The Amazon is the widest river in the world. Many kilometers from its mouth it can be as wide as 11 kilometers, and 40 kilometers in the wet season; at the place where it meets the Atlantic, it is as much as 325 kilometers.
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World's widest tunnel
The world's widest Yangtze River tunnel with an inner diameter of 13.7 meters located under the Yangtze River in Shanghai. The 8.9-km tunnel is part of a 12.6 billion yuan ($1.84 billion) bridge and tunnel project to link Shanghai with Chongming Island, the country's third largest after Taiwan and Hainan.
World's widest waterfall
This monstrous segmented waterfall on the Mekong River near the Cambodian border in the extreme southern part of Laos is the widest in the world - Khone is stretching to as much as 14 kilometers wide during the monsoon season!
The widest highway
The King's Highway 401 (also known as the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway) is a highway that extends across Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the longest 400-Series Highway in Ontario, and one of the widest and busiest highways in the world. In fact, the highway has the distinction of being North America's busiest freeway.
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