Only 29.2% of the surface of Earth is land, while the remaining 70.8% is covered by the oceans. The landmasses located above sea level are divided into continents. While there are various ways to distinguish the continents, the most common model counts seven of them: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica…
Tristan da Cunha is a small archipelago located in the South Atlantic Ocean, consisting of the main island of the same name, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, and the Nightingale Islands. While the latter three islands are uninhabited, Tristan da Cunha has a population of around 250 people, and is the most remote inhabited island in…
I have been a fan of K-Pop music for quite a few years now, and I previously attended two K-Pop concerts, I saw Blackpink in Barcelona on May 28, 2019, and Loona in Frankfurt on September 11, 2022 (and I talk extensively about the latter in this article). This year many groups held concerts in…
According to Korean tradition, Dangun was the mythical founder of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom that ruled over a territory stretching between the modern-day Liaoning Province in Northeast China and the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula in ancient times. The myth of Dangun first appeared in the 13th-century Samguk Yusa, a historical record that…
Denmark is a European country located north of Germany, while Canada occupies the northern portion of North America, bordering the United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. However, this two countries, that are seemigly so far from each other, share a short land border in the Arctic region…
Copenhagen is a city filled with famous landmarks and interesting attractions, and a tourist could easily spend multiple days visiting it. However, just crossing to the other side of the Øresund strait, the Swedish cities of Malmö and Lund offer many more fascinating sights, and can be visited together in a single day trip from…
For millennia the only known celestial objects were those visible to the naked eye. In the Solar System these are limited to the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and some comets and asteroids occasionally passing near our planet. Astronomy was revolutionized in the early seventeenth century, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was…
More than 1700 years have passed since the year 301, there have been countless invasions, revolutions, and wars, countries have come and gone, empires have risen and fallen, but one thing has remained constant on the ever-changing world map throughout all this period of time: the Republic of San Marino. San Marino is a small…
The small and beautiful island of Saint Martin, located in the Caribbean, has the peculiarity of being split almost in half between two European countries: France and the Netherlands. The northern side is occupied by the French Collectivity of Saint Martin, while the Dutch side to the south is known as Sint Maarten. The French…
The seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar is celebrated across East Asia as one of the most important festivities of the year, known as Double Seventh Festival. This traditional festival originated in China, where it is known as Qixi, and was later adopted in Japan as Tanabata and in Korea…