Denali (also known as Mount McKinley) is the highest mountain peak in North America. Located in the Alaska Range in the interior of the U.S. state of Alaska, Denali is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve.

Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. Montevideo has consistently been rated as having the highest quality of life of any city in Latin America.

Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, and Vatican City & San Marino are both completely surrounded by Italy.

Texas shares borders with the Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, as well as the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.

Africa is the only continent that is in all four hemispheres: north, south, west, and east

Although Mt. Everest has the highest altitude in terms of sea level on the planet, because of the equatorial bulge Mount Chimborazo is the closest to the moon.

Alaska is the westernmost and northernmost state in the United States, but parts of Alaska are so far west that the state actually stretches into the eastern hemisphere, making it the easternmost state as well!

The ice sheet in Antarctica is the largest solid ice mass on the planet. The enormous frozen structure contains about 90 percent of all the fresh water on Earth.

The Pacific Ocean basin is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes. These volcanoes actually form a ring around the Pacific Ocean basin and are known as the Ring of Fire.

The largest city in the world, based on surface area, is Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia (China) which is 263,953 km sq (102,000 sq mi).