(Worldkings.org) Lake Volta is the world's largest artificial reservoir based on surface area. It lies along the Greenwich meridian, and just six degrees of latitude north of the Equator.
(Worldkings.org) Voortrekker Monument is home to the world's biggest marble frieze. The Voortrekker Monument is 40 metres high, with a base of 40 metres by 40 metres. The building shares architectural resemblance with European monuments such the Dôme des Invalides in France and the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Germany but also contains African influences.
(Worldkings.org) Great Man-Made River is the world's largest underground network of pipes and aqueducts. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirte and elsewhere.
(Worldkings.org) Matobo National Park contains the world's highest concentration of leopards and black eagles. Nearly one third of the world's 47 eagle species nest in the hills.
(Worldkings.org) Boyoma Falls is the world's largest waterfall by flow rate. It falls at approximately 600,000 cubic feet of water per second over 7 separate cataracts.
(Worldkings.org) Steve Biko Academic Hospital has successfully completed the world's first ever middle ear transplant using 3D-printed middle ear bones.
Founded on December 18, 1961, Électricité du Laos is the oldest state-owned electricity company in Indochina, established before the Cambodian electricity company, Electricite du...
The 90-minute documentary took eight years to film in four countries. Filmmaker Joel Gershon said it’s a story of two young Cambodian teenagers from...
Veolia Water (formerly Vivendi Water, originally Compagnie Générale des Eaux), is the water division of the French company Veolia Environnement and the world's largest...
West Bengal Transport Corporation and Apeejay Anand Children’s Library launched Kolkata’s first children’s tram library on the Indian Children’s Day (November 14). The initiative...