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Svalbard: 10 Surprising Facts About the Last Human Outpost Before the North Pole
In Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, polar bears outnumber people—and dying is, technically, against the rules.

In Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, polar bears outnumber people—and dying is, technically, against the rules.

Ten of the world’s strangest beaches, each one defying everything you thought you knew about the coast. Think you can ace the quiz?

Mountains, jungles and millennia of isolation explain why New Guinea’s languages outnumber all those spoken in Europe.

Can you recognize every flag and name the continent its country belongs to? Test your knowledge with this flag and geography quiz.

Tombs rising 65 feet, an unfinished castle, and a woman’s voice carved into stone two millennia ago.

The British sealed them off as unsanitary. Today they are India’s hidden masterpieces.