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Estimated Age: 4.6 billion years
Estimated Weight (mass): (5.940.000.000.000.000.000.000 metric
tons)
Total area: 510.072.000 km² (70.8% of the world's surface
iswater, 29.2% is land)
Land: 148.940.000 km²
Water: 361.132.000 km² (97% salt, 3% fresh)
Land boundaries total 250.472 km
Coastlines total: 356.000 km
Earth's Circumference at the Equator: 40.075,16 km
Earth's Circumference between the North and South Poles:40.008 km
Average Distance Earth to the Sun: 149.669.180 km
Average Distance Earth to the Moon: 384.403,1 km
Orbit Speed: the earth orbits the Sun at 107.320 km per hour)
Sun Orbit: the earth orbits the Sun every 365 days, 5 hours,48
minutes and 46 seconds
Longest River: The Nile. Main source is Lake
Victoria, in east central Africa. From its farthest stream in Burundi,
in eastern Africa, it extends 6.695 km
Largest river basin: the Amazon covers about 7.045.000 km²
Largest delta: the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers in Bangladesh
and West Bengal, India, covers an area of 75.000 km²
Most rivers in a country: China, more than 50.000
World's highest waterfall: Angel Falls, Venezuela 979 m
Longest waterfalls: Iguazu Falls, a series of 275 waterfalls
covering 2,5 km
Largest waterfall: Chutes de Khone (Khone Falls), Mekong River in
Laos. Height 70 m and 12.122 m³ per second
Largest Desert: the Sahara, in North Africa, is the largest
desert in the world. Greatest width, 5.150 km from east to west. The
area covered by the desert is about 9.269.000 km². There do exist some
underground rivers which flow from the Atlas mountains underneath the
desert. The river Nile passes through the Sahara in the Nubian Desert
region and transforms the sandy wastes into a fertile plain.
Largest ice desert: the South Polar Region, 12.588.000 km²
Largest flower: Rafflesia, measuring almost a metre across and
weighing up to 11 kilograms
Most massive living tree: General Sherman the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron
giganteum) in the Sequoia National Park, California, USA., 83.82 m tall,
diameter 11.1 m. The trunk has a volume of 1,487 m³
Largest mammal : Blue Whale. At birth, it weighs 50 tons. Fully
grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons
Largest land mammal: Male African bush elephant (Loxodonta
africana) standing on average 3-3.7 m high at the shoulder and weighing
4-7 tonnes. The largest specimen ever recorded was shot in Mucusso,
Angola, on November 7, 1974. Lying on its side, this elephant measured a
standing height of about 3,96 m . Its weight was worked out to be 12,24
tonnes
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Highest Elevation: Mt. Everest, Asia: 8.850
m
Tallest Mountain from Base to Peak: - Mauna Kea, Hawaii: 10.204
m; above sea: 4.205 m)
Largest rainforest: Amazone 7 million km², located within nine
nations (Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana,
Suriname, French Guiana)
Greatest land mountain range: the Himalayas, which contains 96 of
the world's 109 peaks of over 7.315 m stretch across six nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Longest mountain range: Andes, 7.000 km long, 500 km wide in some
parts, average height of about 4.000 m. The mountains extend over seven countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela,
Most volcanoes in one country: 86 volcanoes have erupted in
Indonesia's history
Largest Glacier: Antarctic Lambert Glacier covers more than
1.000.000 km²
Largest canyon: Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra)
River in Himalayas (Tibet is also officially claimed by the Republic of China). Its depth reaches 5.382m and it has a total
length of 496,3km.
Deepest canyon: China's Brahmaputra Canyon, 504,6 kilometers long
and 6.009 meters deep at its deepest spot. Average depth 2.268 meters.
Lowest Elevation on Land: Dead Sea - 417,27 m (Jordan)
Deepest Point in the Ocean: Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench,
Western Pacific Ocean 10.924 m
Largest bay: Hudson Bay in Canada is the world's largest, as measured by
shoreline length 12.268 km
Longest Reef: the Great Barrier Reef, situated off the coast of
Queensland, Australia, stretches a total distance of 2.027 km
Longest cave:
Mammoth Cave near Cave City,
Kentucky USA, more than 563 km of passages have been mapped. Cave mappers
expect a total length of 900 km. The cave goes 118 m deep
Largest cave chamber: the Sarawak Chamber (Lubang Nasib Bagus),
in the Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia, 700 m long and 70 m
high, with an average width of 300 m
Highest plateau: China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, average height of
4.500 m, 2.3 million km² (Sichuan, Qinghai - China P.R.)
Lake in an Island in a Lake: The world's largest lake inside a
lake, Manitou Lake, is located on the world's largest lake island,
Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron Canada
Highest navigable lake: Titicaca 3.810 m (Andes - Bolivia, Peru)
Highest lake: Lhagba Pool 6.368 m (Himalaya -Tibet-China)
Largest lake: the salty Caspian Sea 370.886 km2 (Russia,
Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan)
Deepest lake: Russia's Lake Baikal, north of the Mongolian
border, 1.637 m
Longest freshwater lake: Tanganyka 676 km long, max 72 km wide
(Congo D.R., Tanzan |
