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Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system This list of longest caves includes caves in which the combined length of documented passageways exceeds 100 kilometres (62 mi). In some of these caves, passageways are still being discovered.
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.
Located near the Laos–Vietnam border, Hang Sơn Đoòng has an internal, fast-flowing subterranean river and the largest cross-section of any cave, worldwide, [2] [3] believed to be twice that of the next-largest passage. It is the largest known cave passage in the world by volume. Its name, Hang Sơn Đoòng, is variously translated from ...
A schematic representation of the Miao Room within the Gebihe cave system. Miao Room is the largest known cave chamber by volume in the world. [1] It is a part of the Gebihe cave system, which is located in Ziyun Getu He National Park in Ziyun county of the Chinese province of Guizhou. [2]
The world's longest cave system just got a little bit longer, as Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park announced 6 more miles have been discovered.
Fitton Cave, also known as Beauty Cave, [1] is located near the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. It contains 17.5 miles of mapped passage as of 2024, and is the longest known cave in Arkansas, and the 188th longest in the world. [2] [3] The cliffs on the Buffalo River harbor 340 known caves, many of which are home to endangered bats. [3]
Mammoth Cave National Park is a national park of the United States in south-central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave system in the world. The park's 52,830 acres (21,380 ha) are located primarily in Edmonson County, with small areas extending eastward into Hart and Barren counties.
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.