Facts in "Geography" Category
#2203 - Geography Fact     0  The Philippines consist of 7,100 islands. |
| #2204 - Geography Fact 4 The first people to arrive on Iceland were Irish explorers, in 795 A.D. |
| #2205 - Geography Fact 3 The royal house of Saudi Arabia has close to 10,000 princes and princesses. |
| #2206 - Geography Fact 1 When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as "the tragic lamppost" and nearly universally hated it. |
| #2207 - Geography Fact 5 The Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps, representing every day of the year. |
| #2208 - Geography Fact 0 The twin towers of New Yorks World Trade Center contain 208 elevators. Elevators rank as the safest form of transportation, boasting only one fatality every 100 million miles traveled. Stairs, in comparison, are five times more dangerous. |
| #2209 - Geography Fact 0 Ellis Island opened to begin the processing of what would amount to more than 20 million immigrants to the United States in 1892. The immigration center was also used as a deportation station, and later, a Coast Guard Station, and then, a national park. Ellis Island is now a museum. |
| #2210 - Geography Fact 2 Residents of the Havasupai Indian Reservation in Northern Arizona get their mail delivered by mule. |
| #2211 - Geography Fact 3 Los Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer together each year because they are on opposite sides of the San Andreas fault. |
| #2212 - Geography Fact 1 The state of Oregon has one city named Sisters and another called Brothers. Sisters got its name from a nearby trio of peaks in the Cascade Mountains known as the Three Sisters. Brothers was named as a counterpart to Sisters. |
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