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The Largest, Longest, Biggest, Highest, Smallest in the World

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The Largest, Longest, Biggest, Highest, Smallest in the World
Archipelago, largest	Indonesia
Largest Railway Bridge	Herey P. Long Bridge, Louisiana, U.S.A. (7 km.)
Bird, largest	Ostrich
Bird, smallest	Humming bird
Building, tallest	Taipei-101, in Taipei (Taiwan) 508 metre high
Longest Irrigational Canal	Thekalakumsky Canal (1200 km)
Canal, longest (Joining two oceans)	Suez Canal (168 km)
City, largest population	Tokyo (Japan)
City, biggest in area	Mount Isa (40,978 sq. km.) (Queens Land-Australia)
City, highest	Van Chuan (China), (5,100 metres high)
City, most expensive	Tokyo
Capital, highest	La Paz (Bolivia) (3,632 metres high)
Highest, Aerodrome	La Paz (Bolivia) (4,080 m)
Continent, biggest	Asia (4,40,00,000 sq. kms)
Continent, smallest	Australia (80,60,000 sq. kms)
Country, biggest	Russia (1,70,75,400 sq. kms)
Region, highest	Tibet (4,875 metres)
Delta, Largest	Sunderban (India)
Desert, biggest	The Great Sahara
Dam, World’s highest gravity	Rogunskaya (Tadzhikistan) (84,00,000 sq. kms)
Dam largest	Grand coulee Dam (U.S.A.)
Diamond, largest	The Cullinan (over 1½1b.)
Electorate, largest	India (About 60 crores)
Epic, biggest	Mahabharat
Genius, World’s greatest	Leonardo-da-Vinci painter sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist etc.
Highest airfield	Daulat Beg Oldi (Laddakh, 16,800 ft)
Irrigation scheme, World’s biggest	Lloyd Barrage, Sukkhur (Pakistan)
Island, biggest in the World	Greenland
Island Sea, largest	Mediterranean Sea
Mountain Peak, world’s highest	Mount Everest (Nepal) 8,848 Metres
Lake, deepest	Baikal (Russia, 1940 metres)
Museum, World’s biggest	British museum (London)
Ocean, biggest	The Pacific
The Paper with the largest circulation in the world	The Times of India
Park, biggest	Yellow Stone National Park (USA)
Peninsula, largest	Arabia (32,50,000 sq. kms)
Plane, World’s largest	Superjumbo Airbus a 380 (France)
Palace, biggest	Vatican (italy)
Planet, largest	Jupiter
Planet, smallest	Pluto
Plateau, highest	Pamir
Population, largest	China [127.5 crore (20010)]
Railway Platform, longest	Storvik (Sweden)
River, world’s longest	Nile (6648 kms)
Region, world’s coldest	Verkhoyansk (Siberia)
Stamp, world’s first	Penny Black (British)
Tallest Building in the East	“Sunshine 60” in Tokyo
Telescope, largest Radio	New Mexico (U.S.A.)
The richest country in the world (in terms of Gross national product per inhabitant)	Switzerland (21,330 U.S. Dollar per capita)
Tramway, world’s first	New York, 1832
Tunnel, longest	Laerdal Tunnel (Norway) (24.5 km)
Thoroughfare, world’s largest	Broadway (New York)
Volcano, highest	Cotopaxi (Andes, Equador)
Volcano largest	Mauna Lea (Hawai)
Wall, world’s largest	The Great Wall of China
Waterfall, world’s highest	In Venezuela (Angel Falls) (979 metres)
Water, Lowest body of	Dead Sea (around 1,300 feet below sea-level)
Zoo, largest in the world	Kruger National Park, South Africa
An observatory situated at the highest place in the world	Indian Astronomical observatory, situated at Hanle, Laddakh