Pointless, Randon yet quite interesting facts...

Australia is the 3rd least populated country in the world, and it has 34,000 klms of coastline.

Another interesting fact to build on your own - coastline measurements are generally nonsense. You can make them be pretty much whatever you want. You could say Australia's coastline was 1 million kilometres and you'd be equally correct because it depends on the resolution you use to measure it. In a mathematical sense, every coastline tends towards being infinitely long as you continue to measure it more and more precisely because they have fractal properties.

This is called the coastline paradox:


 
The Gambia is the only country in the world with the word "The" in front , so people don't confuse it with the other African country Zambia
Not quite. The official title of Holland is The Netherlands.
 
The Seychelles?
There are two uses for the article before a country's name.
Plural ..as in groups of lands, states, kingdoms and islands.
Then there's the singular as in The Gambia and The Ivory Coast or in official names like The Republic of....
There .... useless but more or less factual..))
 

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