Across
- 1. About a quarter of all overseas nurses come from this country, making it the world’s top supplier of nurses.
- 3. Caño Cristales, a river in this South American country, is referred to as the “liquid rainbow” because of its many vivid colors, which are produced from the reproductive process of aquatic plants.
- 5. This European nation is the most visited country in the world with 89 million annual tourists.
- 7. This African nation is a birder’s paradise. With more than 1,000 species, it contains 60 percent of Africa’s birds and 11 percent of the world’s avian population.
- 8. There are 63 million pairs of chopsticks or 126 million single sticks manufactured in this country every year
Down
- 2. gave the world its sweet tooth. Although sugarcane originated in Southeast Asia, it was first chemically refined about 2,500 years ago in India.
- 4. This Southeast Asian country is one of only three in the world, along with Liberia and the United States, that does not use the metric system.
- 6. There’s a small city called Sialkot in this South Asian country that produces 40 percent of the world’s soccer balls.