TOP 10 countries of giants! Guess who comes first?

Hello my dear explorers! Not so long ago we found out on earth. In continuation of the topic, we are making the top ten, which will include the largest countries. We will focus on the territory, but do not forget about the population.

Let's start from the end.

Lesson plan:

Algeria

The honorable tenth place in the world among the giant countries in terms of area is occupied by the Algerian People's Democratic Republic, or simply Algeria. The largest country in North Africa covers 2,381,740 square kilometers. This is approximately 1.59% of the entire land area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe earth's surface, while about 80 percent of the state is covered by the Sahara desert.

In translation, the name Algiers means "islands". He became famous for the extraction of gas and oil, occupying the 8th and 15th places in the world in terms of the reserves of these natural resources, respectively. There are also ferrous and non-ferrous metals and ores.

In Algeria, there is an ink lake, which got its name due to the special water composition. Nature arranged it so that two rivers flow into the lake, one of which is rich in iron salts, and the other collects organic matter from peat bogs on its way. As a result of their combination, a chemical reaction occurs, and ink is formed.

Kazakhstan

In ninth place in terms of square kilometers of area, one of the youngest states on the planet is Kazakhstan, approaching the figure of 2,724,902, or 1.82% of the land. Most of it is located in Asia, and the smaller part belongs to Europe. At 7,512.8 kilometers, the Russian-Kazakh border is considered the longest continuous land border.

More than half of the country (58%) is covered by deserts and semi-deserts. Here is the world's second largest salt lake Balkhash, which has half fresh water and half salty, and scientists cannot explain why this is so.

Kazakhstan became famous throughout the planet for the Baikonur cosmodrome, from where and launched for the first time in the world.

Argentina

2,766,890 square kilometers, or 1.85% of the land, is occupied by the Argentine Republic. The second largest country in the South American continent and the eighth in the world.

Argentina means "land of silver" in translation. There is a lot of uranium and copper, lead and iron ore. The Argentinean capital has the longest street in the world, 9th of July Avenue, with 20,000 houses.

Argentina is also the birthplace of tango dance.

India

The South Asian state - the Republic of India ranks seventh due to its area of ​​​​3,287,263 square kilometers, which is 2.2% of the earth's land. Home to such ancient civilizations as Buddhism and Hinduism, India is also the second most populous country in the world, second only to China. According to 2016 data, 1.3 billion people live here.

It was here, where long ago, between the rivers Indus and Ganges, the oldest earthly civilization was born, the first chess appeared and the first cotton fabric was made.

Australia

In sixth place is Australia, which occupies the entire mainland and several more islands from the southern hemisphere. Its area is 7,686,850 sq. km, or 5.16% of the earth's land surface. Its name has been carried by both the country and the continent at the same time, since 1824.

Formerly the territory of the Aboriginal people who settled here about 70,000 years ago, today Australia is an economically developed country, occupying 13th position in the world standard of living, actively mining uranium, coal and zirconium.

Also, koala bears, kangaroos and marsupial wolves live here, which you will not find in other parts of the world.

Brazil

The top five includes the largest state in South America, the Federal Republic of Brazil with an area of ​​8,511,965 square meters, which is equal to 5.71% of all land land. Brazil has several archipelagos within its territory.

It used to be called Terra da Vera Cruz, which translated as "the land of the true cross", then it became known as the "land of the holy cross" from Terra da Sana Cruz. Later, according to one version, the country received its modern name from the name of the PauBrasil mahogany species.

Every Brazilian is a footballer and carnival participant. The Amazon River, the largest on the planet, flows through Brazil, on the coast of which significant gold reserves have been found.

The jungles of Brazil are called the "lungs of the Earth", and this country is also considered the largest producer of apples.

In addition, Brazil is the fifth largest country in terms of population, which has already exceeded 207 million.

America

America ranks fourth in the list of the largest with a territory of 9,518,900 square meters, occupying 6.39% of the earth's land, slightly inferior to the Chinese, and also third in terms of population with a population of 322,762,000 people.

The United States is desperate for a unique legal system: adopted back in 1787, the basic law - the Constitution is still in effect to this day, replenished with only a few amendments. Despite this, America has the palm in terms of the number of crimes.

In one country, there are 6 time zones, and its 50 states are so different that the smallest Roy Island is located on 4,000 square kilometers, the area of ​​​​the largest Alaska is 1,717,854 square kilometers.

China

Bronze in terms of area goes to China with a territory of 6.44% of the total land area of ​​9,598,077 sq. km. But no one has caught up with the People's Republic of China in terms of the number of inhabitants.

The population of China is 1,410,550,000 people! That is, every fifth inhabitant of the planet is a Chinese citizen!

Together with Indian, Chinese civilization is one of the most ancient. The Chinese have one of the most complex languages, containing 50,000 characters in the form of hieroglyphs. There are more than 7 completely different language dialects in the country, so it is not surprising that the northern Chinese do not understand the inhabitants of southern China.

Canada

Silver goes to Canada. It is located in most of North America on an area of ​​​​6.7% of the land, or 9,976,140 sq. km, and 75% of its territory is the northern zone, 31% of the total area is forests, so most of the country is not inhabited by climatic conditions .

The Indian word "kanata" meant "settlement", "village". Heard by the researcher-founder from France Cartier in 1536 among the local inhabitants of the Iroquois, it took root and began to designate the name of the country.

Canada has the longest coastline with 202,080 kilometers. And here is the largest number of lakes than in all countries combined - more than 3 million. They provide 1/5 of the world's fresh water supply.

On Canadian territory is the northernmost point on earth - Alert Station, where the Canadian Armed Forces are located.

Russia

From the first guess, who is on the top step of the pedestal with gold?

We can be proud of our country also because it is the largest in area! Russia has 17,125,191 square kilometers, located on 11.5% of the earth's land surface simultaneously in Europe and Asia, having common borders with 18 other states at once. You can compare the Russian territory with the area of ​​Pluto, and the silver champion of Canada, Russia, is 1.7 times larger.

In addition, with a population of 146,544,700 Russians, our country is among the ten largest and in terms of numbers, ranking 9th.

On the territory of our country there is the largest plain in the world - the West Siberian.

Here passes the longest railway on the planet - the Trans-Siberian Railway, connecting the distance of 9,298 km between Moscow and Vladivostok, overcoming 87 settlements and crossing 16 rivers, passing through 8 time zones.

Russia is the only country washed by as many as 12 seas! And the most multinational state on earth is the largest supplier of natural gas and is one of the top three oil leaders.

This is how the top ten giant countries turned out.

By the way, did you know that the area of ​​the Earth is 510,072,000 square kilometers, of which 148,939,063 square kilometers are land. In the entire history of states, the largest in terms of territory was the British Empire, which by 1921, together with all its colonies, totaled 36.6 million square kilometers.

That's all for today. With wishes for a successful school finish, your ShkolaLa.