Gurubaran Weekly

  You probably know the capital of India- the letter i, sorry I mean Delhi. But do you know that there are  some countries that have  more than one official capital?  Also some countries have one official capital but have other government departments in an other city, which makes them unofficial capital. Lets have a look at them.  South Africa: South Africa is the only country in the world, that has 3 capitals. They are  …. Wait!! We already told about this in a previous post so if you haven't read it, go and check out here Country Facts Countdown Eswatini: Eswatini, one of the smallest  country in Africa   has two capitals. They are Mbabane which is the administrative capital and Lobamba which is the legislative and the royal capital. Malaysia:  You probably think Malaysia’s capital is Kuala Lumpur. But in 1995, due to overcrowding, the Malaysian government made Putrajaya, which is 25 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur

    You have probably heard of the term “borders”, the lines that separates two countries. Sometimes   they are like a scribble that a 2-year-old drew. Sometimes borders extend from their country like a pan’s handle (maybe the ones who made their border wanted to fry something in their country).   Lets look at some weird borders. Afghanistan First, we have our neighbour, Afghanistan where we find the Wakhan corridor which makes no sense. It's a 350 kilometres and a width of 13 to 65 kilometres. However, is reason lies in the past. In the 19 th century both the British and Russians wanted to expand their territory into the Wakhan corridor region and to solve a dispute between Russia and UK, they both used Afghanistan as a buffer state in-between them but Afghanistan’s border didn't exactly match up with the Russian British border so they extended Afghanistan 350 kilometres east to fill the gap and now it remains, but separates Pakistan and Tajikistan.