useless trivia: What Word Means: Flotsam - Lagan?

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--------------- has 254 counties. Alaska, which is more than twice as large, hasn't any.?

------------ means "land of the free."?

Japan consists of the four large islands of Hokkaido, ----------, Shikoku, Kyushu, and about three thousand smaller islands.?

Lake Baikal in -------------- is the only lake in the world that is deep enough to have deep-sea fish.?

----------- is the only country in the Middle East that does not have a desert.?