| Largest Archipelago | Indonesia |
| Largest Railway Bridge | Huey P. Long Bridge, Louisiana, U.S.A. (7 km.) |
| Largest Bird in World | Ostrich |
| Smallest Bird in World | Humming bird |
| Tallest Building in World | Taipei-101 Tower in Taiwan - 508 meter high |
| Longest Irrigation Canal | The Kalakumsky Canal (1200 km) |
| Longest Canal (Joining two oceans) | Suez Canal (168 km) |
| City with largest population in world | Tokyo (Japan) |
| Biggest City in terms of area | Mount Isa (40,978 sq. km.) (Queens Land-Australia) |
| Highest City of world | Van Chuan (China), (5,100 meters high) |
| Most Expensive City in World | Tokyo |
| Highest Capital of world | La Paz (Bolivia) (3,632 meters high) |
| Highest Aerodrome in world | La Paz (Bolivia) (4,080 m) |
| Biggest Continent in world | Asia (4,40,00,000 sq. kms) |
| Smallest Continent in world | Australia (80,60,000 sq. kms) |
| Biggest Country in world | Russia (1,70,75,400 sq. kms) |
| Highest Region in world | Tibet (4,875 metres) |
| Largest Delta in world | Sunderban (India) |
| Biggest Desert in whole world | The Great Sahara |
| World's Highest Gravity Dam | Roginskaya (Tajikistan) (84,00,000 sq. kms) |
| Largest Dam in world | Grand coulee Dam (U.S.A.) |
| Largest Diamond in world | The Cullinan (over 1½ lb.) |
| Largest Electorate in world | India (About 60 crores) |
| Biggest Epic (mythological tale) | Mahabharat |
| World's Greatest Genius | Leonardo-da-Vinci painter sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist etc. |
| Highest Airfield of world | Daulat Beg Oldi (Ladakh, 16,800 ft) |
| World's Biggest Irrigation Scheme | Lloyd Barrage, Sukkur (Pakistan) |
| Biggest Island in the World | Greenland |
| Largest Island Sea | Mediterranean Sea |
| World's Highest Mountain Peak | Mount Everest (Nepal) 8,848 Meters |
| Deepest Lake in world | Baikal (Russia, 1940 Meters) |
| World's Biggest Museum | British museum (London) |
| Biggest Ocean in world | The Pacific Ocean |
| Newspaper with Largest Circulation in world | The Times of India |
| Biggest National Park | Yellow Stone National Park (USA) |
| Largest Peninsula | Arabia (32,50,000 Square Kilometers) |
| World's Biggest Plane | Super Jumbo Airbus A380 (France) |
| Biggest Palace in world | Vatican (Italy) |
| Largest Planet in Solar System | Jupiter |
| Smallest Planet in Solar System | Pluto |
| Highest Plateau | Pamir |
| Highest Population in world | China (1.42 Billion) followed by India (1.35 Billion) |
| Longest Railway Platform in world | Storvik (Sweden) |
| World's Longest River | Nile (6648 kilometers) |
| World's Coldest Region | Verkhoyansk (Siberia) |
| World's first stamp | Penny Black (British) |
| Tallest Building in the East | “Sunshine 60” in Tokyo |
| Largest Radio Telescope | New Mexico (U.S.A.) |
| Richest Country in 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) |
| Highest Volcano in world | Cotopaxi (Andes, Ecuador) |
| Largest Volcano in world | Mauna Kea (Hawaii) |
| World's largest, biggest and longest wall | The Great Wall of China |
| World's Highest Waterfall | In Venezuela (Angel Falls) (979 meters) |
| Lowest body of water | Dead Sea (around 1,300 feet below sea-level) |
| Largest Zoo in the world | Kruger National Park, South Africa |
| An observatory situated at the highest place in the world | Indian Astronomical observatory, situated at Hanle, Ladakh |
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Created: Mon, Dec 28, 2009
Last Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2019
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