Book SynopsisCount down the fascinating figures behind the 195 countries in our world - from the teeny tiny to the mindbogglingly massive!Do you know how many football pitches would fit into Europe? Or which country has the most newspaper readers? What is a megacity and which is the biggest one in the world? And how many wildebeest migrate thousands of kilometres every year across African''s plains? Discover the answers to all these questions and much, more more in Big Countdown: Countries. Helping readers to visualise and understand numbers, The Big Countdown looks at popular topics and investigates the great many numbers that make them fascinating. From the mind-bogglingly large to the smallest and most precious, this series helps us understand that it''s not just our days that are numbered. Ideal reading for number-crunchers aged 9 and up.Table of Contents
1: Counting down the world's continents and countries
2: 1,379,302,771 people live in China
3: Tokyo is the world's largest megacity with 38,100,000 residents
4: 24,668,091 diamond carats mined in Botswana
5: Over 1,500,000 wildebeests migrate from Tanzania annually
6: North America's largest mall is 493,000 square metres in size
7: Canada's coastline stretches for 202,080 kilometres
8: 11,770 millimetres of rain fall on Tutunendo, Colombia every year
9: The railway line in Peru climbs to 4,818 metres high
10: Around 4,400 people move to Antarctica each summer
11: Over 1,200 museums and art galleries in France
12: Only around 800 people live in the Vatican City
13: Australia is the only continent with one country
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