Geography

Wednesday, 4 November 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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Asia
Gobi Desert is the largest one in Asia.
The Gobi lies within southern Mongolia and northern China. Its surface area is approximately 1,295,000 km² (500,000 sq mi).
Mount Pinatubo
On April 2nd, 1991, natives living on the north side of Mount Pinatubo started noticing a series of phreatic explosions.
The news reached a volcano observatory in Manila, where seismographic equipment was set to monitor t ...
Manhattan
Manhattan’s characteristic skyline is shaped by skyscrapers.
The skyline of New York, the largest city in the United States, is made up of 5818 skyscrapers, incl ...
Montana
There are 45 streams named Willow Creek in Montana.
Mount Vesuvius
The exact date of the eruption of 79 is unfortunately not known.
Thanks to charcoal markings on Pompeian walls discovered in October 2018, it is known that the city was still functioning normally on 17 October 79.
Tropical rainforests
They extend latitudinally over nearly the entire surface of the globe.
Equatorial forests grow in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, parts of Australia, and New Guinea.
River Thames
The Thames was mentioned in writing by Julius Caesar, a dictator of the Roman Empire, after his expedition to Britain in 54 B.C.
He claimed the river was difficult to cross.
Taiga
Major tree species, growing season length, and temperatures vary among taiga regions.
Mount Tambora
The eruptions lowered the summit of Mount Tambora from 4,300 meters to 2,851 meters, leaving a 6-kilometer-wide caldera in its place.
Before the eruption, Mount Tambora was the highest peak in the Indonesian archipelago.
Montana
It is the only state to border three Canadian provinces.
It is bordered on the east by North Dakota and South Dakota, on the south by Wyoming, west and southwest by Idaho, and on the north by three Canadian provinces.