Geography Facts for Kids

The Pacific Ocean is bigger than all the land on Earth put together.

Antarctica is technically a desert because it gets very little precipitation.

The Nile River flows through 11 different countries in Africa.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world — it's about the size of 60 football fields.

The Great Wall of China stretches about 13,170 miles — that's longer than the distance from New York to Sydney.

Greenland is the largest island in the world, but about 80% of it is covered by an ice sheet.

Earth has about 3 trillion trees — that's more than the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Lake Baikal in Russia holds about 20% of the world's unfrozen freshwater.

Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, not Everest, is the farthest point from the centre of the Earth because of Earth's bulge at the equator.

Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands, making it the largest island country in the world.