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LONGEST NON-STOP PASSENGER FLIGHTS

16 HOURS, 10 MINUTES
Doha, Qatar to Auckland, New Zealand: 9,032 miles (14,535 km)
16 HOURS, 5 MINUTES
Auckland, New Zealand to Dubai: 8,825 miles (14,203 km)

LONGEST TRAIN The three countries
with the most
• The world’s longest train had 682 cars and railroad track are
eight locomotives. It was used just once, to haul iron ore in the US, China,
Australia in 2001, and it measured 4.57 miles (7.353 km) and Russia. Among
them, they have
long. That’s the length of 8.8 Burj Khalifas, laid end to end. 770,262 miles just under a third of
More than
TRACK IN THE WORLD
all the world’s track.
over three times
• The longest passenger train— (1,239,615 km)—
called the Ghan—runs in Australia. TOTAL AMOUNT OF RAILROAD the distance
It is 0.68 miles (1.1 km) long and from Earth to
is made up of two locomotives the Moon.
and 44 cars. US: 139,679 miles (224,792 km) China: 75,186 miles (121,000 km) Russia: 53,400 miles (86,000 km)

Land vehicle
An enormous excavator used in
the German mining industry, the
Bagger 293 is 738 ft (225 m) long,
315 ft (96 m) high, and weighs
15,625 tons (14,200 metric tons).
It can fill 2,400 coal wagons a day.

Human Animal
The blue whale measures 100 ft (30 m) long.

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