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Two plates
Iceland sits across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Iceland straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the North American and Eurasian plates move apart. On the island, part of this mostly submarine plate boundary can be examined on land.
Iceland sits across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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France has more time zones than any other country.
France has the most time zones when its overseas territories are included, commonly counted as 12 standard UTC offsets. Totals of 13 require an explanation of seasonal clock changes or Antarctic territorial claims.
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Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
Canada has more than half of the lakes in the HydroLAKES inventory, whose minimum mapped lake area is 10 hectares. That does not establish that Canada contains most of every pond and lake on Earth.
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