When you think of a capital, what comes to mind? Washington, D.C.? The United Nations is called the capital of the world! Here’s why…,The United Nations: Capital of the World,When you think of a capital, what comes to mind? Washington, D.C.? The United Nations is called the capital of the world! Here’s why…
When you think of a capital what comes to mind? Washington D.C.? Yerushalayim? Maybe Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso? But there are capitals of other things besides countries.
Chicago (where they make Spearmint and Juicy Fruit) is the chewing gum capital of the world. Amsterdam is the tulip capital of the world with 1.7 billion tulips blooming every spring. Yushan National Park in Taiwan is the landslide capital of the world. And the United Nations has simply been called the capital of the world. Here’s why.
The United Nations is currently made up of 193 members from Afghanistan in Asia to Zimbabwe in Africa.
The most populous member is — did you guess it? — China with close to a billion and a half people. This number is hard to get your mind around. But you can think about it this way:
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