Geography Facts for Kids
Cool facts about our planet
The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest known point on Earth at about 10,935 metres below sea level — deeper than Mount Everest is tall.
The Amazon River is home to pink river dolphins called 'boto'. They can turn their heads 180 degrees because their neck vertebrae are not fused like other dolphins.
Before humans arrived, New Zealand had no native land mammals except bats. Birds like the kiwi evolved to fill the roles that mammals occupy elsewhere.
About 6,000 years ago, the Sahara was a lush, green landscape with lakes, rivers, and abundant wildlife. Climate shifts gradually turned it into the desert we see today.
The River Nile is one of the few major rivers in the world that flows from south to north, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
Australia stretches about 4,000 kilometres from east to west, making it wider than the Moon's diameter of roughly 3,474 kilometres.
Major earthquakes can actually shift Earth's axis. The 2011 earthquake in Japan moved Earth's axis by about 17 centimetres and shortened the day by a fraction of a second.
Lake Baikal in Russia is home to the Baikal seal, the only species of seal that lives entirely in freshwater. Scientists are still debating how it got there.
The Sargasso Sea is the only sea on Earth with no land boundaries. It is defined entirely by four ocean currents that circulate around it in the North Atlantic.
Vatican City is so small (about 0.44 square kilometres) that it could fit inside New York's Central Park nearly eight times.