Hell’s Canyon on the Snake River is deeper than the Grand Canyon.
The names of some cities in the United States are the names of other U.S. states. These include Nevada in Missouri, California Maryland, Louisiana in Missouri, Oregon in Wisconsin, Kansas in Oklahoma, Wyoming in Ohio, Michigan in North Dakota, Delaware in Arkansas, and Indiana in Pennsylvania.
The Namib is the world's oldest desert, and the only desert inhabited by elephant, rhino, giraffe, and lion.
On an average day in the mid 1990s, more than 13,000 people trekked to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Because of the wear and tear on the natural wonder's fragile environment, tourism is now being limited, as are sight-seeing helicopters and motor vehicles in the national park.
The nation of Bangladesh covers approximately the same land area as the state of Wisconsin. Yet it ranks eighth in population among all the world's countries.
On March 27, 1964, North America’s strongest recorded earthquake, with a moment magnitude of 9.2, rocked central Alaska. Each year Alaska has approximately 5,000 earthquakes, including 1,000 that measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale. Of the ten strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the world, three have occurred in Alaska
The nation of Cape Verde, located in the Atlantic Ocean 450 miles west of the western tip of Africa, has no minerals except salt and pozzolana. Volcanic ash is used in making cement.
The nation of Mozambique has an AK-47 assault rifle on its flag.
One hundred years ago, visitors to Cave of the Winds in Colorado carried candles and lanterns along ghostly, dark halls that seemed to have no end. Today, cave enthusiasts can spend an hour or more with an authentically dressed 1800s guide, viewing truly spectacular rooms in the cave, using only the illumination from hand-held lanterns. One of the world’s oldest show caves, Cave of the Winds is filled with eerie nooks, crannies, tunnels, and chambers that once were believed to be the homes of gnomes and fairies.
The national anthem of Grenada, words written by Irva Merle Baptiste and music by Louis Arnold Masanto, was adopted on February 7, 1974. However, Grenada's anthem has no title.
One of the deadliest diseases in the world is Japanese River Fever, with a mortality rate of more than 50 percent. It is found only near rivers in certain areas of Japan, China, Korea, Burma, and India.
The Netherlands are the lowest country in the world. It is estimated that 40 percent of the land is below sea level.
One prominent feature of the Greek climate is its ample sunshine. The sun shines in Greece about 3,000 hours per year. Greece's heavily indented shores give the country extraordinary beauty, quite unique in the Mediterranean. The length of the Greek coastline is estimated at 15,000 kilometers.
The Nile has frozen over at least twice, in 829 and 1010 A.D.
Only one Canadian province borders at least one Great Lake: Ontario.
The northernmost U.S. state capital is Juneau, Alaska.
Panama, because of a bend in the isthmus, is the only place in the world where one can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.
The odd zigzag in the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, just south of Charlotte, resulted when boundary commissioners altered the line in 1772 to avoid splitting the Catawba Indians between the two British colonies
Papua, New Guinea includes the islands of New Britain and New Ireland.
Pennsylvania has the largest rural population in the United States.
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