- The UN was founded in San Francisco in 1945 following the end of World War II
- Its aim was to stop wars between nations and to provide a platform for dialogue
- There are 192 member states
- UN Headquarters sits on international territory within New York City
- The UN also governs additional agencies including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- The current Secretary-General of the UN is Ban Ki-moon of South Korea
- The UN has six official languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
- Australia was one of the 51 founding member nations of the UN
- A 2005 report revealed UN-sponsored peacekeeping was responsible for a dramatic decline in the number of conflicts, genocides and human rights abuses since the end of the Cold War
- The first UN peacekeeping mission was in 1948 after the Israeli war of independence
- The United Nations issues its own postal stamps
- Besides the UN Headquarters in New York, the organization also has offices in Geneva and Vienna
- Former American child actor Shirley Temple Black was appointed US representative to the United Nations in 1969
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