World Superlatives - Biggest, Tallest, Fastest of Natural World

Largest Bird	North American Ostrich
Smallest Bird	Bee Hummingbird
Largest Egg	Ostrich Egg
Largest Reptile	Estuarine or salt-water crocodile found in South-East Asia, Northern Australia and New Guinea
Longest Snake	Reticulated Python, found in South-East Asia, Indonesia and Philippines
Largest Animal (in water)	Blue Whale
Largest Animal (living on land)	African Bush Elephant
Tallest Animal	Giraffe

Largest Ocean	Pacific
Deepest Part of the Ocean	Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean
Largest Sea	South China Sea
Largest Gulf	Gulf of Mexico
Largest Bay	Hudson Bay, Northern Canada
Largest Continent	Asia
Smallest Continent	Australia
Largest Island	Greenland (renamed Kalaattit Nunaat)
Highest Mountain Peak	Mount Everest on the Tibet-Nepal border
Largest and Highest Mountain Range	Himalaya-Karakoram in Asia
Largest River	Amazon in South America
Longest River	Nile in Africa
Largest Delta	Sunderbans, created by the Ganga and Brahmaputra in Bangladesh and West Bengal
Highest Waterfall	Salto Angel, Venezuela
Largest Desert	The Sahara, North Africa

Largest Glacier (Non-Polar regions)	Siachen, Indo-Pak border
Driest Place	Atacama Desert, Chile
Hottest Place	Aziza, Libya
Rainiest Place	Mawsynram, near Cherrapunji (Meghalaya)
Longest Canal (small ship)	Beloye Baltic Canal
Longest Canal (big ship	Suez Canal, UAR

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