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| Earth | Continents | Oceans | Highest Point on Each Continent | Deepest Point In Each Ocean | Major Seas | Major Islands | Major Lakes | Longest Rivers | Earth's Extremes |
| Earth |
Mass | 5,974,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Area | 510,068,130 square kilometres
Land | 57,308,733 square kilometres
Water | 361,638,509 square kilometres
Population | 6,302,486,000 (July 2003 estimate)
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| continents |
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Asia Africa North America South America Antarctica Europe Australia |
Area (sq. km) 44,486,083 30,269,804 24,235,381 17,820,842 13,209,054 10,530,792 7,682,331 |
% of Earth's Land 30.0 20.4 16.3 12.0 8.9 7.1 5.2 |
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| oceans |
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Area (sq. km) |
% of Earth's Water Area |
Pacific Atlantic Indian Arctic |
166,241,693 86,557,360 73,427,305 9,485,038 |
46.0 23.9 20.3 2.6 |
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| highest point on each continent |
| Everest | Asia Aconcagua | South America McKinley (Denali) | North America Kilimanjaro | Africa Elbrus | Europe Vinson Masif | Antarctica Kosciusko | Australia |
8,848 metres 6,960 metres 6,194 metres 5,895 metres 5,642 metres 4,891 metres 2,228 metres |
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| deepest point in each ocean |
| Marianas Trench | Pacific Ocean Puerto Rico Trench | Atlantic Ocean Java Trench | Indian Ocean Eurasian Basin | Arctic Ocean |
11,022 metres 9.220 metres 7,450 metres 5,122 metres |
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| major seas |
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South China Caribbean Mediterranean Bering Gulf of Mexico Sea of Okhotsk Sea of Japan Hudson Bay East China Andaman |
Area (sq. km) 2,974,612 2,515,910 2,510,010 2,261,109 1,507,605 1,392,104 1,012,902 730,103 664,601 564,902 |
Average depth (m) 1,464 2,575 1,501 1,491 1,615 973 1,667 93 189 1,120 |
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| major islands |
| Greenland New Guinea Borneo Madagascar Baffin Sumatra Honshu Great Britain Victoria Ellesmere Celebes South (New Zealand) |
2,176,387 sq. kilmetres 792,501 sq. kilmetres 725,503 sq. kilmetres 587,000 sq. kilmetres 507,500 sq. kilmetres 427,300 sq. kilmetres 227,399 sq. kilmetres 218,099 sq. kilmetres 217,298 sq. kilmetres 196,200 sq. kilmetres 178,699 sq. kilmetres 151,000 sq. kilmetres |
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| major lakes |
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Area |
Greatest depth (m) |
Caspian Sea | Eur-Asia Superior | N. America Victoria | Africa Huron | N. America Michigan | N. America Aral Sea | Asia Tanganyika | Africa Baykal | Asia Great Bear | N. America Malawi | Africa |
370,999 82,098 69,500 59,598 57,798 40,000 32,898 31,497 31,298 28,899 |
1,025 406 82 229 281 55 1,470 1,620 446 695 |
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| longest rivers |
| Nile | Africa Amazon | South America Chang Jiang (Yangtze) | Asia Mississippi-Missouri | North America Yenisey-Angara | Asia Ob-Irtysh | Asia Huang (Yellow) | Asia Congo (Zaire) | Africa Amur | Asia Lena | Asia Mackenzie-Peace | North America Mekong | Asia |
6,671 kilometres 6,436 kilometres 6,379 kilometres 5,971 kilometres 5,534 kilometres 5,409 kilometres 4,672 kilometres 4,669 kilometres 4,414 kilometres 4,400 kilometres 4,241 kilometres 4,134 kilometres |
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| earth's extremes |
- Hottest Place | Dalol, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
| 35 degrees Celsius (annual average temperature)
- Coldest Place | Plateau Station, Antarctica | -56
degrees Celsius (annual average temperature)
- Wettest Place | Mount Waialeale, Hawaii | 16.8 metres
(annual average rainfall)
- Driest Place | Atacama Desert, Chile | rainfall barely
measureable
- Highest Waterfall | Angel, Venezuela | 979 metres
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Longest Reef | Great Barrier Reef, Australia | 2,012 kilometres
- Greatest Tides | Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia | 16 metres
- Deepest Gorge | Colca River Canyon, Peru | 3,625
metres
- Most Predictable Geyser | Old Faithful, Wyoming | annual average interval 69 to 78 minutes
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