Superlatives World - Part 5

 

Superlatives

Location

Longest Bridge (Railway)

Lower Zambeji (Africa)

Longest Canal (India)

The Indira Gandhi Canal

Longest Corridor 

Rameshwaram Temple’s Corridor (5000 feet)

Longest Day

June 21 (in Northern Hemisphere)

Longest Desert (World)

Sahara, Africa (84, 00,000a sq. km.)

Longest Epic 

The Mahabharata

Longest jump Animal

Kangaroo

Longest life span of an animal 

190 to 200 year (Giant Tortoise)

Longest Mountain Range

Andes (S. America) about 7.000 km (in length)

Longest Platform (Railway)

Gorakhpur (U.P) Indian (1366.33 m)

Longest Poisonous Snake

King Cobra

Longest Railway

Trans-Siberian Railway (5,772 miles long)

Longest Railways Platform

Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh, India)

Longest River

Nile (6690 km), Amazon (6570 km.)

Longest River Dam

Hirakud Dam (Odisha), India 15.8 miles

Longest Road in India

Grand Trunk Road

Longest Strait

Straight of Malacca

Longest tunnel (Road)

Laerdal, Norway (24.51 km)

Longest Wall

Great Wall of China (1500 miles)

Longest wing spread bird 

Wandering Albatross

Lowest body Water in the World

The Dead Sea

Most Intelligent Animal

Chimpanzee

Narrowest Strait

Chaliks- 45 yards (Between the Greek mainland the island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea)

Nearest Planet (to the sun)

Mercury

Reptile which changes its colours

Chameleon