Largest in world:
Largest continent – Asia
Asia is the largest country in eastern and northern hemispheres with an area of 44,579,000 square km. about 30% of earth’s total landmass.
Largest delta – Sundarban or Ganges delta (Bangladesh)
This is a mangrove area of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers. It is on Hooghly river in Indian state of west Bengal to Baleswar River in Bangladesh and it is also listed for UNESCO heritage site.
Largest hot desert – Sahara Desert (Africa)
This is the largest hot desert with a surface area of 9.2 million square km. It is the largest hot desert in world and third largest desert after Antarctica and Arctic. It covers an area of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, and Tunisia.
Largest island – Greenland
This island is located between Arctic and Atlantic Ocean and east of Canadian Arctic Archipelago. This island lies mostly in Northern Hemisphere.
Largest statue – Statue of unity in Gujarat.
This statue is 182 meter tall (240m including base) and it depicts the image of India’s first deputy prime minister and freedom fighter Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
Largest dam –Three George Dams (China)
Hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River in China with a capacity of 22500MW since 2012.
Largest library – British Library (United Kingdom)
This is the largest Library in London and Boston spa of United Kingdom. It contains 170-200 Million plus items from many countries
Largest university in the world- Indira Gandhi National Open University in India
This university was founded in 1985. This university named after former prime minister of India Smt. Indira Gandhi. Current president of India became chancellor of this university.
Largest sea bird / largest flying bird – Wandering Albatross
This bird is also known as Diomedea exulans. The bird is from the family of Diomedeidae. This is the biggest flying sea bird in world and can go for years without touching land. These are mostly found across the southern ocean include Antarctic, sub-Antarctic and subtropical waters
Largest bird – Ostrich
Ostrich is the largest, tallest and heaviest bird in the world. The birds also have the largest eggs in the world with weighs of more than 3pounds because of heavy body they can’t fly. These are fastest running creature with two-toed legs.
Largest city in population – Tokyo in Japan
It is located at the Tokyo bay. This is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with more than 37,393 million residents as on 2020.
Largest Peninsula – Arabian Peninsula of western Asia
The peninsula is situated in north-east of Africa and bordered by red sea, the Persian Gulf, the Levant and Indian Ocean. It covers an area of 1,250,000 square miles
Largest Country in term of population – China
Largest with population of 1.42 billion and 13.4 % growth population
Largest Country in terms of area- Russia
This is the largest country with an area of about 17 million square km in the world.
Largest Diamond – The Cullinan
Largest Diamond with 3,106 carat and was discovered in south Africa in 1905.This was gifted to King Edward VII)
Largest Artificial reservoir – Lake Volta (Ghana, West Africa)
This contained behind Akosombo Dam with total catchment area of 385,180 km square.
Largest Fresh Water lake by volume – Lake Baikal (Russia)
Largest Fresh Water lake by surface area – Lake Superior (North America)
Area of this lake shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to North, U.S. state of Minnesota to west Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan to south.
Largest Salt water Sea – Caspian Sea
Largest Mosque – Masjid–al-Haram, Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
This mosque is also known as great mosque of Mecca .it surrounded by Kaaba in Mecca and Makkah of Saudi Arabia. Pilgrimage site for hajj
Largest Residential Palace – Istana Nurul Imam Palace in town of Bandar Seri Begawan.
This palace is the official residence of sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah and seat of the Brunei government. The palace is located on the bank of Brunei River.
Largest Park-Northeast Greenland National park (Greenland)
This park covers an area of 972,000square km. established in 1974 and its size has been expended in 1988. It is the first park to be created in the kingdom of Denmark.
Largest Planet in solar system – Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet of solar system. It is made up of gas and one of the four gas giant planet
Largest Railway Platform– Grand Central Terminal (New York, U.S.A)
Largest Port – Port of Shanghai (China)
This port is busiest port in the world and based on cargo throughput. This port is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River covers an area of 3,619 km square.
Largest Sea (inland) – Caspian Sea
Largest Volcano-Mauna Lao’s (Hawaii)
It is biggest volcano with 9,170 meter tall. This volcano makes up 51% of Hawaii’s island.
Largest Archipelago- Malay archipelago (Indonesia)
This archipelago was formed by glacial retreat. It is found between Pacific and Indian Ocean and contain more than 25000 islands in Southeast Asia.
Largest River basin –Amazon basin
It covers 40% of South America and drains from west to south from Iquitos in Peru, across Brazil the Atlantic
Largest Diamond producing mine by area – Orapa (Botswana)
Largest diamond mine- Aikhal diamond mine in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Largest church – St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City, Rome)
Largest temple- Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
Originally this temple is constructed as a Hindu temple and dedicated to god Vishnu for the Khmer empire.
Largest mammal – Blue Whale
This is a marine mammal belongs to baleen and largest animal on planet weighing as much as 200 tons. This blue whale is also known by the name blue whale challenge.
Largest Gulf – Gulf of Mexico (shoreline 2100miles)
The Gulf of Mexico is largely surrounded by North America continent. It is basically oval in shape and is approximately 1500 km wide with sedimentary rock formation.
Largest Solar Plant – Yanchi Ningxia Solar Park (Ningxia, China)
Longest in world:
Longest Railway Bridge – Danyang Kunshan grand bridge (Beijing, China)
It is 164,851 kilo meter long on the Beijing- shanghai high speed railway in Suzhou China. Its width is 79 meter at a height of 30 meter. It is designed by china road and bridge corporation (CRBC). It’s construction started in 2006 and ends in 2010and got opened on 30 June 2011.
Longest Day – 21 June (Northern hemisphere)
Summer solstice falls on 21 June every year summer solstice is also known as estival solstice or midsummer it occurs when earth’s poles has its maximum tilts towards the sun.
Longest Epic –The Mahabharata (India)
This is described as “The longest poem ever written”. The author of this epic is attributed to Vyasa. It consists of 100,000 sloka and two hundred thousand individual lines and 1.8 million words.
Longest Mountain Range- Andes Mountain (South America western side)
This is the highest mountain range outside Asia. It is also known by the Andes or Spanish Cordillera de los Andes. The range of this mountain is 7000 km long and 200-700km wide. It crosses through Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Longest Railway Platform –Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)
This platform is 1355.40 meter long in Gorakhpur junction of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Longest Railway – Trans-Siberian Railway (Moscow –Vladivostok line)
It is one of the busiest railway lines in the world with total length of 9,288 km.
Longest River– Nile (Africa)
North flowing river in north eastern Africa with length of 6650km and this river cover an area 11 countries Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of Sudan and Egypt.
Longest River Dam- Hirakud Dam (Odisha, India)
Longest eastern dam stand across the Mighty river of Mahanadi in Sambalpur region of Odisa.
Longest Ship Canal- Beijing- Hangzhou Grand Canal (China)
This is the longest and oldest canal in the world connects china’s Yellow River and Yangtze River. Its length is 1800km long hand dung canal.
Longest and Deepest Rail Tunnel– Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland)
57 km twin bore Gothard base tunnel will provide a high speed rail link under Swiss Alps between northern and southern Europe.
Longest and Largest Canal Tunnel– Rove tunnel (France)
Longest Road Tunnel- Atal Tunnel (India)
It is 9.02 Km is longest highway tunnel in world connects Manali to Lahaul- Spiti valley.
Longest wall– The Great Wall of China (Between India and China)
This great wall built from 1368 to 1644. It is 8850km long
Longest Strait – Strait of Malacca
This strait is between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesia island of Sumatra. The Strait of Malacca is 930km long narrow stretch of water.
Longest Jump animal – Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard jumped for more than 49 feet.
Longest Swing spread bird – Sooty albatross (nearly 12 feet)
Longest Venomous Snake – King Cobras (some spanning 18 feet
It can inject very high volume of venom in a single bite.
Longest Corridor – Ramanathaswamy Temple Corridor, Rameshwaram Temple (Tamil Nadu)
The outer set of corridors is longest in the world with measurement of 6.9 meter in high and 400 feet in east west and 600 feet in north and south.