The world is a mind-boggling place.
Here are some incredible, geographic facts about this planet we call Earth.
Continents shift at about the same rate as your fingernails grow.
An aerial view of Tarawa, in the South Pacific.Credit: Michael Runkel/Getty Images
Thor on Baffin Island, Canada, has Earths greatest sheer vertical drop (4,101 feet).
Ninety percent of Earth’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
California has more people than all of Canada.
Canada: 35.85 million.
California: 39.14 million.
(According to data from 2015.)
Australia is wider than the moon.
You might need to read that a second time.
The Dead Sea is currently 429 meters below sea level and sinking about 1 meter a year.
Russia and the United States, at their closest points, are about 2.4 miles apart.
Russia spans 11 time zones.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.
Africa is the only continent that covers four hemispheres.
