5 Mind blowing geography facts

   By Umang Rajpurohit

1. Sunrise from West and sets in East direction on the planets Venus and Uranus

  

Yes, you have heard it right Venus and Uranus are the only two planets of the solar system

        where the sun rise from West and sets in East.This happens because the Venus and Uranus

 rotate West to east.

2. Plants does not need Carbon dioxide(C02) to live

 

One More time you have heard it right that plants do not need Carbon dioxide to live.They only store and remove carbon dioxide in them and this is first time in the history that there is more carbon dioxide in  the atmosphere in comparison to last 80,000 years.

3.Oceania is the Continent not Australia 

Australia is just a country in the Oceania continent.But most people think that Australia is a continent.

Oceania consists of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Federated states of Micronesia, Samoa, Tonga,

 Palau, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Papua new Guinea and many more.

4. Varanasi is the oldest city of the world

Varanasi(commonly known as Banaras) is the oldest city of the world. Varanasi(or banaras) is a city of the 

State of Uttar pradesh. Which is also famous as a pilgrimage.

5. Madagascar is the largest island of the Indian ocean

Madagascar is the largest island present in the indian ocean situated in the north-south of  Africa.

Madagascar is the home to a large number of fauna and flora.

So, these were some mind boggling facts about geography i hope you enjoyed them.

You can also checkout My videos-

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 Gaseous hypothesis of Kant

 Earth as a member of solar system

 Rotation of the Earth

 Revolution of the Earth

 Inclination of Earth's axis

About Me

               Umang is a student of geography pursuing bachelor's in geography  who enjoys indulging his passion including reading geography  books and writing  geography articles. This blog is about the nature of physical geography, definition,scope and development. My goal is to make every post valuable and something I'd want to read. Its mostly a Educational blog, meant to inspire. You can find my videos on youtube  (there's a link in the upper right to jump to them) but postings are almost about geography .Other than writing blog on geography i also do Instagram Enjoy! Umang