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Largest Public Library in the world

Answer:  British Library is the largest library in the world! According to British Library's  facts and figure, • We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland • The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages • 3 million new items are added every year • We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents • The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings • We house 8 million stamps and other philatelic items • All this requires over 625 km of shelves, and grows by 12 km every year • If you see 5 items each day, it would take you over 80,000 years to see the whole of the collection • The world's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, is sometimes on display in our exhibition galleries alongside many other treasures • We have on-site space for over 1,200 Readers • Over 16,000 people use the collect...

What is the world's smallest ocean?

Answer:  The Arctic Ocean i s the world's smallest ocean.  According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "With an area of about 5.4 million square miles, the Arctic Ocean is about 1.5 times as big as the United States. It is bordered by Greenland, Canada, Norway, Alaska, and Russia. The average depth of the Arctic Ocean is 12,000 feet and it is 17,850 feet at its deepest point." Source: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/smallestocean.html

Longest word in the dictionary

It has 45 letters! Pronounciation:  [noo-muh-noh-uhl-truh-mahy-kruh-skop-ik-sil-i-koh-vol-key-noh-koh-nee-oh-sis, nyoo-]   What does it mean? An   obscure   term   ostensibly   referring   to   a   lung   disease caused   by   silica   dust,   sometimes   cited   as   one   of   the  longest words   in   the   English   language.  Source:  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

World's largest military spenders in 2016

Answer:  USA  "US military spending in 2016 was $611 billion—nearly 3 times as much as China's military spending, which was the second highest in 2016 at $215 billion. US military spending is larger than the next 8 biggest military spenders combined."   --  According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (sipri) Source: http://visuals.sipri.org/

First 10 world's most valuable companies in the world

According to CBS reporting, following companies are the world's most valuable brands:  Apple ($184 billion) Google ($141.7 billion) Microsoft ($80 billion) Coca-Cola ($69.7 billion) Amazon ($64.8 billion) Samsung ($56.2 billion) Toyota ($50.3 billion) Facebook ($48.2 billion) Mercedes-Benz ($47.8 billion) IBM ($46.8 billion) Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brands-most-valuable-in-the-world-interbrand/

What is the world's largest public company in the world?

ICBC is the largest public company in the world in 2017!      summary:           Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/corinnejurney/2017/05/24/the-worlds-largest-public-companies-2017/#2b31d670508d