Largest Cave Temple — Ellora (Kailash Temples, Maharashtra)
Largest Cantilever Span Bridge — Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
Highest Tower — Qutub Minar, Delhi
Largest Dome — Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)
Largest Mosque — Jama Masjid, Delhi
Highest Straight Gravity Dam — Bhakra Dam
Smallest State (area) — Goa
Smallest State (population) — Sikkim
Largest Desert — Thar (Rajasthan)
Largest man-made lake — Govind Sagar (Bhakra)
Largest Corridor — Rameshwaram Temple Corridor (121 metres long)
Largest Animal Fair — Sonepur Fair, Bihar.

 

 

The Largest, Longest, Biggest, Highest, Smallest in the World

Archipelago, Largest — Indonesia
Largest Railway Bridge — Herey P. Long Bridge, Lovisiana, U.S.A. (7 km.)
Bird, largest — Ostrich
Bird, smallest — Humming bird
Building, Tallest — Taipei-101, in Taipei (Taiwan) 508 metre high
Longest Irrigational Canal — Thekalakumsky Canal (1200 km)
Canal, longest (Joining two oceans) — Suez Canal (168 km)
City, largest population — Tokyo (Japan)
City, biggest in area — Mount Isa (40‚978 sq. km.) (Queens Land-Australia)
City, highest — Van Chuan (China), (5,100 metres high)
City, most expensive — Tokyo
Capital, highest — La Paz (Bolivia) (3,632 metres high)
Highest, Aerodrome — La Paz (Bolivia) (4,080 m)
Continent, biggest — Asia (4‚40‚00‚000 sq. kms)
Continent, smallest — Australia (80‚60‚000 sq. kms)
Country, biggest — Russia (1‚70‚75‚400 sq. kms)
Region, highest — Tibet (4‚875 metres)
Delta, largest — Sunderban (India)
Desert, biggest — The Great Sahara

Dam, World's highest gravity — Rogunskaya (Tadzhikistan) (84‚00‚000 sq. kms)
Dam largest — Grand Coulee Dam (U.S.A.)
Diamond, largest — The Cullinan (over 1 1/2 lb.)
Electorate, largest — India (About 60 crores)
Epic, biggest — Mahabharat
Genius, World's greatest — Leonardo-da-Vinci painter sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist etc.
Highest airfield — Daulat Beg Oldi (Laddakh, 16,800 ft)
Irrigation scheme, World's biggest — Lloyd Barrage, Sukkhur (Pakistan)
Island, biggest in the World — Greenland
Island Sea, largest — Mediterranean Sea
Mountain Peak, world's highest — Mount Everest (Nepal) 8‚848 metres
Lake, deepest — Baikal (Russia, 1940 metres)
Museum, World's biggest — British museum (London)
Ocean, biggest —The Pacific
The Paper with the largest circulation in the world — The Times of India
Park, biggest — Yellow Stone National Park (USA)
Peninsula, largest — Arabia (32‚50‚000 sq. kms)
Plane, World's largest — Superjumbo Airbus A 380 (France)
Palace, biggest — Vatican (Italy)
Planet, largest — Jupiter
Planet, smallest — Pluto
Plateau, highest — Pamir
Population, largest — China [127·5 crore (2001)]
Railway Platform, longest — Storvik (Sweden)
River, world's longest — Nile (6648 Kms)
Region, world's coldest — Verkhoyansk (Siberia)
Stamp, world's first — Penny Black (British)
Tallest Building in the East — "Sunshine 60" in Tokyo
Telescope, Largest Radio — New Mexico (U.S.A.)
The richest country in the world (in terms of Gross National product per inhabitant) — Switzerland (21‚330 U.S. Dollar Per capita)
Tramway, world's first — New York, 1832.
Tunnel, longest — Laerdal Tunnel (Norway) (24·5 km)
Thoroughfare, world's largest — Broadway (New York)
Volcano, highest — Cotopaxi (Andes, Equador)
Volcano, largest — Mauna Lea (Hawai)
Wall, world's largest — The Great Wall of China
Waterfall, world's highest — In Venezuela (Angel Falls) (979 metres)
Water, Lowest body of — Dead Sea (around 1,300 feet below sealevel)
Zoo, largest in the world — Kruger National Park, South Africa
An observatory situated at the highest place in the world — Indian Astronomical observatory, situated at Hanle, Laddakh

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