Natural wonders · Curated list
Grand Canyon, Quebrada de Humahuaca, Antelope Canyon and 17 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the canyon or gorge's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Steep-sided canyon in Arizona, US
A steep-sided canyon cut by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. It is 277 miles (446 km) long, as much as 18 miles (29 km) wide, and more than a mile deep.
Wikidata · Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0
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UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jujuy Province, Argentina
A narrow mountain valley in the province of Jujuy, northwest Argentina, 1,649 km (1,025 mi) north of Buenos Aires. About 155 km (96 mi) long and running north–south, it has the Altiplano on its west and north, the Sub-Andean hills on its east and warm valleys on its south.
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Landform in the Navajo Nation, Arizona
Navajo Upper Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon of the American Southwest, on Navajo land east of Lechee, Arizona. On the Navajo Reservation it takes in six distinct and scenic slot canyons: Upper Antelope Canyon, Lower Antelope Canyon, Rattle Snake Canyon, Owl Canyon, Mountain Sheep Canyon and Canyon X.
Wikidata · Photo: Lucas Löffler, Public domain
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Mountain pass in Georgia (country)
A river gorge on the border of Georgia and Russia, at the eastern foot of Mount Kazbek, south of today's Vladikavkaz.
Wikidata · Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0
5
Gorge and national park in Crete, Greece
A gorge on Crete that Greece made a national park in 1962, one of the island's major tourist sights, and a World Biosphere Reserve.
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Geothermal feature in Kamchatka, Russia
A field of geysers on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula; only one place on Earth has more geysers packed together. The basin, six-kilometre-long (3.7 mi), holds about ninety geysers and many hot springs, mostly on the left bank of the Geysernaya River, which keeps cutting deeper and receives geothermal water from Kikhpinych, a fairly young stratovolcano.
Wikidata · Photo: Robert Nunn from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Deep river valley in Shropshire, England
A deep gorge carrying the River Severn in Shropshire, England. It was first cut as the most recent ice age ended, by glacial meltwater overflowing from Lake Lapworth, which has long since drained away.
Wikidata · Photo: Alice Humphreys - transatracurium, CC BY-SA 3.0
Valley in Abkhasia
Also called the Kodori Gorge, a river valley in Abkhazia, a partly recognised state in the South Caucasus. Its upper part, home to Svans, was the only corner of post-1993 Abkhazia under the direct control of the central Georgian government, which since 2006 has officially called it Upper Abkhazia.
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Volcanic fissure and eruption in south Iceland
A volcano and canyon in Iceland, part of the Katla volcano: a section of a chain of volcanic craters and fissure vents, 40 kilometres (25 mi) long, that runs northeast from Katla almost to the Vatnajökull ice cap.
Wikidata · Photo: Илья Григорик, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Canyon in Southeastern France
A canyon cut by a river in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in France's southeast, roughly 25 km (15.5 mi) long and reaching depths of 700 metres (0.4 mi).
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Canyon west of central Skopje, North Macedonia
A canyon west of central Skopje, North Macedonia, covering about 5,000 hectares. One of the country's most popular places for the outdoors, it has several medieval monasteries.
12
Canyon in Kazakhstan
A canyon, also written Sharyn, along the Charyn River in Kazakhstan, roughly 200 km (120 mi) east of Almaty, close to the Chinese frontier.
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Gorge in Georgia
Also called the Pankisi Gorge, a valley region in Georgia on the upper Alazani River, just south of Tusheti, a historic region of Georgia, between Mt Borbalo and the ruins of Bakhtrioni, a 17th-century fortress.
Wikidata · Photo: Aleksey Muhranoff, CC BY-SA 3.0
14
River canyon in China
A scenic canyon cut by the Jinsha, one of the chief tributaries of the upper Yangtze, 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Lijiang City, in Yunnan, in China's southwest.
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Canyon in Greece
Also called the Vikos Canyon, a gorge in the Pindus Mountains of northwestern Greece, on the southern slopes of Mount Tymphe. It is about 32 km long, between 120 and 1350 m deep, and from 2500 m to just a few meters wide at its narrowest.
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Natural gorges along the Yangtze River
Three gorges, one after another, on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in the interior of the People's Republic of China, famous for their scenery.
Wikidata · Photo: Tan Wei Liang Byorn, CC BY 3.0
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Natural gorge in Slovenia
Also called Bled Gorge, a gorge 1.6-kilometer (0.99 mi) long in northwestern Slovenia, in the municipalities of Bled and Gorje, four kilometers northwest of Bled, at the edge of Triglav National Park.
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Canyon in Tibet, China
The deepest canyon on Earth, cut by the Yarlung Tsangpo River in China's Tibet Autonomous Region; it is also called the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, the Tsangpo Canyon or Gorge, or the Brahmaputra Canyon. At 504.6 kilometres (313.5 mi), it slightly exceeds the length of the Grand Canyon in the US, and ranks among the world's biggest.
Large subglacial canyon in Greenland
A possible canyon of record length found beneath the Greenland ice sheet, described as a mega-canyon in the journal Science on 30 August 2013 by a team led by Jonathan Bamber, of the University of Bristol, with scientists from the University of Calgary and the University of Urbino.
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River gorge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
A stretch of the river Aare that cuts through a limestone ridge by Meiringen, a town in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland. It is an indirect result of glaciation: 10,000 years ago, as the Ice Age was ending, torrents of meltwater from the glaciers wore a deep, narrow chasm through the limestone.
Wikidata · Photo: Pazit Polak, CC BY-SA 2.0
Every Wikidata item that is a canyon or a gorge, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 20 are shown.
Fetched from Wikidata on 2026-09-25. Each description is this site's summary of the entry's Wikipedia article, which its name links to: the wording is ours, the facts are Wikipedia's, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. To correct an entry, correct it there; the next refresh carries the change.
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