Geography Facts for Kids

Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.

Mount Everest is called Sagarmatha in Nepal, which means "Goddess of the Sky."

There are zero bridges crossing the Amazon River.

The Himalayas were created when the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided about 50 million years ago, and they're still rising.

Chile is the longest country in the world from north to south, stretching about 2,653 miles.

The Great Barrier Reef stretches over 1,400 miles along Australia's coast and is made up of nearly 3,000 individual reef systems.

About 90% of the wildlife found on Madagascar is found nowhere else on Earth.

Despite its name, the Caspian Sea is actually the world's largest lake.

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and saves ships from travelling an extra 8,000 miles around South America.

The Sargasso Sea is the only sea in the world with no land boundary — it's defined entirely by ocean currents.