World Facts and Comparisons
Longest
Rivers
Hank
River
Location
Length
miles kilometers
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
NileAmazon
Yangtze
Mississippi-MissouriHuang
(Yellow)
Ob-lrtysh
La
Plata-Parang
Congo
Amur-Ergun
Lena
Africa
South
America
Asia
North America
Asia
Asia
South America
Africa
Asia
Asia
4,145
4,0003,9003,740
3,395
3,362
3,030
2.9002,7612,7006.6716,4376,2766.019
5.464
5,411
4,676
4,667
4,443
4,345
Rivers
with
the Greatest Amount of Water
Flow of Water
per second at mouth
Rank
River
Location
cubic
feet cubic meters
1 Amazon
2 Congo
3 Negro
4 Orinoco
South America
Africa
South America
South America
La Plata-Parana South America6,180,000
1,377,000
1.236,000
890,000
809,000
174,894
38,969
34.979
25,187
22,895
Compare!
The Nile River and the Amazon River are about the same
length. The Nile has only about 110,000 cubic feet
{3,100
cubic meters) of
water now at Its mouth.
Largest Lakes
Rank Lake
1 Caspian Sea2 Lake Superior3 Lake Victoria4 Aral Sea5 Lake Huron6 Lake Michigan
7 Lake Tanganyika
H
Lake Baikal
9 Great Bear Lake
10 Lake Nyasa
(Lake Malawi)
Deepest
Lakes
Rank Lake
1 Lake Baikal
2 Lake Tanganyika
3 Caspian Sea4 Lake Nyasa(Lake Malawi)5 Lake
Issyk-Kul
Location
Asia-Europe
North America
Africa
Asia
North America
North
America
Africa
Asia
North AmericaAfrica
Location
Asia
Africa
Asia-Europe
Africa
Asia
Area
sq.
mles
sq
143,240
31
.700
26,82024,700
23,00022,300
12,350
12,200
12,095
11,150
Greatest
feet
5,315
4.800
3,3632,317
2,303
. kilometers
370,992
82,10369,46463,97359,57057.757
31,987
31
.598
31,32628,879
Depth
meters
1,6201,4631.025
706
702
Lakes
with
the Greatest Amount of Water
Volumecubic cubicRank Lake
Location
miles kilometers
Caspian Sea
Lake BaikalLake
Tanganyika
Lake SuperiorLake Nyasa(Lake
Malawil
Asia-Europe
Asia
Africa
North America
Africa
18,900
5,500
4,5002,900
1,900
78,777
22,924
18,75612,087
7,919
Compare!
Lake Baikal is only the 8th largest lake in the world.Because it
is
so deep,
it
holds more water than
any
lake but the Caspian Sea.
Oceans of the World
Rank
Ocean
Areasq. miles sq.
kilometers
1 Pacific Ocean2
Atlantic
Ocean
3 Indian
Ocean
4 Arctic Ocean
Principal
Islands
63,800,000
31,800,000
28,900,000
5,400,000
165,242,000
82.362,000
74,851,000
13.986,000
Area
Rank
Island
1
Greenland
2
New Guinea
3 Borneo
4 Madagascar
5
Baffin
Island
Location
North America
Asia-
Oceania
Asia
Africa
North America
sq. miles
840,000309,000
267,300
226,500
195,928
•q
kilometers
2,175,600
800,310
744,107
586,635
507,453
Compare!
Greenland,
the
largest
island in the world, has
about
90
thousand people. It lies
almost
entirely within me Arctic Circle,
Madagascar, which is only
about
1/4
as
large as Greenland, Has about
14 million
people.
II
lies almost
completely
within the tropics.
Largest Countries
Rank
Country
Location
Area
sq.
miles
sq. kilometers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Russia
CanadaUnited StatesChinaBrazilAustralia
India (including
parts of
Jammu
and Kashmir)
Argentina
Kazakhstan
Sudan
Countries with the
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Country
China
India
United
States
Indonesia
Brazil
Russia
PakistanJapan
Bangladesh
Nigeria
Europe
-Asia
North AmericaNorth America
Asia
South America
Asia
South
America
Asia
Africa
6,592.849 17,075,4783,849,674 9,970.6563.787.425 9,809,431
3,689,631
9,556,144
3,286,500 8,512,035
2,966,155 7,682,341
1,237,062
3,203,991
1,073,519
2,780,414
1,049,156 2,717,314
967,500 2,505,825
Most Population
Location
Asia
Asia
North America
AsiaSouth America
Europe
-Asia
Asia
Asia
Asia
Africa
Population
1,196,980,000
909,150,000
262,530,000
193,680,000
159,690,000
150,500,000129,630,000125,360,000
119,370,000
97,300,000
Compare!
Pakistan, Japan, and Bangladesh have more populationthan all but six countries in the world; however, they are not very
large.Look
at the maps to see how much smaller these
three countries
are
than China, India, the
United
States, Brazil, and Russia.
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