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The World
An Overview
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The World Basic General Information
Age: 4.55 billion years old Total Area: 510.072 million
sq km Land Area: 148.94 million sq
km Water Area: 361.132 million
sq km Total Coastline length:
356,000 km
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The Highs and Lows Basic General Information
Highest point: Mt. Everest (8,850 m)
Lowest/Deepest Point: Mariana Trench at 10,924 m in the Pacific Ocean
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Statistics
Current Population 7,052,759,673
The World has 1.2 billion (2008) phone lines and 5.4 Billion Mobile Phone users.
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StatisticsCommon Languages spoken based on the
population: Mandarin Chinese 12.44% Spanish 4.85% English 4.83% Arabic 3.25% Hindi 2.68% Bengali 2.66% Portuguese 2.62% Russian 2.12% Japanese 1.8% Standard German 1.33% Javanese 1.25%
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Statistics
Religion: Christian 33.35% (of which Roman Catholic 16.83%,
Protestant 6.08%, Orthodox 4.03%, Anglican 1.26%) Muslim 22.43% Hindu 13.78% Buddhist 7.13% Sikh 0.36% Jewish 0.21% Baha'i 0.11% Other religions 11.17% Non-religious 9.42% Atheists 2.04%
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The World
There are 195 countries, 72 dependent areas and other entities
29.1% of the world is the land portion. It is generally divided into several, large, discrete landmasses termed continents
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The World
The Continents are (from largest to smallest): Asia Africa North America South America Antarctica Europe Australia.
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70.9% of the world's surface is water.
We have five oceans: Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Southern Ocean Arctic Ocean.
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The worlds GDP are as follows: $78.95 trillion (2011 est.) $76.19 trillion (2010 est.) $72.53 trillion (2009 est.)
Note: Ammounts are in US Dollars
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Major Industries Dominated by the onrush of technology,
especially in computers, robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical equipment
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Transportation: The world has 43,794 Airports 102,260,304 km of Roads (2008) 1,139,615 km of Railways (2008) 671,886 km of Waterways (2008)
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The World
Tallest Mountains: Mount Everest (China-Nepal) 8,850 m K2 (Pakistan) 8,611 m Kanchenjunga (India-Nepal) 8,598 m Lhotse (Nepal) 8,516 m Makalu (China-Nepal) 8,463 m Cho Oyu (China-Nepal) 8,201 m Dhaulagiri (Nepal) 8,167 m Manaslu (Nepal) 8,163 m Nanga Parbat (Pakistan) 8,125 m Anapurna (Nepal) 8,091 m
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The WorldLongest Rivers:
Nile (Africa) 6,693 km Amazon (South America) 6,436 km Mississippi-Missouri (North America) 6,238 km Yenisey-Angara (Asia) 5,981 km Ob-Irtysh (Asia) 5,569 km Yangtze (Asia) 5,525 km Yellow (Asia) 4,671 km Amur (Asia) 4,352 km Lena (Asia) 4,345 km Congo (Africa) 4,344 km
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Current Issues
large areas subject to overpopulation,
Industrial disasters
Pollution (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances)
Loss of vegetation (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification)
Loss of wildlife
Soil degradation
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Current Issues
Soil depletion and Erosion
Global warming becoming a greater concern
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Fun Facts about the World
About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day.
The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.
From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.
Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population.
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