WithAustraliastretching over 7 million square kilometers (2,968,000 square miles), it should come as no surprise that it takes a long time to get around the country. Considering the distances, it’s no wonder few people end up traveling the whole country — there’s just too much ground ...
The companies have been hiring ethnic Khmer people from the south to work on their plantations in northeast Cambodia since around 2006; and many families have moved to the Northeast to work for the companies. One group of laborers moved just outside of Katot Village. Forty-nine of these migr...
Mostly, but not always, the second, slower one turns out to be more efficient energy-wise. A rule of thumb is that the transfer to Mars takes around as long as the human period of gestation, approximately 9 months. But that really is no more than an approximate value; you still have ...
Stretching over 30 million square kilometers and home to over 1.2 billion people, Africa is a vastly diverse landscape — both geographically and culturally. Most world maps end up distorting the continent’s true size, leading many to underestimate just how big it is (contrary to what a Merca...
With over five and a half kilometers of paths to walk, visitors are able to stroll around and admire Hakuba’s mountainous scenery and the unique vegetation that grows in this high altitude.Address: Nagano, Kita Azumi, Otarimura Chikuniotsu Homepage: http://sizenen.otarimura.com/...
Gone are the days of quick Siem Reap airport transfers. The new Siem Reap–Angkor International Airport (SAI), opened last year to much grumbling and is 50 kilometers out of Siem Reap proper. With the new locationit now takes between 45 and 90 minutes to get to and from the Siem Reap...
The weather was good, and when the plane was 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Miami, the aircraft's pilot, Captain Robert E. Linquist, contacted an air traffic control center in New Orleans to give his coordinates. This was strange as he should have been radioing Miami. That communication ...
Nothing! Light is a "universal speed limit" and, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, is the fastest speed in the universe: 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second). Is the speed of light constant? The speed of light is a universal constant in a vacuum, like...
There are 14 airports operating in Yunnan, six railway systems, and three high-speed rail systems. This well-developed transit network is constantly extended to connect all tourist attractions in Yunnan. The longest of its kind in West China, the rail network connects 238,000 kilometers to some...
Many of our TV programs come to US through satellites.Airplane pilots also sometimes use a satellite to help them find their exact location. We use satellites to send television pictures from one part of the world to another.They are usually 35,880 kilometers above the equator.Sometimes we ...