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Ammonite fossils found near Everest prove the range was once seabed before India collided with Asia.
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Himalayas · Asia
External reference (site language): Himalayas ↗
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Both the highest land on Earth, Everest, and the lowest exposed land, the Dead Sea shore, sit on the same continent.
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Asia · Asia
External reference (site language): Physical: Asia ↗
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From Turkish cay to Hindi chai and Russian chai, most of Asia uses a version of the same word, carried overland from China.
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Asia · Asia
External reference (site language): Asia (Asia album) ↗
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The word monsoon comes from the Arabic mausim, meaning season, used by sailors who timed voyages to the reversing winds.
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Indian Ocean · Asia
External reference (site language): 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season ↗
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Some bamboo species grow up to 90 centimetres in 24 hours, which is why it is used for scaffolding across Asia.
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Southeast Asia · Asia
External reference (site language): Southeast Asia ↗
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The Mekong supports one of the world's largest inland fisheries, and Cambodia's Tonle Sap reverses direction every year.
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Mekong River · Asia
External reference (site language): River dolphin ↗
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The Japanese tea ceremony can take four hours and is judged less on the tea than on attention, hosting and restraint.
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Japan · Asia
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More than half of the world's cities over ten million people are in Asia, led by Tokyo, Delhi and Shanghai.
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Asia · Asia
External reference (site language): South Asia ↗
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Africa is the only continent crossed by both the equator and the two tropics, so it touches all four hemispheres.
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Africa · Africa
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At roughly 9.2 million square kilometres, the Sahara is about the size of the United States and larger than Australia.
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Sahara · Africa
External reference (site language): Hotel Sahara ↗
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Winds carry millions of tonnes of phosphorus-rich Saharan dust across the Atlantic each year, feeding Amazon soils.
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Sahara · Africa
External reference (site language): Sahara ↗
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The White Nile rises near Lake Victoria and the Blue Nile at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. They meet in Khartoum.
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Nile · Africa
External reference (site language): Nile ↗
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The Great Pyramid was already old when the last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island around 1650 BC.
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Giza, Egypt · Africa
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Cleopatra's lifetime is nearer to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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Egypt · Africa
External reference (site language): Egypt ↗
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Abu Simbel was cut into more than 1,000 blocks and reassembled 65 metres higher to escape the rising Aswan reservoir.
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Abu Simbel, Egypt · Africa
External reference (site language): Abu Simbel ↗
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The famous library declined over centuries through several fires, funding cuts and political upheaval rather than one dramatic blaze.
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Alexandria, Egypt · Africa
External reference (site language): Library of Alexandria ↗
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The Nubian kingdom of Kush built over 200 steep-sided pyramids at Meroe, roughly twice Egypt's total.
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Meroe, Sudan · Africa
External reference (site language): History of Sudan ↗
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Ethiopia runs a 13-month calendar about seven years behind the Gregorian one, and the day starts at sunrise.
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Ethiopia · Africa
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The eleven churches of Lalibela were cut down into solid rock in the 12th century, roofs level with the ground.
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Lalibela, Ethiopia · Africa
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Wild Coffea arabica still grows in Ethiopian forests, and the country's coffee ceremony can take well over an hour.
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Ethiopia · Africa
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Average yearly temperatures above 34 degrees make the Danakil Depression among the hottest inhabited regions on Earth.
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Danakil, Ethiopia · Africa
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Asmara holds one of the world's best-preserved collections of 1930s modernist architecture, including a petrol station shaped like a plane.
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Asmara, Eritrea · Africa
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Lake Assal is about ten times saltier than the ocean and sits 155 metres below sea level.
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Lake Assal, Djibouti · Africa
External reference (site language): Hypersaline lake ↗
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Somalia's coastline runs roughly 3,300 kilometres along the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.
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Somalia · Africa
External reference (site language): Somalia ↗
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