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 This article lists extreme locations on Earth that hold geographical records or are otherwise known for their geophysical or meteorological superlatives. All of these locations are Earth-wide extremes; extremes of individual continents or count ...

* List of countries by northernmost point * List of countries by southernmost point * List of countries by easternmost point *

List of countries by westernmost point This is a list of countries by westernmost point on land (dependent territories included). A selection of dependent territories are listed in ''italics'' and are not ranked. There are five countries with territory on both sides of the 180th merid ...

* Northernmost settlements *

Southernmost settlements Southernmost settlements are cities, towns, weather stations or permanent military bases which are farther south than 45th parallel south, latitude 45°S. They are closely related to the Southern Ocean or either the Roaring Forties or Furious Fift ...

List of northernmost items This is a list of various northernmost things on Earth. Cities and settlements Geography Nature Wild animals Plants These lists only contain naturally occurring plants and trees, excluding individuals planted by humans. General ...

* List of southernmost items *

List of countries by highest point The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Elevation, Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipo ...

* List of countries by lowest point *

List of elevation extremes by country The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential ...

* List of elevation extremes by region *

List of highest towns by country A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

Continents

* Extreme points of Afro-Eurasia ** Extreme points of Africa ** Extreme points of Eurasia ***

Extreme points of Europe Extreme may refer to: Science and mathematics Mathematics *Extreme point, a point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set *Maxima and minima, extremes on a mathematical function Science *Extremop ...

*** Extreme points of Asia * Extreme points of the Americas **

Extreme points of North America This is a list of the extreme points of North America: the points that are highest and lowest, and farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. Some of these points are debatable, given the varying definitions of N ...

*** Extreme points of the Caribbean *** Extreme points of Central America **

Extreme points of South America The extreme points of South America are the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, but Águila Islet of the Diego Ramírez ...

* Extreme points of Antarctica * Extreme points of Oceania **

Extreme points of Australia This is a list of the extreme points of Australia (the country, not the Australia (continent), continent). The list includes extremes of cardinal direction, elevation, and other points of peculiar geographic interest. The location of some points ...

* Extreme points of the Antarctic *

Extreme points of the Arctic This is a list of the extreme points of the Arctic, the points of Arctic lands that are farther to the north than any other location classified by continent and country, latitude and longitude, and distance to the North Pole. The list is sorted fr ...

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 This is a table of extreme points (north, south, east and west) of each of the provinces and territories of Canada Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Con ...

Extreme communities of Canada This is a list of the extreme communities in Canada and its provinces and territories. They are farther east, north, south or west than any other community, though they are generally not farther than the extreme points of Canadian provinces. The ...

* 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 A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

* List of most massive black holes *

List of most massive stars This is a list of the most massive stars that have been discovered, in solar mass units (). Uncertainties and caveats Most of the masses listed below are contested and, being the subject of current research, remain under review and subject to con ...