The document lists various superlatives related to size around the world including:
1) The largest island is Greenland, the largest lake is Lake Baikal in Russia, and the largest desert is the Great Sahara.
2) Some of the tallest structures include Taipei 101 in Taiwan at 508 meters tall and Mount Everest at 8,848 meters, the highest point on Earth.
3) The longest river is the Nile at 6,648 km and the Suez Canal connects two oceans at 168 km, the longest canal to do so.
4) Countries with the largest populations and land masses include China with over 1.27 billion people and Russia with 1.7
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The document lists various superlatives related to size around the world including:
1) The largest island is Greenland, the largest lake is Lake Baikal in Russia, and the largest desert is the Great Sahara.
2) Some of the tallest structures include Taipei 101 in Taiwan at 508 meters tall and Mount Everest at 8,848 meters, the highest point on Earth.
3) The longest river is the Nile at 6,648 km and the Suez Canal connects two oceans at 168 km, the longest canal to do so.
4) Countries with the largest populations and land masses include China with over 1.27 billion people and Russia with 1.7
The document lists various superlatives related to size around the world including:
1) The largest island is Greenland, the largest lake is Lake Baikal in Russia, and the largest desert is the Great Sahara.
2) Some of the tallest structures include Taipei 101 in Taiwan at 508 meters tall and Mount Everest at 8,848 meters, the highest point on Earth.
3) The longest river is the Nile at 6,648 km and the Suez Canal connects two oceans at 168 km, the longest canal to do so.
4) Countries with the largest populations and land masses include China with over 1.27 billion people and Russia with 1.7
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The document lists various superlatives related to size around the world including:
1) The largest island is Greenland, the largest lake is Lake Baikal in Russia, and the largest desert is the Great Sahara.
2) Some of the tallest structures include Taipei 101 in Taiwan at 508 meters tall and Mount Everest at 8,848 meters, the highest point on Earth.
3) The longest river is the Nile at 6,648 km and the Suez Canal connects two oceans at 168 km, the longest canal to do so.
4) Countries with the largest populations and land masses include China with over 1.27 billion people and Russia with 1.7
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The Largest, Longest, Biggest, Highest, Smallest in the World
Archipelago, largest Indonesia
Herey P. Long Bridge, Louisiana, U.S.A. (7 Largest Railway Bridge km.) Bird, largest Ostrich Bird, smallest Humming bird Taipei-101, in Taipei (Taiwan) 508 metre Building, tallest high Longest Irrigational Canal Thekalakumsky Canal (1200 km) Canal, longest (Joining two oceans) Suez Canal (168 km) City, largest population Tokyo (Japan) Mount Isa (40,978 sq. km.) (Queens Land- City, biggest in area Australia) City, highest Van Chuan (China), (5,100 metres high) City, most expensive Tokyo Capital, highest La Paz (Bolivia) (3,632 metres high) Highest, Aerodrome La Paz (Bolivia) (4,080 m) Continent, biggest Asia (4,40,00,000 sq. kms) Continent, smallest Australia (80,60,000 sq. kms) Country, biggest Russia (1,70,75,400 sq. kms) Region, highest Tibet (4,875 metres) Delta, Largest Sunderban (India) Desert, biggest The Great Sahara Rogunskaya (Tadzhikistan) (84,00,000 sq. Dam, World’s highest gravity kms) Dam largest Grand coulee Dam (U.S.A.) Diamond, largest The Cullinan (over 1½1b.) Electorate, largest India (About 60 crores) Epic, biggest Mahabharat Leonardo-da-Vinci painter sculptor, Genius, World’s greatest architect, engineer, scientist etc. Highest airfield Daulat Beg Oldi (Laddakh, 16,800 ft) Irrigation scheme, World’s biggest Lloyd Barrage, Sukkhur (Pakistan) Island, biggest in the World Greenland Island Sea, largest Mediterranean Sea Mountain Peak, world’s highest Mount Everest (Nepal) 8,848 Metres Lake, deepest Baikal (Russia, 1940 metres) Museum, World’s biggest British museum (London) Ocean, biggest The Pacific The Paper with the largest circulation in the world The Times of India Park, biggest Yellow Stone National Park (USA) Peninsula, largest Arabia (32,50,000 sq. kms) Plane, World’s largest Superjumbo Airbus a 380 (France) Palace, biggest Vatican (italy) Planet, largest Jupiter Planet, smallest Pluto Plateau, highest Pamir Population, largest China [127.5 crore (20010)] Railway Platform, longest Storvik (Sweden) River, world’s longest Nile (6648 kms) Region, world’s coldest Verkhoyansk (Siberia) Stamp, world’s first Penny Black (British) Tallest Building in the East “Sunshine 60” in Tokyo Telescope, largest Radio New Mexico (U.S.A.) The richest country in the world (in terms of Gross Switzerland (21,330 U.S. Dollar per capita) national product per inhabitant) Tramway, world’s first New York, 1832 Tunnel, longest Laerdal Tunnel (Norway) (24.5 km) Thoroughfare, world’s largest Broadway (New York) Volcano, highest Cotopaxi (Andes, Equador) Volcano largest Mauna Lea (Hawai) Wall, world’s largest The Great Wall of China Waterfall, world’s highest In Venezuela (Angel Falls) (979 metres) Dead Sea (around 1,300 feet below sea- Water, Lowest body of level) Zoo, largest in the world Kruger National Park, South Africa An observatory situated at the highest place in the Indian Astronomical observatory, situated at world Hanle, Laddakh