Geography

Saturday, 14 February 2026
16 facts about Hawaii
16 facts about Hawaii
Volcanic paradise
This picturesque archipelago located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean owes its creation entirely to volcanic eruptions. Lush deciduous forests inter ...

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Lake Baikal
In 1996, Lake Baikal and adjacent protected areas were enlisted on the UNESCO World Heritage List as areas of exceptional value for evolutionary sciences.
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico supports four major industries: fishing, oil, shipping, and tourism.
Tourism alone generates over $100 billion in income each year.
Manhattan
Manhattan is divided into three informal parts: Lower, Middle, and Upper Manhattan.
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of ...
Atacama Desert
The desert is sandy and rocky.
Most of the desert consists of rocky terrain, salt lakes, sand and lava flows toward the Andes.
Aokigahara
Groups of volunteers search the forest.
Since 1970, groups of volunteers have been combing the forest in search of people who have already t ...
Manhattan
In 1664, the English took over New Amsterdam and changed the name of the city to New York.
Under English rule, the city grew rapidly. In 1700 it housed 5000 inhabitants.
Paricutin volcano
Paricutin is the youngest volcano in the area - it was formed in 1943.
The formation of the volcano was observed both by volcanologists and by the natives of the Purépecha tribe.
Asia
The first Asian Nobel laureate was Rabindranath Tagore.
Born in Kolkata, the Indian poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
Mount Etna
Etna covers an area of 1,250 square kilometers (482 square miles) with a base circumference of 135 kilometers (83,9 miles).
This makes it the largest of Italy's three active volcanoes (Etna, Vesuvius, Stromboli) and about tw ...
Sahara desert
The highest recorded air temperature in the Sahara was 47 °C (116,6 °F).
During the day, average temperatures are 30-35 °C (86-95 °F). At night, the temperature drops to 10-20 °C (50-68 °F), and occasionally it can fall below 0 °C (32 °F).