Geography Facts for Kids
Cool facts about our planet
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long and up to 18 miles wide — it took the Colorado River millions of years to carve it.
The Mediterranean Sea almost completely dried up about 5.96 million years ago in an event called the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Africa is the second-largest continent and could fit the USA, China, India, and much of Europe inside it.
The Amazon rainforest stretches across nine South American countries, with Brazil containing about 60% of it.
The Sahara Desert has grown by about 10% since the early 20th century, expanding southward due to climate change and natural climate cycles.
Mount Everest continues to grow by about 4 millimetres each year as the Indian tectonic plate pushes into the Eurasian plate.
Finland is known as the Land of a Thousand Lakes, but it actually has over 180,000 lakes.
The River Nile in Africa is generally considered the longest river in the world, stretching about 6,650 kilometres from its source to the Mediterranean Sea.
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world and is home to thousands of species found nowhere else on Earth, including lemurs.
The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is about 2,300 kilometres long — so big it can be seen from space.