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Average annual temperatures near freezing make Ulaanbaatar the coldest capital city on Earth.
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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia · Asia
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Nepal is the only country with a non-quadrilateral flag, made of two stacked pennants representing the Himalayas.
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Nepal · Asia
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Everest rises a few millimetres a year and drifts northeast as the Indian plate pushes under Asia. Its official height was revised to 8,848.86 m in 2020.
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Nepal · Asia
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Nepal runs on UTC+5:45, one of only a handful of time zones offset by 45 minutes.
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Nepal · Asia
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Bhutan tracks Gross National Happiness alongside economic figures, surveying wellbeing, culture and environment.
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Bhutan · Asia
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Constitutionally required to keep 60 percent forest cover, Bhutan is one of very few carbon-negative countries.
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Bhutan · Asia
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India recognises 22 official languages and counts more than 120 with over 10,000 speakers each.
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India · Asia
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White marble reflects the sky, so the Taj Mahal looks pink at dawn, blinding white at noon and gold under a full moon.
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Agra, India · Asia
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Indian Railways carries more than 20 million passengers a day across a network of over 68,000 kilometres.
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India · Asia
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In Kerala's backwaters, public ferries serve as school buses and commuter transport across 900 kilometres of connected waterways.
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Kerala, India · Asia
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Khasi villagers train living fig roots across rivers for decades until they form bridges that get stronger with age.
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Meghalaya, India · Asia
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Magnetic Hill near Leh appears to roll cars uphill. It is an optical illusion caused by the surrounding slope.
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Ladakh, India · Asia
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Varanasi is among the oldest continuously lived-in cities in the world, with settlement stretching back roughly 3,000 years.
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Varanasi, India · Asia
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True cinnamon comes almost entirely from Sri Lanka, where bark is hand-peeled and rolled into quills that dry into curls.
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Sri Lanka · Asia
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Sigiriya's palace sits on a 200-metre granite plug, reached by staircases that pass between the paws of a carved lion.
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Sigiriya, Sri Lanka · Asia
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The average natural elevation of the Maldives is about 1.5 metres, making it the lowest-lying country on Earth.
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Maldives · Asia
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Bioluminescent plankton can turn the shoreline electric blue on dark nights, brightest when the water is disturbed.
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Vaadhoo, Maldives · Asia
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Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation never taken by a European power, partly through skilled 19th-century diplomacy.
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Thailand · Asia
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The city's full ceremonial name runs to 168 letters. Locals simply call it Krung Thep.
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Bangkok, Thailand · Asia
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Songkran began as a gentle blessing with water and has become a nationwide three-day soaking in April, the hottest month.
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Thailand · Asia
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Vietnam is the largest exporter of processed cashews, and also a leading producer of robusta coffee.
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Vietnam · Asia
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In the old quarter a working railway runs within arm's reach of house fronts. Residents pull in their chairs twice a day.
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Hanoi, Vietnam · Asia
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Ha Long Bay's limestone karsts number close to 1,600, most of them uninhabited because the cliffs are too steep.
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Ha Long Bay, Vietnam · Asia
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Angkor Wat covers about 160 hectares, making it the largest religious structure ever built.
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Angkor, Cambodia · Asia
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