Miao Room

{{Short description|Largest known cave chamber by volume}}

File:Gebihe cave system - Miao Room.png

Miao Room is the largest known cave chamber by volume in the world.{{cite news|last=Vergano |first=Dan |date=September 28, 2014 |title=China's "Supercave" Takes Title as World's Most Enormous Cavern |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140927-largest-cave-china-exploration-science/ |work=National Geographic News |publisher=National Geographic Society |accessdate=December 20, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131062902/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140927-largest-cave-china-exploration-science |archivedate=January 31, 2017 }} It is a part of the Gebihe cave system, which is located in Ziyun Getu He National Park in Ziyun county of the Chinese province of Guizhou.{{cite journal |last=Funk |first=McKenzie |date=July 2014 |title=Empire of Rock |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/china-caves/ |page=126 |journal=National Geographic |publisher=National Geographic Society |accessdate= July 29, 2014 |issn=0027-9358}}

The chamber, discovered by a French expedition called Gebihe'89 in 1989, measures {{convert|852|m|ft}} in length, {{convert|191|m|ft}} in width, has an area of {{convert|154,500|m2|sqft}}, and a volume of {{convert|10,780,000|m3|cuft}}. In 2013, members of a British led expedition measured the chamber using 3-D laser scanners.{{cite journal |last=Funk |first=McKenzie |date=July 2014 |title=Empire of Rock |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/china-caves/ |page=123 |journal=National Geographic |publisher=National Geographic Society |accessdate= July 29, 2014 |issn=0027-9358}}