This is a list of lists of places considered the most extreme by virtue of meeting some superlative geographical or physical criterion – e.g. farthest, highest, lowest, greatest, or least.

Earth

• Extremes on Earth
• List of countries by northernmost point
• List of countries by southernmost point
• List of countries by easternmost point
• List of countries by westernmost point
• Northernmost settlements
• Southernmost settlements
• List of northernmost items
• List of southernmost items
• List of countries by highest point
• List of countries by lowest point
• List of elevation extremes by country
• List of elevation extremes by region
• List of highest towns by country

Continents

• Extreme points of Afro-Eurasia
  • Extreme points of Africa
  • Extreme points of Eurasia
    • Extreme points of Europe
    • Extreme points of Asia
• Extreme points of the Americas
  • Extreme points of North America
    • Extreme points of the Caribbean
    • Extreme points of Central America
  • Extreme points of South America
• Extreme points of Antarctica
• Extreme points of Oceania
  • Extreme points of Australia
• Extreme points of the Antarctic
• Extreme points of the Arctic

Sovereign states

Dependencies, autonomies, and other territories

• Extreme points of the Faroe Islands
• Extreme points of Greenland
• Extreme points of Guam
• Extreme points of Niue
• Extreme points of Northern Cyprus
• Extreme points of the Northern Mariana Islands
• Extreme points of Taiwan
• Extreme points of Western Sahara

Miscellaneous political subdivisions

• Extreme points of the Commonwealth of Nations
• Extreme points of the African Union
• Extreme points of the British Isles
• Extreme points of Canadian provinces
  • Extreme communities of Canada
• Extreme points of the European Union
• Extreme points of New England
• Extreme points of U.S. states

Space

• List of Solar System extremes
• List of extrasolar planet extremes
• List of hottest stars
• List of largest cosmic structures
• List of largest known stars
• List of most massive black holes
• List of most massive stars
• List of most luminous stars

See also

• World record

This article includes a geography-related list of lists.