The youngest city in America is Provo, Utah, where the average age of Americans living there is 25 years. Notably, much of the population of Provo consists of college students at Brigham Young University and the families of academics and staffers of the university.
Niger has the lowest average age at only 14.8 years.
A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.
Jericho, Palestine
A small city with a population of 20,000 people, Jericho, which is located in Palestine, is believed to be the oldest city in the world.
“These high UV levels put Australians at particular risk of photo-ageing, especially when combined with Australian's traditionally outdoor, sun-seeking lifestyle and a predominately fair-skinned population.” Facial ageing signs include wrinkles, loss of volume and sagging, and vascular disorders.
Yet Australians may be paying for that luxury, not just with the ridiculous cost of living, but with our faces. Our sunburnt country, hot gold hush of noon and pitiless blue skies have little mercy on our pale skin, which is ageing by as much as two decades faster than our counterparts in Europe and America.
The latest demographics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveal more than 4250 centenarians (people aged 100 years or older) and super-centenarians (people aged 110 years or older) are currently living in Australia.
For women and men, life expectancy of 79.1 years and 73.2 years reflects a long-apparent, significant gap.
Males born in San Marino or Monaco had the highest life expectancy in the world as of 2022. San Marino also had the highest life expectancy for females with on average 89 years. In Japan the life expectancy was 88 years for females and 82 years for males.
The first cities appeared thousands of years ago in areas where the land was fertile, such as the cities founded in the historic region known as Mesopotamia around 7500 B.C.E., which included Eridu, Uruk, and Ur.
The second oldest city in the US is Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was founded in 1607.
Vatican City is the smallest city in the world, but it's bursting with activity for locals and tourists alike.
One of the first things you'll notice about Australia will no doubt be the very unique speaking habits of its people. Australians speak fast, 'chew' words and skip pronunciation of letters – combine this with their penchant for slang and abbreviations, and you have a language that's quite difficult to comprehend!
When convicts built Reynolds Cottage nearly two centuries ago, the average male height in the colony was 165cm. They couldn't have known that Australians would start growing at a rate of knots: over the past 150 years our average height has soared almost 15cm. Now each generation is 3-4cm taller than the previous one.
Our improved healthcare system and vaccination rates, advanced medical treatments and lower mother and baby mortality rates have meant that the average person can expect to enjoy around two more decades. The United Nations World Population Prospects suggests current life expectancy in Australia in 2022 to be 83.79.
Over the age of 40 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have 6 times the rate of blindness of other Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have less poor vision than other Australian children.
Appearance is a useful guide to longevity and can be used to distinguish those who will die young from those likely to live to a great age, researchers say. People who look young for their age enjoy a longer life than those who look older than their years, according to a study of twins.
People living in Australia are exposed to higher levels of UV radiation, which is responsible for most age-associated cosmetic skin problems in fair-skinned people.
Sumerian can be considered the first language in the world, according to Mondly. The oldest proof of written Sumerian was found on the Kish tablet in today's Iraq, dating back to approximately 3500 BC.
By many accounts, the Republic of San Marino, one of the world's smallest countries, is also the world's oldest country. The tiny country that is completely landlocked by Italy was founded on September 3rd in the year 301 BCE.
Varanasi (once known as Benares) can count Mark Twain in its corner – “Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together,” Twain said – but its claim seems to rest on the legend that it was established by Lord Shiva in 3,000BC, while all the ...