Geography — Page 6
Wonders of our planet
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Chile is about 4,300 km long but, on average, only 177 km wide.
Squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, the country runs from the Atacama Desert, one of the driest in the…
At the Strait of Gibraltar, Europe and Africa are separated by only about 14 km of sea.
The narrowest point lies between the southern tip of Spain near Tarifa and the coast of Morocco. On clear days you…
Finland has about 188,000 lakes.
The figure counts lakes larger than 500 square metres. They were carved by glaciers from the last ice age, which…
The Danube flows through ten countries, more than any other river in the world.
It rises in Germany's Black Forest and runs through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria…
Lake Natron in Tanzania is so alkaline that animals that die there end up looking as if they were turned to stone.
The water can have a pH above 10 and is rich in sodium carbonate, the same salt the Egyptians used for mummification…
In Supai, a village at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, mail is still delivered by mule.
The Havasupai tribe's village has no road: it can only be reached on foot, on horseback or by helicopter. Mule trains…
The summit of Everest is made of limestone containing fossils of sea creatures.
These rocks formed on the floor of a sea about 450 million years ago and contain remains of trilobites and other…
