Geography Facts for Kids
Cool facts about our planet
Singapore is one of the world's only city-states, meaning the entire country is essentially one city on one island. Despite its tiny size, it has one of the busiest ports and airports in the world.
The Caspian Sea is actually the world's largest lake, despite its name. It covers about 371,000 square kilometres and is bordered by five countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.
Nepal is home to eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest. The Himalayas, which run through Nepal, were formed when India crashed into Asia about 50 million years ago.
Brazil contains about 60% of the Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest. The Amazon produces about 20% of the world's oxygen and is sometimes called the 'lungs of the Earth.'
The Dead Sea is shrinking at an alarming rate, dropping about one metre in water level every year. Farmers and cities in the region divert so much water from the Jordan River that very little reaches the Dead Sea.
The Hawaiian Islands are slowly moving toward Alaska at about 7 to 9 centimetres per year because the Pacific tectonic plate is drifting northwestward. In millions of years Hawaii will no longer be tropical.
Lesotho is a small country completely surrounded by South Africa. It holds a unique record: it is the only country in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres in elevation.
Iceland is one of the only inhabited places on Earth where mosquitoes do not live. The island's unique freeze-thaw weather patterns prevent them from completing their life cycle.
Monaco is the world's most densely populated country. Despite being just 2 square kilometres in size, it's home to about 39,000 people — that's roughly 20,000 people per square kilometre.
The equator runs almost perfectly through the middle of Africa, meaning the continent sits equally in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This gives Africa a uniquely diverse range of climates.