Geography Facts for Kids
Cool facts about our planet
The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the land on Earth put together, covering more than 165 million square kilometres.
Japan is made up of over 6,800 islands, though most of the population lives on just four of them: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, covering about 9.2 million square kilometres — roughly the same area as the entire United States.
The Andes in South America is the longest continental mountain range in the world, stretching about 7,000 kilometres through seven countries.
The seven continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Asia is the biggest of them all.
The Red Sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, partly because very little rain falls in the surrounding desert region.
Lesotho is one of only three countries in the world that is completely surrounded by another single country — South Africa.
Earth's tectonic plates move at roughly the same speed your fingernails grow — about 2 to 5 centimetres per year.
The River Ganges in India is considered sacred in Hinduism and provides water for drinking, farming, and bathing to hundreds of millions of people.
Before humans arrived, New Zealand had no native land mammals except for bats. The islands were instead home to many unique bird species, including the kiwi.