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This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country. They are sorted by continent and then country. Caves which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory's continent and name.
Bat Cave; Carter Caves State Park; Cascade Caverns; Colossal Cavern; Diamond Caverns; Eleven Jones Cave; Fisher Ridge Cave System; Glover's Cave; Goochland Cave; Great Onyx Cave; Great Saltpetre Cave; Horse Cave also known as "Hidden River Cave" Lost River Cave; Mammoth Cave; Martin Ridge Cave System; Oligo-Nunk Cave System
Griffin Shipwreck in Fort Pilar, Zamboanga city; Guyangan Cave System; Intramuros, the Walled City of Manila; Ijang in Batanes; Kabayan Mummy Burial Caves, Benguet; Kalanay Cave and other archaeological sites at Masbate; Kulaman Plateau, Cotabato; Lapuz Lapuz Cave; Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens; Lena Shoal wreck site
This list of deepest caves includes the deepest known natural caves according to maximum surveyed depth as of 2024. The depth value is measured from the highest to the lowest accessible cave point. The depth value is measured from the highest to the lowest accessible cave point.
Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world, with 426 mi (686 km) [17] of mapped passageways. The cave system is home to more than 130 cave-dwelling species. The cave system and the surrounding area exhibit numerous examples of karst topography, with sinkholes, underground rivers, speleothem, and large chambers.
Preferable conditions for karst cave formation are adequate precipitation, enough plants and animals to produce ample carbon dioxide, and a landscape of gentle hills which drains slowly. [ citation needed ] The highest concentrations of long caves in the world are found in the Pennyroyal Plateau of southern Kentucky , United States, in the ...
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This list of longest caves by country includes the longest-known natural cave per country. To be listed, the caves must have been surveyed to cave surveying standards , and the results published in reliable sources.