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DESTINATIONS ADVENTURES FOOD&DRINK
DISPATCHES
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ILLUSTRATION BY GAVIN POTENZA
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AUGUST 2012
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HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM
THEWORLD AT A GLANCE: SUPERLATIVES
JAPAN
Most Michelin three-star
restaurants
(32, seven more
than second-place France)
BOLIVIA
Highest capital city
(La Paz, at roughly 12,000
feet above sea level; the
city’s tallest building is Banco
Central de Bolivia, at 351 feet)
ENGLAND
Home to five of the 10most expensive
guitars ever sold at auction
(four
once owned by Eric Clapton and one
by George Harrison, with a combined
value of $3.6 million)
NEWZEALAND
More dairy cows than
people
(5.8 million cows
to 4.3 million humans)
CHINA
Most chopsticks produced
per year
(45 billion, or
34 pairs for every citizen)
INDONESIA
Largest archipelagic state
(17,504 islands, about 6,000
of which are inhabited)
IVORY COAST
African country withmost
soccer players in English Premier
League
(eight, in 2011–2012)
SCANDINAVIA
World’s highest per-capita consump-
tion of coffee, annual average for
2000–2010
(Finland, 26 lb.; Norway,
21 lb.; Denmark, 19 lb.; Sweden, 18 lb.)
CALIFORNIA
Biggest chocolate sculpture
(a 10-foot-high model of
Mexico’s Kukulkan pyramid)
SCOTLAND
Fastest car ... possibly
(the jet-powered
Bloodhound, which aims to reach 1,000
mph next year, overtaking the previous
land-speed record of 763 mph)