The Grand Canyon is located in Arizona and stretches to Colorado. The canyon was created by the Colorado River over a 5.4 million year period. The Grand Canyon's oldest sedimentary rocks date back almost 2 billion years. Lived in for hundreds of...

The island was formed as the result of volcanic activity and is just 27 miles long (north to south) by 14 miles wide (east to west). Total area size is 616sq km. St Lucia became self governing on 1st March 1967, and obtained total independence from...

The United States has 3,500,000 miles of rivers. The Missouri River is about 2,540 miles long, making it the longest river in the United States. The Rhine carries to the sea every day 145,980 cubic feet of mud. The River Nile is about 6,670 km...

There are twelve classical world religions: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity,Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam,Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism,Taoism, Zoroastrianism . Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism are unquestionably the largest...

Dubai is the second largest member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Dubai is the safest place to live in. Its a tax free country. Approximately 80% of the residents in Dubai are foreigners. It is the most important port and the commercial...

Pacific Ocean covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area. The world's largest ocean covers just under 180,00,000 km², which accounts for almost 46% percent of all the world's oceans and just under 33%...

About fifty million years ago, the continent of Antarctica had dense, lush jungles! Many kinds of dinosaurs lived there. Today, it is a desolate land of rock and ice. 250 million years ago, all the continents were joined into one huge land mass...

Some deserts are named and nicknamed things like Death Valley, "the Empty Quarter," and "the Place from Where There is No Return" because of the lack of water there. Sahara desert is the second largest desert in the world, after Antarctica, and the...

There are 41 million acres of lakes and reservoirs in the U.S.There are at least 3 million lakes in Canada. The Great Lakes shoreline is equal to almost 44 percent of the circumference of the earth, and Michigan's Great Lakes coast totals 3,288...

The greatest and longest cave system in the world is at Mammoth Cave Park in Kentucky, USA. It has about 591 kilometers (367 miles) of cave system. Deepest cave is Voronya Cave in Abkhazia, Georgia with a depth of 2,191 meters. This is the difference...

There are five basic kinds of mountains: fold Mountains (folded mountains) , fault-block mountains (block mountains), dome mountains, volcanic mountains, plateau mountains . The world's highest peak on land is Mount Everest in the Himalayas. It is...

Niagara Falls is the second largest waterfall on Earth, the first being Victoria Falls in South Africa. Over 5,000,000,000 gallons (about 2 trillion liters) of water per hour flowed over the edge of Niagara Falls. The number of tourists visiting...