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.