Online General Knowledge Guide

Just another online general knowledge guide for all newbee and professionals.


In the previous post you did get the knowledge about world’s biggest, largest, longest and highest things, now in this post you will get the knowledge about the Surnames or Second Geographical names of famous cities, country, hills, waterfall, river, mountains or many other popular things of the World.

Surname
Name

Bengal’s Sorrow
Damodar [...]

Guys, do you know the name of biggest country name, palace name? Do you know the largest animal name, bird name? Do you know the highest mountain or building in the world? Do you know the longest wall or river in the world? If not, let see here the list of biggest, highest, largest and [...]

EARTH : SOME IMPORTANT FACTORS

Age

4,550 Million Years

Mass

5.967 x 10 to the power 24 kg

Volume

1.083 x 10 to the power liters

Mean Density

5.518 kg/lt

Total Surface Area

510 million sq. km

Land Area

29.2% of the total surface area

Water Area

70.8% of the total surface area

Equatorial Diameter

12,755 km

Polar Diameter

12, 712 km

Escape Velocity

11.2 km/sec

Highest Land Point

Mount Everest (8,852 m)

Lowest Land Point

Dead Sea (396m)

Greatest [...]

MOON : Some Important Factors

MOON : Some Important Factors

Average Distance From Earth

14,95,98,900 km

Diameter

13,91,980 km

Ratio of diameter of Moon to that of Earth

1:3.7

Rotation Period

27 days, 7hrs, 43 min & 11.47 sec

Revolution Period

27 days, 7hrs, 43 min & 11.47 sec

Time Taken by Moonlight to reach earth

1.3 Sec

Percent of surface visible from Earth

59%

First Man to reach Moon

Neil Armstrong and Edvin Aldrin on [...]

SUN : SOME IMPORTANT FACTORS

Average Distance From Earth

14,95,98,900 km

Diameter

13,91,980 km

Temperature of the Core

1,50,00,000k

Rotation

25.38 days (with respect to equator); 33 days (with respect to poles)

Chemical Composition

Hydrogen :71%;
Helium: 26.5%;
Other Gases: 2.5%

Age

4.6 Billion Years

Total Life

10 Billion Years

Time Taken by Sunlight to reach earth

8 min. and 16.6 sec.

Speed of light (in vacuum)

3,00,000 kmps

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