Geography

To the north and west, the Negev is a plain covered with dust and partly loess.

The highest point in the state is Mount Elbert (4,401.2 meters above sea level).

According to locals, the Cotopaxi crater looks like a crescent moon.

The waterfall froze over several times during the winters of 1848, 1969, and 2018.

The Rocky Mountains are covered with snow only in winter.

The final blast of the 1883 eruption generated a force 10,000 times stronger than the one generated by the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima in 1945.

It is not as deep as Lake Superior or Lake Michigan.

The Gobi Desert is over 1,680 km (1,045 mi) long in the southwest-northeast direction and over 800 km (500 mi) in the north-south direction.

On September 9, 1888, Chile's annexed Easter Island under the "Annexation Treaty."

Soils in tropical forests fall into two categories: red soils and ferralitic soils.