Geography

Places, borders, and the human and physical features of the world.

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Geography Borders & Maps

Chimborazo, not Everest, is the point farthest from Earth's center

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Geography Borders & Maps

Point Nemo: the spot in the ocean so remote the nearest humans are usually astronauts

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Geography Borders & Maps

Africa is larger than the US, China, India, and most of Europe combined

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Geography Demographics

About 85% of Australians live within 50 km of the coast

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Geography Countries

Bir Tawil is a patch of land no country wants

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

You cannot see the Great Wall of China from space with the naked eye

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Geography Borders & Maps

Greenland looks as big as Africa, but it's 14x smaller

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Geography Demographics

Monaco is the most densely populated country on Earth

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Geography Cities

Reno, Nevada sits farther west than Los Angeles

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Geography Borders & Maps

Russia and the United States are less than 4 km apart

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Geography Countries

Several countries have no permanent rivers at all

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

The Pacific Ocean is bigger than all of Earth's land combined

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Geography Borders & Maps

There's one spot where you can stand in four US states at once

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

Cologne Cathedral Was Completed After Six Centuries

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

The Eiffel Tower opens to the public at the Paris World's Fair

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument on Earth

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Geography Borders & Maps

One town is split into dozens of national fragments

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Geography Countries

Canada's coastline is the longest in the world

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Geography Cities

Damascus may be the oldest continuously inhabited city

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Geography Countries

Only two countries are landlocked inside landlocked countries

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

The Eiffel Tower grows up to 15 cm taller in summer

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Geography Demographics

The world has roughly half as many babies per woman as in 1950

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Geography Demographics

Global life expectancy has more than doubled in a century

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

The Great Pyramid stood as the tallest structure on Earth for nearly 4,000 years

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Geography Borders & Maps

The International Date Line zigzags to keep countries whole

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Geography Cities

Istanbul straddles two continents

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Geography Cities

La Paz is the world's highest capital city

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Geography Demographics

More than half of humanity now lives in cities

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Geography Borders & Maps

The whole world's longitude is measured from one line in London

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Geography Countries

Two countries tie for the most neighbours: fourteen each

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Geography Countries

Russia is so wide it spans eleven time zones

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Geography Cities

Tokyo is the world's largest urban agglomeration

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Geography Borders & Maps

The USA–Canada border is the longest in the world

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Geography Demographics

Over half of humanity lives inside one circle in Asia

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Geography Countries

The world's smallest country fits inside a single city

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Geography Cities

Venice stands on millions of wooden piles

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

Victoria Falls is the largest single sheet of falling water on Earth

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Geography Demographics

Humanity passed 8 billion people in 2022

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4 Jan 2010

Geography Landmarks & Wonders

The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, opens in Dubai

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6 Sep 1522

Geography Borders & Maps

One battered ship closed the first lap around the world

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1 Jan 1962

Geography Countries

Western Samoa: the first Pacific island nation to break free

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3 Jan 1959

Geography Countries

Alaska becomes the 49th U.S. state

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4 Jan 1948

Geography Countries

Burma Chose Its Own Path Out of Empire

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11 Feb 1929

Geography Countries

The Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City

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15 Feb 1965

Geography Countries

Canada raises the maple leaf flag

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1 Mar 1872

Geography Landmarks & Wonders

Yellowstone became the world's first national park

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31 Mar 1889

Geography Landmarks & Wonders

The Eiffel Tower was completed

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10 Apr 1858

Geography Landmarks & Wonders

London's Big Ben bell was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

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9 May 1926

Geography Landmarks & Wonders

Byrd Claims the First Flight Over the North Pole

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20 May 1498

Geography Borders & Maps

Vasco da Gama reaches India by sea around Africa

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