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What Country Has the Most Men?
Did you ever wonder if there were more men or women in the world? Well, the numbers of men and women on earth are almost exactly equal. But some countries do have more men than women, and others have more women than men. About 85 nations have more women, and about 65 have more men. [...]
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Leave a commentWhy Is The Pirate Coast In The Persian Gulf Now Known As The Trucial Coast?
The nation known as the United Arab Emirates lies on the Persian Gulf, along the eastern shore of the Arabian Peninsula. About the size of Maine, this country consists of seven sheikdoms, territories ruled by a sheik, or a tribal chief. The seven sheikdoms include two that are rich in oil: Abu Dhabi, where the [...]
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Leave a commentWhat’s The Difference Between North Yemen And South Yemen?
Yemen has long been the most fertile and populous part of the Arabian Peninsula. Not only are there more people in Yemen today than in the much larger Saudi Arabia, but many thousands of Yemenis working in Saudi Arabia are counted in the population of that country. Located in the southwest corner of the Arabian [...]
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Leave a commentWhere Is the Worst Place to Find a Phone?
In the United States, in the 1980s, there were about 162 million telephones, or 74 phones for every 100 Americans. Most Americans use the phone at least once every day. Only the tiny European country of Monaco has a higher rate of telephone ownership. But telephone use is hardly a way of life in the [...]
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Leave a commentWhat Desert Country Has No Defined Boundaries?
Until recently, the nation of Oman was known as the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It was called a sultanate because it was governed by a Muslim ruler known as a sultan. Muscat was the name of the chief port of the territory, and Oman was the name of the desert region in the interior [...]
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Leave a commentWho Was the Queen of Sheba And Where Was The Ancient Kingdom?
The Old Testament tells that during the reign of King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba journeyed to the city of Jerusalem, where she marveled at the splendors of Solomon’s court. She presented him with gifts and received gifts in return. Then she traveled back to the land of Sheba, never to be mentioned in the [...]
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Leave a commentWhere Is the Longest Pier on Earth?
A pier is a structure built over water and supported by pillars, A pier is usually used as a place to load and unload ships. Most of the piers you’ve seen were probably only a few hundred feet long at most. But one pier at El Hasa, on the Persian Gulf in Saudi Arabia, is [...]
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Leave a commentWhere Is the World’s Largest Oil Reserves?
Saudi Arabia is the second largest producer of oil, after Russia. But Russia is a huge nation, while Saudi Arabia is less than twice the size of Alaska. And its population is about 8 million, only slightly larger than the population of New York City! The oil fields in Saudi Arabia now produce around 480 [...]
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Leave a commentWhy Was Bahrain Known As The Island of the Dead?
Bahrain is a small, oil-rich island in the Persian Gulf. The northern part of the island contains a plain covered with close to 100,000 burial mounds dating from an ancient era. It was long believed that this island once served as a cemetery for people from the nearby coast of Arabia. For this reason, Bahrain [...]
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