Reference Records

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MRB-2026-006003 Most Miss World Wins by a Country Venezuela (tied with the United Kingdom) · Venezuela MRB-2026-006001 Tallest Waterfall in the World Angel Falls · Venezuela MRB-2026-006000 Source of One of the World's Longest Rivers Amazon River · Peru MRB-2026-005999 Highest Tropical Mountain Range Cordillera Blanca · Peru MRB-2026-005997 Oldest City in the Americas Caral · Peru MRB-2026-005996 World's Tallest Sand Dune Cerro Blanco · Peru MRB-2026-005995 Longest Single Pre-Columbian Line Institutional / General Record · Peru MRB-2026-005994 Highest Navigable Lake in the World Lake Titicaca · Peru MRB-2026-005993 Africa's Largest Lake and World's Second-Largest Freshwater Lake by Area Lake Victoria · Uganda MRB-2026-005992 Nicknamed the Pearl of Africa Institutional / General Record · Uganda MRB-2026-005991 Africa's Third-Highest Peak, With Rare Equatorial Glaciers Rwenzori Mountains (Margherita Peak) · Uganda MRB-2026-005990 Source of the World's Longest River Source of the Nile, Jinja · Uganda MRB-2026-005989 Home to Roughly Half the World's Mountain Gorillas Bwindi Impenetrable Forest · Uganda MRB-2026-005988 World's Most Powerful Waterfall Murchison Falls · Uganda MRB-2026-005986 Site of the World's Longest-Running Wild Chimpanzee Study Gombe Stream National Park · Tanzania MRB-2026-005985 Zanzibar - Historic Spice Islands Zanzibar · Tanzania MRB-2026-005984 Tanzanite - A Gemstone Found Nowhere Else on Earth Institutional / General Record · Tanzania MRB-2026-005983 Cradle of Mankind - Landmark Human Origins Site Olduvai Gorge · Tanzania MRB-2026-005982 World's Second-Deepest and Longest Freshwater Lake Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania MRB-2026-005981 World's Largest Terrestrial Mammal Migration Serengeti wildebeest migration · Tanzania MRB-2026-005980 World's Largest Inactive, Intact Volcanic Caldera Ngorongoro Crater · Tanzania MRB-2026-005979 World's Tallest Free-Standing Mountain Mount Kilimanjaro · Tanzania MRB-2026-005978 Argan Trees Found Nowhere Else on Earth Institutional / General Record · Morocco MRB-2026-005977 World's Largest Hot Desert Sahara Desert · Morocco

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