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 | Pacific | show 🗑
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| Country with most lakes | show | (blank)
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| Highest major city | La Paz, Bolivia | show 🗑
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| Highest mountain region | Himalayas | show 🗑
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| Highest Navigable Lake | Lake Titicaca | show 🗑
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| show | Death Valley, California | Much of the valley is below sea level, and near Badwater, at 86 m (282 ft) below sea level, is the lowest point in the western hemisphere. The summer temperatures in Death Valley, one of the hottest regions known, exceed 52° C (125° F).
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| Largest City (by population) | Tokyo | show 🗑
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| show | China | More than one-fifth of the world’s population—1.3 billion people—live in China.
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| Largest desert | show | 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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| show | Three Gorges Dam in China | Officially dedicated in 2012, has the greatest capacity in the world (22,500 megawatts when placed in full operation)
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| Largest inland sea | show | 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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| show | Lake Superior | Canada/US border
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| Largest Lake by volume | Lake Baikal | show 🗑
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| show | Eurasia | (blank)
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| show | Uluru (Ayers Rock) | Central Australia
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| Largest Ocean | Pacific | show 🗑
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| Largest river by volume | Amazon | show 🗑
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| show | Russia | (blank)
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| show | Russia | (blank)
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| show | The Andes | S America
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| Longest river | Nile | show 🗑
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| Lowest point on Earth (land) | Shore of the Dead Sea | show 🗑
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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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| Highest mountain outside Asia | show | Argentina
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| Largest Archipelago | show | (blank)
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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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| Largest Man-made lake (reservoir) | show | Uganda
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| Highest mountain in Africa | Kilimanjaro 5, 596.3 m/19,340 ft | show 🗑
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| Highest mountain in N America | show | 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 | Lake Superior | show 🗑
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| Smallest Great Lake | show | (blank)
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| show | Reykjavik | Iceland
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| Southernmost Capital City | show | 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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| Largest Organ in the human body | show | (blank)
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| Largest Landlocked Country | show | (blank)
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| Fastest Helicopter | show | 249 mph
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| Longest River in France | Loire | show 🗑
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| Longest River in Europe | Volga | show 🗑
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| Longest River in North America | show | When the river is measured from mouth to farthest source, it is called the Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson. 3900 miles long.
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