Amazing facts about SPAIN
(in spite of the current crisis):
- Per
capita, Spain is has the highest consumption
of cocaine & marijuana in the world http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-most-cocaine-users-2012-6
- Spain
is the single country of the world with the most AVE kilometers of
rail-lines--220 kms./hr. (High-Speed Train lines)
- Seven
of every ten young people
20-30 yrs. still live at home with their parents.
- The
greatest amount of solar
energy derived from solar instalations in the world comes from
Spain.
- Spain
is the largest producer and exporter of table olives in the world; the greatest
producer of piñon nuts;
the greatest exporter of citric fruits; the second greatest producer of artichokes; and
the highest producer in Europe of all kinds of fruit.
- Currently
Spain has the highest
unemployment in Europe, 26%.
- 30%
of all the grape vineyards in the European Union are in Spain,
representing 13.8% of all the land dedicated to wine culture in the world.
- Spain
is the second greatest
exporter of wine in the world, behind Italy; is the 1st
highest producer of honey and is the 1st highest producer in Europe
of fish from hatcheries.
- More
than 459 million people
in the world speak Spanish; there are 18 million registered students of
Spanish; 81 million web pages in Spanish
- Spanish
is the second
most-widely spoken language in the world, per number of speakers, and is
the 2nd language of international communication
- 40.5
million people speak Spanish in countries where it is NOT the official
language.
- Spain
is the fourth most
popular tourist destination in the world and has the
third largest number of hotel rooms.
- Spain
leads Europe in the amount of water recovered from desalination plants.
- Spain
is the 2nd highest
manufacturer of vehicles in Europe; is the first in Europe for
installed capability for the production of stainless-steel.
- Telefonica
is the the first integrated-european
telephone operation in Europe, and the first in the world for number of
customers.
- The
second largest telescope
in the world is in Spain (in La Palma, Canarias).
- Spain
holds the first place in Europe and the third in the world in agrobiotecnology;
and is fifth in biochemistry and molecular biology.
- Three
of every five airline flights
in the world are controlled by Spanish-designed systems of air navegation.
- The
electronic DNI (National Identity Document) and electronic passport are
pioneer efforts in personal electronic identification
- Seven
of the ten largest companies in the world in administration of
infrastructrues are Spanish.
- The
third wealthiest man in
the world is a Spaniard (Amancio Ortega), after Bill Gates;
and is worth 47 billion dollars; who increased his wealth by 32% in the
last year. Spanish - http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/08/07/economia/1344304904.html,
English - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/amancio-ortega-third-richest-man_n_1756048.html
- A total of 100% of Spaniards and residents of Spain are
sinners and without hope of Heaven,
without Christ (Rom. 3:23; 6:23).
- Spain is the least evangelized Spanish-Speaking country in the world. http://templetons2spain.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/spain-least-evangelized-spanish.html and "SPAIN: Missionaries wanted", http://issuu.com/CredoMagazine/docs/march_2012-make_disciples_of_all_nations-final/15
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