There is a town in Norway where the sun does not set for 76 days
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Longyearbyen, on the Svalbard archipelago, experiences continuous daylight from late April to late August — and continuous darkness for about four months in winter.
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Mongolia is extremely sparsely populated
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Mongolia has one of the lowest population densities of any sovereign country.
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Pamukkale's white terraces are mineral deposits
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Hot springs at Pamukkale build bright travertine terraces from dissolved calcium carbonate.
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The Caspian Sea is technically a lake
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The Caspian Sea is an inland body of water, despite its name and saltiness.
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Canada has more lakes than any other country
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Canada contains an enormous share of the world's lakes, spread across glaciated landscapes.
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Greenland is the largest island that is not a continent
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Greenland is huge, icy, and politically tied to Denmark, but geographically counted as an island.
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The Diomede Islands sit a day apart
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Big Diomede and Little Diomede are close together but separated by the International Date Line.
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Mount Roraima is a tabletop world
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Mount Roraima's flat summit and cliffs create isolated habitats above the surrounding landscape.
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Russia spans 11 time zones
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From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to Kamchatka on the Pacific, Russia covers 11 official time zones — more than any other country.
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Mauna Kea is tallest when measured from base
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Measured from its seafloor base, Mauna Kea is taller than any mountain measured only above sea level.
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Antarctica is a desert
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Antarctica is classified as a desert because it receives very little precipitation.
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Kiribati reaches all four hemispheres
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Kiribati's islands straddle the equator and the 180th meridian area, placing it across four hemispheres.
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Iceland is split by a spreading ridge
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Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates pull apart.
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Cano Cristales changes color with river plants
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Colombia's famous river glows with reds, greens, and yellows from aquatic plants during certain seasons.
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Lesotho is surrounded by South Africa
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Lesotho is an independent mountain kingdom completely enclosed by South Africa.
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The Atacama is one of Earth's driest deserts
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Parts of Chile's Atacama Desert can go years with almost no recorded rainfall.
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The Great Blue Hole is a marine sinkhole
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Belize's Great Blue Hole is a giant circular sinkhole in the sea.
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The Door to Hell crater has burned for decades
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A gas crater in Turkmenistan has been burning since a Soviet-era drilling accident.
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Indonesia is a country of thousands of islands
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Indonesia stretches across a vast archipelago between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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Grand Prismatic Spring is colored by heat-loving microbes
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Microbial mats around the hot spring create vivid bands of orange, yellow, and green.
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Fly Geyser grew by accident
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Fly Geyser in Nevada formed after drilling altered underground geothermal water flow.
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Lake Baikal is the deepest lake on Earth
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Siberia's Lake Baikal holds an extraordinary amount of fresh water in a deep rift basin.
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Namibia's desert meets the Atlantic Ocean
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The Namib Desert runs right to the coast, where dunes meet fog and cold ocean currents.
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Africa is in every hemisphere
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The continent straddles the equator, the prime meridian, and extends both east and west of it — making Africa the only continent present in all four hemispheres.
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