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The Gobi Desert is the fastest-expanding desert in the world and covers parts of northern China and southern Mongolia.
The Maldives is the world's lowest-lying country, with an average ground level of just 1.5 meters above sea level.
Greenland is the world's largest island and is covered by an ice sheet containing 10% of the world's fresh water.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall at 979 meters.
Venice, Italy is built on 118 small islands connected by over 400 bridges and is slowly sinking.
The Great Rift Valley in Africa may eventually split the continent in two, forming a new ocean in millions of years.
Mount Etna in Sicily is Europe's most active volcano and has been erupting continuously for at least 2,700 years.
The Ganges Delta is the world's largest river delta, covering over 100,000 square kilometers.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is so dry that some weather stations there have never recorded rain.
New Zealand was one of the last large landmasses to be settled by humans, around 1250–1300 AD.
Iceland sits directly on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is actually spreading by 2.5 cm per year as two tectonic plates diverge.
The Nile is generally considered the world's longest river, but some measurements put the Amazon ahead depending on source point.
Russia spans 11 time zones and is so wide that the sun is setting in the west as it rises in the east.
The Caspian Sea is technically the world's largest lake, covering 371,000 square kilometers.
There are more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt — the Nubian pyramids number over 200.
The Sahara Desert is expanding southward at a rate of about 48 kilometers per year due to desertification.
Antarctica is technically a desert — it receives less precipitation than the Sahara in many areas.
The Amazon River discharges more water into the ocean than the next seven largest rivers combined.
Mount Everest is not the closest point to space — that title goes to Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador due to Earth's equatorial bulge.
The Colosseum in Rome could hold between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators and had a retractable awning called the velarium.
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye — this is a common myth.
Antarctica is the only continent with no native population and no permanent residents except researchers.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia — all water comes from rainfall, groundwater, or desalination.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig — they are social animals and must have a companion.
Sudan has more ancient pyramids than Egypt — over 200, though smaller in scale.
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye — it's too narrow relative to its length.
The city of Venice is built on 118 small islands connected by 400 bridges.
The shortest commercial flight in the world operates between two Scottish islands — Westray to Papa Westray — lasting about 90 seconds.
The United States has no official language — English is the dominant language but is not legally designated.
There are more than 17,000 islands in Indonesia — making it the world's largest archipelago country.
The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Russia — it reaches a depth of over 5,300 feet.
Norway has a town called Å — the shortest place name in the world.
The Nile Delta is sinking — it's being weighed down by sediment and eroded by rising seas.
The highest navigable lake in the world is Lake Titicaca, shared between Peru and Bolivia at 12,507 feet.
More people live in Tokyo than in the entire country of Canada.
The Sahara Desert is roughly the same size as the United States.
The shortest commercial flight in the world is between two Scottish islands — it lasts about 90 seconds.
The country of San Marino claims to be the world's oldest republic, founded in 301 AD.
Antarctica is the windiest continent — wind speeds can exceed 200 mph.
The border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs through a bar in the town of Baarle-Hertog.
There is a town in Norway called Hell — it regularly freezes over in winter.
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water and is classified as a lake despite its salt water.
Africa is so large that the United States, China, India, and most of Europe could all fit inside it simultaneously.
New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote, in 1893.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar desert on Earth — some weather stations there have never recorded rain.
Greenland is 80% covered by ice — if it all melted, global sea levels would rise about 20 feet.
The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall at 3,212 feet.
Mongolia is the world's least densely populated country, with about 5 people per square mile.
Hawaii is moving toward Japan at about 3 inches per year.
The city of Istanbul spans two continents — Europe and Asia.