Geography Facts for Kids
Cool facts about our planet
The Amazon Basin receives so much rainfall that the Amazon River releases more freshwater into the ocean than the next seven largest rivers in the world combined.
Istanbul in Turkey is the only major city in the world that sits on two continents — the Bosphorus Strait divides it between Europe and Asia.
The Great Wall of China is not a single continuous wall but a network of walls, watchtowers, and fortifications built over many centuries, totalling over 21,000 km.
Parts of the Sahara Desert receive less than 25 mm of rain per year — London gets roughly 600 mm — making it one of the driest places on Earth.
Unlike Antarctica, the Arctic is not a continent — it is a frozen ocean with floating ice, with no land underneath the ice at the North Pole.
Mount Vesuvius in Italy famously erupted in 79 AD, burying the Roman city of Pompeii under metres of volcanic ash and preserving it remarkably well.
Bolivia is one of only a few countries with two capital cities — Sucre is the constitutional capital and La Paz is the seat of government.
The Andes in South America is the world's longest continental mountain range, stretching about 7,000 kilometres from Venezuela to the southern tip of Argentina.
The Sahel is a semi-arid region of Africa stretching across the continent between the Sahara Desert in the north and the tropical savannah in the south.
New Guinea is the second-largest island in the world after Greenland and is split between two countries — Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.