[Popular Science Short Video Collection Series 8. ]

[Seventh, check out 10 interesting little-known facts about geography. ]

[Ten little-known facts about geography in the world, few people know more than five. ]

[Especially the last one, very few people know it. ]

[Tenth, Iceland has only 4 to 5 hours of daylight a day in winter. ]

[The rest of the time is night. ]

[Iceland is located at the junction of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, with a land area of ​​about 103,000 square kilometers and a population of about 34. ]

[Iceland has a variety of climates throughout the year. ]

[From June to August every year, Iceland will experience polar day, and there will be almost no night. ]

[In winter, from December to January are the darkest two months in Iceland, with only about 4 to 5 hours of daylight a day. ]

[Ninth, Washington, USA. 】

[In fact, there is more than one place called Washington in the United States. There are a total of 88 places called Washington in the United States. 】

[For example, there are Washington City, Washington County or Washington Town, etc. In short, there are many. 】

[Eighth, Mongolia really has a navy. 】

[Mongolia is the second largest landlocked country in the world, thousands of kilometers away from the ocean. 】

[But it has its own navy. 】

[Mainly in the 1930s, in a region of Mongolia, in order to transport oil on the lake, Mongolia formed a navy for this purpose. 】

[The navy used to protect oil transportation has about seven people, and it is also the smallest navy in the world. 】

[Seventh, Japan has no capital. 】

[In the impression of many people, Tokyo in Japan is the capital of Japan. 】

[But it is not actually. 】

【Because the laws of Japan do not stipulate which city is the capital. 】

【People think Tokyo is the capital, mainly because Tokyo is Japan's largest city and the political, economic and cultural center of Japan. 】

【So everyone thinks Tokyo is the capital, but it is not the legal capital of Japan. 】

【...】

"There really is a place where it can be daytime all day long, and there can be only two or three hours of daylight a day!"

"The Mongolian Navy laughs every time they see it. They used to say that the Seven Warlords of the Sea are just seven old, weak and disabled people."

"Damn Japanese pirates, what capital do they want? A place so small that even dogs can't live there!"

"..."

【The sixth city, the farthest city from the ocean in the world, is Urumqi in China. 】

【Urumqi is located in the central part of Xinjiang, north of the Tianshan Mountains. 】

【It is one of the westernmost cities in China and the city farthest from the ocean in the world. 】

【Even if it is about 2,250 kilometers away from the nearest ocean, the Indian Ocean, it has become the city farthest from the ocean in the world. 】

【Fifth, the United States and the Bear CountryThe closest distance is less than 4 miles. 】

[I didn't expect the United States and Bear Country to be so close. 】

[In many people's impressions, the United States is very far away from Bear Country. 】

[If it is the mainland of the United States, it is indeed very far away. 】

[But the United States Alaska is very close to Bear Country, only 3.8 kilometers. 】

[In fact, Alaska originally belonged to Bear Country and was sold to the United States for 7.2 million US dollars in 1867. 】

[There are two small islands between Bear Country and Alaska. 】

[The small island on the left belongs to Bear Country, and the small island on the right belongs to the United States. 】

[The two small islands are only 3.8 kilometers. 】

[Therefore, the distance between Bear Country and the United States is less than 4 miles. 】

[Fourth, the country with the most islands in the world is not Indonesia. 】(To read the novels of Bao Shuang, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

[Although Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world, it is composed of more than 17,000 islands. 】

[It sounds like the country with the most islands in the world. 】

[But it is not. 】

[The country with the most islands in the world is Nowei. 】

[Nowei has a coastline of more than 26,000 kilometers, and there are as many as 150,000 islands of various sizes along these coastlines, making it the country with the most islands in the world. 】[]

[The third, the most remote and inhabited place on the earth is Tristan Island. 】

[Tristan da Cunha Island is an overseas territory of Yingguo. 】

[It is isolated in the center of the Atlantic Ocean, with a radius of more than 2,000 kilometers and no one is living. 】

[If you want to go to the island, you must first go to the Cape of Good Hope in Heilongjiang, and then transfer to the island, which is very inconvenient. 】

【Despite this, what no one expected is that there are still more than 300 residents living on the island, making it the most remote and inhabited island on Earth0 .........】

【Second, the world's richest freshwater resources are in Antarctica. 】

【As we all know, fresh water is a resource that humans must use, but the largest freshwater reserves are not in places where humans live for a long time. 】

【Most of the freshwater is stored under the Antarctic glaciers, covering an area of ​​more than 14 million square kilometers. 】

【It stores about 72% of the world's available freshwater. 】

【First, if you compare the height by the distance from the highest point of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, rather than looking at the height above sea level, Mount Everest is not the highest peak in the world. 】

【Although everyone has the impression that the highest peak in the world is Mount Everest. 】

【But in fact, from the foot to the top of the mountain, Mount Everest is not the highest in the world. The highest peak is the Mauna Kea volcano located in the Hawaiian Islands. 】

【More than half of the Mauna Kea volcano is submerged by sea water. 】

【An expert once measured that the Mauna Kea volcano from the peak to the base of the seabed isThe height difference reaches 10,203 meters. 】

[Therefore, it has become the highest peak in the world from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. 】

[So what other geographical knowledge do you know about the world? 】

[...]

"Hey, it's really strange."

"There are countries made up of hundreds of thousands of small islands."

"The water we drink is actually buried 0.3 underground!"

"......"

The ancients were amazed.

These strange and cold knowledge made them feel novel.

Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng was cut on the buttocks by a knife again, and his eyes opened.

He exclaimed: "The most drinkable water is hidden under the glacier?!"

He really didn't expect this.

According to common sense, shouldn't most of the fresh water be in lakes, rivers, and groundwater wells?

How could most of it be hidden under the ice?

Ying Zheng's eyes lit up, "If there is a natural disaster that causes a severe drought for several years, wouldn't it be possible to dig glaciers to get water?"

This idea made him very excited. .

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