Archive for the ‘What is the Biggest’ Category
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 dog in the world can be measured by weight or by height, so here is the breakdown:
Among the two heaviest breeds in the world are the Saint Bernard weighing in between 72 and 110 kilos and the English Mastiff whose weight can be over 91 kilos. The Guinness ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest fish in the world is the Whale Shark. Reports vary wildly about its size, but they are 14 to 20 meters long and weigh between 9 and 21 tonnes. The Whale shark is not dangerous to humans, and is in fact, known to be curious and at times ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
By biggest, I am referring to the aperture, or the light gathering capacity of the telescope in question.
The biggest telescope in the world is the Large Binocular Telescope located in southeastern Arizona. Like its name suggests, it uses two 8.4 meter mirrors mounted side by side to produce one image ...
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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 planet in our solar system is Jupiter. The diameter at the equator of Jupiter is 140,000 kilometers. All of the planets in our solar system could nicely fit inside Jupiter twice over!
Jupiter is classified as a Gas Giant planet, meaning that it is mainly composed of gases; hydrogen ...
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