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Land of Rising Sun:  Japan is called the land of rising sun because Sun rises in the east as japan is the first country in the east , Sunrises first in japan.

 Land of Midnight sun:  The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight.

Around the summer solstice (approximately 21 June in the Northern Hemisphere and 23 December in the Southern Hemisphere), the Sun does not set below the horizon within a 24 hour period. The countries and territories whose populations experience the midnight sun are limited to those crossed by the Arctic Circle: the Canadian Yukon, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories; the nations of Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark (Greenland), Russia; and the State of Alaska in the United States

 Finland is called ''the land of a thousand lakes,'' but at last count, there were 187,888 of them - more lakes in relation to a country's size than any other. Indeed, with a population of about five million, Finland has one lake for every 26 people

Bhutan is called Land of Thunder Dragon. Because of the violent and large thunderstorms that whip down through the valleys from the Himalayas,

The sparkling light of thunderbolts was believed to be a red fire of a dragon.

Mongolia is surrounded by China and Russia

Bolivia is surrounded by peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peruguay

Zambia is surrounded by Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Angola