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.

The organization argues that the potential of nuclear power to mitigate global warming is marginal, referring to the IEA energy scenario where an increase in world's nuclear capacity from 2608 TWh in 2007 to 9857 TWh by 2050 would cut global greenhouse gas emissions less than 5 % and require 32 nuclear reactor units of 1000MW capacity built per year until 2050.

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

Since 1999, the Isle of Man has received electricity through the world's longest submarine AC cable, the 90 kV Isle of Man to England Interconnector, as well as from a natural gas power station in Douglas, an oil power station in Peel and a small hydro-electric power station in Sulby Glen.

The world's largest proven gas reserves are located in Russia, with 4. 757 m³ ( 1. 68 cubic feet ).

With Gazprom, Russia is frequently the world's largest natural gas extractor.

In 2002, the Persian Gulf nations of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, produced about 25 % of the world's oil, held nearly two-thirds of the world's crude oil reserves, and about 35 % of the world natural gas reserves.

Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources and is the largest producer of oil and natural gas globally.

The country has the world's largest natural gas reserves, the 8th largest oil reserves, and the second largest coal reserves.

Russia is the world's leading natural gas exporter and second largest natural gas producer, while also the largest oil exporter and the largest oil producer.

In addition the thriving energy sector, the nation controls twenty five ( 25 %) percent of the world's natural gas with a whopping GDP of twenty ( US $ 20. 5b ) billion US dollars.

It also possesses the world's fourth largest reserves of natural gas and substantial oil resources.

According to a 2006 report it is responsible for 18 % of the world's greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO < sub > 2 </ sub > equivalents.

The Elantra LPI ( Liquefied Petroleum Injected ) is the world's first hybrid electric vehicle to be powered by an internal combustion engine built to run on liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) as a fuel.

This region is now regarded as one of the world's top oil and gas exploration hotspots.

Consumption of natural gas in the Netherlands is only about two-thirds of its production ; the rest is exported and the Netherlands is presently the world's fifth largest natural gas exporter.

The area's importance largely results from one-third of the world's shipping transiting through its waters, and that it is believed to hold huge oil and gas reserves beneath its seabed.

In 1872, Daimler moved to Deutz-AG-Gasmotorenfabrik in Cologne, then the world's largest manufacturer of stationary gas engines.

The Linde Group, based in Munich, Germany, operates the world's second largest helium production facility in Otis, producing nearly one-sixth of the global supply of the gas.

The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters.

The world's first car-carrying hovercraft was made in 1968, the BHC Mountbatten class ( SR. N4 ) models, each powered by four Rolls-Royce Proteus gas turbine engines.