Superlatives - highest mountain, longest river etc
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| show | Antartica | Antarctica, fifth largest of the Earth’s seven continents. The southernmost, coldest, windiest, highest, most remote, and most recently discovered continent.
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| Deepest Freshwater Lake | Lake Baikal | show 🗑
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| show | Mt Everest | On the border between Nepal and Tibet, the height of Mount Everest has been determined to be 8,850 m (29,035 ft)
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| Deepest Ocean | show | Deepest and largest ocean. The greatest known depth in any of the world's oceans is 11,033 m (36,198 ft) in the Mariana Trench off Guam.
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| show | Canada | (blank)
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| Highest major city | show | (blank)
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| Highest mountain region | show | The Himalayas form the earth’s highest mountain region, containing 9 of the 10 highest peaks in the world. Among these peaks are the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest (8,850 m/29,035 ft), which is on the Nepal-Tibet border; the second highest peak.
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| Highest Navigable Lake | show | In east central South America on the Peru/Bolivia border, the highest navigable lake in the world (about 3,810 m/12,500 ft above sea level)
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| Hottest Place | Death Valley, California | show 🗑
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| Largest City (by population) | Tokyo | show 🗑
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| Largest country by population | China | show 🗑
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| show | Sahara (N Africa) | The entire desert, the largest in the world, is about 1,610 km (about 1,000 mi) wide and about 5,150 km (about 3,200 mi) long from east to west. The total area of the Sahara is more than 9.1 million sq km (more than 3.5 million sq mi).
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| Largest hydroelectric installation | show | Officially dedicated in 2012, has the greatest capacity in the world (22,500 megawatts when placed in full operation)
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| show | Caspian Sea | It extends about 1210 km (about 750 mi) in a northern and southern direction and about 210 to 436 km (about 130 to 271 mi) in an eastern and western direction. It has an area of 371,000 sq km (143,000 sq mi)
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| Largest Island | show | (blank)
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| Largest Lake by area | Lake Superior | show 🗑
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| show | Lake Baikal | (blank)
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| show | Eurasia | (blank)
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| show | Uluru (Ayers Rock) | Central Australia
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| Largest Ocean | show | (blank)
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| Largest river by volume | show | S America
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| Largest country by area | show | (blank)
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| Largest coastline | show | (blank)
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| Largest mountain system | The Andes | show 🗑
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| Longest river | show | Located in northeastern Africa, from its principal source, Lake Victoria, in east central Africa, the Nile flows north through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea, a distance of 5584 km (3470 mi)
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| show | Shore of the Dead Sea | (408 m/1,340 ft below sea level in 1996)
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| Driest place on Earth | show | N Chile
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| Highest waterfall on Earth | Angel Falls, 3,281 feet. | show 🗑
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| show | Aconcagua, 22,835 feet | Argentina
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| Largest Archipelago | Indonesia | show 🗑
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| show | Mammoth Cave, Kentucky | 345 miles of subterranean passageways
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| Deadliest Volcanic Eruption | show | Killed 92,000 people in 1815
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| show | Owen Falls, Lake Victoria | Uganda
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| Highest mountain in Africa | show | Tanzania
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| show | Mt McKinley, Alaska - (also known as Denali) | 20,320 ft
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| Highest Mountain in Australia | show | 7310 ft
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| Largest, coldest and deepest of the Great Lakes | show | (blank)
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| show | Erie by volume, Ontario by surface area | (blank)
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| Northernmost Capitial City | Reykjavik | show 🗑
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| show | Wellington | New Zealand
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| Largest Lake in Africa | show | Second largest (areawise) in World after L Superior. Borders Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
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| show | Skin | (blank)
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| Largest Landlocked Country | show | (blank)
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| show | Westland Lynx | 249 mph
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| Longest River in France | show | The Loire {lwar} River, with a total length of 625 mi. (1,006 km), making it the longest river in France, rises on Mont Gerbier de Jonc in the Massif Central. Initially, it flows north toward the Paris Basin, but at Orléans it arcs toward the west, passin
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| Longest River in Europe | show | The Volga River is the longest river in Europe, about 2,300 miles (3,700 km), draining into the Caspian Sea.
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| Longest River in North America | Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson | show 🗑
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