World Superlatives / विश्व के प्रमुख सर्वोच्च तथ्य
The source contains a large collection of the world's largest, longest, highest, deepest and other superlative facts. Several such records can change with time, so this article preserves the book's source-era classification for exam-oriented study.
Source में world's largest, longest, highest, deepest तथा other superlatives की extensive list दी गई है। कुछ records समय के साथ change हो सकते हैं, इसलिए नीचे data को book-based static GK context में प्रस्तुत किया गया है।
Buildings, Airports and Structures / भवन हवाई अड्डे एवं संरचनाएँ
- Largest Airport by size → King Fahd International Airport, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- Highest Airport → Bangda Airport, Tibet in source
- Tallest Building → Burj Khalifa, Dubai → 828 m
- Tallest Structure → Burj Khalifa, Dubai
- Tallest Tower → Tokyo Skytree, Japan
- Longest Wall → Great Wall of China
Water Bodies and Landforms / जल एवं स्थलरूप
- Largest Bay → Hudson Bay, Canada
- Largest Island → Greenland
- Largest Delta → Sundarbans, India
- Largest Desert → Sahara, Africa
- Largest Lake → Caspian Sea
- Deepest Lake → Lake Baikal, Siberia
- Highest Lake → Titicaca, Bolivia in source
- Largest Freshwater Lake → Lake Superior, USA
- Largest Coral Formation → Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- Largest Plateau → Tibetan Plateau
- Largest River Basin → Amazon Basin
- World's Rainiest Spot → Mawsynram, Meghalaya
- Largest Gorge → Grand Canyon on Colorado River, USA
- Longest River → Nile, 6690 km in source
- Largest Sea → Philippine Sea
- Deepest and Biggest Ocean → Pacific Ocean
- Largest Peninsula → Arabia
- Largest Archipelago → Malay Archipelago
Countries and Continents / देश एवं महाद्वीप
- Largest Continent → Asia
- Smallest Continent → Australia
- Largest Country by population in source → China
- Largest Country by area → Russia
- Largest Democracy → India
Mountains and Volcanoes / पर्वत एवं ज्वालामुखी
- Highest Mountain Peak → Mount Everest
- Highest Mountain Range → Himalayas
- Longest Mountain Range → Andes, South America
- Highest Volcano → Ojos del Salado, Andes, Argentina-Chile → 6893 m in source
- Largest Volcano → Mauna Loa, Hawaii
- Highest Asian Desert → Gobi, Mongolia in source
Transport and Engineering / परिवहन एवं इंजीनियरिंग
- Longest big-ship canal → Suez Canal
- Busiest ship canal → Kiel Canal
- Longest Railway Bridge → Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge, China
- Largest Concrete Dam → Grand Coulee Dam, USA
- Highest Dam → Jinping-I Dam, China in source
- Highest Straight Dam → Bhakra Dam
- Largest Railway Platform → Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh in source
- Longest Railway → Trans-Siberian Railway
- Longest Railway Tunnel → Gotthard Base Tunnel
Other Important Superlatives / अन्य महत्वपूर्ण तथ्य
- Longest Epic → Mahabharata
- Largest Diamond → Cullinan
- Largest Mosque → Masjid al-Haram, Mecca
- Highest Capital City → La Paz, Bolivia
- Biggest Museum → British Museum, London
- Highest Waterfall → Salto Angel Falls, Venezuela
- Largest Temple → Angkor Wat, Cambodia in source
- Lightest Gas → Hydrogen
- Lightest Metal → Lithium
- Hardest Substance → Wurtzite Boron Nitride in source
- Fastest Bird → Peregrine Falcon
- Longest Poisonous Snake → King Cobra in source
- Tallest Statue → Statue of Unity, Gujarat, India
High-Yield Revision / महत्वपूर्ण पुनरावृत्ति
- Largest island → Greenland
- Largest continent → Asia
- Smallest continent → Australia
- Largest lake → Caspian Sea
- Deepest lake → Baikal
- Largest ocean → Pacific
- Highest peak → Everest
- Longest railway → Trans-Siberian
- Largest river basin → Amazon
- Rainiest spot in source → Mawsynram