Quiz: Geographical superlatives

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Rivers are natural watercourses that flow toward an ocean, a sea, a lake or another river.
Rivers carry a large amount of sediments and, if conditions permit, they can form deltas at their mouths. But they can form estuaries when their mouths are in saline tidal waters.
A few rivers that need to be mentioned are, in my opinion, Amazon, Nile, Gange and Obi.

It's located in the northen part of South America.
Amazon is the river with the largest drainage basin in the world, covering approximately 7 million square kilometres.
Amazon releases a large amount of fresh water in the Atlantic Ocean: 300000 cubic metres per second during the rainy season.
Amazon covers about 20% of the fresh water that enters the oceans. It enters the Atlantic Ocean in an enormous estuary of 240km wide.
But still Amazon is not the longest river in the world and it doesn't have the longest estuary in the world.

The Nile is situated in Africa and it is renowned for the fact that it crosses the Sahara Desert from south to north.
It was an important pillar in the Ancient Egyptian's economy.
The Nile is the longest river in the world with a length of 6650 km.

Besides being the Holy river of Hinduism, Gange is the largest river of the Indian Subcontinent and it's renouned for the creation of the largest delta in the world.

Obi is a large river situated in Siberia, Russia.
When it comes to geographical superlatives, the Obi River has a special place having the longest estuary in the world with a length of about 800km.

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the World: Chomolungma Peak 8848 metres.
Mount McKinley is the highest mountain in the North America: 6194 m
Aconcagua is the highest mountain in South America: 6960m
Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa: 5895m
Kosciusko is the highest mountain in Australia: 2228m
Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe: 5642m

Everybody knows what a country is so i'm not going to nag you with definitions. Instead, I'm going to show you 3 lists:

• Top 10 countries with the largest surface in the world


• Top 10 most populeted countries and


• Top 10 countries with the smallest surface in the world.

10. Sudan 2.505.810 square kilometers
9. Kazahstan 2.727.300 square kilometers
8. Argentina 2.766.890 square kilometers
7. India 3.287.590 square kilometers
6. Australia 7.687.453 square kilometers
5. Brazil 8.511.965 square kilometers
4. China 9.598.077 square kilometers
3. USA 9.639.810 square kilometers
2. Canada 9.976.140 square kilometers
1. Russia 17.075.200 square kilometers

10. Japan - 127.214.499
9. Nigeria - 133.881.703
8. Bangladesh - 138.448.210
7. Russia - 144.526.278
6. Pakistan - 150.694.740
5. Brazil - 182.032.604
4. Indonesia - 234.893.453
3. USA - 294.667.776
2. India - 1.049.700.118
1. China - 1.294.839.541

10. Malta - 316 square kilometers
9. Maldive - 300 square kilometers
8. Saint Kitts and Nevis - 261 square kilometers
7. Marshall Islands - 181 square kilometers
6. Liechtenstein - 160 square kilometers
5. San Marino - 61,2 square kilometers
4. Tuvalu - 26 square kilometers
3. Nauru - 21 square kilometers
2. Monaco - 1,65 square kilometers
1. Vatican - 0,44 square kilometers

You would think that the biggest island in the world is Australia, right? Well, I can't question that, but, Australia is not an island is a continent. Therefore The biggest island in the world is Greenland with a surface of 2,130,800 square kilometers.

Deserts are regions where precipitations are scarce, almost non-existant. Under this definition the biggest desert in the world is Antarctica, a huge iced desert.
Most of us see deserts as those huge land masses covered with sand. In my quiz I considered this definition of deserts and, that being said, the biggest desert in the world is Sahara, situated in the North part of Africa.

Waterfalls are, indeed, one of the most beautiful natural phenomena. When I think about this subject 3 waterfalls come to my mind:

Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world - 979 m

Niagara Falls is the waterfall with the biggest enegetic potential.

Iguazu is the most beautiful waterfall in the world. You can see in the picture why.

Well, my story ends here. I really hope you had fun reading my lens and I really hope the you gathered some useful infos today.