Geography Facts for Kids
Cool facts about our planet
Bolivia is a landlocked country in South America that lost its access to the Pacific Ocean to Chile during the War of the Pacific in the 1880s.
The Himalayas are still growing by about 5 millimetres per year as the Indian tectonic plate continues to push northward into the Eurasian plate.
France is the largest country in the European Union by land area, and it also has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world due to its many overseas territories.
Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, at 6,961 metres, is the highest peak in both the Western and Southern hemispheres.
Despite being the world's largest river by volume, there is not a single bridge crossing the main stem of the Amazon River along its entire length.
The Sonoran Desert spans the border between the United States and Mexico, and is one of the hottest and most biologically diverse deserts in North America.
The Murray-Darling river system in Australia is the country's most important river system, draining about one seventh of the continent's total land area.
The River Danube flows through ten countries — more than any other river in the world — on its way from Germany's Black Forest to the Black Sea.
Lake Superior is the largest of the North American Great Lakes by surface area — it is so enormous it could cover the entire landmass of South America in water 30 cm deep.
The Kuroshio Current is a powerful warm ocean current in the Pacific that flows along the eastern coast of Japan, influencing its climate similarly to how the Gulf Stream warms Europe.