The deepest, highest, largest and oldest figures from every corner of the planet — tap any record to open the topic it comes from.
Water
The extremes of the oceans, rivers and lakes.
Deepest point on Earth
Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench
10,935 m
≈ 35,876 ft
Largest ocean
Pacific Ocean
165.25M km²
≈ 63.8M mi²
Longest river
The Nile
6,650 km
≈ 4,132 mi
Biggest river by flow
The Amazon
209,000 m³/s
≈ 7,380,765 ft³/s
Deepest lake
Lake Baikal, Russia
1,642 m
≈ 5,387 ft
Tallest waterfall
Angel Falls, Venezuela
979 m
≈ 3,212 ft
Land and fire
The highest ground, the driest ground and the biggest eruptions.
Highest point on land
Mount Everest, Himalaya
8,849 m
≈ 29,032 ft
Longest mountain range
The Andes
7,000 km
≈ 4,350 mi
Lowest land point
Shore of the Dead Sea
−430 m
≈ −1,411 ft
Largest hot desert
Sahara
9.2M km²
≈ 3.55M mi²
Largest active volcano
Mauna Loa, Hawaii
75,000 km³
≈ 17,993 mi³
Highest active volcano
Ojos del Salado, Chile
6,893 m
≈ 22,615 ft
Living world
The biggest, tallest and oldest things that grow, swim and walk.
Largest animal ever
Blue whale
30 m, 150 t
≈ 98.4 ft, 165.3 tons
Fastest land animal
Cheetah
100 km/h
≈ 62.1 mph
Tallest tree
Hyperion, a coast redwood
115.9 m
≈ 380.2 ft
Oldest living tree
Great Basin bristlecone pine
4,800+ years
Most tree species
Amazon Rainforest
~16,000
Largest flower
Rafflesia arnoldii, Sumatra
1 m across
≈ 3.28 ft
Ice and sky
The coldest, windiest and wettest corners of the planet.
Largest ice sheet
Antarctic Ice Sheet
14M km²
≈ 5.41M mi²
Thickest ice
East Antarctica
4,776 m
≈ 15,669 ft
Longest glacier
Lambert Glacier
~400 km
≈ 248.5 mi
Coldest temperature
Vostok Station, Antarctica
−89.2 °C
≈ −128.6 °F
Hottest temperature
Death Valley, California
56.7 °C
≈ 134.1 °F
Wettest inhabited place
Mawsynram, India
11,872 mm/yr
≈ 467.4 in/yr
Records follow the most widely cited published figures (NOAA, USGS, NASA, FAO, Guinness World Records). Some are still debated — river lengths in particular vary with how the source is measured.
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