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Natural World Records

Big, tall, deep and long things in nature and geography. Stable facts only.

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  • Tallest mountain above sea levelRecord
    Mount Everest, about 29,000 feet (8,849 m)
  • Longest river (often cited)Record
    The Nile or the Amazon, depending on how it is measured
  • Largest oceanRecord
    The Pacific Ocean
  • Deepest ocean trenchRecord
    The Mariana Trench in the Pacific
  • Largest desert on EarthRecord
    Antarctica, a polar desert
  • Largest hot desertRecord
    The Sahara
  • Largest continentRecord
    Asia
  • Smallest continentRecord
    Australia
  • Largest country by areaRecord
    Russia
  • Smallest country by areaRecord
    Vatican City
  • Largest islandRecord
    Greenland (not counting continents)
  • Largest lake by surface areaRecord
    The Caspian Sea
  • Largest freshwater lake by areaRecord
    Lake Superior
  • Deepest lakeRecord
    Lake Baikal in Russia
  • Highest waterfallRecord
    Angel Falls in Venezuela
  • Largest rainforestRecord
    The Amazon rainforest
  • Largest coral reef systemRecord
    The Great Barrier Reef in Australia
  • Longest mountain rangeRecord
    The Andes in South America (on land)
  • Tallest mountain from base to peakRecord
    Mauna Kea in Hawaii
  • Largest volcano in the solar systemRecord
    Olympus Mons on Mars
  • Biggest canyon in the USRecord
    The Grand Canyon
  • Biggest planetRecord
    Jupiter
  • Hottest planetRecord
    Venus
  • Coldest place on EarthRecord
    Antarctica
  • Driest place on EarthRecord
    Parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
  • Highest capital cityRecord
    La Paz, Bolivia
  • Longest wallRecord
    The Great Wall of China
  • Largest country in Africa by areaRecord
    Algeria
  • Largest country in South AmericaRecord
    Brazil
  • Largest country in North America by areaRecord
    Canada
  • Tallest tree speciesRecord
    Coast redwood
  • Biggest tree by volumeRecord
    Giant sequoia named General Sherman
  • Oldest living tree species (individual groves)Record
    Great Basin bristlecone pine
  • Biggest single flowerRecord
    Rafflesia arnoldii of Southeast Asia
  • Biggest catRecord
    The tiger
  • Biggest animalRecord
    The blue whale
  • Fastest land animalRecord
    The cheetah
  • Tallest living animalRecord
    The giraffe
  • Largest birdRecord
    The ostrich
  • Longest-lived land animalRecord
    The Galapagos tortoise
  • Tallest building (2010 onward)Record
    Burj Khalifa in Dubai, over 2,700 feet (828 m)
  • First person to reach the summit of Mount EverestRecord
    Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953
  • First to the South PoleRecord
    Roald Amundsen's team in 1911
  • First person in spaceRecord
    Yuri Gagarin in 1961
  • First person on the MoonRecord
    Neil Armstrong in 1969
  • First powered flightRecord
    The Wright brothers in 1903
  • First solo nonstop Atlantic flightRecord
    Charles Lindbergh in 1927
  • First woman to fly solo across the AtlanticRecord
    Amelia Earhart in 1932
  • First country to put a satellite in orbitRecord
    The Soviet Union, Sputnik 1 in 1957
  • First US astronaut in orbitRecord
    John Glenn in 1962
  • Hottest temperature measured on Earth (official)Record
    134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 C) at Death Valley in 1913
  • Coldest temperature measured on EarthRecord
    About minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C) in Antarctica in 1983
  • Most spoken first languageRecord
    Mandarin Chinese
  • Oldest city still lived in (often cited)Record
    Damascus, Syria, or Jericho, depending on definition
  • Most visited museum (in most years)Record
    The Louvre in Paris

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