Czechia v Mexico is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ highest points are named after a snowy mountain.
Czechia’s highest is Sněžka, which means the "snowy mountain". Mexico’s highest, Pico de Orizaba, was known in Aztec as Iztactépetl (White Mountain), a reference to its snowy summit.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina v Qatar is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where one country barely reaches the sea, and the other barely stops being an island.
Bosnia has just 20km of its 1,540km border at Neum. Qatar has only one short land border and more than 560km of coast.
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