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Highest Mt. Everest 8,848 m (29,029 Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal - Tibet, China border Asia
Peak ft)
Longest Andes 4,350 miles (7,000 km) Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, South
Mountain Chile, and Argentina America
Range
Most Mt. Olympus Regarded as the “home of the Greek Greece Europe
Sacred Gods/The Twelve Olympians of the
Mountain Hellenistic World". It was also
considered the site of the War of the
Titans (Titanomachy) where Zeus and
his siblings defeated the Titans.
Largest Mediterranea 1,144,800 square miles (2,965,800 sq Egypt, Monaco, Turkey, Cyprus, Malta, Libya, Europe
Sea n Sea km) Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy,
Slovenia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia,
Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Israel, Lebanon
and Syria
Lowest Death Valley 282 feet (86 m) below sea level Eastern California North
Land America
Area
Longest River Nile 6,650 km long and drains an area of Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Uganda, Democratic Africa
River 3,349,000 square km Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania,
Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan
Longest Arabian 1,200,000 square miles bounded by (clockwise) the Persian Gulf on Asia
Peninsula Peninsula the northeast, the Strait of Hormuz and the
Gulf of Oman on the east, the Arabian Sea on
the southeast and south, the Gulf of Aden on
the south, the Bab-el-Mandeb strait on the
southwest, and the Red Sea which is located
on the southwest and west
Longest Strait of 805 km (500 mi) Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) and the Asia
Strait Malacca Indonesian island of Sumatra
Narrowes Bosphorus/ 31 km (17 nmi) long, with a width of The Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Europe
t Strait Istanbul Strait 3,329 m (1.798 nmi) at the northern Dardanelles strait to the southwest together and Asia
entrance and 2,826 m (1.526 nmi) at form the Turkish Straits.
the southern entrance
Largest Malay 2 million km² Indian/Pacific Ocean Asia
Archipela Archipelago
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Largest Great Barrier composed of over 2,900 individual Queensland Australia
Coral Reef reefs[3] and 900 islands stretching for
Reef over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi)
Largest Asia 44,579,000 km2 (17,212,000 sq mi) N/A Asia
Continent
Widest Victoria Falls width of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft)[7] and Livingstone, Zambia Africa
Waterfall height of 108 metres (354 ft) Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Longest Antarctic 5.5 million square miles N/A Antarctica
Desert Polar Desert
Most Mount Kailash Pilgrims of several religions believe Transhimalaya in Tibet Asia
Sacred that circumambulating Mount Kailash
Peak on foot is a holy ritual that will bring
good fortune.
Longest Pacific Ocean 155 million square kilometers (about N/A Asia
Ocean 60 million square miles)
Most Mount most famous eruption took place all the Gulf of Naples, Italy Europe
Popular Vesuvius way back in A.D. 79, when a multiday
Volcano eruption of lava and ash covered the
cities of Pompeii and Stabiae in ash
Almost Mayon Renowned as the "perfect cone" Albay, Philippines Asia
Perfect Volcano because of its almost symmetric
Cone conical shape
Volcano
Largest Bay of Bengal 2.2 million km² Indian Ocean Asia
Bay

Smallest Taal Volcano 311 m (1,020 ft) Luzon , Philippines Asia

Active
Volcano
Greatest Bay of Fundy 16.8 metres (55 feet) tidal range northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between North
Tide the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and America
Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the
U.S. state of Maine
Longest Gulf of Mexico 615,000 square miles American Mediterranean Sea North
Gulf America
Highest Angel Falls 979 m (3,212 ft) Auyantepui, South
Waterfall Canaima National Park, America
Bolívar State, Venezuela
Longest Grand Lagon 3145 sq. km New Caledonia Europe
Lagoon Sud
Most Sydney one big blue playground, alive with Sydney Australia
Beautiful Harbour ferries, yachts, launches and kayaks
Harbor

Highest 6887 m/22,595 ft Argentinean-Chilean border South

Volcano Ojos del America
Salado

Clearest The Maldives The waters are crystal clear and full of Republic of the Maldives Asia
Sea reef wildlife which attracts tourists from
all over the world.
Driest Atacama The average rainfall is about 15 Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina South
Place Desert millimetres (0.59 in) per year America
Largest Mauna Loa 13,679 ft (4,169 m Hawaii, U.S. America
Active
Volcano
Highest Argentinean-Chilean border South
Lake Ojos del 6 3891m (20 965 foot) America
Salado Pool

Longest Lake 12,700 square miles Burundi Africa

Lake Tanganyika DR Congo
Tanzania
Zambia
Longest Nile River 6,853 km long Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Uganda, Asia
River 2.8 km wide Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda,
Burundi, South Sudan
Deepest Lake Baikal 5,712 feet (1,741 meters) deep Siberia, Russia Europe
Lake
Longest Caspian Sea 371,000 km2 (143,200 sq mi) Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Europe
inland Turkmenistan and Asia
Sea

Deepest Mariana maximum-known depth of 10.911 km western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Asia
Ocean Trench or (10,911 ± 40 m) or 6.831 mi (36,069 ± Mariana Islands
Depth Marianas 131 ft)
Trench
Most Ganges Personified as a goddess known as India, Bangladesh Asia
Sacred Ganga. It is worshipped by Hindus who
River believe that bathing in the river causes
the remission of sins and facilitates
Moksha (liberation from the cycle of life
and death).
Saltiest Don Juan salinity level of over 40% west end of Wright Valley (South Fork), Antarctica
Body of Pond Victoria Land, Antarctica
Water
Largest Greenland 2,166,086 square km Greenland North
Island America
Most Mount The world’s highest free-standing north-eastern Tanzania, near the border with Africa
Spectacul Kilimanjaro mountain. Although positioned close to Kenya
ar the equator, Mount Kilimanjaro is
Volcano famous as Africa’s snow-capped
mountain looming over the plains of
the savannah.
Deepest Colca Canyon depth of 13,650 ft (4,160 m) southern Peru South
Canyon America
Highest Lake surface elevation of 3,812 metres border of Peru and Bolivia South
Navigatio Titicaca/Titiqa (12,507 ft) America
nal Lake qa
Strangest Antarctica There is a glacier in Antarctica that N/A Antarctica
of all seems to be weeping a river of blood.
Continent It’s one of the continent’s strangest
features, and it’s located in one of the
continent’s strangest places — the
McMurdo Dry Valleys, a huge, ice-free
zone and one of the world’s harshest
deserts.