• Geography Point Nemo In one patch of the South Pacific, the closest humans aren't on any boat nearby — they're astronauts orbiting… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Null Island It has a flag, a fake history, and a cult following online — but Null Island isn't a real island at all, just an empty… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Mount Everest The roof of the world grows, kills, and keeps its dead — 200 bodies remain on a mountain whose own namesake begged for… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Geography Nile The world's longest river carries surprisingly little water, and an ancient superpower was built entirely on its… 3 min read · 8 facts
• Geography Sahara The world's largest hot desert was a green land of rivers, lakes, and crocodiles just a few thousand years ago, and… 3 min read · 8 facts
• Geography Amazon rainforest One in ten known species on Earth lives in this single forest, and the dust that feeds it blows in all the way from… 3 min read · 8 facts
• Geography Mariana Trench Drop Mount Everest into it and the summit would still sit more than two kilometres underwater — and the first people… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Lake Baikal One lake in Siberia holds more fresh water than all five North American Great Lakes combined, hides the world's only… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Dead Sea Its shores are the lowest dry land on Earth, it is almost ten times saltier than the ocean, and it is disappearing at… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Antarctica It holds seventy percent of the world's fresh water, recorded −89.2 °C, and is technically a desert — a continent no… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Venice A city built on 126 islands, linked by 472 bridges, that ran the world's first international financial centre — and… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Great Barrier Reef The largest structure ever built by living things is visible from space — and it has lost more than half its coral… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Grand Canyon The river carved down through nearly two billion years of rock. It is 446 kilometres long, over a mile deep, and the… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Urban Heat Island Cities cover half a percent of Earth's land and hold more than half its people — and they run measurably hotter than… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Ocean It holds 97% of Earth's water, covers nearly 71% of the planet, and still supplies half the oxygen you breathe. We… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Volcano Most of the world's volcanoes are places no human will ever stand, and the word dormant does not mean what you… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Geography The Mariana Trench: Earth's Deepest Place Drop Mount Everest into this crack in the Pacific and its peak would still sit two kilometers underwater. At the… 3 min read · 8 facts
• Geography Danakil Depression Acid-yellow pools, salt plains and the saltiest water on Earth sit in a valley below sea level in Ethiopia, and the… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Time zone Every town used to keep its own noon, and nobody minded until trains started killing people. The fix took one Sunday… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Earthquake The ground does not crack open and swallow people. What actually happens is that a locked fault finally slips, and… 3 min read · 11 facts
• Geography Desert A desert is defined by how little rain falls, not by how hot it gets. Which is why the largest desert on Earth is… 4 min read · 11 facts
• Geography Niagara Falls In 1969, engineers switched off part of one of the world's most famous waterfalls for months. Decades earlier, a… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands are named after their giant tortoises and are home to the only penguin that lives in the… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Iceland Iceland is probably the only place on Earth where you can watch two of the planet's giant plates pulling apart above… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Salar de Uyuni The biggest salt flat on Earth is so level that satellites use it as a ruler. After rain, it turns into a mirror 129… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Svalbard An Arctic archipelago where anyone may live and work without a visa, residents leave their cars unlocked so strangers… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Socotra A Yemeni island that broke off from a supercontinent and kept its own plants. A third of them grow nowhere else… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Himalayas This range exists because one continent slammed into another and never stopped pushing. More than 100 of its peaks… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Geography Egypt About 99% of Egyptians live on roughly 5.5% of the country's land. The reason is one river, and it has shaped this… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Geography Japan A country of more than 14,000 islands, 111 active volcanoes and some of the oldest pottery on Earth, which once shut… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Australia The flattest and driest inhabited continent is also home to two thirds of the world's marsupials and one of the oldest… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Amazon River One river carries more water than the next seven biggest rivers put together. And for millions of years, it flowed the… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Mount Kilimanjaro Africa's highest peak stands all alone on the plains, rising 4,900 m above its own base. Its summit ice is vanishing… 4 min read · 9 facts
• Geography Mount Fuji On a clear day, people in Tokyo can see a near-perfect snowy cone about 100 km away. It looks calm, but it is an… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Atacama Desert Some weather stations in this desert have never recorded a single drop of rain. So why do NASA and astronomers from… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Victoria Falls Its spray climbs higher than most skyscrapers and can be seen 50 km away. And the waterfall itself has already moved… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Greenland Its name was a sales pitch, a canyon hides under its ice, and in 2021 it rained on its summit so unexpectedly that… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Lake Titicaca A lake so high that its steamships had to be carried up in hundreds of pieces. Meet South America's biggest lake… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Geography New York City An estimated 800 languages are spoken here, more than anywhere else on Earth. It is also the most expensive city in… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Geography Madagascar Around 90 percent of the plants and animals on this island live nowhere else on Earth. Here is how a piece of land… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Patagonia Magellan's crew swore the people here stood 9 to 12 feet tall, and old maps of the region were labelled "region of the… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Faroe Islands The capital of the Faroe Islands gets only 840 hours of sunshine a year, the fewest recorded of any city in the world… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Fjord Skip its fjords and Norway's coast is about 2,500 km long. Follow all of its nearly 1,200 fjords and it stretches to… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Ring of Fire A single 40,000 km belt wrapped around the Pacific holds about two-thirds of the world's volcanoes and sets off about… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Gobi Desert The world's first dinosaur eggs were dug out of the Gobi, a desert that is mostly bare rock and can swing 35 °C in a… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Sundarbans In the world's largest mangrove forest, the tides are so big that about a third of the land disappears and comes back… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Great Lakes Pour out the Great Lakes evenly and they would flood the 48 contiguous U.S. states 9.5 feet deep. In winter, their… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Kalahari Desert Its name means "the great thirst", yet the Kalahari hides the largest known underground lake outside the ice, and it… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Andes One peak in the Andes reaches farther from the center of the Earth than any other spot on the planet's surface, and it… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Danube On many summer days, part of the Danube simply vanishes into the ground, and most of that water pops up 12 km away to… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Tasmania Tasmania was joined to mainland Australia until rising seas cut it off about 11,700 years ago, and today its forests… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Geography Mekong When the Mekong floods, a whole river in Cambodia turns around and flows backwards. And in 2022, its waters gave up a… 4 min read · 10 facts