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World’s Largest and Smallest

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to know the answer to these questions. We have compiled a list of World’s largest and smallest, longest,
tallest, etc., These questions can be asked in any exams like SSC, RRB, IBPS and other bank exams. So,
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World’s Largest and Smallest

Largest Airport King Khalid International Airport (South Arabia)
Largest Animal Blue Bottom whale
Largest Democracy India
Largest Bay Hudson Bay, Canada
Biggest Flower Rafflesia (Java)
Highest Airport Lhasa Airport, Tibet
Fastest Animal Cheetah
Longest Corridor Rameshwaram Temple (India)
Largest Dams Grand Coulee Dam, USA
Tallest Animal Giraffe
Peregrine falcon (390 km/h), Swift (169 km/h (105 mph))
Fastest Bird

Smallest Bird Humming

Largest Bird Ostrich
Fastest Dog Persian greyhound
Largest Cathedral Cathedral Church of New York
Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge (China) part of the Beijing-
Longest Bridge
Shanghai High-Speed Railway. 16,500 meters
Longest Canal Baltic sea White Canal
Tallest Building Burj Khalifa in Dubai
Largest Continent Asia

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Largest Cemetry Leningrad, Russia

Largest Country Russia
Smallest Continent Australia
Smallest Country Vatican City
Leningrad, Russia Belisca of St. Peter in the Vatican City, Rome.
Longest Day June 21
Shortest Day December 22
Biggest Cinema
Roxy, New York
House
Highest Population Mexico
Largest Delta Sunderbans (India)
Highest City Wen Chuan, China
Biggest Dome Gol Gumbaz (Bijapur), India
Lightest Metal Lithium
Largest Island Greenland
Largest Desert Sahara, Africa
Largest Gulf Gulf of Mexico
Largest Mosque Jama Masjid, Delhi (India)
Largest Lake Caspian Sea, CISIran
Largest Hotel Hotel Rossaiya, Moscow
Tallest Fountain Fountain Hills, Arizona
Highest Mountain
Mount Everest (Nepal)
Peak
National Kiev Library, Moscow and Library of the Congress,
Biggest Library
Washington
Deepest Lake Baikal (Siberia)
Largest Minaret Has-san Mosque (Egypt)
Highest Mountain Range Himalayas

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Longest Mountain Andes (South America)

Highest Lake Titicaca (Bolivia)
Largest River Amazon, South America
Biggest Museum British Museum (London)
Deepest Oceans Pacific
Biggest Oceans Pacific Ocean
Biggest Park Yellow Stone National Park
Largest Palace Imperial Palace (China)
Biggest Palace Vatican
Tallest Minaret Qutub Minar, Delhi (India)
Largest Peninsula Arabia
Coldest Planet Pluto
Smallest Planet Murcury
Biggest Planet Jupiter
Largest Park Wood Buffalo National Park (Canada)
Highest Plateau Pamir (Tibet)
Largest Platform Grand Central Terminal, (Ely. Station)New York (USA)
Longest Platform Kharagpur, W. Bengal (India)
Brightest Planet Venus
Farthest (from the
Pluto
Sun)
Nearest (To the Sun) Mercury
Longest River Dam Hirakud Dam in India
Largest Sea South China Sea
Longest River Nile, Africa, 4180 miles
Brightest Star Sirius A
Largest Temple Angkorwat in Kampuchea

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Largest Sea-bird Albatross

Largest Stadium Starhove Stadium, Prague (Czech Republic)
Biggest Telescope Mt. Palomar (USA)
Tallest Statue Motherland (Russia)
Oldest Theatre Teatro Ohmpico (Itlay)
Longest Wall Great Wall of China
Widest Waterfall Khone Falls (Laos)
Longest Train Flying Scotsman
Tallest Tower C. N. Tower, Toronto (Canada)
Hottest Place Al-Azizia (Libya)
Lowest Water Level Dead Sea
Highest Waterfall Angel (Venezuela)
Highest Road Leh-Nobra, Ladakh division India
Lightest Gas Hydrogen
Longest Epic Mahabharata
Largest Island Greenland, 839,999 square miles
Highest Village Andean (Chile)
Rainiest Place Mosinram, near Cherapunji (India)
Largest peninsuls Arabia
Highest Volcano Ojos del Salado, (Argentina) Chile
Largest Volcano Manuna Lea (Hawai)
Largest Freshwater
Lake Superior, US-Canada
Lake
Lowest Lake Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan, 1,349 feet below sea level
Highest Lake Titicaca in Peru, 12,500 feet above sea level
Largest Waterfall Angels, Venezuela, 3,212 feet high

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Longest Mountain
The Andes (South America) 5,000 miles
Range
Deepest Gorge Hells Canyon, Snake River, Idaho (7,900 feet deep)
Larget Lagoon Lagoa dos Patos, Brazil
Deepest Underwater
Marina Trench
Trench
Largest Gorge Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona
Lowest mountain
Buena Bhaile
range
Largest museum American Museum of Natural History.
The largest cinema
Kinepolis, Madrid.
Hall

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