World Superlatives - Biggest, Tallest, Fastest of Natural World
Largest Bird | North American Ostrich |
Smallest Bird | Bee Hummingbird |
Largest Egg | Ostrich Egg |
Largest Reptile | Estuarine or salt-water crocodile found in South-East Asia, Northern Australia and New Guinea |
Longest Snake | Reticulated Python, found in South-East Asia, Indonesia and Philippines |
Largest Animal
(in water) |
Blue Whale |
Largest Animal
(living on land) |
African Bush Elephant |
Tallest Animal | Giraffe |
Largest Ocean | Pacific |
Deepest Part of the Ocean | Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean |
Largest Sea | South China Sea |
Largest Gulf | Gulf of Mexico |
Largest Bay | Hudson Bay, Northern Canada |
Largest Continent | Asia |
Smallest Continent | Australia |
Largest Island | Greenland (renamed Kalaattit Nunaat) |
Highest Mountain Peak | Mount Everest on the Tibet-Nepal border |
Largest and Highest Mountain Range | Himalaya-Karakoram in Asia |
Largest River | Amazon in South America |
Longest River | Nile in Africa |
Largest Delta | Sunderbans, created by the Ganga and Brahmaputra in Bangladesh and West Bengal |
Highest Waterfall | Salto Angel, Venezuela |
Largest Desert | The Sahara, North Africa |
Largest Glacier
(Non-Polar regions) |
Siachen, Indo-Pak border |
Driest Place | Atacama Desert, Chile |
Hottest Place | Aziza, Libya |
Rainiest Place | Mawsynram, near Cherrapunji (Meghalaya) |
Longest Canal
(small ship) |
Beloye Baltic Canal |
Longest Canal (big ship | Suez Canal, UAR |