Russia Spans 11 Time Zones Across 6,200 Miles
GeographyRussia is so vast it stretches across 11 different time zones, covering about 6,200 miles from end to end. When the sun reaches its highest point at noon in…
Canada Has 62 Percent of All Lakes on Earth
GeographyOf the 1.42 million lakes worldwide larger than 0.1 square kilometers, Canada is home to a staggering 879,800 of them — roughly 62 percent of the global total.…
Africa Is Bigger Than the USA, China, India, Japan, and Europe Combined
GeographyWith a land area of 30.37 million square kilometers, the African continent is vast enough to swallow the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico, and most…
The Pacific Ocean Is Larger Than All Land on Earth Combined
GeographySpanning 60 million square miles from California to China, the Pacific Ocean is so vast that you could fit every continent and island on Earth into it and…
A Quarter of the Netherlands Lives Below Sea Level
GeographyThe Netherlands is so low-lying that 26 percent of its land area and most of its population sit below sea level. The Dutch joke that God may have built the…
