GK
HIGHEST LONGEST BIGGEST LARGEST DEEPEST SMALLEST OF THE WORLD
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Paris
|
|
|
Tokyo
|
|
|
New York
|
|
|
Mount Isa
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Mount Isa City municipality covers an area of over 43, 310 square kilometres, making it geographically the second largest city in the world to Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s biggest city, landwise. Mount Isa’s total civic area covers 43, 310 sq. km, bigger than Switzerland and two-thirds the size of Tasmania. The city’s far-flung boundaries include the town of Camooweal, 200 km to the north-west near the Northern Territory border.
Detailed explanation-3: -The City shares a boundary with the Northern Territory to the West and includes the township of Camooweal, located 191 kilometres to the North West. This makes Mount Isa the second largest city in Australia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mount Isa’s existence and its main financial base is the huge Mount Isa Mine, the world’s largest single producer of copper, silver, lead and zinc. In 1923, John Campbell Miles found a silver-lead ore outcrop. This rich deposit is still producing high volumes of ore and is classed as one of the world’s great mines.