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Ten times the present population of the world could be given a unique ID number of only 7 digits (letters and numerals). If we serially used the letters first, then the numbers ( . . X Y Z 1 2 3 . . .), and started issuing number today, newborns tomorrow would get IDs starting with DK. It would take about a year to go through the DKs and DLs.
95% of the world's population has either a nationality or a religion that begins with the letters C or I --- Christian, Islam, China, India. (By "religion", I include national cultural religious influence, in the case of atheists or non-religious people.) The largest countries with neither would be Japan, Korea, Thailand.
The longest uninterrupted border between two countries is Russia/Kazakhstan, 6,846 km
USA-Canada, 6,418 km uninterrupted, but the total, with Alaska border added, is 8,893 km.
The next longest are:
Argentina - Chile 5,300 km
China - Mongolia 4,677
Russia - Mongolia 3,543
The India - Bangladesh border is 4.653 km, but that counts the boundaries around 199 enclaves of one country inside the other.
The China - Russia border is 3,645 km, but that is also discontinuous.
Another Geographical fact: Vienna, Austria is situated east of Prague, Czech Republik and north of Munich, Germany
Vienna is located further east than parts of Poland, and the Prague lies almost as far west as Naples,Italy. Plzen,Czech Republic, lies further west than Naples,Italy.
A little history. With an area of the USSR 22,400,000 square kilometers, the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world. He served one-sixth of the land, and its size was comparable to the size of North America. The European portion accounted for a quarter of the country, and is a cultural and economic center. The Asian part (to the Pacific Ocean in the east to the border with Afghanistan in the south) was much less populated. The length of the Soviet Union was more than 10 000 km from east to west (11 time zones), and almost 7200 kilometers from north to south. In the country are five climatic zones.
The Soviet Union had the longest border in the world (more than 60 000 km), and bordered on the United States, Afghanistan, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hungary, Iran, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Romania and Turkey (1945 to 1991) .
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