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Here's to a New Year's Resolution of learning about our amazing planet!
1) Which of the following is not a city in ROMANIA?
A — Bucharest (București)
B — Timișoara
C — Belgrade (Beograd)
2) Which state in the UNITED STATES has exactly 100 counties? Some of these counties include Durham, Mecklenburg, Orange, Pitt, Wake, and Watauga.
A — Vermont
B — North Carolina
C — New Mexico
3) BANGLADESH is mostly bordered by INDIA but also shares a border in the southeast with _____________.
A — MYANMAR
B — NEPAL
C — PHILIPPINES
ANSWERS
Question 1:
C . . . . . Belgrade (Beograd) which is the capital of Serbia (↗)
Question 2:
B . . . . . North Carolina (↗)
Question 3:
A . . . . . Myanmar (↗)
People all across SERBIA will soon celebrate their country's Statehood Day on Monday, February 15th. Have a Happy Statehood Day!
Fans of superheroes, comic books, independent comic book stores, and comic strips everywhere owe it to Pop Art (1950s and 1960s) for the popular, colorful style seen in comic media today. Thanks to the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), the artwork of artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and fellow contemporaries jumps from comic books into an interactive map! See for yourself with embedded version below or with the full-page version on ArcGIS Online (↗).
Belgrade, SERBIA
N'Djamena, CHAD
Paris, FRANCE
ʻUvea Island, WALLIS AND FUTUNA (belongs to France)
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org), the following items are major exports of SERBIA: ammunition and weapons, automobiles, berries (especially raspberries), chemicals, clothing, corn (maize), electrical appliances, iron, machinery, meat, metal products, nonferrous metal, pharmaceuticals, rubber products (especially tires), steel, sugar beets, sunflowers, and wheat. According to the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports (February 2017 statistics) include Italy (top importer), Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Turkey, and the Netherlands.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ for SERBIA in Southeastern Europe lists 9 critically endangered species and 14 endangered species. Serbia's nine critically endangered species are the Adriatic Sturgeon, European Eel, European Mink, Great Sturgeon, Northern Bald Ibis, Russian Sturgeon, Slender-Billed Curlew, Star Sturgeon, and Thorn Sturgeon. Serbia's endangered species: Ampedus quadrisignatus beetle, Barbarea lepuznica flowering plant, Big-Bellied Glandular Bush Cricket, Common Aldrovanda, Dianthus diutinus flowering plant, Egyptian Eagle, Huchen fish, Pannonian Black Hawthorn, Ropalopus ungaricus beetle, Saker Falcon, Serbian Spruce, Striped Nerite aquatic snail, Thick-Shelled River Mussel, and White-Headed Duck. Barbarea lepuznica plants are only located in a couple small areas — (1) northeastern Serbia, east of Belgrade and (2) southwestern Romania in between the communities of Slatina-Timiș (west) and Petroșani and Vulcan (east).
Post #4 of UNESCO Heritage Sites Week
Designated as the first capital of SERBIA, Stari Ras features medieval fortresses, churches, and monasteries. A 1979-listed UNESCO World Heritage Site celebrates the architecture and lengthy history of the southern Serbian city, located near Kosovo and Montenegro. In particular, 13th-century Sopaćani Monastery boasts a cupola and artistic frescoes. More information can be found on UNESCO's website.
The important Danube River stretches for almost 2,000 miles in Central and Southeast Europe. It begins its journey in Southern GERMANY and then flows eastward, passing by German cities like Ingolstad, Regensburg, and Straubing. The Danube then crosses AUSTRIA, passing by cities like Linz and Vienna (Austria's capital). Next, it forms part of SLOVAKIA's southern border and HUNGARY's northern border, passing cities like Győr, Komárom, and Esztergom in Hungary and Slovakia's capital, Bratislava. The river takes a 90 degree turn towards Budapest (Hungary's capital) and heads straight down through Hungary until meeting up with SERBIA's northwest border. It then travels east through the northern part of Serbia, running by cities like Backa Palanka, Novi Sad, and Belgrade (Serbia's capital). The Danube then forms most of ROMANIA's southern border and BULGARIA's northern border. Finally, it crosses the eastern part of Romania and ends at the Black Sea delta.
Quite a few capitals previously had different names. The following is a list of many, definitely not all, of the capitals that had different names in the past — they are categorized by continent.
AFRICA
Bujumbura, BURUNDI's former capital (Gitega is the new capital since 2019), was called Usumbura until 1962.
N'Djamena, CHAD's capital, was called Fort Lamy until 1973.
Kinshasa, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO's capital, was called Léopoldville until 1966.
Banjul, the capital of GAMBIA, was named Bathurst until 1973.
Antananarivo, MADAGASCAR's capital, was named Tananarive until 1975.
Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE's capital, was named Lourenço Marques until Mozambique's independence in 1976.
Harare, ZIMBABWE's capital, was named Salisbury until 1982.
ASIA
Tbilisi, GEORGIA's capital, was known as Tpilisi (Georgian) or Tiflis (Russian) until 1936.
Jakarta, INDONESIA's highly-populated capital, was known as Sunda Kelapa, then Jayakata, then Batavia, then Djakarta from 1949 to 1972.
Tokyo, JAPAN's capital located on the island of Honshu, was previously named Edo until 1868.
Astana, KAZAKHSTAN's capital, was known as Tselinograd, then Aqmola.
Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN's capital, was named Pishpek until 1926 and Frunze until 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA's capital, was known as Ugra until 1924.
Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN's capital, was called Dyushambe until 1929 and received the name Stalinagrad until 1961.
Ankara, TURKEY's capital, was called Angora until 1930.
Ashgabat, TURKMENISTAN's capital, was called Poltoratsk from 1919 until 1927.
EUROPE
Belgrade, SERBIA's capital, was known as Singidunum in ancient times.
Podgorica, MONTENEGRO's capital, was known as Birziminium before the 11th century, Ribnica during the Middle Ages, and Titograd from 1946 to 1992. The capital possessed the name Podgorica in 1326 until 1946, resuming in 1992.
SOUTH AMERICA
Sucre, one of two capitals of BOLIVIA and named in honor of Antonio José de Sucre, was called Chuquisaca until 1825.
Credit goes to the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition, which conveniently listed former capital names.
Quick GeoFact: The capital of SERBIA, a Southeast European country, is Belgrade!
The Balkan Mountains (also known as Stara Planina) are situated in central BULGARIA and eastern SERBIA, which are Eastern European countries. The highest peak is Botev, which stands 7,795 feet (2,376 meters) tall. Now you know the basics of the Balkan Mountains!
Officially known as the Republic of Serbia (Republika Srbija), SERBIA (Srbija) was formerly part of Yugoslavia and is located in Southeastern Europe. Serbia borders 8 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina located to the west of Serbia, Bulgaria to the east, Croatia to the west, Hungary to the north, Kosovo to the south, Macedonia to the south, Montenegro to the southwest, and Romania to the northeast. The capital is Belgrade (Beograd). Serbia's currency is the Serbian Dinar, and its ISO 4217 currency code is RSD.
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