The World's Dimensions & Extremes
THE WORLD'S SURFACE AREAS
The world's surface area is 510,066,000 square kilometers.
Land area - 148,647,000 sq km.
Total water area. - 361,419,000 sq km.
Circumference at Poles - 39,992 km.
Circumference at Equator - 40,066 km.
Diameter at Poles - 12,710 km.
Diameter at Equator - 12,753 km.
Radius at Poles - 6,355 km.
Radius at Equator - 6,376 km.
OCEANS BY AREA
Pacific Ocean - 165,384,000 sq km
Atlantic Ocean - 82,217,000 sq km
Indian Ocean - 73,481,000 sq km
Arctic Ocean - 14,056,000 sq km.
Antarctic / Southern Ocean - 20,377,000 sq kms.
CONTINENTS BY AREA
ASIA - 45,036,492 sq km.
AFRICA - 30,343,578 sq km.
NORTH AMERICA - 25,680,331 sq km.
SOUTH AMERICA - 17,815,420 sq km.
ANTARCTICA - 13,340,000 sq km.
EUROPE - 9,908,599 sq km.
OCEANIA - 8,504,241 sq km.
CONTINENTS BY NUMBER OF COUNTRIES
AFRICA - 54.
EUROPE - 43.
ASIA - 49.
NORTH AMERICA - 23.
OCEANIA - 13.
SOUTH AMERICA - 13.
LONGEST COASTLINES
(Including mainland and offshore islands)
In kilometers
Canada - 202,080.
Indonesia - 54,716.
Russian Federation - 37,650.
Philippines - 36,289.
Japan - 29,751.
Australia - 25,760.
Norway - 25,148.
U.S.A - 19,924.
New Zealand - 15,134.
China - 14,500.
Greece - 13,676.
Great Britain - 12,429.
LAND LOCKED COUNTRIES
AFRICA - 15 - Burkino Faso, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe.
ASIA - 12 - Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan.
EUROPE - 15 - Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland & the Vatican City State.
NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA - 0.
AUSTRALASIA / OCEANIA - 0.
SOUTH AMERICA - 2 - Bolivia & Paraguay.
WORLD - 44.
DOUBLE LAND LOCKED COUNTRIES
ASIA - 1 - Uzbekistan
EUROPE - 1 - Leichtenstein
WORLD - 2.
THE WORLD'S EXTREMES
LONGYEARBYEN, SPITZBERGEN, SVALBARD
EARTH'S LOWEST POINT
Challenger Deep at 10,911 meters below sea level situated on the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
WORLD'S LOWEST LAND POINT
Shores of the Dead Sea at 418 meters below sea level, situated on the Israel / Jordan border.
WORLD'S HIGHEST POINT
Summit of Mount Everest at 8,848 meters above sea level, situated on the Nepal / Tibet border.
WORLD'S MOST EASTERLY & WESTERLY POINTS
Most westerly, Attu Island, Alaska.
Most easterly, Caroline Island, Kiribati, Pacific Ocean.
WORLD'S REMOTEST LANDMASS
The world's remotest landmass is Bouvet Island, situated 1,600 miles from it's nearest neighbour, Queen Maud Island, both of which are uninhabited and situated in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.
WORLD'S MOST NORTHERLY & SOUTHERLY POINTS
North Pole, Arctic.
South Pole, Antarctica.
THE WORLD'S MOST EXTREME COMMUNITIES
EDINBURGH OF THE SEVEN SEAS, TRISTAN DA CUNHA
THE WORLD'S REMOTEST COMMUNITY
The world's remotest community can be found on the island of Tristan da Cunha, part of the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, situated in the Atlantic Ocean. The island is situated 1,509 kilometres from it's nearest neighbour, the equally remote island of St Helena.
The island covers a land area of just 98 square kilometres and has a permanent population of 264 people. The island's capital is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
THE WORLD'S MOST SOUTHERLY COMMUNITY
The world's most southerly community can be found on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, located between Drakes Passage and the Bransfield Strait in the Antarctic Ocean. The island's population of five hundred people are made up of several nationalities who permanently man various research stations located there.
THE WORLD'S MOST NORTHERLY COMMUNITY
The world's most northerly community can be found on the Svalbard Archipelago, a region of Norway, located where the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea meet the Arctic Ocean.
The archipelago consists of ten islands which cover an area of 61,002 square kilometres and has a population of 2,400 people. The archipelago's largest island is Spitzbergen, where the archipelago's capital city, Longyearbyen, is situated.
VILLA LAS ESTRELLAS, KING GEORGE ISLAND, SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS
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