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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The biggest waterfall in the world defined by height is Angel Falls in Venuzuala at 979 meters tall. Much of the falls are transformed into mist by prevailing winds before reaching the water below. Angel Falls is in a remote part of the Venezuelan rainforest and is difficult to reach ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest city in the world is a more complicated question than it appears on its surface. Biggest city can be defined by a number of different criteria. I have provided two figures; one based on municipality in square kilometers and one based on number of people.
The city with the ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest country in the world is Russia; even after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is over 17 million square kilometers and has approximately 142 million people; to give you an idea of what that means; almost 2 whole countries the size of the United States ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest continent in the world is Asia at 44.3 million square kilometers. Although connected by land, Europe is considered to be a separate continent at 10.3 million square kilometers. The 7 continents ranking in order from biggest to smallest are as follows (in million square kilometers):
Asia - 44.3. Asia's ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
France is the biggest country in Europe at almost 675,000 square kilometers. Some people may think that Denmark, including Greenland is the biggest country, but Greenland was granted autonomy from Denmark in 1978 and is considered to be an Autonomous Province in the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland is a parliamentary ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest lake in the world can be classified in a number of different ways. I have chosen to classify the biggest lake according to the amount of water it contains, but will make honorable mention extremely large lakes by square kilometerage.
The biggest lake, by volume, in the world is ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest mountain in the world is actually a volcano; Mauna Kea is 10,206 meters from base to summit; keeping in mind that the base is several thousand meters below sea level and we only see the top 4,000 meters. Mauna Kea is one of 5 volcanoes that make up ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest ocean in the world is the Pacific Ocean. It covers almost 33% of the Earth's surface at 169 million square kilometers. The Pacific Ocean stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole and is the giant stretch of water separating the west coast of North America from ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest river in the world by volume is, by far, the Amazon River in South America. It is responsible for draining 20% of the world's supply of fresh water into the ocean at a rate of 300,000 meters cubed per second! If you were thirsty and out of site ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest state in the United States is Alaska at 1.7 million square kilometers. Texas could fit into Alaska's borders almost 3 times. Alaska holds the record for being the largest continental state, but not the largest contiguous state; that honor belongs to Texas. In 1959, Alaska was the 49th ...
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