World Geography Online Quiz

The total forest area in world is approximately 4.06 billion hectares. Forests are not equally distributed around the globe. More than half of the world's forests are found in only five countries (1st-Russia, 2nd-Brazil, 3rd-Canada, 4th-USA and 5th-China) and two-thirds (66 percent) of forests are found in ten countries.

The time increases at a rate of 4 minutes per one degree of longitude, east of the Prime Meridian.

Dikes are man-made structures that defend against natural forces like water, climate and altitude and are mostly constructed of material found on site. Over the centuries, the Netherlands (Holland) had frequently been flooding, from the rivers as well as the sea in varying degrees and severity.

The Garden of Eden or Garden of God, also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31. Location of the Garden of Eden include the head of the Persian Gulf, as argued by Juris Zarins, in Kutch region of South Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in the Armenian Highlands or Armenian Plateau.

According to the FAO, agriculture leads to around 80% of deforestation. Due to the overgrowing demand for food products, a huge amount of trees are felled to grow crops, and 33% of agriculture-caused deforestation is because of subsistence agriculture.

The Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia) is the longest railway in the world. It was built between 1891 and 1916 to connect Moscow with the Far-East city of Vladivostok (9,198 km).

The Tin Bigha Corridor is a strip of land belonging to India on the West Bengal–Bangladesh border which, in September 2011, was leased to Bangladesh so the country could access its Dahagram–Angarpota enclave from the mainland.

The English Channel is considered the busiest shipping lane in the world and a critical route in the European shipping network. It connects the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.