The five countries with the fastest internet in the world are Macau (262.74Mbps), Jersey (256.59Mbps), Iceland (216.56Mbps), Liechtenstein (166.22Mbps) and Gibraltar (159.90Mbps).
It will be immediately striking to most that all of these countries share similarities. Four of the five are within Western Europe, with Macau in Asia being the exception.
All are either very small or they are island nations. It is much easier to roll out FTTP full fibre broadband and 5G mobile internet to a smaller population and/or across a smaller area.
The five countries in the world with the slowest network speeds are Turkmenistan (0.77Mbps), the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (0.94Mbps),Yemen (0.97Mbps), Guinea-Bissau (0.98Mbps) and Afghanistan (0.98Mbps).
Two of the bottom five are located in Asia, one in Near East, one in Sub-Saharan Africa and one in CIS (Former USSR). All of these countries suffer from underdeveloped network infrastructure and low uptake of digital services among their populations.
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Hurricanes cause great devastation whenever they strike, which leads us to think of the largest hurricanes as the one that causes the most damage.
However, hurricanes don’t have to be massive to cause great losses in lives and property. Hurricanes have been with humanity forever, but we haven’t always had the capacity to understand them or record their strength and size. So our records on the largest storms may be incomplete.
Scientists believe we are seeing more intense storms if not necessarily larger or more frequent storms.
In this list of largest hurricanes, we include records for all cyclonic storms including typhoons, and we judge size based on the storm’s diameter, not damage or wind speed.
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The report gives national estimates of artists in the US workforce.
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According to Guinness World Records, the longest statement made at the UN was given by V.K. Krishna Menon of India. His statement to the Security Council was given during three meetings on 23 and 24 January 1957. According to the times listed on the meeting records, the meetings lasted more than 8 hours.
The document "List of Speeches and Visits Made by Heads of State and Dignitaries" gives the length of speech or speech times for many statements made from 1945-1976, document ST/OGS/SER.F/4 + Add.1-2.
The longest timed speech listed in the above document was made by Fidel Castro of Cuba at the 872nd plenary meeting of the General Assembly on 26 September 1960 (A/PV.872). The time listed is 269 minutes.
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