An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans.

Some 98 % of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water.

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

* 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.

Aon is the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.

He also had a well-trained larger army and possessed a substantial part of Nadir Shah's treasury, including the world's largest Koh-i-Noor diamond.

Alexandria is home to what is lauded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest ball of paint.

* List of world's largest cuckoo clocks

The Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, is in the northwest and the Makgadikgadi Pans, a large salt pan lies in the north-central area.

One of the world's largest Bauxite mines in Weipa, Australia

The British Museum houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, over 100, 000 pieces, outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The British Museum has one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100, 000 objects.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Nationwide Building Society is the UK's and the world's largest building society

It was, very probably, the world's largest land battle of the 17th century.

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.

The world's largest animal, the blue whale, and fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, are chordates.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners, share the world's longest border, and have significant interoperability within the defence sphere.

Moreover, because Amorphophallus has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence, it is sometimes mistakenly credited as having the world's largest flower.

The species Amorphophallus titanum, corpse flower or titan arum, is the world's largest unbranched inflorescence.

It is the location of the world's largest flower clock.

The Doctor and Sarah search the car, and find a painting by Amelia Ducat, one of the world's leading flower artists.

Above everything, the Star image " shines clear, for a moment between the opposites, between man and woman, between day and night ; fades and returns like the bloom of a flower, as the world's rhythms sweep on " ( Bodkin 1934: 296 ; cited in Shmiefsky 1967: 725 ).

Keukenhof (" Kitchen garden ", ), also known as the Garden of Europe, is the world's largest flower garden situated near Lisse, Netherlands.

The idea was to present a flower exhibit where growers from all over the Netherlands and Europe could show off their hybrids – and help the Dutch export industry ( the Netherlands is the world's largest exporter of flowers ).

Keukenhof has been the world's largest flower garden for over fifty years.

Rafflesia, the world's largest flower, can also be found here.

Outside of Tambunan is the Rafflesia Forest Reserve, devoted to the world's largest flower, the Rafflesia.

* G. nivalis ' Snow White's Gnome ' — at less than 5 cm tall in flower, this is possibly the world's smallest snowdrop cultivar.

Many species of lizards become bipedal during high-speed, sprint locomotion, including the world's fastest lizard, the spiny-tailed iguana ( genus Ctenosaura ).

It is believed that most of the world's walnut varieties derive from the original species still found here.

Four-fifths of the world's Pachypodium species are endemic to the island.

Three-fourths of Madagascar's 860 orchid species are found here alone, as are six of the world's eight baobab species.

The island is home to two-thirds of the world's chameleon species, including the smallest one known to date, and researchers have proposed that Madagascar may represent the origin of all chameleon species.

The world's richest concentration of orchid varieties is found in the tropics, mostly Asia, South America and Central America, but they are also found above the Arctic Circle, in southern Patagonia, and two species of Nematoceras on Macquarie Island at 54 degrees South.

The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior of Papua New Guinea.

The Invasive Species Specialist Group lists feral pigs on the list of the world's 100 worst invasive species and says:

The gray wolf is one of the world's most well researched animals, with probably more books written about it than any other wildlife species.

Whales collectively inhabit all the world's oceans and number in the millions, with annual population growth rate estimates for various species ranging from 3 % to 13 %.

Over half of all living vertebrate species ( about 32, 000 species ) are fishes ( non-tetrapod craniates ), a diverse set of lineages that inhabit all the world's aquatic ecosystems, from snow minnows ( Cypriniformes ) in Himalayan lakes at elevations over 4, 600 metres ( 15, 000 feet ) to flatfishes ( order Pleuronectiformes ) in the Challenger Deep, the deepest ocean trench at about 11, 000 metres ( 36, 000 feet ).

Species of note in the open enclosures include two subspecies of giraffe, rhinos ( the park has the world's most successful breeding program for Southern white rhinos and is the only New World zoo to have Northern white rhinos ), gaur, vultures, markhor, and many species of antelope, gazelle, and deer.

It is listed by the World Conservation Union as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species.

One individual of this species, dubbed Methuselah, is one of the world's oldest living organisms at around 4, 600 years old.

This species grows in the Mediterranean Sea region, with Portugal, Spain, Algeria and Morocco producing most of the world's supply.

They include some of the world's most abundant gastropod species.

There are only two endemic genera of bats, although 7 % of the world's bats species live in Australia.

There is a single species from the world's dominant frog group, family Ranidae — the Australian Wood Frog — which only occurs in the Queensland rainforests.

Because of its long isolation, the Seychelles hosts several unique species including the Coco de mer, a palm which has the largest seeds of any plant and the world's largest population of giant tortoises.

It is on the List of the world's 100 worst invasive species.

Originally Javan wildlife supports rich biodiversity, numbers of endemic species of flora and fauna had flourished ; such as the world's rarest rhino Javan rhinoceros, Javan Banteng, Javan Hawk-Eagle, Javan Peafowl, Javan Silvery gibbon, Javan lutung, Java mouse-deer, Javan Rusa, and Javan leopard.