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A waterfall is a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over a rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation.
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| x Angel Falls |
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Angel Falls (indigenous name: "Parakupa-vena", which means "the fall from the highest point" or "Kerepakupai merú", which means "waterfall of the deepest place", in Pemon language; Spanish: Salto Ángel) is the world's highest waterfall, with a...
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| x Horseshoe Falls | 53 m | 1 |
The Horseshoe Falls, also known as the Canadian Falls, is a waterfall on the Niagara River, located on the Canadian side of the border with the United States. It is located between Terrapin Point on Goat Island in New York State, and Table Rock...
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| x Niagara Falls |
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The Niagara Falls are voluminous waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. The falls are 17 miles (27 km) north-northwest of Buffalo, New York and 75...
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| x Bridalveil Fall |
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Bridalveil Fall is one of the most prominent waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley in California, seen yearly by millions of visitors to Yosemite National Park.
The Ahwahneechee tribe believed that Bridalveil Fall was home to a vengeful spirit named...
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| x Dick's Creek Falls |
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Dick's Creek Falls is a waterfall that features a 60 foot drop of Dicks Creek into the Chattooga River. Located in the Chattahoochee National Forest, it is reached by using the Dick's Creek Trail, which is short trail (about 1.4 miles in and out)...
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| x Kjelfossen |
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Kjelfossen (Kjell Falls), located in the municipality of Aurland, is one of the highest waterfalls in Norway with a total fall of 840 m.
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| x Inga Falls |
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Inga Falls is a rapids 40 km from Matadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the Congo River drops 96 m (315 ft) over the course of 15km (9 mi). At 42,476 m³/s (1,500,000 ft³/s), it is arguably the largest waterfall in the world. Its...
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| x Vøringfossen |
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Vøringfossen is one of the most visited waterfalls in Norway. The falls are 183 m (about 600 ft.) high. The falls are located in Eidfjord not far from Highway 7, which connects Oslo with Bergen.
Bjoreia, the small river that flows into Vøringfossen,...
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| x Espelandsfossen |
Espelandsfossen (Espelands Falls) is a 75m (246ft) tall waterfall located in Espelandsdalen (the Espeland Valley), Granvin in Hardanger, Norway.
Due to an urban legend, Espelandsfossen is sometimes erroneously claimed to be 2,307 feet tall. One...
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| x Toketee Falls |
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Toketee Falls is a waterfall located on the North Umpqua River in Southern Oregon, approximately 58 miles east of Roseburg, Oregon, USA near Oregon Route 138. Carved from ancient columnar basalt, Toketee Falls drops approximately 120 feet (36 meters...
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| x Reversing Falls |
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The Reversing Falls are a series of rapids on the Saint John River located in Saint John, New Brunswick where the river runs through a narrow gorge before emptying into the Bay of Fundy.
The diurnal tides of the bay force the flow of water to...
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| x Kaieteur Falls |
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Kaieteur Falls is a magnificent, high-volume waterfall on the Potaro River in central Guyana. It is located in Kaieteur National Park. It is 226 meters (741 ft) when measured from its plunge over a sandstone cliff to the first break. It then flows...
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| x Long Creek Falls |
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Long Creek Falls is a waterfall located in Fannin County, Georgia. The falls are about 50 feet (15 meters) high and are fairly wide. It is accessible from the Duncan Ridge Trail.
Long Creek Falls are located on the Chattooga River on the SC side....
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| x Mongefossen |
Mongefossen (Monge falls) is unofficially listed as the fourth-highest waterfall in the world. There is some dispute as to the height, but it is generally listed at 773 m (2,535 feet). It also holds the distinction as being the highest waterfalls in...
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| x Háifoss |
The waterfall Háifoss is situated near the volcano Hekla in the south of Iceland. The river Fossá, a tributary of Þjórsá, drops here from a height of 122 m. This is the second highest waterfall of the island.
From the historical farm Stöng, which...
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| x Hog's Back Falls |
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The Hog's Back Falls, officially known as the Prince of Wales Falls, but rarely referred to by this name, are a series of artificially-created waterfalls on the Rideau River in Ottawa, Canada. The falls are located just north of Mooney's Bay and the...
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| x Devil's Kettle |
Devil's Kettle is a unique geologic formation in near Grand Marais, Minnesota on the Brule river which feeds into Lake Superior. It is a spot where the river splits into two and one part of the river disappears into a giant hole in the ground. The...
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| x Reichenbach Falls |
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The Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfall) are a series of waterfalls of river Aar near Meiringen in Bern canton in central Switzerland. They have a total drop of 250 m (820 ft). At 90 m (295.2 ft), the Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest...
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| x Browne Falls | 619 m |
Browne Falls is a waterfall above Doubtful Sound, which is located in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. In breathtaking scenery amidst temperate rain forest, the falls cascade down to the fiord near Hall Arm. Heights of 619 metres and 836 metres...
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| x Falls of Dochart |
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The Falls of Dochart are situated on the River Dochart at Killin in Stirlingshire, Scotland at the western end of Loch Tay. A bridge crosses over the river just as you enter Killin giving a fabulous view of the falls as they cascade down over the...
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| x Goðafoss |
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The Goðafoss (Icelandic: waterfall of the gods or waterfall of the goði) is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in Iceland. It is located in the Mývatn district of North-Central Iceland at the beginning of the Sprengisandur highland road. The...
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| x Barrington Brown Falls |
Barrington Brown Falls is a waterfall on the Corentyne River, Guyana, approximately 250 km south of Orealla.
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Ruby Falls is a 145-foot high underground waterfall located within Lookout Mountain, near Rock City and Chattanooga, Tennessee in the United States.
The cave which houses Ruby Falls was formed with the formation of Lookout Mountain. About 200 to 240...
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| x Dip Falls |
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Dip Falls are found on the Dip River on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.
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| x Great Falls of the Catawba River | 36.8808 m |
The Great Falls of the Catawba River mark the point at which the river encounters a series of rapids while coursing across the Piedmont Plateau on the border of Lancaster County, South Carolina, and Chester County, South Carolina, near the town of...
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| x Whiskeytown Falls |
Whiskeytown Falls is a three-tiered waterfall with a total elevation of 220 feet, located in northern California's Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. Despite its size, it was largely unknown until 2005, having been improperly mapped decades...
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| x Great Falls of the Passaic River |
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The Great Falls of the Passaic River are a prominent waterfall, 77 ft (23 m) high, on the Passaic River in the city of Paterson in Passaic County in northern New Jersey in the United States. Congress authorized its establishment as a National...
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| x Willamette Falls |
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The Willamette Falls is a natural waterfall on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, Oregon, in the United States. It is the largest waterfall in the Pacific Northwest and the eighteenth largest in the world by water volume....
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| x Cauldron Snout |
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Cauldron Snout is a waterfall on the upper reaches of the River Tees in Northern England, immediately below the dam of the Cow Green Reservoir. It is well upstream of the High Force waterfall, and is on the boundary between County Durham and Cumbria...
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| x Montmorency Falls |
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The Montmorency Falls (French: Parc de la Chute-Montmorency) form a large waterfall in Quebec, Canada. The falls are located in the borough of Beauport, Quebec City, about 12 km from the heart of old Quebec City.
The falls, at 84 meters (275 ft)...
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| x Elbow Falls |
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Elbow Falls is a small set of waterfalls along the Elbow River, west of the hamlet of Bragg Creek within Kananaskis Country, Alberta. They are located along Highway 66, 20 km (12 mi) west of the Bragg Creek turnoff on Highway 22X.
In the dry season,...
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| x Smith Falls |
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Smith Falls, at 63 feet (19 m), is the highest waterfall in the state of Nebraska. Located 18 miles (29 km) east of Valentine, the falls is part of Smith Falls State Park and is adjacent to the Niobrara National Scenic River. The state park was...
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| x Pot Falls |
Pot Falls is a waterfall on the Essequibo River, Guyana, approximately 30 km north of Kurupukari.
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| x Orinduik Falls |
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The Orinduik Falls lie on the Ireng River, a highland river that thunders over steps and terraces of jasper on the border with Brazil before merging with the Takutu River and into Brazil to join the Amazon River.
The falls are situated amid the...
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| x Jourama Falls |
Jourama Falls are found near the Bruce Highway, between Ingham and Townsville, in Queensland, Australia. Protected within the northern section of the Paluma Range National Park.
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| x Kanching Falls |
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The Kanching Falls are located between Kuala Lumpur and Rawang in Selangor, Malaysia. The waterfalls consist of seven tiers. A well-maintained recreation park gives access to the lower falls, to reach the upper falls some scrambling uphill is...
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| x Tarawera Falls |
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The Tarawera Falls are on the Tarawera River in the Bay of Plenty region in the North Island of New Zealand.
Access is from the town of Kawerau and is a drive of about 45 minutes over unsealed roads, followed by a walk of about 20 minutes.
The...
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| x Engstligen falls |
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The Engstligen falls near Adelboden in the Bernese Oberland are the second highest waterfalls in Switzerland. They are listed in the Swiss inventory of landscapes of national significance.
The Engstligen falls have one of the highest water volumes...
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| x Nachi Falls |
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Nachi Falls (那智滝, Nachi no Taki) in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, is one of the best-known waterfalls in Japan. With a drop of at 133 m, it is often erroneously thought to be the country's tallest. In fact, the tallest waterfall in Japan is the...
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| x Jurong Falls |
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Jurong Falls is the tallest continuously running artificial waterfall in the world, at 30 metres (100 feet) tall. The falls are located within the open-access Waterfall Aviary at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore.
Water plunges over the top of a...
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| x Wadsworth Falls |
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Wadsworth Falls is located in Middlefield, Connecticut in Middlesex County, Connecticut. At Wadsworth Falls State Park there is a swimming and picnicking area. The swimming pool is paved with soil cement to prevent leakage. Water is pumped from...
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| x Aira Force |
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Aira Force is a waterfall in the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. The word force is used in many parts of northern England as a synonym for waterfall it comes from the Old Norse language old Norse word fors.
The stream which flows...
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| x Cuquenan Falls |
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Cuquenan Falls (or Salto Kukenan, Kukenaam, or similar) is the second tallest major waterfall in Venezuela after Salto Angel. It is also the second tallest free-leaping waterfall in the world. Overall, it is usually cited as the 11th highest river...
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| x Cullasaja falls |
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Cullasaja Falls is a waterfall in Southwestern North Carolina. The waterfall is located on the Cullasaja River in the Nantahala National Forest and is part of the Mountain Waters Scenic Byway. Cullasaja comes from a Cherokee word meaning "honey...
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| x Cola de Caballo |
Cola de Caballo (Spanish for "Horse Tail") is a waterfall about 40 km (25 mi) from Monterrey, Mexico, in the town of Villa de Santiago, Nuevo León. It is open to the public and is accessible via a walking path.
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Darwin Falls is a waterfall located on the western edge of Death Valley National Park near the settlement of Panamint Springs, California. Although there exists a similarly named Darwin Falls Wilderness adjacent to the falls, the falls themselves...
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| x Jog Falls |
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Jog Falls (Kannada: ಜೋಗ ಜಲಪಾತ), created by the Sharavathi River falling from a height of 253 meters (829 ft) is the highest plunge waterfall in India Located in Shimoga District of Karnataka state, these segmented falls are a major tourist...
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| x Tugela Falls |
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Tugela Falls is the world's second highest waterfall. The total drop in five free-leaping falls is 948 meters (3,110 feet). They are located in the Drakensberg (Dragon's Mountains) in the Royal Natal National Park in KwaZulu-Natal Province, Republic...
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| x Queen Mary Falls |
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Queen Mary Falls are found in Main Range National Park on the McPherson Range near the New South Wales/Queensland border.
The 40 m waterfall is located 50 km south-east of Warwick, 10 km east of the town of Killarney in Queensland, Australia. Queen...
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| x Bash Bish Falls |
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Bash Bish Falls, a waterfall in Bash Bish Falls State Park in the Taconic Mountains of southwestern Massachusetts, is the highest waterfall in the state. The falls are made up of a series of cascades, nearly 200 feet (61 m) in total, with the final...
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| x King George VI Falls |
King George VI Falls is located on the Courantyne River in southern Guyana. With a height of 488 metres (1,600 feet) it is the 19th highest waterfall in the world.
Also known as Salto Oshi the falls has a sheer plunge of approximately 160 metres ...
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| x Gullfoss |
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Gullfoss (English: Golden Falls) is a waterfall located in the canyon of Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.
Gullfoss is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country. The wide Hvítá rushes southward. About a kilometer above the falls it...
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| x Lower Falls |
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The Lower Falls area is located just to the east of Canyon Village in Yellowstone National Park. A one-way loop drive takes you to the brink of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and offers four views, with the last stop at the trail that leads to...
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| x Glymur |
The waterfall Glymur, with a cascade of 196 m, is the highest waterfall of Iceland.
It is situated at the rear end of the Hvalfjörður. Since the opening of the tunnel under this fjord, most people bypass the area. However, it is a very beautiful...
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| x Vazhachal Falls |
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Vazhachal Falls is a rushing watercourse in the Chalakkudy River in the Thrissur district of Kerala, South India. It is located approximately 3 km from Athirappilly Falls.
The riparian forests of the Chalakudy River have revealed the existence of a...
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| x Lehamite Falls |
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Lehamite Falls is located in Yosemite National Park. It consists of a long series of steep cascades that fall 1,180 feet (360 m) into Yosemite Valley, in a manner similar to Sentinel Fall. The falls are located in a small cleft in the north wall of...
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| x Bow Falls |
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Bow Falls is a major waterfall on the Bow River just before the junction of it and the Spray River. The falls are located near the Banff Springs Hotel and golf course on the left-hand side of River Road.
Large number of tourists visit the falls...
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| x Salmon Creek Falls |
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Salmon Creek Falls is a 120 foot (36 meter) waterfall near Gorda in Los Padres National Forest, Monterey County, California, USA.
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| x King Edward VIII Falls |
King Edward VIII Falls is an 840 foot tall single plunge found on the Semang River in the Potaro-Siparuni highlands southern Guyana. It was previously thought to describe a lengthy set of rapids on the New River (itself a major tributary to the...
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| x East Gill Force |
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East Gill Force is a waterfalls in Swaledale, 300 metres to the east of the hamlet of Keld, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. The falls are located on East Gill at grid reference NY896012, just before its confluence...
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