Facts about the Everglades

• The Everglades stands as the third largest national park in the United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone.
• The Everglades National Park is visited on average by 1,000,000 people each year.
• Total Area1, 2,335 square miles (6,110 km2).
• Creation Date May 30, 1934
• Unlike most U.S. national parks, Everglades National Park was created to protect a fragile ecosystem instead of safeguarding a unique geographic feature.
• Highest Elevation 9 feet on Totten Key
• 50 species of reptiles live within Everglades National Park.
• The park was established in 1934 to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades and dedicated in 1947.
• The Everglades is actually a very slow-moving river.
• Over 40 species of mammals are found in Everglades National Park.
• The Everglades is the only place in the world where the American Crocodile and the American Alligator co-exist in the wild.

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Europe quick Facts

• Europe is the 2nd smallest continent with roughly 10,180,000 km2 (4 million sq mi).
• The largest country in Europe is Russia.
• Paris is the largest city in Europe with a metro population of about 11,836,970.
• Europe is home to more than 731,000,000 people, but birth rates are stagnant.
• Europe received its name from a princess in Greek mythology - Europa.
• Europe, in particular Ancient Greece, is the birthplace of Western culture.
• The biggest island in Europe is Great Britain.
• No deserts inhabit the continent of Europe.
• Both World Wars were largely focused upon Europe.
• Italy is the country in Europe with the highest number of volcanoes.
• The Danube is Europe's 2nd longest river after the Volga (Rusia).
• The Ural Mountains are a natural boundary that separates Europe from Asia.
• During the Cold War, Europe was divided along the Iron Curtain between NATO in the west and the Warsaw Pact in the east.

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