World G.K
Geography:
- Age: 4.55 billion years old
- Total Area: 510.072 million sq km (196.940 million sq mi)
Land area: 148.94 million sq km (57.506 million sq mi)
Water area: 361.132 million sq km (139.434 million sq mi)
Coastline: 356,000 km (221,208 mi)
Note: 70.8% of the world is water, 29.2% is land. - Land Boundaries: 251,480.24 km (156,262.58 mi) not counting shared boundaries twice.
- Climate: Two large areas of polar climates are seperated by two rather narrow temperature zones from a wide equatorial band of trophical to subtrophical climates.
- Terrain: Highest elevation is Mt. Everest at 8,850 m (29,035 ft) and lowest land depression is the Dead Sea at -411 m (-1,349 ft) below sea level. The greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at -10,924 (-35,840 ft) in Pacific Ocean.
- Land Use: Arable land: 10.73%.
Permanent Crops: 1%
Other: 88.27%
Irrigated land: 2,714,320 sq km (1,048,005 sq mi)
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