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Asia: strange but true
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Last updated: June 28, 2024
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A woman from this federation of oil-rich states divorced her husband after he refused to pay for anything on their honeymoon.
The only carbon-negative country, it was isolated from the world until 1974 and didn't have TV until the 1990s.
Michael Jackson lived in this island kingdom and recorded music with the king's son.
Women here are banned from cycling; Ayatollah Khamenei issued an fatwa declaring that it exposes society to corruption.
In 2019, a Chennai man with two wives was whacked with sandals by them and their relatives for trying to acquire a third one.
Khim Hang, a woman from this country, married a cow after saying it kissed her and followed her upstairs.
Ranked the world's fifth-happiest country, this R&D hub has the highest percentage of start-ups and engineers of any country.
In 2009, an entire family, including a two-year-old child, was sentenced to life imprisonment because a Bible was discovered in their possession.
This nation in Indochina is the most bombed nation on Earth, and has 80 million still unexploded.
It is illegal to have Christmas decorations in public in this sultanate, and you can be stoned to death for homosexuality.
This huge country has a caterpillar fungus which is considered so valuable, it is used as a local currency.
As this country was inhabited by tent-dwelling nomads, it had a mobile capital city which moved location 25 times in the 1600s and 1700s.
Citizens of this mountainous state are fined 4 months' wages if they have a birthday party outwith their home.
The Al Shahaniya track in this oil-rich peninsula holds a race where robots ride camels.
In 2016, President Duterte promised to execute so many people and throw their bodies in the sea, that the fish would grow fat.
One man from Trang province starts his day with a glass of crocodile blood mixed with rice liquor.
Ho Van Lang spent 40 years living in isolation with his father in the jungle here, and did not know that women existed.
In 2018 in Hyderabad, Sindh, a boy faked his own kidnapping to try and extort 2 million rupees from his parents.
A man was arrested in 2018 for performing black magic at the sacred Kabah site.
In this country of over 100 active volcanoes, divorces are skyrocketing in Purbalingga because of men's addiction to pigeon racing.
Travel chaos ensued on this tea-growing island after a rat was found on one of the national airline's flights.
This city-state has a Sandcrawler building, named after and made to resemble a vehicle from Star Wars.
In Hsinchu in 2020, a 3-year-old carried away by a kite survived with only minor bruises.
A man on the Indian Ocean island of Socotra was born in a cave, and still lives in it.
The population here decreased by a fifth due to the war. It has a number of abandoned Byzantine towns.
The president of this young country was critically injured by an assassination attempt in 2008.
Until 1970, the Sultan made it illegal to play football, wear sunglasses or speak to anyone for over 15 minutes. Slavery was legal, though.
This equatorial nation has the world's largest flower, up to a metre across.
Cans of fresh air can be purchased in this huge coal-burning country.
A woman from this small Gulf state divorced her husband because of his Playstation obsession.
The national sport is buzkashi, where horse-mounted players try to get a goat carcass into the goal.
In this Middle Eastern kingdom, it is courteous to refuse a meal three times, but accept it the fourth time you're asked.
This country, known as Sakartvelo by locals, has a word which can be transliterated as "gwprzkwnit".
Women of the Kayan tribe, in this war-torn dictatorship, wear brass coils around their necks to lengthen them.
A sorcerer here sells beads for up to $1000, claiming that they have the power to stop bullets. The country's name means "fertile".
Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat is thought to be the oldest in the world.
Riding motorcycles and having a beard are both illegal in this central Asian country's capital.
In 2024, a woman in this economic powerhouse was charged with riding a motorised suitcase without a licence.
7,000 people die every year from snake bites in this low-lying country.
This country's dictator of the 1990s banned the word for "bread" and ordered it to be replaced by his mother's name.
Ottoman Grand Viziers who were due to be executed by strangulation could escape their fate if they beat the palace gardener in a foot race.
This island nation has the lowest highest hill of any country.
Loud music is played in road tunnels here, to keep drivers awake.
This Himalayan nation has a ritual of sky burials, where the dead are left out on mountainsides for wild animals.
This is the country which is furthest from any ocean. In 2024, a girl here was found to have a three-foot long hair growing inside her skull.
Formerly controlled by France, this small Syrian neighbour was created as a Christian state.
This Caspian Sea nation has the world's biggest landlocked exclave, Nakhchivan.
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