so far to the one side that it looks as if it might fall over. It has stood for over 700 years!
18. The Eiffel Tower in Paris was built in1889. It is 300m high.
16. The Great Wall of China was built over 2 000 years ago to keep out invading armies.
15. Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world.
13. Africas Sahara Desert is the biggest in the world.
14. The beautiful Taj Mahal in India is one of the worlds most famous Buildings. It was built over 300 years ago as tomb for the wife of the emperor Shah Jahan.
12. The gigantic Faces of four American presidents are carved into the granite cliff of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, USA.
8. Over 40 000 of these strange rocks make up the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
9. The worlds biggest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela, South America. Here the water drops 979m.
10. Mexico City is the largest city in the world. Over 20 mln people live there.
11. Each year, during the famous and spectacular carnival of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, thousands of people parade through the streets in glittering costumes.
7. The main streets of the Italian city of Venice are mostly canals. If you need a taxi, you can hire a motor boat or a water bus!
17. Sydney Opera House is one of the most unusual buildings in the world.
19. There are hundreds of extraordinary statues in Easter Island. Some of them are 10 m high.
20. The Statue of Liberty in New York was presented to the United States by France in 1884. It stands on Liberty Island.
21. On Salisbury Plain in England there is Stonehenge, an ancient circle of standing stones. It was built between 3000 and
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