Which is the largest island in the world?
- A.Greenland
- B.New Guinea
- C.Borneo
- D.Madagascar
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Greenland. Greenland lies between the Arctic and the Atlantic, is covered almost entirely by an ice sheet and is an autonomous territory of Denmark. It is the largest island in the world. Australia is larger still but is counted as a continent rather than an island, which is the distinction the question rests on.
Option B, New Guinea, is the second largest island and is divided between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Option C, Borneo, is the third largest and is shared by Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Option D, Madagascar, off the eastern coast of Africa, is the fourth largest and is known for species found nowhere else. Related superlatives worth learning together are Indonesia as the largest archipelago and the Arabian peninsula as the largest peninsula.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the largest and deepest ocean in the world?
- A.Atlantic Ocean
- B.Indian Ocean
- C.Pacific Ocean
- D.Arctic Ocean
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The Pacific covers a greater area than all the land on earth put together and is also the deepest ocean, holding the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on the planet.
Read the full explanation →The deepest known point of the earth's surface, the Challenger Deep, lies in which trench?
- A.Mariana Trench
- B.Puerto Rico Trench
- C.Java Trench
- D.Peru-Chile Trench
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The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands, and its deepest part, the Challenger Deep, is close to eleven kilometres below sea level.
Read the full explanation →Which river is conventionally regarded as the longest river in the world?
- A.Amazon
- B.Nile
- C.Yangtze
- D.Mississippi-Missouri
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The Nile flows north through north-eastern Africa for about 6,650 kilometres to the Mediterranean and is the river taken as the longest in the world in almost every textbook and examination.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest hot desert in the world?
- A.Gobi
- B.Kalahari
- C.Sahara
- D.Atacama
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The Sahara stretches across northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and is the largest hot desert in the world.
Read the full explanation →Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, is located in which country?
- A.Brazil
- B.Venezuela
- C.Zambia
- D.Canada
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Angel Falls drops 979 metres from the edge of a flat-topped table mountain called Auyan Tepui in the Guiana highlands of Venezuela, and is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.
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