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Its Cree-derived name means 'it is wonderful' -- this is one of Canada's tallest waterfalls, in Yoho National Park.

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This North Carolina waterfall plunges into a gorge nicknamed the 'Grand Canyon of the East.'

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Fall Creek Falls, one of the tallest waterfalls in the eastern US, is found in this southern state.

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These falls in the Black Forest are among Germany's highest waterfalls.

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This waterfall drops in stages down a remote Hawaiian sea cliff on Molokai.

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This South African waterfall's name means 'place of great noise' on the Orange River.

AUGRABIES

Named for its curved shape, this section carries most of Niagara's water on the Canadian side.

HORSESHOE

One of Scotland's tallest waterfalls thunders near Glen Nevis.

STEALL

Just outside Bogota, Tequendama Falls drops over 130 meters in this Andean country.

COLOMBIA

This Oregon waterfall's name means 'graceful' in a local Native American language.

TOKETEE

Rainbows often form in the mist of this 110-meter waterfall in Morocco's Atlas Mountains.

OUZOUD

This is Slovenia's tallest waterfall, found near Bovec in the Soca valley.

BOKA

Tahquamenon Falls, one of the largest waterfalls east of the Mississippi River, is located in this state's Upper Peninsula.

MICHIGAN

This 78-meter waterfall in Plitvice Lakes National Park is Croatia's tallest.

VELIKI

Boyoma Falls, among the highest-volume waterfalls on Earth, interrupts a major river in this Central African country.

CONGO

Niagara Falls sits on the border between the United States and this country.

CANADA

One of Wales's most-visited waterfalls, near Betws-y-Coed; its English name comes from a bird whose tail the divided flow resembles.

SWALLOW

This is the North Island of New Zealand's highest waterfall.

WAIRERE

Diyaluma, the second-tallest waterfall on this island nation, tumbles beside a natural infinity pool.

SRILANKA

Known as the 'Niagara of Chile,' this waterfall roars through the Biobio region of central Chile.

LAJA

Once named for a colonial explorer, this Congo River waterfall has the world's highest flow rate.

BOYOMA

Sixteen turquoise lakes connected by cascading waterfalls make up this country's Plitvice Lakes National Park.

CROATIA

Krimml Falls, fed by glacial meltwater, is the tallest waterfall in this Alpine country.

AUSTRIA

Known for its long cascading spout, this is England's highest waterfall.

CAUTLEY

This South African waterfall drops into a valley long linked with local legend.

HOWICK

Kegon Falls, framed by autumn foliage near the town of Nikko, is a popular sightseeing spot in this country.

JAPAN

Best known for a cave that lets visitors walk behind the falling water, Huangguoshu Falls is located in this country.

CHINA

Khone Phapheng Falls forms a wide, turbulent barrier across the _ _ _ _ _ _ River near the Cambodian border.

MEKONG

Gullfoss means "_ _ _ _ _ _ Falls" in Icelandic, though the water itself isn't literally that color.

GOLDEN

Straddling the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, this waterfall on the Zambezi River is over a mile wide.

VICTORIA

This is Germany's tallest waterfall, located near the Austrian border.

ROTHBACH

Murchison Falls squeezes the entire Nile River through a gap just 7 meters wide, in this East African country.

UGANDA

This Yosemite waterfall pairs a wedding item with 'Fall': Bridal _ _ _ _.

VEIL

Ulaan Tsutgalan, sometimes called the "Red Waterfall," is a popular natural landmark in this Central Asian country.

MONGOLIA

This is the Faroe Islands' highest waterfall.

FOSSA

Located on Molokai's sea cliffs, this is the tallest waterfall in the United States.

OLOUPENA

Rainbow mist often rises where Ouzoud Falls drops over 100 meters in this North African country.

MOROCCO

Henrhyd Falls, used as a filming location for a Batman movie's cave entrance, is found in this part of the UK.

WALES

At 105 meters, this waterfall in Gilan Province is widely considered the tallest in Iran.

LATON

This is the Czech Republic's tallest waterfall, found in the Krkonose Mountains.

PANCAVSKY

This waterfall in China's Guizhou province belongs to the same falls system as Huangguoshu.

DALONGQIU

This waterfall sits on the Kunene River, the border between Angola and Namibia.

RUACANA

Mutarazi Falls, one of Africa's tallest, drops in two tiers within a national park in this southern African country.

ZIMBABWE

Eas a' Chual Aluinn, one of Britain's tallest waterfalls, plunges into a remote glen in this part of the UK.

SCOTLAND

Near the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Kalambo Falls ranks among Africa's tallest, in this East African country.

TANZANIA

Njupeskar, the tallest waterfall in this Scandinavian country, lies within a national park.

SWEDEN

This is North Macedonia's tallest waterfall.

SMOLARE

The Iguazu River is itself a tributary that joins the _ _ _ _ _ _ River not far downstream of the falls.

PARANA

Monday Falls, near the famous Iguazu system, is found in this small South American country.

PARAGUAY

This is Missouri's tallest waterfall, found in the Ozark hills.

MINASAUK

This waterfall spills from a volcanic crater lake on the China-North Korea border.

CHANGBAI

Most of Iguazu Falls' roughly 275 individual cascades lie within this country's national park.

ARGENTINA

Legend holds that pagan idols were thrown into this Icelandic 'Waterfall of the Gods' around the year 1000.

GODAFOSS

Havasu Falls, known for its turquoise pools, is located on tribal land in this southwestern US state.

ARIZONA

High Force, one of the biggest waterfalls in this country by volume, drops over resistant rock in the Pennines.

ENGLAND

Considered Europe's most powerful waterfall by volume, Dettifoss thunders across this North Atlantic island nation.

ICELAND

This is Estonia's tallest waterfall, cascading over a limestone cliff into the Baltic Sea.

VALASTE

Locals call Victoria Falls "The _ _ _ _ _ That Thunders," after the mist and roar it produces.

SMOKE

This waterfall on the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, in Ethiopia, is locally called "Tis Issat," meaning "smoking water."

BLUENILE

Named after a miner who fell to his death there, this waterfall is deep in the Grand Canyon.

MOONEY

Owu Falls, reputed to be one of West Africa's tallest waterfalls, is found in this populous country.

NIGERIA

This waterfall near Mahabaleshwar is among the tallest in India's Western Ghats.

VAJRAI

Jeongbang Falls is unusual for cascading straight into the sea, on Jeju Island off the coast of South _ _ _ _ _.

KOREA

This sacred 133-meter waterfall in Japan is treated as a Shinto shrine in itself.

NACHI

Narva Falls forms part of the border between Russia and this small Baltic country.

ESTONIA

Both Gocta and Yumbilla Falls, two of the world's tallest, are found in this Andean country.

PERU

Talnikovy Falls, among the tallest in this country, is found on the remote Putorana Plateau in Siberia.

RUSSIA

This urban waterfall thunders through the middle of a Washington city that shares its name.

SPOKANE

This 297-meter waterfall drops from a cliff above Switzerland's Lauterbrunnen valley.

STAUBBACH

Nicknamed 'Little Niagara,' this is Taiwan's widest waterfall.

SHIFEN

This waterfall straddling China and Vietnam is Asia's largest transnational waterfall.

DETIAN

Yellowstone Falls plunges into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River in this state.

WYOMING

This Yosemite waterfall's name is Spanish for 'snowy.'

NEVADA

This waterfall roars on the Kalungwishi River in northern Zambia.

LUMANGWE

Shifen Falls, sometimes called the "Little Niagara," is a popular waterfall on this island.

TAIWAN

This Virginia waterfall is a five-cascade series with the tallest vertical drop of any cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi.

CRABTREE

Nicknamed the 'Niagara of the West,' this Idaho waterfall is taller than Niagara Falls.

SHOSHONE

This Oregon waterfall in Umpqua National Forest drops over a basalt cliff.

WATSON

One of India's tallest waterfalls, it forms on the Sharavathi River in Karnataka.

JOG

Brown bears famously catch leaping salmon at this Alaskan waterfall.

BROOKS

Berkelah Falls, a popular jungle cascade, is located in this Southeast Asian country.

MALAYSIA

Kamienczyk Falls, one of this country's tallest, is found in the Karkonosze Mountains near the Czech border.

POLAND

Kalandula Falls, one of Africa's largest by volume, is located in this former Portuguese colony.

ANGOLA

Known as 'smoking water,' this waterfall lies on Ethiopia's Blue Nile.

TISISAT

One of Canada's tallest waterfalls, it flows on Vancouver Island.

DELLA

This 'Golden Falls' on Iceland's Hvita river is one of the country's most visited sights.

GULLFOSS

A waterfall nicknamed "the smoking water" in Amharic thunders on the Blue Nile in this East African country.

ETHIOPIA

This is Oregon's tallest waterfall, dropping in two tiers along the Columbia River Gorge.

MULTNOMAH

This major hydroelectric site in Labrador shares its name with a wartime British prime minister.

CHURCHILL

This Icelandic waterfall is reputed to be the most powerful in Europe by volume.

DETTIFOSS

This underground waterfall is a tourist attraction inside a Tennessee cave.

RUBY

Named for a Greek water nymph, this is one of New Hampshire's tallest waterfalls.

ARETHUSA

Nineteenth-century explorers once named this Ugandan waterfall the source of the Nile.

RIPON

Two connected waterfalls straddle a border river between China and this Southeast Asian country.

VIETNAM

Khone Phapheng Falls, the widest waterfall in Southeast Asia by some measures, spans the Mekong River in this country.

LAOS

One of Africa's largest waterfalls by volume, it thunders through Angola's Malanje Province.

KALANDULA

Dropping 948 meters in South Africa, this is the continent's tallest waterfall.

TUGELA

Victoria Falls plunges 108 meters from the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ River into a narrow gorge.

ZAMBEZI

Taller than Niagara Falls, Montmorency Falls cascades near the capital of this Canadian province.

QUEBEC

This waterfall's name means 'Sea of Milk' in the Indian state of Goa.

DUDHSAGAR

Shoshone Falls drops over the _ _ _ _ _ River in southern Idaho.

SNAKE

Twice the height of Niagara Falls, this waterfall thunders through Canada's Nahanni National Park.

VIRGINIA

This is one of New Zealand's highest waterfalls, tumbling from Fiordland's cliffs.

BROWNE

Considered continental Europe's largest waterfall by volume in some rankings, this cascade interrupts the _ _ _ _ _ River in Switzerland.

RHINE

This is Australia's tallest permanent single-drop waterfall, in Queensland.

WALLAMAN

One of the tallest waterfalls in the United States drops in three cascades inside this California national park.

YOSEMITE

Home to dramatic fjord waterfalls like Voringsfossen and Langfoss, this Scandinavian country has hundreds of named falls.

NORWAY

This tiered waterfall flows through Hawaii's remote Waimanu Valley.

WAIHILAU

Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River powered early industry in this state's largest city, Minneapolis.

MINNESOTA

This waterfall plunges into a canyon in British Columbia's Wells Gray Park.

HELMCKEN

This is Georgia's tallest waterfall, its name meaning 'tumbling waters' in Cherokee.

AMICALOLA

Shoshone Falls, taller than Niagara, thunders on the Snake River in this state.

IDAHO

Hidden by mist for centuries, this Peruvian waterfall was only measured internationally in 2006.

GOCTA

This is Zimbabwe's tallest waterfall and among Africa's highest.

MUTARAZI

Japan's tallest year-round waterfall, it flows in Toyama Prefecture's mountains.

SHOMYO

This is Ukraine's highest waterfall, found in the Crimean Mountains.

UCHANSU

This waterfall on the Big _ _ _ _ _ River gave its name to a South Dakota city.

SIOUX

This is mainland France's highest waterfall, found in the Pyrenees near Spain.

GAVARNIE

At 979 meters, the world's tallest waterfall is found in this South American country.

VENEZUELA

Once the largest waterfall known to have existed, this Washington site is now a dry cliff.

DRYFALLS

For decades this was thought to be Iceland's tallest waterfall, until a taller one was measured in 2011.

GLYMUR

This seasonal snowmelt waterfall is Japan's tallest, appearing only in spring.

HANNOKI

This waterfall anchors an Oregon state park famous for its ten waterfalls, and is named for a precious metal.

SILVER

This dramatic Washington state waterfall plunges into a canyon carved by ancient Ice Age floods.

PALOUSE

This waterfall streaks down the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington.

COMET

The entire Nile squeezes through a narrow gorge at this Ugandan waterfall.

MURCHISON

Maletsunyane Falls, a dramatic single drop in the Maloti Mountains, is found in this small mountain kingdom.

LESOTHO

At 979 meters, this Venezuelan waterfall is the tallest in the world.

ANGEL

This is Bulgaria's tallest waterfall and the highest in the Balkans.

RAYSKO

Nicknamed the 'Devil's Cauldron,' this Ecuadorian waterfall roars near Banos.

PAILON

Ngonye Falls churns across the upper Zambezi River well before it reaches Victoria Falls, in this country.

ZAMBIA

Edessa Falls, one of the widest waterfalls in the Balkans, tumbles right through the middle of a town in this country.

GREECE

Also located in Peru's Amazonas region, this waterfall ranks among the tallest in South America.

YUMBILLA

This single-drop waterfall in Guyana plunges 226 meters, over four times the height of Niagara.

KAIETEUR

Visitors can climb alongside Dunn's River Falls as it cascades directly into the Caribbean Sea on this island.

JAMAICA

This waterfall on the Yellow River is China's largest yellow-colored waterfall.

HUKOU

This famous fictional detective was said to have plunged to his death at Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls in an 1893 story.

HOLMES

Immortalized in a Longfellow poem, this Minneapolis waterfall's name means 'curling water' in Dakota.

MINNEHAHA

This is one of Sweden's tallest waterfalls, inside Fulufjallet National Park, established in 2002.

NJUPESKAR

Multnomah Falls, one of the tallest year-round waterfalls in the US, is found in this Pacific Northwest state.

OREGON

At 380 meters, this is Austria's highest waterfall.

KRIMML

Made up of about 275 separate cascades, this waterfall system sits on the Argentina-Brazil border.

IGUAZU

This Namibian waterfall on the Kunene River is ringed by tall Makalani palm trees.

EPUPA

Gavarnie Falls, one of continental Europe's tallest, drops within a UNESCO-listed cirque in the Pyrenees of this country.

FRANCE

This remote cascade in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, is a candidate for one of Australia's tallest waterfalls.

TINMINE

The Potaro River's biggest single-drop waterfall is found in this small South American country.

GUYANA

Krushuna Falls forms a series of turquoise terraced pools in this Balkan country.

BULGARIA

This waterfall lies near Milford Sound in New _ _ _ _ _ _ _, one of the tallest in the Southern Hemisphere.

ZEALAND

This rare California waterfall drops straight onto a beach along the Big Sur coast.

MCWAY

This waterfall spills from a hanging valley in Glacier National Park, Montana; its name is thought to honor Sacagawea.

BIRDWOMAN

Margoon Waterfall cascades down a canyon wall in the Zagros Mountains of this Middle Eastern country.

IRAN

Kaieteur Falls drops in a single sheer plunge on the _ _ _ _ _ _ River in Guyana.

POTARO

Triberg Falls, among this country's highest waterfalls, tumbles through its Black Forest region.

GERMANY

Fed by glacial meltwater near Osorno Volcano, Petrohue Falls is located in this South American country.

CHILE

The best panoramic view of Iguazu Falls is often had from a walkway on this country's side of the border.

BRAZIL

On New Zealand's Waikato River, this powerful, narrow waterfall is one of the country's most-visited natural sites.

HUKA

This waterfall on the slopes of Maine's highest mountain is often billed as the state's tallest, though its height is unofficial.

KATAHDIN

This river tumbles over Great Falls just upstream from Washington, D.C.

POTOMAC

One of the tallest single-drop waterfalls in North America, it flows only seasonally in Yosemite.

RIBBON

Icelandic folklore says a hidden treasure chest lies behind this famous waterfall.

SKOGAFOSS

This famous waterfall system on the US-Canada border has the highest flow rate in North America.

NIAGARA

Barron Falls plunges into a gorge near the city of Cairns in this country's tropical north.

AUSTRALIA

Nicknamed the "Niagara of the South," Cumberland Falls is located in this state.

KENTUCKY

Powerscourt Waterfall, this country's tallest, cascades within a large estate south of Dublin.

IRELAND

Reaching this remote waterfall in British Columbia requires a long hike or a floatplane.

HUNLEN

Duden Falls empties dramatically into the Mediterranean Sea near the resort city of Antalya in this country.

TURKEY

This Chilean waterfall churns through volcanic rock near Osorno Volcano.

PETROHUE

Famous for its strikingly blue-green pools, this waterfall lies on tribal land in a remote canyon in Arizona.

HAVASU

At 235 meters, this waterfall on the Zambia-Tanzania border is one of Africa's tallest.

KALAMBO

Nohkalikai Falls, the tallest plunge waterfall in this South Asian country, is found in the state of Meghalaya.

INDIA

Epupa Falls spreads across the Kunene River on the border of Angola and this southern African country.

NAMIBIA
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