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Full guide Victoria Falls
Largest sheet of falling water on Earth
Full guide Tugela Falls
Among the world's tallest waterfalls (disputed second)
Augrabies Falls
Sixth-largest waterfall by volume in the world
Maletsunyane Falls
Longest single-drop abseil (204m) in the world
Murchison Falls
World's most powerful waterfall by force per metre of width
Full guide Kalambo Falls
Africa's second-highest single-drop waterfall
Full guide Epupa Falls
Border waterfall shared by Namibia and Angola
Ekom-Nkam Falls
Cameroon's best-known waterfall, a Tarzan-film backdrop
Kalandula Falls
One of Africa's largest waterfalls by volume
Ruacana Falls
Namibia's tallest waterfall when in flood
Full guide Blue Nile Falls
One of Ethiopia's most historic natural landmarks
Livingstone Falls
World's most powerful river rapids by discharge
Howick Falls
KwaZulu-Natal's most accessible major waterfall
Lisbon Falls
Tallest waterfall on South Africa's Panorama Route
Berlin Falls
A signature stop on the Blyde River Canyon drive
Sipi Falls
Uganda's most scenic coffee-country waterfall trio
Full guide Ouzoud Falls
Among Morocco's tallest and best-known waterfalls
Full guide Wli Falls
West Africa's tallest waterfall
Boti Falls
Ghana's best-known twin waterfall
Full guide Angel Falls
World's tallest uninterrupted waterfall
Full guide Iguazú Falls
World's largest waterfall system by combined width
UNESCO Devil's Throat
The single most powerful segment of Iguazu Falls
Full guide Kaieteur Falls
Among the most powerful single drops on earth: 226 metres in one plunge
Full guide Gocta Falls
One of the world's tallest waterfalls, unknown to the wider world until 2006
Yumbilla Falls
One of the five tallest waterfalls in the world
Salto del Laja
Chile's widest waterfall
Petrohué Falls
Chile's most photographed volcano-and-rapids view
Salto Grande
Patagonia's most iconic waterfall backdrop
Cachoeira da Fumaça
One of Brazil's tallest waterfalls
Caracol Falls
Rio Grande do Sul's tallest waterfall
Itiquira Falls
One of central Brazil's tallest waterfalls
Salto do Yucumã
One of the world's longest longitudinal waterfalls
Salto del Penitente
Uruguay's best-known waterfall, more than 60 m high
Tequendama Falls
Colombia's most famous, and most polluted, waterfall
La Chorrera
Colombia's tallest waterfall
Pulhapanzak Falls
Honduras's most-visited natural attraction
Full guide Niagara Falls
Highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America
Horseshoe Falls
Carries about 90% of the Niagara River's total flow
Full guide Yosemite Falls
Tallest waterfall in Yosemite, and among the tallest in North America
UNESCO Bridalveil Fall
Yosemite's most reliably year-round waterfall
UNESCO Nevada Fall
Upper anchor of Yosemite's famous Mist Trail
UNESCO Vernal Fall
One of Yosemite's most-hiked destinations
Full guide Multnomah Falls
Oregon's most-visited natural landmark
Full guide Havasu Falls
Most famous turquoise waterfall in the American Southwest
Shoshone Falls
Taller than Niagara Falls
Snoqualmie Falls
Site of one of the oldest operating hydroelectric plants in the US
Ruby Falls
Tallest underground waterfall open to the public in the US
Cumberland Falls
One of the few places on Earth with a regular moonbow
Great Falls
The most dramatic stretch of the Potomac River
Taughannock Falls
Taller than Niagara Falls
UNESCO Athabasca Falls
Most powerful waterfall in Jasper National Park
UNESCO Takakkaw Falls
One of Canada's tallest waterfalls
Full guide Montmorency Falls
30 metres taller than Niagara Falls
Helmcken Falls
Fourth-largest waterfall in Canada by flow
Della Falls
One of Canada's tallest waterfalls, and among its most remote
Agua Azul
One of Mexico's most photographed natural swimming spots
Tamul Falls
One of Mexico's tallest and widest waterfalls
Rio Celeste Falls
Famous for water colored by optical mineral scattering, not dye
Nauyaca Falls
South Pacific Costa Rica's most popular swimming waterfall
Full guide La Fortuna Waterfall
Signature waterfall of Costa Rica's Arenal region
Basaseachic Falls
Mexico's second-tallest waterfall
Palouse Falls
Washington State's official state waterfall
McWay Falls
One of the world's few waterfalls that drop onto a beach
UNESCO Lower Falls of the Yellowstone
Centerpiece of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Akaka Falls
Big Island's most-visited waterfall
Wailua Falls
Kauai's most famous roadside waterfall
Full guide Johnston Canyon Falls
Banff's most popular canyon hike
UNESCO Virginia Falls
One of Canada's most remote major waterfalls
Amicalola Falls
Tallest waterfall in Georgia and the southeastern US
Toccoa Falls
Taller than Niagara Falls, on a college campus
Linville Falls
Gateway to the deepest gorge in the eastern US
Tallulah Falls
Anchor of one of the deepest gorges in the eastern US
Letchworth State Park Falls
Centerpiece of the 'Grand Canyon of the East'
Full guide Gullfoss
Iceland's most iconic waterfall, on the Golden Circle
Full guide Skógafoss
Iceland's classic 60-metre curtain, with 527 steps to the top
Seljalandsfoss
One of the few waterfalls walkable on all sides
Full guide Dettifoss
Among Europe's most powerful waterfalls
Goðafoss
Historically tied to Iceland's conversion to Christianity
Hraunfossar
Iceland's widest 'waterfall' by continuous frontage
Kirkjufellsfoss
Iceland's most-photographed mountain-and-waterfall combination
Full guide Svartifoss
Framed by the basalt columns that echo in Hallgrímskirkja's design
Full guide Rhine Falls
Europe's largest plain waterfall by volume
Full guide Trümmelbach Falls
Glacier waterfalls you walk through inside the mountain — unique in Europe
Staubbach Falls
The waterfall that inspired a Goethe poem
Krimml Waterfalls
Tallest waterfall in the Alps
Full guide Plitvice Lakes Waterfalls
A living, still-growing travertine landscape
Full guide Krka Falls
Centerpiece cascade of Krka National Park
Skradinski Buk
Croatia's most-visited named waterfall
Cascata delle Marmore
Tallest man-made waterfall in the world
UNESCO Rjukanfossen
Anchor of a UNESCO industrial heritage landscape
Full guide Vøringsfossen
One of Norway's most celebrated national tourist route waterfalls
Vettisfossen
Norway's tallest completely unregulated waterfall
Mardalsfossen
Runs at full natural force only a few weeks a year
Langfoss
One of Norway's tallest waterfalls visible from the road
Latefossen
One of Norway's most photographed twin waterfalls
Kjelfossen
Among Norway's tallest waterfalls, above the Nærøyfjord
UNESCO Seven Sisters Waterfall
Centerpiece of the UNESCO-listed Geirangerfjord
Gveleti Waterfall
A popular short hike in the Georgian Caucasus
Full guide Kravica Falls
One of the Balkans' most popular waterfall swimming spots
Jajce Waterfall
A waterfall in the middle of a medieval town center
Boka Waterfall
Slovenia's tallest waterfall
High Force
England's largest waterfall by volume
Falls of Glomach
One of Britain tallest waterfalls
Steall Falls
Scotland's second-tallest waterfall
Powerscourt Waterfall
Ireland's tallest waterfall
Full guide Torc Waterfall
Killarney National Park's best-known waterfall
Reichenbach Falls
The waterfall where Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes
Henrhyd Falls
Filming location for the Dark Knight Rises Batcave
UNESCO Aira Force
A Lake District landmark tied to Wordsworth
Grey Mare's Tail
One of Britain tallest waterfalls, in a classic hanging valley
Savica Waterfall
Source waterfall of Lake Bohinj most-visited valley
Gastein Waterfall
A waterfall running through the center of an Alpine spa town
Seerenbach Falls
One of the highest total-drop waterfalls in Europe
Dudhsagar Falls
India's tallest railway-adjacent waterfall
Jog Falls
India's second-tallest plunge waterfall
Athirappilly Falls
Kerala's largest waterfall
Nohkalikai Falls
India's tallest plunge waterfall
Kunchikal Falls
Often cited as India's tallest waterfall by total height
Full guide Ban Gioc-Detian Falls
Asia's largest transnational border waterfall
Huangguoshu Falls
China's largest waterfall
Hukou Falls
The largest waterfall on the Yellow River, and the world's biggest yellow one
UNESCO Nuorilang Falls
Widest waterfall in the UNESCO-listed Jiuzhaigou Valley
Kegon Falls
One of Japan's three greatest waterfalls
UNESCO Nachi Falls
Japan's tallest single-drop waterfall, worshipped as a deity
Fukuroda Falls
One of Japan three greatest waterfalls
Full guide Kuang Si Falls
Laos's best-known waterfall, a staircase of turquoise travertine pools
Tad Fane Falls
Laos's tallest twin waterfall
Full guide Khone Phapheng Falls
Southeast Asia's largest waterfall by volume
Full guide Erawan Falls
Thailand's most popular tiered swimming waterfall
Pha Charoen Falls
A remote highlight of Thailand's far western borderlands
Pongour Falls
Nicknamed the queen of Vietnam waterfalls
Full guide Tumpak Sewu
One of Indonesia's most dramatic amphitheatre waterfalls
Sekumpul Falls
Often ranked Bali's most beautiful waterfall
Gitgit Falls
One of Bali's longest-established tourist waterfalls
Nungnung Falls
One of Bali's tallest and least-crowded major waterfalls
Maria Cristina Falls
Historic power source that shaped an entire city's development
Tinuy-an Falls
Called the Niagara Falls of the Philippines
Kawasan Falls
Finish line of the Philippines' most popular canyoneering route
Full guide Pagsanjan Falls
Famous Apocalypse Now filming location
Chitrakoot Falls
Widely nicknamed the Niagara Falls of India
Elephant Falls
Meghalaya most accessible multi-tier waterfall
Full guide Baatara Gorge Waterfall
One of the world's most unusual waterfalls, behind three natural bridges
Duden Waterfalls
One of few waterfalls in the world that fall directly into the sea
Full guide Sutherland Falls
New Zealand's tallest waterfall
UNESCO Stirling Falls
One of only two permanent waterfalls on Milford Sound
UNESCO Bowen Falls
One of only two permanent waterfalls on Milford Sound
UNESCO Wallaman Falls
Australia's tallest permanent single drop (268 m), 305 m in total
UNESCO Jim Jim Falls
One of Kakadu's most dramatic escarpment plunge pools
UNESCO Twin Falls
A twin-stream falls reachable only by 4WD and boat
Full guide Josephine Falls
A natural waterslide at the base of Queensland's tallest peak
Millaa Millaa Falls
Often called Australia's most photographed waterfall
Russell Falls
Widely considered Tasmania's most photographed waterfall
UNESCO Purling Brook Falls
A full behind-the-falls circuit walk in a Gondwana rainforest relic
Full guide Huka Falls
The Waikato River's most famous rapid-and-drop, just below Lake Taupō
Bridal Veil Falls
A dramatic single-drop falls near Raglan's famous surf breaks
Wairere Falls
The North Island's tallest waterfall
Marokopa Falls
The King Country's best-known waterfall, 31 km west of Waitomo
MacKenzie Falls
Victoria's largest waterfall by volume
Full guide Wentworth Falls
A signature day trip from Sydney into the Blue Mountains
Wangi Falls
Litchfield National Park's most popular swimming hole
Florence Falls
One of Litchfield's two signature twin waterfalls
Full guide Tavoro Falls
Fiji's best-known waterfall trio
Wilberforce Falls
One of the highest waterfalls north of the Arctic Circle
Carrabeanga Falls
A two-day, 20-abseil canyon descent in Kanangra-Boyd
Mutarazi Falls
Zimbabwe's highest waterfall
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