1. Nearly half Australia’s population lives in only three cities.

2. Greenland’s capital is Nuuk.

3. Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, had a different name before 1998.

4. The capital of Jamaica is Bridgetown.

5. Singapore was once part of Malaysia.

6. Dhaka, Bangladesh, was founded in 1921.

7. The capital of Brazil is Rio de Janeiro.

8. The ancient Romans built the broad avenues of Paris, France.

9. Atop the dome of Montana’s capitol stands a statue of Sitting Bull.

10. Timbuktu, Mali, may have been named after a slave girl.