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Seven Natural Wonders of the World

Our Earth is full of marvels carved out by nature. Gigantic mountains, breathtakingly beautiful waterfalls, fiery volcanoes, mysterious forests and many more beauties like that. But some stand out among the rest. The top seven natural wonders of the world are:

Grand CanyonGrand means large and Canyon means big crack in the ground. Grand Canyon refers to a place in Arizona, United States, where this enormous crack formed  in the ground because of the Colorado river.

great-barrier-reef

Great Barrier Reef – Great Barrier Reef near the coast in Queensland, Australia has 14000 different plants and animals and is the biggest coral reef in the World. A coral reef is an underwater structure made up of corals.

Mount Everest

Mount Everest – Mount Everest, which lies in the Himalayas, is the Earth’s highest mountain.

Aurora - The Northern Lights

AuroraAurora is the natural display of Bright red, green and blue lights in the sky. They are usually associated with winter nights when it is the darkest.

Parícutin Volcano – is a volcano at the top of the conical hill made out of a volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacan. We know when it was formed and that makes this volcano special. It started as a small fissure in the  cornfield of a Mexican farmer. For three weeks, there were strange noises that came out from the ground and then finally ash and stones erupted out. It kept on erupting for nine years before finally settling down in 1952.

Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls –  Victoria Falls in Africa is the largest waterfall on Earth. It is on Zambezi river between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Harbor of Rio de janerio

Harbor of Rio de Janerio – Rio de Janeiro Harbor is also known as River of January and as one of the most beautiful natural harbors. It is said, “God made the world in six days and on the seventh, he concentrated on Rio.”

You might be  wondering why only seven…why not five or ten. It’s because ancient Greek associated number seven with perfection!

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4 responses to “Seven Natural Wonders of the World”

  1. HAIQA Avatar
    HAIQA

    it really helps amazing wonders

  2. Ejaz Khan Avatar
    Ejaz Khan

    Great. My favorite Victoria Falls

  3. Supakrit Avatar
    Supakrit

    Mine is Great barrier reef. Its soooo beautiful.

  4. nikodem Avatar
    nikodem

    I think that the Tatra mountains are better then Particutin Vulcano

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