moskva - stolytsya rosiyi. tse odyn z naybilʹshykh mist yevropy. tam zhyve blyzʹko 11 milʹyoniv lyudey. bahato turystiv shchoroku vidviduyutʹ moskvu, shchob pobachyty yiyi znamenyti pam'yatky i fantastychnu arkhitekturu. moskovsʹke metro duzhe shvydko. vin maye 185 stantsiy po vsʹomu mistu i zavzhdy duzhe zaynyatyy. sim milʹyoniv pasazhyriv vykorystovuyutʹ yoho shchodnya z 6 ranku do 1 ranku. pasazhyry mozhutʹ rozpovisty, kudy yde poyizd vid holosu dyktoriv. vsi poyizdy, yaki ydutʹ do tsentru, mayutʹ cholovichyy holos, i poyizdy, yaki ydutʹ vid tsentru, mayutʹ zhinochyy holos. metro yde do vsikh osnovnykh vyznachnykh pam'yatok. stantsiya "ploshchadʹ revolyutsiyi" dostavytʹ vas do kremlya i chervonoyi ploshchi. stantsiya metro «teatralʹna» znakhodytʹsya bilya velykoho ta maloho teatriv. ale metro takozh prytyahannya samo po sobi. lyudy nazyvayutʹ tse "pidzemnyy palats, tomu shcho bahato stantsiy diysno krasyvi z mozayichnymy stelyamy, chudovymy lyustramy2, prekrasnymy skulʹpturamy ta blyskuchymy kartynamy. velykyy turyst moskvy.
31% of Canada is taken up by forests.
20% of the world’s fresh water is in Canada.
Canada has more lakes than all other countries combined.
There are 1,453 airports in Canada.
About 2 km under Sudbury, Ontario is the world’s deepest underground lab, SNOLAB.
Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.
The world’s first UFO landing pad was built in 1967 in St. Paul, Alberta.
«Loonies» and «toonies» are commonly used names for 1$ and 2$ coins.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha! is the only town in the world with two exclamation marks.
9.5 million of Canada’s 34.9 million people speak French.
«A Mari usque ad Mare» (from sea to sea) is Canada’s official motto.
In Saskatchewan a hoodie is called «a bunnyhug».
«A bluenoser» is a term used for people from the province of Nova Scotia.
«Colour, behaviour, labour» - Canadian words are spelt the British way, rather than the American way.
Canada’s longest place name is Lake.
1835 is the year of the first known use of the term «Canuck», referring to a Canadian.
100$ bills are rumoured to smell of maple – the Bank of Canada denies this.
80.5% of Canadian homes have Internet.
The number of points on the Canadian flag’s maple leaf is 11.
1982 is the year Canada officially became its own country.
License plates in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
