other passports.

Atheism is punished with the death penalty in 13 countries.

It’s illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia due to their intelligence.

40% of the earth’s land is in 6 countries.