Geography Facts for Kids
Cool facts about our planet
Spain shares the record for the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe, including iconic landmarks such as the Alhambra and the Sagrada Família.
The Coriolis effect — caused by Earth's rotation — makes weather systems spin clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Tibetan Plateau is the source of many of Asia's greatest rivers, including the Yangtze, Yellow, Mekong, Indus, and Brahmaputra — providing water for billions of people.
The Scottish Highlands were once as tall as the Himalayas — they have been worn down over hundreds of millions of years by weathering and erosion.
Scientists predict the Sahara could become green again in about 15,000 years as Earth's orbital cycles shift and bring more rainfall to the region.
The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands in South-East Asia, though only around 2,000 of them are permanently inhabited.
Around 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age, lower sea levels exposed a land bridge across the Bering Strait that early humans walked from Asia into the Americas.
South America and Africa are drifting apart at a rate of about 2.5 centimetres per year — they once formed part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
The Sundarbans on the coast of Bangladesh and India is the world's largest mangrove forest, covering nearly 10,000 square kilometres and home to the Bengal tiger.
Lake Chad in central Africa has shrunk by about 90% since the 1960s due to climate change and human water usage — it was once one of Africa's largest lakes.